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TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I didn't expect it to be an original idea but there you go from someone who probably looked into it and knows more than me.
Scouting Report: Dwight McNeil
Dwight McNeil has been starring at the role of left midfielder for Burnley this season, conveying competence in both the attacking and defensive aspects of the game. This has caught the eyes of many who believe he could thrive in an attacking system at the fullback role. Today we are going to...breakingthelines.com
We've got Digne and my thing with McNeil is we've got Townsend who could do that job of just being there as an extra crosser of the ball.
But we have Richarlison who will be playing that role - unless he's sold - on the left.
McNeil has never played on the right and it would seem to negate his skillset trying to shift him.
Like you say, we need an entire right side but, at the very least, a right-back.
There's no way Burnley accept anything less than £30m and, as much as I think he's a good player, he's not worth that to us when we need other positions strengthening.
Work on players who can actually get us up the pitch in midfield so that Digne, one of the best crossers of the ball in the league, doesn't have to hit everything into the box from 40 yards out on the touchline.
Egil Olsen
Player Valuation: £8m
You're the professor (apart from your assessment of Joshua King).
Really can't see it, and I've watched a fair bit of him.
The Dyche defence-first approach will have rounded his game and as a wing-back in a system like Chelsea's then yes, I definitely think he could work.
But Burnley fans have been frustrated because Dyche hasn't let him off the leash more in an attacking role.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
That doesn't mean he has the skills to play a more attacking role. It largely remains to be seen on that front but for example in the u21 Euros he didn't look dangerous in attack and that's clearly a lower level of competition.
Hard to judge in U21 footy though, especially under Boothroyd.
His skillset, from when I've seen him, bar that time he cut in against our s*** and scored a worldie, is staying wide, keeping the width. He's got a nice turn of pace but isn't a sprinter, got a bit of a trick in him too and a is a good crosser of the ball.
Just on whether we should be hunting him, unless we really think he can suddenly become a right winger who cuts inside, then it seems to totally go against what we need to be spending as much money as Burnley would want for him on.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
For me that second paragraph is the description of a modern fullback in an attacking team
IMO that's actually more a wing-back description but it's semantics.
He's a winger right now, and we aren't an 'attacking' (whatever that means - more shots, possession?) team - and we aren't going to suddenly become one under Benitez.
We've got Digne to do that role if we could actually play the ball up the pitch in stages rather than just hitting it aimlessly long after going round in slow circles at the back for a minute each time.
Midfielder and right-back are of a much more pressing need (for the money McNeil would cost).
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I think McNeil is very comparable to Lucas
As in, Digne?
Maybe from an attacking perspective, but one is a defender who has played there all his career and the other is currently a winger who has played there all his career.
Theoneandonly
Player Valuation: £10m
Millwall have offered to loan him for the season.
They want 35 mil for a permanent transfer.
They want 35 mil for a permanent transfer.
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
You in the correct thread?
Millwall?
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