Fansince1988
Player Valuation: £40m
I would imagine there could be a chance Baines will leave in the summer, so if we could get a CB left footed that can cover LB aswel that would work out good, even if we got another LB aswell.
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davids
Player Valuation: £60m
In the present market a "few million" buys you nothing,and without CL you're not going to attract anyone decent to be a backup.
davids
Player Valuation: £60m
Swap Shawcross for Keane...swap anyone for Keane.
evertony
Player Valuation: £50m
He doesn’t have a pillow....he’s Mexican so he sleeps one eye open with his head on a piece of a mountain....hard as nails.
OneTrueLegend
Player Valuation: £35m
linked with Alex Kral of Spartak Moscow, on Royal Blue Mersey site. I have never heard of him, but he is 21 and from the Czech Republic plays as either DM or CM. It is a position we need to get cover in, but ideally I would like someone who has played at a higher level or has a bit more experience, if we are looking for a Schneiderlin replacement
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Alex Král - Career stats
Player stats of Alex Král (1.FC Union Berlin) ➤ Goals ➤ Assists ➤ Matches played ➤ All performance data
linked with Alex Kral of Spartak Moscow, on Royal Blue Mersey site. I have never heard of him, but he is 21 and from the Czech Republic plays as either DM or CM. It is a position we need to get cover in, but ideally I would like someone who has played at a higher level or has a bit more experience, if we are looking for a Schneiderlin replacement
Alex Král - Career stats
Player stats of Alex Král (1.FC Union Berlin) ➤ Goals ➤ Assists ➤ Matches played ➤ All performance data
Seems very strange considering they signed him 2 months ago.
Anyway, heres a scouting report.
For a transfer involving a 21-year-old senior international who was for many – including U-23 football gurus from Scouted Football – the stand-out Czech performer at U-19 Euros only two years ago, the Alex Král to Spartak Moscow move generated a peculiar, largely skeptical buzz on both sides. “Why 12 million euros for someone who’s not even a regular at his own club?” asked some in the Russian capital. “Why Russian PL of all leagues, doesn’t he remember Luboš Kalouda?” responded baffled Slavia/Czech fans.
Firstly: no, he most definitely doesn’t, since he was about 10 years old when Kalouda languished at CSKA before sorting out a string of underwhelming loans out of the club. Slovakia-born Alex Král was then still at Brno, the second-largest Czech city he left at about the same time Kalouda got released from CSKA.
From a purely geographical standpoint, Král’s career trajectory has actually been satisfyingly predictable. From Košice in Eastern Slovakia through Brno to Prague where he spent most of his formative years at Slavia, all the way to Teplice towards the north-west borders with Germany. Looking at this, I can only have one complaint: Why not RB Leipzig (Lipsko), Alex?
However predictable his career trajectory has been, however, from a footballing standpoint it’s been anything but. The choice of Spartak at a time when the club doesn’t feature in any of the European cups is peculiar, to say the least, and so was his decision to make a permanent switch to Teplice as a cherished Slavia academy product in February 2017 only to return there amidst interest from Bordeaux of Ligue 1.
Král has simply never been afraid of making a bold move and taking on a challenge no one had foreseen for him. This following stint is certainly one of them, but what’s most important now: does he have what it takes to live up to the billing of the second most expensive Czech export after a certain Tomáš Rosický?
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Dynamic, untamable presence
Let’s start with what Spartak are most definitely going to get from Alex Král: tons of energy, drive through the middle, strength in 1v1 battles. There are features on Král’s game that sort of come and go – for instance, in one game he’ll distribute the ball on long-distance (especially using it to switch the play from one side to the other), whilst in the next game he won’t make a single pass of such nature. There’s usually one constant, though: Král is seemingly never caught flat-footed. Always on his toes, ready to pounce.
Coupled with smart positioning, it’s no coincidence Král is then able to sweep up so many second balls. He does participate in aerial duels, too, but he appears to be aware that he’s no heading machine and so sometimes you’ll see him rather stepping aside, waiting for the convenient bounce that often comes.
