Summer Transfer Window 2017

[mightymoyes]

..Celtic midfielder Stuart Armstrong is an interesting one. Perhaps @Mikey_Fitzgerald has an opinion;

http://www.[Publication is blacklis...oal-midfielder-contract-talks-planned-report/

tierney and dembele only 2 celtic players worth going for

 

[Eggs]

When i had my hair really short got called Osman by several different girls in town...

Grew hair long shortly after that...

...so Osman is famous in Russia?

 

[bluestevon]

To be fair people are only saying he looks like him rather than plays like him.

I've only seen him play once ever, the other night at Lyon, I wasn't totally convinced myself but won't judge off one game.

Think I've seen him about 5-6 times total myself, honestly never noticed him much until we got linked heavily and watched him more closely against Lyon second leg, think he's one of those weirdly effective players who if he isn't playing for you then you probably don't appreciate what he does half as much.

Get another chance to look at him against United, and against players you know the level of as well, which should give you more an idea about him mate.

My low bar evaluation of players we are linked with is are they better than what we have, as far as linking play and supporting the striker then he seems to be better than anyone we currently have (if he can translate the way he plays in Holland/Europe over to this league ofc)

 

[bluestevon]

...so Osman is famous in Russia?

Only been here 5 years mate, was in my young and single days (well not so young)

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

Same as last summer then really.

12th is hardly comparable to 17th.

 

[BlueToff]

The linking of Klassen to Naismith really does need to stop if he joins. It will be to his detriment otherwise, the minute he has a crap game or doesn't do something "he's supposed to" the fans will jump on his back and just write him off as "another Naismith"

He's very similar to Naismith in the area in that he's got an excellent finish and his movement is great.

But he's also a very good midfielder and would be creative in the sense that because of his movement, he'd free up another player (hopefully Barkley, probably Gylfi) to be the 'playmaker'.

 

[ijjysmith]

12th is hardly comparable to 17th.

I'm not saying he won't come here.

But he clearly likes it there, will be offered all sorts to stay under a full season of a new manager, be the big fish in a small pond and be their best player.

He might just like it there.

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

I'm not saying he won't come here.

But he clearly likes it there, will be offered all sorts to stay under a full season of a new manager, be the big fish in a small pond and be their best player.

He might just like it there.

Agree with this.
Williams was the same but he made the step up too.
Much to some people's dismay.

 

[mkrudden]

Confession: I've never watched this Klaassen fella play and all i've had chance to do is look at YouTube which i'm aware can be falsely representative.

For those who genuinely do know alot about him:

Is he a striker or a midfielder?
Does the fact that, whilst his movement is good, he doesn't seem to have any real pace not worry any of you?
Is this going to be Vincent Janssen mrk II?

 

[mkrudden]

I'm not saying he won't come here.

But he clearly likes it there, will be offered all sorts to stay under a full season of a new manager, be the big fish in a small pond and be their best player.

He might just like it there.

Sky Sports:

Gylfi Sigurdsson has praised Paul Clement’s impact at Swansea City and believes the club will not be in a relegation battle next season if they stay up.

Swansea have won five of 11 games since the former Chelsea assistant coach replaced Bob Bradley in January, pulling them three points clear of the drop zone going into Sunday's clash with Middlesbrough, which is live on Sky Sports.

The match could be telling come the end of the season, but Sigurdsson is confident that former PE teacher Clement will guide the team in the right direction, long term.

"Under Paul Clement the club is in really good hands," Sigurdsson told Sky Sports. "If we stay up the club won't be anywhere near this position next season.

"If he gets a full pre-season and full season to handle the team we will be doing a lot better than we have been.

"A lot of times it does work when you change managers but sometimes it doesn't. Thankfully in this case it has helped us.

 

[BlueToff]

I'm not saying he won't come here.

But he clearly likes it there, will be offered all sorts to stay under a full season of a new manager, be the big fish in a small pond and be their best player.

He might just like it there.

We talking about Gylfi here?

 

[bluestevon]

Confession: I've never watched this Klaassen fella play and all i've had chance to do is look at YouTube which i'm aware can be falsely representative.

For those who genuinely do know alot about him:

Is he a striker or a midfielder?
Does the fact that, whilst his movement is good, he doesn't seem to have any real pace not worry any of you?
Is this going to be Vincent Janssen mrk II?

central/attacking midfielder who get up and supports in and around the box a lot mate, very hard working player and seems good at choosing the right options and playing at a high tempo, seems to be very good at finding pockets of space as well

Caveat - that's on relatively limited amounts of watches - and always in big games as well

 

[mkrudden]

central/attacking midfielder who get up and supports in and around the box a lot mate, very hard working player and seems good at choosing the right options and playing at a high tempo, seems to be very good at finding pockets of space as well

If he's a midfielder then i'm more pleased, definitely.
So if we get him, we don't need Gylfi I guess?

 

[bluestevon]

If he's a midfielder then i'm more pleased, definitely.
So if we get him, we don't need Gylfi I guess?

think the idea people have said is that Sigurddson would be playing left in a 4-3-3 mate, and yup Klassen is 100% a attacking midfielder - but strictly a central one, my guess would be he';d be the choice to try add some more goals to the current group of Schneiderlin/Gueye/Davies and would see the end of McCarthy.

Could see Davies learning from him and hopefully developing a bit more on the attacking side as well, physically and pace wise they are pretty similar - both have a great work-rate too

 

[maccavennie]

Confession: I've never watched this Klaassen fella play and all i've had chance to do is look at YouTube which i'm aware can be falsely representative.

For those who genuinely do know alot about him:

Is he a striker or a midfielder?
Does the fact that, whilst his movement is good, he doesn't seem to have any real pace not worry any of you?
Is this going to be Vincent Janssen mrk II?

as you know mate I'm not one to say someone is class without watching them first. I've never seen this kid but he's class and I want us to sign him.

As far as I know we would be after him and gylfi and trying to genetically fuse the 2 together to create the ultimate cam slotting assisting machine.

Ross is off to Watford for 53m