BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £40m
It looks like Marseille could save us from a potential Coutinho nightmare. I'm reading they want to make him a "landmark" signing. Ta, lads!
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How is saying "we should have gone after a young player in a position we NEED to reinforce with a really low release clause who won YPOTY in the EFL" scattergun? It's what we should be doing all along. Olise fits the profile of player we should be targeting. Young with great potential and most likely to go up in value and low wages. And if he doesn't, it's not a huge hit to us.
What am I thinking, it's madness. Let's get Isco and Coutinho instead.
No-one really counts Iwobi as a player at this point. Not even Brands.
I genuinely wouldn't be against Coutinho. He's proven in this league and was at a point one of the best players we had playing here.
If James does leave, bringing him in on a loan or short term contract wouldn't be the worst business IF he still had the motivation and drive (seems playing in Spain sucks the life out of a lot of talented players).
Olise could be awful, yes.
But statistically he was one of the five or six standout players in the Championship last season, and he was available for £8m. Buendia and Aarons, in comparison, will cost upwards of £30m each and are both older.
Olise was a low-risk gamble because his price was low and he is still only 19. The fume is not based on the fact he IS a great player - we've no way of knowing yet if he will be. The fume is based on missing the opportunity for a low-risk gamble that had the potential to be a high-reward outcome in a position of need. At worst we could have recycled him in two years' time for a profit, like we did with Lookman and Vlasic.
Theoneandonly
Player Valuation: £10m
Well 2 sets of management teams seem to think so.
Theoneandonly
Player Valuation: £10m
I think the Euros and Copa America are getting in the way with a lot of clubs.
I think as well our transfers depend on the James and Richarlison situation.
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £40m
Everybody
I understand the point you're making but I think the days of "at worst we'll make a profit" are behind us now. Look at the fume over Kean and how difficult it is to get the world's richest club to give us more than we paid.
I appreciate his fee is lower, but in uncertain times who is going to want to give us £10m+ for someone who has spent two years failing at PL level?
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £40m
We make that type of excuse before every season don't we?
Yes, all true.
But how often is he fit? How many games a year does he actually play?
It's a value for money issue - does he play enough minutes for us to warrant his salary? I don't think he's made 35 appearances in a season for us yet, has he?
I ask again - And I genuinely don't know, so pipe me down with facts by all means:
Who says we weren't in for him?
BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £40m
Well, when you put it like that, I wouldn't be against Coutinho either. That said, I don't trust the club not to throw a three-year contract his way. Barca want sales due to their current financial problems and I could definitely see Moshiri falling into the aforementioned three-year deal trap.
Revisionism F.C
He was our best CB going into last season and we were all gutted when he got injured against Preston
Terrarian
Player Valuation: £50m
I don't deny he has niggly injuries, keeping him fit is the main thing because he is good in my opinion. Do tall players suffer more niggles or am I talking bollocks again?
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