Fair point mate, hes currently passing the eye test and live stats are impressive.
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Fair point mate, hes currently passing the eye test and live stats are impressive.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Amazing so many posters didnt want him.
Massive opportunity lost. My first choice this summer and while we have 3 great midfield signings im not sure people realise how weak we are in defence and how good Gabriel actually is.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Its quite funny how people think just by strengthening the midfield it automatically makes our strikers score more, our defence defend better and the keeper stop making howlers.
Im not getting carried away with the current business done as simply put our squad was utterly woeful last season and realistically we needed a good 5-6 in this window to go some way to addressing that.
Still time obviously but at present I think 8th is our glass ceiling.
If we are to push higher then apart from crazy amounts of signings which is unrealistic I think we need to focus investment on one end of the pitch - ie. Top class defence / keeper and rely on tight 1-0 wins all season or invest in a top quality CF / goalscoring wide player and blow teams away like Rodgers Liverpool in which not even Pickfords howlers would see us drop points.
dutchblue54
Player Valuation: £20m
agree. We need another centre half. I am happy with Kenny and NKonkou as back up full backs.
Do worry though in attack: i am not convinced with Kean like many others and if we would pick up injuries to either Dom/Richarlison we would struggle. But another winger/striker will depend how many we can shift. There are still options like Zaha, Lozano or a back up striker. FFS Brands do the business on the outgoings please.
wainy
Player Valuation: £35m
On the flip side of the coin, I’m sure plenty of teams will go to fulham and smash them so I’m not sure this is the game we should measuring him in. Let’s see how he gets on against a top side. That said, he absolutely gets in our team ahead of King Yerald.
Zaschrona
Player Valuation: £10m
We are not weak at the back, we are actually solid if you take in case that our defence played with that midfield last season. Agree with you that Gabriel is really good though.
Bulgarian toffee
Player Valuation: £950k
So now Gabriel is a world beater and miles better than Mina on the back of a goal scored with his shoulder against an awful Fulham side. Nah, don't think so.
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
Well... I mean..... it literally does mean our strikers score more, our defence defends better.
Sure, a great midfield doesnt do their jobs for them, but quite literally they give many more opportunities for the strikers to score, and the give better defensive cover and fewer turnovers meaning defenders have an easier job. The most important position on the pitch is, and has always been, CM because no one has to be involved in every second of play as much as CMs.
Nar, it doesn't matter, unless we buy Danny Ings we cant win the league.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Not sure on the formation we would play but;
Forwards: Happy going into the season with Richarlison / DCL / Kean. All young players and another season together we need the 3 to step up a gear. Big opportunity for DCL and Kean this season.
Midfield: Very exciting trio for the next 3 seasons
Defence: Half a defence with Digne/Holgate. Holgate should be at RCB to cover behind the RB with his pace but has to play on the left as Keane/Mina cant play there. We will need to play very deep this season.
Keeper: Toss of a coin whether he has a good game or throws a goal in.
Feels that the 3 years we have Allan / James is the amount of time it will take to build a good team.
Quite dismayed that we havent shifted more players. Cant really pin it on brands so much due to their salaries and he got Schneiderlin out which is great.
The Iwobi and Delph signings have really put alot of doubt on Brands while the Nkounkou and Branthwaite signings look excellent business.
Well, Gabriel would have played LCB with Holgate at RCB. Alot of people say it doesnt matter if a CB plays left or right side but Mina looks better on the right and Keane looks like an absolute donkey in anything other than a deep defence.
Individually we have Digne who is class and Holgate who could make a good RCB. Mina a rotation player behind Holgate really.
Very week on the right half of defence.
RB: Coleman/Kenny
RCB: Keane/Mina
Thats very much a mid table at best half of a defence.
Having Allan in midfield will help but this is the right sided trifecta of doom
RB: Coleman/Kenny
RCB: Keane/Mina
RM: Walcott
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
What a strange post.
Gabriel and Mina are two different players in different positions.
Zero correlation here.
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
I didnt want to admit it, was hoping he wouldnt see the obvious Ings sized flaw in my logic
Not sure if this post is serious???
You are claiming that Gabriel and Mina don't play the same position?
You don't half say some bolloxs Zatmania.
Dont even bother coming back with 1 is a left-sided CB and the other is right, only people who have never played football think it matters which side CBs go on.
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
We can only loan two players, Lemar would be an interesting shout though
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