The project is back on!!I find it more amusing that there are those now who are getting mega excited about said deals, when in reality, we know next to **** all about any of the incomings!
The project is back on!!I find it more amusing that there are those now who are getting mega excited about said deals, when in reality, we know next to **** all about any of the incomings!
Not forgetting that we might play three CDs with Ait-Nouri and Doc particularly useful in wide forward areas.Sarabia, Neto?
Firstly thanks to everyone for your condolences yesterday! It means a lot.
On the transfer front, Looks like we've getting a massive discount on Doyle and Beuno with the Nunes deal!!
Listen to Tim Vickery talk about the south Americans
Beuno, he says is a solid player. Typical Uruguayan defender.
Enso Gonzalez, talent boy but doubts he'll make an impact this year (as you'd expect from an 18 year old)
I’ve had to put down a couple of dogs in recent years, they are a massive part of the family, it never gets easier. My condolences to you and yours.Firstly thanks to everyone for your condolences yesterday! It means a lot.
You're not one of the "ugly pigeons" referred to in an earlier post are you?If you all recall
B. Troare had stats like that and he's not good enough yet to start in the PL.
He might get there, but we really need someone at the level now in my opinion.
Firstly thanks to everyone for your condolences yesterday! It means a lot.
On the transfer front, Looks like we've getting a massive discount on Doyle and Beuno with the Nunes deal!!
Listen to Tim Vickery talk about the south Americans
Beuno, he says is a solid player. Typical Uruguayan defender.
Enso Gonzalez, talent boy but doubts he'll make an impact this year (as you'd expect from an 18 year old)
I guess that is how i feel about Lemina.I’ve never seen brownhill as anythjng other than bang average tbh, and at 27 he’ll never be anything more.
I don’t want us to sign bang average players
I`m sure i read somewhere the new Beuno has`nt played yet this season due to injury
was on the bench last game...so probably recovered...I`m sure i read somewhere the new Beuno has`nt played yet this season due to injury
are we heading nearer to a 4-3-1-2 formation with Nunes replaced by 2 centre mids? we barely have any wide players left.
Sarabia, Neto?
Boubacar still ranked very highly among young midfielders in Europe when we signed him tbf, less greens on fbref doesn't automatically = no good.
Everytime an experienced Prem player is mentioned all we hear is hes not good enough,too old,past his best etc the club just cant win can they?So, we potentially have 3 new incomings, all of them being inexperienced to English football and the Premier League. Doyle will presumably cover for Hodge, who is a squad filler only. Gonzales is a young kid with potential and has only played a handful of games in Paraguay of all places. Bueno looks ok and plays in a position we desperately need to fill, but is a bit of an unknown.
Are they going to start matches straight away? I don’t think so and I am not going overboard about them just yet.
We need some experienced pro’s at the club, who will be capable of playing regularly and immediately. Surely. we now have the money to get them.
Add RAN, possibly even Chiquinho. And, of course, we could well end up playing wingbacks.
Not to mention that Brighton are actively prepared to release him.....Only one of a number of clubs reportedly interested.
I’d be concerned about the fee given where he’s coming from!
25M euros is still a lot for potential in my book.Reading the Strasbourg forums, they are happy selling 19yo Diarra at €25m as he has shown a lot of potential, but would be gutted to lose Bellegarde as he had been the heart of their team for the last 2 years. Bellegarde is out of contract next summer.
Sounds to me like Bellegarde would be first team ready for us, but Diarra would be another Enso/Chiquinho signing.
That’s because it’s really expensive to buy peak players, and we tend to get linked with old players well past their best (cresswell for example)Everytime an experienced Prem player is mentioned all we hear is hes not good enough,too old,past his best etc the club just cant win can they?
I feel inclined to agree.So, we potentially have 3 new incomings, all of them being inexperienced to English football and the Premier League. Doyle will presumably cover for Hodge, who is a squad filler only. Gonzales is a young kid with potential and has only played a handful of games in Paraguay of all places. Bueno looks ok and plays in a position we desperately need to fill, but is a bit of an unknown.
Are they going to start matches straight away? I don’t think so and I am not going overboard about them just yet.
We need some experienced pro’s at the club, who will be capable of playing regularly and immediately. Surely. we now have the money to get them.
He did have a shocker of a game vs Georgia, but having watched him captain Benfica to winning the Youth Champions League in 2022, I wouldn't want to write him off that quickly.This Aruajo is awful. Truly awful.
I watched him in the U21s for Portugal and he was competition winner level bad. It was one game but it was genuinely a joke how bad he was. Pretty sure he got sent off.
I know you shouldn't judge entirely on one game, but he is nowhere near ready for a Premier League side.
I presume it means no Elvedi, which would be really bad news.
The terrible window just gets worse.
Firstly thanks to everyone for your condolences yesterday! It means a lot.
On the transfer front, Looks like we've getting a massive discount on Doyle and Beuno with the Nunes deal!!
Listen to Tim Vickery talk about the south Americans
Beuno, he says is a solid player. Typical Uruguayan defender.
Enso Gonzalez, talent boy but doubts he'll make an impact this year (as you'd expect from an 18 year old)
50% sell on? If true Citeh obviously reckon that he's going places. A lesson for us?
Maybe a City-style 3-2-4-1?are we heading nearer to a 4-3-1-2 formation with Nunes replaced by 2 centre mids? we barely have any wide players left.
Given all that happened over the summer we may be getting the best deal that we can now. Who knows how Nunes might have felt had that not all happened.OK, I'm usually cynical and down on the management, with good reason, but trying to be objective about all this.
Lets face it. We never had a chance. He wasn't happy here and City are a huge draw for a player like Nunes. They spotted we were vulnerable and made a low to middling offer compared to what they would have paid the likes of Brighton. The lad burned his bridges to make sure there was no way back. We had to close the deal.
Disappointed? Yes. But hopefully we will be allowed to spend some of it on new players. Gonzales, Bueno and Doyle have potential, and might settle here better than Nunes.
Onward and upward.
May just be pushing for more cash
Well thats that one dead.
Probably move to Bellegarde now, last year of his deal and wont sign a new one
I didn't want him in brighter times a while ago. Now, if the choice is him, Ineanacho or Adams l would say yes please to him every time.Wonder if we might be able to get Origi on loan?
Available from Milan apparently.
It's the same as £25m according to some people.25M euros is still a lot for potential in my book.
If we weren't cash strapped ourselves a buy and loan back deal would seem ideal.He’s playing 1st team football there. He’ll be on the bench here, probably and certainly initially. I never criticise someone who decides to play rather than just pick up the cash. The latter often follows the former with a bit of patience.
No surprise there when you leave everything so late. Its a high risk strategy that could still blow up in the club's face. You get the left overs at this stage and to find a player of the kind of quality needed at such short notice is virtually impossible unless you pay some vastly inflated price. Nunes leaves a big hole and Doyle alone covers about 25% of it.
Well thats that one dead.
Probably move to Bellegarde now, last year of his deal and wont sign a new one
That's fine as long as we don't then get told that we've already spent next season's money....One year loan with an option to buy for £5m which we will take up - so realistically, it’s permanent but we’re paying the money next season….