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Confirmed Signing James Rodriguez

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Marcel, you had one job...

Do you think James has considered a Lamborghini Gallardo?
 
The last time we had a side with a few promising young uns in it, it took the signing of a few old uns in Peter Reid and Andy Gray to gel the team. I don’t recall that worked out too badly for us? I do get what the likes of Zat mean about building for the future, but very few successful teams don’t have a few old heads in them?

When the 'old heads' are Sigurdsson, Delph et al then its clear that we should be focusing on u23s.

Again, when players over that age flatter to deceive (Gomes) or are expensive because they come from competitors (Iwobi/Walcott) or just simply overpriced (Keane) then i wonder why we havent gone for u23 players to build up and grow with the squad.

However, when were discussing Allan and Hamez its a totally different argument.

These two players are clearly amongst the worlds best for ability and performance. Their pedigree is such that, as with Ancelotti, our players will sit up and want to play better so they dont make fools of themselves being on the same pitch.

Our current two best performers are Digne and Richarlison. By signing these two players we should be expanding that to four right off the bat and having four top players should increase the performance and output of players around them.

Im very much behind these two signings.

Richarlison said he wanted to hit 20 goals this season and Ancelotti said he wants to see 30. One moment Richarlison will be elated at the confidence being shown in him...the next wondering how he can achieve that with Gomes/Sigurdsson/Davies/Delph behind him.

With Allan and Hames there then Richarlison has more belief and confidence.

Also lets not forget Kean. A player brought through Juventus' youth team and hitting goals for their first team and at all levels internationally. Drop in these two behind him and finally things start getting exciting.
 

Sorry mate but some lads who don’t watch anything other than the premier league have said he’s not done anything apart from score a worldy for Colombia in a World Cup 10 years ago

I have been firmly in that camp, admittedly, but there some eye-opening stats being dropped here so I am at last seeing myself for the massive idiot that I am.

Where do we see him fitting in? Assuming Big Al and Doucoure come in, will James sit at the top of a midfield triangle, or at RW? Or, if Carlo stays with 4-4-2, does it become a bit more of a 4-4-1-1 with James linking up midfield and Richy? If the latter, maybe there are some legs to the "Kean to Juve" rumours...
 

I have been firmly in that camp, admittedly, but there some eye-opening stats being dropped here so I am at last seeing myself for the massive idiot that I am.

Where do we see him fitting in? Assuming Big Al and Doucoure come in, will James sit at the top of a midfield triangle, or at RW? Or, if Carlo stays with 4-4-2, does it become a bit more of a 4-4-1-1 with James linking up midfield and Richy? If the latter, maybe there are some legs to the "Kean to Juve" rumours...
If we loan Kean to Juve then we would need to sign a third striker. Unless the club is going to take a punt on Ellis Simms.
 
I have been firmly in that camp, admittedly, but there some eye-opening stats being dropped here so I am at last seeing myself for the massive idiot that I am.

Where do we see him fitting in? Assuming Big Al and Doucoure come in, will James sit at the top of a midfield triangle, or at RW? Or, if Carlo stays with 4-4-2, does it become a bit more of a 4-4-1-1 with James linking up midfield and Richy? If the latter, maybe there are some legs to the "Kean to Juve" rumours...
I only knew better because I checked him out when we first got linked lol

I reckon we go 433 if we get him and Allan in and he plays on the right of a front 3 but honestly wherever he lines up, just bringing in players of this quality to the squad is massive for us.
 

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