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dutchblue54
Player Valuation: £20m
Relax guys our Echo guys will come in the office tomorrow and deny Townsend and Gray.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Yes I agree with you. I think we are at late Smith/early Moyes time, where we have a manager who will want slightly unorthodox players to fit a system. We are not overpaying for any of them, if you think of the 3 we are close to signing for less than 5m fee and wages around 150k p/w it feels pretty smart business- rather than just paying big premium's for the big shiny new toy. I've seen we are looking at Lenglet on loan too, which feels another low risk, high reward option to me. That would be 3 players, and a backup goalkeeper who would improve our squad quite a fair bit.
I don't know if it's the Benitez input, the move away from Ancelotti, Brands or whether there is a more joined up approach at board level (or a combination of all) it feels like smarter recruitment if the figures are correct.
If it can be done, alongside the 3 or 4 younger players Brands has been linked with can come in, and cleaning out a lot of the higher paid dross it will help us.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
His problem is all the stuff that people here will hate about him. Going to be a thread filled with moaning about work rate and whether he cares.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
How well do Rafael and Bobby M get on?. Wouldn’t it be exciting to get some input from the brown shoed one?
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Yes only has a year on his deal. Surprised they did that deal.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Chico mentioned 3 players...
He threw the name Gray out there...
Im hoping that twitter has copied it off here.
Townsend i could understand, 2 year deal as backup makes sense to me.
Gray on the other hand id be appalled with...hes an utter donkey.
Imagine if we approach Leverkusen and instead of asking for Tapsoba, Diaby, Bailey or Wirtz we want Gray.
That would be a real kick in the teeth.
Which big-spending manager have we had?
Moyes 13m
Big Sam 47m
Koeman 51m
Carlo 56m
Clownshoez 56m
Silva 100m
Can we buy the others for 2million?
Oasis1878
Player Valuation: £30m
Haha agreed, but signings like this won’t help turn the tide. Let’s just hope there a few more in the pipeline that we can all get behindThing is, I don't think we are better than this
We have finished 12th and 10th in the last two seasons, we have just hired a manager who is deeply unpopular with the fanbase already and whose greatest achievement in recent times was winning the Champ with a Newcastle side who were by far the best in the division, and a DoF who has an extremely iffy track record with signings
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
He's the sort of signing an age Moyes bought a lot of. Peinaar, Arteta etc had very similar journey's. I'm not saying he will be as good as them, but we do have form for this.
Ultimately he has pace and carries the ball well. We are crying out for this. He would be a functional option, with his best years ahead of him, at a very cheap price.
I don't think he's any, worse than Iwobi, but we paid 30m for Iwobi. I'd rather gamble on someone coming good at 2m not 30m.
Andy
There were a few stories before Brands signing his contract about him getting his wish.
Maybe this was it, cheap value signings that while wont get pulses racing COULD COULD prove useful and if they arent useful, we aint in the bin for 30million with an overpriced piece of tosh like Iwobi.
Coupled with some astute yoot signings.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I don't know how you can possibly assess a situation as Townsend yes Gray no. And that's not even because I rate Gray. It's a punt. But Townsend has been terrible for the better part of a decade. We know he'll be bad.
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