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Confirmed Signing Jake O'Brien

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Very unpopular opinion here.

We paid 25m for Michael Keane.

Most will consider that a complete waste of money, personally I dont, we got an "England International CB" that has played 212 times for us, I personally consider that a decent buy. Hes had some very, very bad games, but hes also played very well at times and contributed to us staying in the league for the last 7 years.

So 17m for Obey? Im unfazed, if hes tosh, its big money, but if hes average, its a snip, if hes The Irish Branners, then we Gucci.
 
Goat said:
Well, I just tried to make a team and it was meh.

I think, given the players we have signed or might sign, I would do this.

Pickers
Patto - Tarks - Branners - Myko
Gana - Garner
Lindy
Indy - DCL - Gnonto
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Its less than ideal sticking Indy wide and I would be switching Lindy and Indy around to see which combination works.
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Obey Tarks Branth
Patto Garner Gana Myko
Lindy
Chermite Ndiaye
 
Goat said:
Very unpopular opinion here.

We paid 25m for Michael Keane.

Most will consider that a complete waste of money, personally I dont, we got an "England International CB" that has played 212 times for us, I personally consider that a decent buy. Hes had some very, very bad games, but hes also played very well at times and contributed to us staying in the league for the last 7 years.

So 17m for Obey? Im unfazed, if hes tosh, its big money, but if hes average, its a snip, if hes The Irish Branners, then we Gucci.
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Keane had a certain pedigree in that he was a premier league hardened operator before he signed for us.

This guy no one can comment on because he has no body of work

Massive risk this.
 

could see a bit of 3 at the back (if Jarrad isn’t sold somewhere). Would mean McNeil and Harrison/Gnoto/whoever can fill in at the wingbacks and we can get an extra offensive player on the field. Very curious about this one. Wouldn’t seem to me like a player we are bringing in as just bench/backup
 

Kev The Rat said:
Keane had a certain pedigree in that he was a premier league hardened operator before he signed for us.

This guy no one can comment on because he has no body of work
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Huge threat on corners/fk with his 1.97m (5g/2a this season all on set pieces), but paradoxically not the best at defending in the air. Legitimately one of the fastest players in Ligue 1 last season, despites his height. But his acceleration on the first few steps is not the best, and he does take a while to turn. His speed allows him to save some of his still questionable positioning at times.

Agressive in duels, warrior and leader mentality, that never gives up and always gives his all : he arrived on the last week of the window and was not even intended to be in the squad at first (expected to be loaned to Molenbeek). He ended up our revelation of the season and basically the only player that shined during our disastrous first half of the season. While still being a starter during our legendary 2nd half, showing some personality with ball-playing qualities that nobody expected of him with some nice passes and line breaking runs.

One thing to remember is that though he's 23 y.o it was his first season at the highest level (after truly focusing on football later than usual, at 14 years old), and he kept improving significantly games after games. Adapting from a minimalistic counter attacking playstyle in the first half of the season to a dominant possession-based one in the 2nd half. So he will keep improving, and it's impossible to know what his limit will be right now.

Edit : We are selling him because after buying him for 1M last summer his market value this summer is near impossible to refuse. With no guarantees that it would be this high in the future, and the need to sell for 100M this window and not a lot of players that can be easily sold...

From a Lyon fan.
 
Osamabindiesel said:
could see a bit of 3 at the back (if Jarrad isn’t sold somewhere). Would mean McNeil and Harrison/Gnoto/whoever can fill in at the wingbacks and we can get an extra offensive player on the field. Very curious about this one. Wouldn’t seem to me like a player we are bringing in as just bench/backup
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If we are considering switching to a back 3, why arent we doing that now, in preseason.

I reckon hes back up, we got VERY lucky that Tarks and Branners hardly missed a game last season, we honestly wont get that lucky again.

Its the Beto issue again, we bought him cos we didnt expect DCL to play all season, he did, so Beto fed on scraps and "suffered" to a degree, its forward planning, if we get "lucky" then it seems silly, if we dont, its sensible, forward planning, its new to us.
 

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