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2019/20 Marcel Brands

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davek said:
Martinez handed us a profit; Brands has spent £200M on utter tat that cant be given away.
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Richarlison would sell for double,
Bernard would go for up to 20 mil
Digne would be double money
Iwobi 23 and could return The same amount
Kean could easily sell for double in a year or 2.

what people seem to totally forget is... Brands walked in to a club with no saleable assets, an aging squad and a huge wage bill wasted on players.

He managed to lower the wage bill, lower the age of the squad and has players with resale value.

Walsh spent a£100 mil on Sigi,Walcott and Tosun all 3 have no resale value

Brands bought Richarlison,Digne and Kean for around £100 Mil and you easily double that amount
 
As for the Wolves/Burnley and Sheff Utd above us thing.. take out there starting 3 midfielders and see where they are.

Utd should have signed Bruno in the summer but ran out of time. So again not a stick to beat Brands with
 

2020
IN
Branthwaite £750k
Nkounkou £Free

OUT
Schneiderlin £2mil rising to £4mil
Hornby £1.8mil
Niasse £Free
Martina £Free
Garbutt £Free
Stekelenburg £Free

2ins and 6 outs


I think he really needs to be looking at three times that amount of work...18 outs and 6 ins.
 
MrGrumpy said:
Richarlison would sell for double,
Bernard would go for up to 20 mil
Digne would be double money
Iwobi 23 and could return The same amount
Kean could easily sell for double in a year or 2.

what people seem to totally forget is... Brands walked in to a club with no saleable assets, an aging squad and a huge wage bill wasted on players.

He managed to lower the wage bill, lower the age of the squad and has players with resale value.

Walsh spent a£100 mil on Sigi,Walcott and Tosun all 3 have no resale value

Brands bought Richarlison,Digne and Kean for around £100 Mil and you easily double that amount
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Bernard 20 mill? Are you kidding? Everton have a player worth 20 mill who can’t get in the team?
 
hktoffee said:
Do you lads think he‘ll stay beyond next summer? He’s in the last year of his contract?
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...I think this is a big summer for him, I’m probably not alone in questioning some signings and quality of the squad.

There is always the possibility he doesn’t want to stay. I hope Moshiri doesn’t rush into offering him a new deal, let’s see how we perform to the end of this year. He has to earn a further 3 years.
 
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On paper he's had a number of great signings but for whatever reason it's not worked out for a lot of them, or they've been unlucky with injuries.

It's a difficult one because ultimately you make your own luck in football - he HAS to do it this summer.
 
Deco said:
On paper he's had a number of great signings but for whatever reason it's not worked out for a lot of them, or they've been unlucky with injuries.

It's a difficult one because ultimately you make your own luck in football - he HAS to do it this summer.
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....the bottom line is, has the quality of the squad and performances on the pitch improved?

On other threads, posters are arguing with some justification that Bolasie and Besic could get game time if they were available. That’s a worry, especially given Brands has brought Iwobi and Bernard in to play in wide positions.
 

There's little evidence of his signings being the result of a genuine scouting process. Maybe Gbamin aside.

Big-club rejects and known but mediocre and overpriced quantities from PL clubs make up the bulk.

It's a trodden, lazy process that shows no creativity.

Apart from Digne, he hasn't signed anyone directly that we would stand to make a decent return on.

He should have one or two previously relatively unknown signings under his belt now that the big clubs are sniffing around.

Nobody has been signed to excite us or get attention from the media or elsewhere in a positive way.

That's poor no matter what way you look at it.
 
brieverton said:
There's little evidence of his signings being the result of a genuine scouting process.

Big-club rejects and known but mediocre and overpriced quantities from PL clubs make up the bulk.

Apart from Digne, he hasn't signed anyone directly that we would stand to make a decent return on.

He should have one or two previously relatively unknown signings under his belt now that the big clubs are sniffing around.

Nobody has been signed to excite us or get attention from the media or elsewhere in a positive way.

That's poor no matter what way you look at it.
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Think Kean was supposed to be that sort of signing.

One of the most highly rated youngsters in the world when we bought him.

Hasn't quite worked out like that mind
 
brieverton said:
There's little evidence of his signings being the result of a genuine scouting process. Maybe Gbamin aside.

Big-club rejects and known but mediocre and overpriced quantities from PL clubs make up the bulk.

It's a trodden, lazy process that shows no creativity.

Apart from Digne, he hasn't signed anyone directly that we would stand to make a decent return on.

He should have one or two previously relatively unknown signings under his belt now that the big clubs are sniffing around.

Nobody has been signed to excite us or get attention from the media or elsewhere in a positive way.

That's poor no matter what way you look at it.
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It's definitely different from being a DoF in Holland, where you can take more punts on players because the league is relatively easy with only a few competitive teams.

I don't think it's been a lazy process, it just hasn't worked so far. And it hasn't worked with a lot of money spent.
 

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