His dynamism has its drawbacks, too. While he’s no giant, he still seems to struggle with eye-foot coordination. At 21, this is by no means something unfixable, but it’s become a frustrating habit of his to kick the ball too far ahead when in full sprint, take too many touches to corral the ball, etc. His technique is fine if not excellent at times; he often dribbles out of trouble with nonchalance, but he kind of blows hot and cold in this respect. Over one game, you’re often left in awe at how fantastic and poor his first touch and ball control are; in my opinion a product of sometimes thinking too fast to execute properly.
For a transfer involving a 21-year-old senior international who was for many – including U-23 football gurus from Scouted Football – the stand-out Czech performer at U-19 Euros only two years ago, the Alex Král to Spartak Moscow move generated a peculiar, largely skeptical buzz on both sides. “Why 12 million euros for someone who’s not even a regular at his own club?” asked some in the Russian capital. “Why Russian PL of all leagues, doesn’t he remember Luboš Kalouda?” responded baffled Slavia/Czech fans.
Firstly: no, he most definitely doesn’t, since he was about 10 years old when Kalouda languished at CSKA before sorting out a string of underwhelming loans out of the club. Slovakia-born Alex Král was then still at Brno, the second-largest Czech city he left at about the same time Kalouda got released from CSKA.
From a purely geographical standpoint, Král’s career trajectory has actually been satisfyingly predictable. From Košice in Eastern Slovakia through Brno to Prague where he spent most of his formative years at Slavia, all the way to Teplice towards the north-west borders with Germany. Looking at this, I can only have one complaint: Why not RB Leipzig (Lipsko), Alex?
However predictable his career trajectory has been, however, from a footballing standpoint it’s been anything but. The choice of Spartak at a time when the club doesn’t feature in any of the European cups is peculiar, to say the least, and so was his decision to make a permanent switch to Teplice as a cherished Slavia academy product in February 2017 only to return there amidst interest from Bordeaux of Ligue 1.
Král has simply never been afraid of making a bold move and taking on a challenge no one had foreseen for him. This following stint is certainly one of them, but what’s most important now: does he have what it takes to live up to the billing of the second most expensive Czech export after a certain Tomáš Rosický?
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Dynamic, untamable presence
Let’s start with what Spartak are most definitely going to get from Alex Král: tons of energy, drive through the middle, strength in 1v1 battles. There are features on Král’s game that sort of come and go – for instance, in one game he’ll distribute the ball on long-distance (especially using it to switch the play from one side to the other), whilst in the next game he won’t make a single pass of such nature. There’s usually one constant, though: Král is seemingly never caught flat-footed. Always on his toes, ready to pounce.
Coupled with smart positioning, it’s no coincidence Král is then able to sweep up so many second balls. He does participate in aerial duels, too, but he appears to be aware that he’s no heading machine and so sometimes you’ll see him rather stepping aside, waiting for the convenient bounce that often comes.
His dynamism has its drawbacks, too. While he’s no giant, he still seems to struggle with eye-foot coordination. At 21, this is by no means something unfixable, but it’s become a frustrating habit of his to kick the ball too far ahead when in full sprint, take too many touches to corral the ball, etc. His technique is fine if not excellent at times; he often dribbles out of trouble with nonchalance, but he kind of blows hot and cold in this respect. Over one game, you’re often left in awe at how fantastic and poor his first touch and ball control are; in my opinion a product of sometimes thinking too fast to execute properly.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
irishgoose
Player Valuation: £15m
Zlatan.
Just saying.
Just saying.
Blue Magic
Player Valuation: £1.5m
I’ve never heard of him, but he sounds good. Sign him up.
£350k a week? You’re alright.
Insane isn’t it
We have already got one... Lewis Gibson. Not sure why we are letting his contract run down - unless he has decided himself that he wont be given a chance here.
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