To me this is mostly speculatory and not really in line with that his career has shown to date. And that certainly doesn’t mean you’re wrong. My problem is given the profile of the player and the transfer fee we probably shouldn’t be speculating.
Last player are remember writing off this quickly was Doucoure, who was crap, and before that it was Bernard. This actually has a lot of similarities to Bernard. Do you know what country he played in when we let him go?
I care about the footballing point of view too. Just so we’re clear if I was DOF I would not have done the Grealish loan even having seen what we’ve seen so far this season.
I’m certainly concerned that Grealish is going to be one year and done and leave us having basically gained very little from this season.
But the other really important part here is that he’s consistently been a way better player than KDH!
Yeah building around a guy Chelsea used as a squad player to beat up on tiny clubs in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia and gladly let leave is surely how we will compete with them and those better than them. It’s just such a poorly conceived plan...
Tarkowski was a free transfer!
Tarkowski also really limits the team. I feel pretty confident we will not return to Europe while Tarkowski is starting every week. KDH frankly would be a similarly limiting player imo if we persist with him in the...
Arteta was 23 when we signed him on loan. Baines also 23. Jags and Pienaar 25. This is the entire problem. You’ve spent real money on a guy that has played in the league already and is at an age where he is who he’s going to be. This is as plug...
His best position might be deeper playing Legia Warsaw or Servette but in the Premier League he is not suited for it. Which is really the entire problem with the signing and player right from the start. He got his Chelsea move playing as an...