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2019/20 Alex Iwobi

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Archie Knox said:
Absolute stinker of a signing. Every bit as bad as Bolasie. Really cannot imagine any team in the world looking at him now and thinking "he'd be worth a punt at 20m". No chance at all; we're stuck with him until 2024.
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This.
He may yet prove me wrong, but long term? I doubt it.

Cue worldy ( or even a 1yd bobbler off his knee) Vs the rs and all is forgotten...as I hope he will soon be.
Who signed off on this signing or was it...well on paper his stats say he's ace

They see us 'kin coming, they really do.
 

I have no idea how he played so many games at Arsenal, he's a pretty poor footballer.

Must admit he looked good a few times on the MOTD highlights, but when he's at your club and you are watching him for 90mns for a dozen games you get the true picture of what he's about, and it's not a lot on his performances so far, Walcott is better.
 

Woolverhampton_Blue said:
Are they expensive?
Do they appear to be a bad fit?
Were they signed out of the blue?
Was it late in the window?
Were lots of people left scratching their heads and confused?
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See here's the thing: those have happened for good signings.

Expensive: Richarlison
Do they appear to be a bad fit: Since that's about half our signings at least pre Brands, I'm not sure if this is a sign of panic signings, unless we always were panicking.
Out of the blue: IIRC Bernard took about 48 hours from first report to holding the shirt.
Late in the window: We signed Barry and Rom on the same deadline day
Scratching heads: Gana
 
TheBigIguana said:
See here's the thing: those have happened for good signings.

Expensive: Richarlison
Do they appear to be a bad fit: Since that's about half our signings at least pre Brands, I'm not sure if this is a sign of panic signings, unless we always were panicking.
Out of the blue: IIRC Bernard took about 48 hours from first report to holding the shirt.
Late in the window: We signed Barry and Rom on the same deadline day
Scratching heads: Gana
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Those are all applied across various players though - if each one fits a particular player (as they seem to with Iwobi) - then that’s numberwang!
 
TheBigIguana said:
See here's the thing: those have happened for good signings.

Expensive: Richarlison
Do they appear to be a bad fit: Since that's about half our signings at least pre Brands, I'm not sure if this is a sign of panic signings, unless we always were panicking.
Out of the blue: IIRC Bernard took about 48 hours from first report to holding the shirt.
Late in the window: We signed Barry and Rom on the same deadline day
Scratching heads: Gana
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Iwobi fits all of those criteria, however, not just one or two.
 
windymiller said:
Iwobi fits all of those criteria, however, not just one or two.
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My thing is I can follow the logic of his signing. If I can put myself in the management's shoes and see what they were thinking I'm not going to say it was panicking. To me that implies a degree of brainlessness as opposed to just making a mistake. I try to avoid thinking of people that way.
 
Wonder if he should have been tried as one of the two central mids in the 442. Could easily see him doing better than Schneid, Gylfi, Delph although same could be said of tree sloth, lamp post, &c.
 

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