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Earwigjoe
Player Valuation: £10m
Yeah would have loved Gabriel but if moneys tight because of previous overspending sort out MIDFIELD x2, rw, rb and let our young promising defenders be coached by CARLO Ancelloti on how to defend, address 4 priority positions, Cull squad balance books. UTFT.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Exactly. Also lm sure Carlo would be part of any decision not to pursue Gabriel for these reasons.
st.domingo
Player Valuation: £8m
So is he making a decision this week then?
Not arsed about losing out on him as I know nothing about him. Would seriously question the logic of going from a 22 year old left footed defender to a right footed 28 year old journeyman CB for almost the same money if that occurs tho..
well according to our resident “all knowing sages” he’s the second coming of Thiago Silva, Baresi and Nesta all rolled into one.
despite none of them actually having seen him play.
It’s a tricky concept to get your head around, but just go with it and use it to bash the management team anyway.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
So he's either good and we've lost out
Or
He's crap and we've dodged a bullet - which in consequence would be another mark against the recruitment eye of Mr Brands
Which one is it?
You cant say you aint bothered by us missing out on a highly rated good young player who has been one of our main targets for months otherwise your expectations of the club must be very low.
Or is this another one of those "Rom aint all that we can spread the goals around the team" type statement?
Stuartisitc1878
Player Valuation: £30m
Probably just me but felt like this was a lost cause from the get-go. I know reports say we had a deal wrapped up pre Covid but as soon as football got going again we never looked in the race and maybe that's because we tried to renegotiate the deal and screwed ourselves over or maybe it's because the player thought he could do better but either way it looks like we've wasted a few weeks chasing a target we were never getting. At least this has happened early in the window.
I've not seen him play but a right sided CB isn't at all what we need. Hell, a CB isn't at all what we need.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
TBH mate I must already have them on ignore (very possible), because the majority of the posts I'm seeing are making absolute sense. It's as if the silent majority have woken up this morning and said I've had enough of this nonsense. Very pleasing to see.
Still, it would be very nice to get our first senior summer signing on board.
BirkenheadBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
Perhaps. Or I suppose our definitions of “absolute sense” may differ wildly.TBH mate I must already have them on ignore (very possible), because the majority of the posts I'm seeing are making absolute sense. It's as if the silent majority have woken up this morning and said I've had enough of this nonsense. Very pleasing to see.
Still, it would be very nice to get our first senior summer signing on board.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I think theyre talking about left sided Gabriel rather than the right sided 3 at the back Maksimovic.
Cant believe that rumour is true...
Lets see what happens with Gabriel if theres a final twist in the tale.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
The problem is meg that if we pull out the running then we go to our 2nd choice which wouldn't be as good as option 1 and for what? A few million.
If we pull out then its twice in 2 consecutive windows that Brands has chased a player for a significant period of time before pulling out of a deal over money and going for a cheaper worse option.
I would have hoped he had learnt his lesson from the Zaha chase but apparently not. Thats been my biggest criticism of Brands appointment- he has never worked with this sort of finance before - in Holland he was at one of the bigger clubs paying a few million here and there for players.
That strategy falls on its backside in this league awash with money he either has to pay the asking price or start chasing cheaper options instead of trying to con clubs into accepting low ball offers for very good players.
Important caveat here.
None of us really know what's happening/happened.
Ancelotti wanted him though, so if Brands can't make it happen, let's hope there was a good reason and one that Ancelotti accepts.
None of us really know what's happening/happened.
Ancelotti wanted him though, so if Brands can't make it happen, let's hope there was a good reason and one that Ancelotti accepts.
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