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Oumar Niasse

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Black Belt Jones said:
Displaying rank incompetence in the transfer market seems like it would be damaging, actually. How can we expect to sign Axel Witsel, a real player, from Zenit when we've given Locomotiv 13 million for a pretend player 6 months previously? They probably asked for a billion pounds, on a pro-rata basis.
This isn't a square peg in a round hole situation, like di Maria at Utd or something like that. Or a case of having to deal with shady clubs because you desperately need a proven player. We've shovelled millions of pound into Putin's personal bank account for a player who couldn't get a game in the Norwegian league.

You're right that worrying about our club's transfer dealings is precious behaviour in general, because let's face it - life's too short. This one, though, is just off the scale.
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I don't believe any real players exist in Russia. Every signing from there seems to be massive flop.
 

Black Belt Jones said:
OK mate I guess we just see this on different levels of badness. I'd say Bilyaletdinov was an example of a transfer that just didn't work out, and you can't put this fella in the same category as that.
Comes down to the eyeball test really - Witsel has never played in a top league, as you say, but he looks like a footballer whenever I've seen him. Bilyaletdinov was horribly ineffective for us, a bad buy, but clearly a footballer - just one of dem things lad. Little I've seen of Niasse and he looks championship level max - this is supported by two of our managers not even giving him a cup of tea at Goodison (including the one who bought him!)
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Do you not find that a bit weird though? This is why I feel that its not just to do with his ability or lack thereof.

The eyeball test is hard for me because realistically I aint seen enough of him, not even close. A handful of run outs in a team devoid of...well, anything last season and nothing since then. He looked decent on Youtube (I know...I know...) and I known that a video can make a player look better than they are but it cant make a bloke who cant even run in a straight line (according to some of our fans..) into someone who looks half decent.

There is deffo something in that assault charge not long after he arrived I reckon.

I would just stay away from Russian based players completely. They never work out!
 


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