Recent content by Grendel74

Happy Birthday :)

Maybe you’re right. As you say, it’s all about levels. Sometimes I feel that with raw players they will become what they’re exposed to… it’s the double-edged sword of loaning players out. If Sanderson was exposed to the higher level, is it possible he could push on? We don’t know but Lage...

Has Sanderson actually been sold? I’ve heard the rumours but there’s a load of crap being talked everywhere at the moment. Not sure why it’s a given that this lad coming in means it’s curtains for Sanderson at Wolves. Equally plausible that Lage has a look at him and decides to keep?

As someone somewhere else said, these kids bear no responsibility for the money attached to them. Out of Fabio and Vitinha, the latter looks slightly more at home but he was played out of position last night and looked lost. I echo the more positive remarks about Fabio (with ball at feet he...

Cancelo would be an incredible signing but I suspect the cost would be prohibitive. Zinchenko far more likely from the City crowd, but if he didn’t fancy it back then not sure we’d go back for him. Correia smacks of the sort of player we’d go for. Didn’t know much about him so had a bit of a...

He’s like the forward version of what David James used to be like in goal. James was a cracking shot stopper but given time to think about it would make some horrific mistake! Jota will belt in a cracking volley instinctively, but fluff an easy one-on-one the moment he realises he should be...

I really think the E & S bloke is clutching at straws given everything else that’s come out about this... 2 and 2 equals 5 stuff! I’ve seen nothing to suggest they have a single clue what’s going on at the club since Spiers left... and even with Spiers it was tenuous. A gambling man might lay...

3?!!! Ya tease :p

Looking at the highlights, his lack of height may well be one of his best attributes for the way he plays. I’m excited about this one... the lad’s electric and possibly a big defender’s worst nightmare!

That Romario Baro looks like some player.

I enjoyed his performance massively tonight. Thought he was MOM alongside Vinagre. He looked like he enjoyed himself too... even went for a piggyback on the opposition keeper!

Nuno may give Ruddy some minutes in this one. I think he may also rest Boly, Moutinho, Neves, Jota and Raul... especially Raul! Wing backs is anyone’s guess - I often expect Adama and/or Vinagre to start but it rarely seems to happen. If Doc’s knee is ok he may play because of the lack of...

Absolutely! Give it a while and the same TV ‘experts’ will be creaming about how well we control games without the ball.

The ‘idea’ that Nuno often talks about

Could be an attempt at clever man-management. Helder essentially came straight back into the team after his injury here. This I suspect was Nuno’s ‘friendly arm round the shoulder’ / give him the opportunity to prove himself method. Bielsa has taken the opposite tack, probably aware that the...