Who could you have got for 10 million?Overpaid because he was at Liverpool. The money spent on him would have signed us an experienced player from a European league who would probably be featuring more.
I like him too!I think I'm in the minority but I really rate him!
Goal against Leeds?He did 1 thing in todays game that semedo has failed to do all season. He took a player on got to the bye line and delivered a cross.
I’m in the minority with you then. The lad will be a class act.I think I'm in the minority but I really rate him!
An awful lot of ability, good change of speed, technically very good, but a player who desperately needs to go and play
in the Championship for minimum 3 months, probably a season.
Wolves would be better off using Adama as wingback backup, and allowing Hoever to develop properly on loan, just like MGW.
The jump to the Premier is just too much for most players, no matter how talented. Most of the players we have seen make the
breakthrough in the last 15 years in all teams have had periods out on loan before they made their breakthrough. There are exceptions, such as Neto and maybe even RAN, but they are the exceptions.
In recent years it is Chelsea who have had the most outstanding success at bringing young players into the top echelons of the Premier, and most if not all of them, have gone out and learnt their trade elsewhere. Thats the model to follow, not giving 19 year olds a few minutes against one of the world's best players and expect him to handle it.
Dan burn is a very experienced pro. Only traore has embarassed him.Dan Burn? It doesn't count, then. Most Sunday league players could leave Burn in their wake.
Loan to Ajax? Wow, seems unlikely he’d play for that to be worth it but a loan and bringing Bolla to be back up makes sense to me
Absolutely needs to play... but would he play at Ajax? Seems like he'd just be back up there too... needs to play week in week out and lets see if he's really got itNeeds games, so makes sense. Needs full season of playing regular football.
If anyone can coach you it is Ajax. A good move as I see it, if it happens.
That'll definitely be with an option to buy. I'm guessing the lad himself regrets moving here and he'll see that as a chance to re-boot his career. Not sure we'll get anywhere near our money back on him though.Loan to Ajax? Wow, seems unlikely he’d play for that to be worth it but a loan and bringing Bolla to be back up makes sense to me
If Bruno remains in charge as is likely, you get the feeling he's made his mind up on him... still think there's a player in there and a straight loan to the right club could be the making of him, but maybe we cut our losses if Ajax are prepared to do a good deal... wonder if Edson Alvarez is still on our radar and there's an exchange that could be done wit some cash... although I'm sure that ship has sailed as he's an important player for them now I believeThat'll definitely be with an option to buy. I'm guessing the lad himself regrets moving here and he'll see that as a chance to re-boot his career. Not sure we'll get anywhere near our money back on him though.
Re "Sellars using his recently acquired Barca negotiating nous,...." Did Sellars and Bernard Loonie (BP Chairman "we won't reduce our UK investment if you give us a windfall tax") go to the same negotiating school? If so, I'm thinking of coming out of retirementShi and Sellars currently in negotiations with Ajax. (Rumours from the pub)
Ajax have offered a straightforward €10m to buy with a 20% sell on clause or a season long loan with an obligation to buy at at the end for €14m.
Sellars using his recently acquired Barca negotiating nous, has counter offered a season long loan with no obligation to buy unless Ajax win the Champions League and Eredivisie double then the agreed obligation fee is €15.75m.
Jeff wanted to play rock/paper/scissors on Ajax’s offers.
All in all what a ridiculous signing. Smacked of trying to sign someone just because they were from a ‘big club’ at the time, and that’s the way it’s played out. If we were desperate for a right back at the time, I could have understood it, but this was the summer we spent best part of 30m on Semedo.
Best we can hope is goes somewhere like Ajax and we end up by some miracle getting our money back.
and we borrowed £23mill./27mill on the jota money at around 7.5/9.0% interestFor anyone saying Jota was sold for £40 million +, he wasn’t.
Only £30 million at best when you factor in this **** show of a deal.
Absolutely Hwang.
Not beyond the realms of possibility…. their current right back Mazraoui is joining Bayern this summer and Jurrien Timber who can play centre back or right back is rumoured to be Man U bound. There might be others in the squad but I think they are the main twoAbsolutely needs to play... but would he play at Ajax? Seems like he'd just be back up there too... needs to play week in week out and lets see if he's really got it
Of course someone would buy him should we look to sell. He has resale value based on his age and potential. Like silva he's created an issue for himself with us by his standard of performance, both have a mammoth task of trying to turn it around and be the players we hoped they'd progress into and would benefit more from starting again somewhere and managing their career moves better so the next move after that isn't a step too far at that point of their development which these ones have been.10m wasted, not good enough, cant see anyone buying him though
The summer of Hoever, Silva and Semedo will haunt me forever.
Wherever he ends up, hopefully he gets lots of game time and can eventually stake a claim.
He is 6 foot not 5 foot 10. He is tall enough to play cb.Honestly if we loan him out, I hope it's to a team that uses him at CB. We've exclusively used him at RB...Liverpool had him play CB/RB equally. I don't really rate him but maybe we're just playing him out of position?
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Didn’t seem ridiculous at the time at all