Koeman is interested.
No we aren't a laughing stock.
We'll sign him.
And we'll be better off for adding another quality player to our squad.
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Koeman is interested.
No we aren't a laughing stock.
We'll sign him.
And we'll be better off for adding another quality player to our squad.
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
Exactly. We need to sign both these types of players.
There isn't unfortunately, I'm not going to second guess the situation, as I haven't a clue who's in the right or wrong, I like sight as a footballer, I personally don't put him in the same bracket as Ross who has a far rarer skill set.
All this is teaching me is that we have some of the most miserable, unhappy, never happy set of fans in the land.
The club are signing talent for both the future and the now, yet still they moan.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
I'd check the source of your stats mate
https://www.whoscored.com/Players/69346/Show/Gylfi-Sigurdsson
https://www.whoscored.com/Players/92547/Show/Ross-Barkley
As 9 goals and 13 assists > than 5 goals and 8 assists
Sigurdsson is a good player, I've said that from the start. And I think he'd play well for us too
But when you take into account the fee and the fact he's essentially Barkley's replacement, I can fully understand anyone having reservations
We ultimately don't know the contract amount we've given Barkley, we're just going off rumours, but surely if we can afford to blow 40 Million plus on a decent Premier League player we can also afford to go back to the table and give Ross some kind of increased financial incentive to stay?
That doesn't strike me as being an unreasonable stance to have
Ross is younger, home grown and it would cost us less to give him an improved contract than it would to sign Sigurdsson. There's nothing wrong with doing so
My hopes for moshiri weren't just that we'd sign loads of players, but that his financial clout would ensure we could KEEP the players we used to always lose. I'm seeing column A here but I'm not seeing column B, and that worries me
But when you take into account the fee and the fact he's essentially Barkley's replacement, I can fully understand anyone having reservations
We ultimately don't know the contract amount we've given Barkley, we're just going off rumours, but surely if we can afford to blow 40 Million plus on a decent Premier League player we can also afford to go back to the table and give Ross some kind of increased financial incentive to stay?
That doesn't strike me as being an unreasonable stance to have
Ross is younger, home grown and it would cost us less to give him an improved contract than it would to sign Sigurdsson. There's nothing wrong with doing so
My hopes for moshiri weren't just that we'd sign loads of players, but that his financial clout would ensure we could KEEP the players we used to always lose. I'm seeing column A here but I'm not seeing column B, and that worries me
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Mate. He's gone.
BirkenheadBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
Ross had 5 goals and 8 assists. Hardly a vast difference when you consider we as a team scored over a third more goals than Swansea did.
I also don't get the whole "take out the dead balls" thing... Sounds far too Martinezy to me. It's like people who used to say about Lukaku "take away his goals, and what does he offer?"
irishblue11
Player Valuation: £8m
thought steve walsh was brought in to find some bargains ala mahrez and kante. i could do that job at the minute, sigurdsson for 50million, hes good but not 50million good.
We've seen this. At Spurs. He was average at best.
Siggi Siggason
Player Valuation: £25k
I dont think you have seen Gylfi play often. He plays the same pos as Barkley. Gylfi can play as number 8 and number 10. Maybe you remember a game last summer, Iceland vs England where Gylfi bossed the midfield as a MC. Barkley did not even make worst England team ever.
Ahh yes. Because Fellaini and Ramsey are much better......
lol
Honestly mate, I always stick up for our fans, as I know plenty of RS, Mancs etc who say exactly the same.
But no, honestly, lots of us have varied points of view and that's fine. And many - as @Tubey and some others have done - put their points across brilliantly and it's fair do's.
But we've now got people whinging that we're improving the squad.
We have money. We're not wasting it, we're getting players the manager wants and thinks will improve us (I happen to agree with him). We could potentially sign another two/three players after Gylfi for a combined £50m, and still break even by selling a few squad players.
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