ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
Regrettably, we need the flexibility in midfield. Gueye is the better out and out DM right now. Onana can’t be a passenger (or worse, liability) if he’s ever out of his comfort zone.
Probably our best attacking midfielder as well mate. lol
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
This is a hilariously depressing as it is true.
60 mill to a non champs league club for the best defensive prospect in europe, jog on you scruffy manc melts
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Zat he has hardly played for the last 3 years, he is a nothing player these days. If Dyche seriously thinks he can get something from Philips then fair enough but its a massive risk imo.
I think its really difficult to flip that switch once a sportmans has been off the pace for a good few years. Phillips looked done at west ham, city was a terrible move for him.
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
Leeds & Southampton both followed this model of 19 year old's all over the place to be sustainable!
Both got relegated, neither went up automatically (while Leicester who didn't go that path went straight back up).
They both ended up gambling in a one off play off final to see who will go back up....and it was the team with more experience who ended up going up!
While Leeds stay down for another season and, probably having to sell off some of those 'assets'.
I hate these clubs who take this approach and i savior in there failure! They are never building a team, they are purely looking to use players as assets! What a terrible existence to be in!
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
All three of those clubs that went down were at different times held up as models of how to sensibly compete outside the top 6. All went down. It’s very difficult to sustain any model that isn’t based on huge revenues being available to the club on a consistent basis.
282 pages, is there anything worth reading in here or am I just going to be set up for disappointment?
Is a risk definately is why we have a xhance to bring him here is why i want see another cm come in with him and an attacking mid so we do have players ready to step in, is a player in the past that can get on the ball and help keep it and control a game something we dont have
Not just city along with Chelsea have been a graveyard for capable well performing players who are not at the elite level and just fester , Wilfred bony, delph , drinkwater, demba ba, barkley, bentenke, Victor Moses and it could now include Phillips I don't think any of those players who had uneventful stints ever made a resurgence except maybe Barkley but that was one solid season at luton
Just read that Newcastle have released Paul Dummett. My Everton senses were tingling immediately.
Will see if anywhere can give me odds for him being our Branthwaite replacement.
Will see if anywhere can give me odds for him being our Branthwaite replacement.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
Isn't he a left back?
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Oh 100% we would have to bring another CM in alongside him and yes we are crying out for a proper no 10/attacking midfielder to play behind the forward. I get the importance of Doucoure but in that position of the pitch he just doesn't do enough at the end of the day.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Gana was average at best (that is kind) for over 75% of the season and neither Onana nor Garner looked average next to him during that time...they looked poor as Gana was out of position and they were defending for 2.
A proper DM is someone who can position themselves defensively. Gana is more of a CM presser imo not a DM positionally.
Again, my quotes were from years ago. Youre echoing what i wrote yesterday about him being a risk.
Harrison & Phillips look like Dyche signings.
This is the 2nd post like this.
Could it be.that the young players were their better players over the season?
Their poorer players were the experienced ones.
As thats the reality.