Good player him.
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I've got every faith in Steve Walsh, just look at what he's done with James Arthur. When everyone had given up on him, Steve never.
Mate, I remember the Super Nintendo, OF COURSE I remember MSN!!!
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I think that's a fair point mate and I might be getting carried away to call it a proven track record. I think he's shown he is aware of Algerian players and also that he had a pretty decent eye for talent at Leicester so that balances out some of the more critical reports of Brahimi currently. That was my point really rather than building him up as some messiah, just that it makes the transfer have some legs.
I also think, if he's fallen out of favour at Porto currently if Walsh has been aware of him for longer we could be getting a talented player at a knockdown price. We did similar with Arteta and Peinaar who had similar situations where it went stale for them at a club. Likewise if you watched Lukaku at the back end of last season or Barkley for a lot of this year you'd be disappointed signing them, but most of us would say there is a player in there.
Both Ghezzal and Brahimi have had poor seasons (Ghezzal had a good last game) but I suppose I trust Walsh's judgement on players.
ijjysmith
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Mate. I HAVE a Super Nintendo in my man cave!
Here's the plan, we lie to Koeman, and to a lesser extent Goat, that all the players we sign are older than they actually are
"Reuben Loftus-Cheek boss? Er yeah, he's 31. Yes, I agree, he does look good for his age!"
"Reuben Loftus-Cheek boss? Er yeah, he's 31. Yes, I agree, he does look good for his age!"
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Love us to go sign Dzagoev from CSKA, 15m release clause and a brilliant little player, we won't ofc, but yeah thats the wishlist top
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
Seen his name pop up a couple of times is he a striker?
Winger/No.10
Looked like the big new thing at the 2010 WC/2012 Euros IIRC but seems to have not kicked on.
@bluestevon will see him play more than me though
....aspirational signings are so difficult because RM and SW will be looking for specific types that fit their team model.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Nah mate can play all over, broke through at 18-19 as an attacking mid, since then spent a season or two playing various positions - left and right wing, centre mid and as of last season solely as a defensive mid, the defensive mid though is where he's best, absolutely controls games from there. and still gets in the box a lt from that position and nets a few
Side note, no chance on earth of getting him as he's probably on a stupidly high wage these days as are a lot of Russian players at the bigger teams
Drink and drugs problem apparently.
AndyC
Player Valuation: £70m
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
He plays and has done so defensive mid almost entirely the last season and a bit mate for club and country
His problems after that break through euros was his temper, Capello basically torpedoed his international career for a few years as he didn't trust him in 'big' games - got a couple of bans for fights on the pitch, but seemed to mature a lt 2-3 years back and its not an issue these days anywhere like it was. Still got a bit of bite/fight to the lad though - suppose nearest example would be a barton who sorted his head out or a rooney in the way he was ultra commited etc (not talking about ability but his temper)
Difficult to judge but he has everything in his locker to succeed at the very top - in a top league, the game against Sweden he absolutely controleld it in what was a must win for both in Euro qualies
Yeah I meant in terms of where we are.
We are past decent little players like Arter.
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