Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
I'm not his biggest fan or anything but I think he's a decent player with good potential.
I just can't bare the thought of Osman at CM ever again, either. He's terrible there 9 times out of 10.
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I'm not his biggest fan or anything but I think he's a decent player with good potential.
I just can't bare the thought of Osman at CM ever again, either. He's terrible there 9 times out of 10.
ijjysmith
Calm
If you don't mind Ossie, I'm sure you won't mind McCarthy
In Roberto I Trust
If you don't mind Ossie, I'm sure you won't mind McCarthy
Osman is utter tosh.
toffee matt
Player Valuation: £60m
Moyes wouldn't have to give us a reject... theirs a release clause, if that's activated its entirely down to the player.
runlikehell
Player Valuation: £5m
I think he's a good squad player at best and hopefully Martinez won't develop the same love in Moyes had for him and can see this.
Deco
Player Valuation: £40m
Very true but I don't feel that it would be as successful long term
Arteta10
Player Valuation: £10m
I think ossie is a lot better in the centre. He's awful on the wings where he gets exposed cos of his lack of pace and spends more time falling over his abnormally big head
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
For me he needs to be in a role behind the striker with two CMs behind him. He was something daft like the 2nd most dribbled past player in the league last season. He's got no defensive qualities whatsoever.
Socrates
Player Valuation: £6m
I know it's a bit left-field if you excuse the pun but if we were to lose Leighton Baines (I don't believe we will) then I'd go for Ali Adnan the lad who's been playing left back for Iraq in the under 20's.
I've been watching all their games since the England match as I was impressed with their style. He has been the stand-out player for them all tournament and is up there amongst the best overall.
He's big, strong, fast and brave. He has one hell of a left peg and his ball delivery has been outstanding. He has a great engine too. He seems to be a part of all of their best attacks yet he is always there to defend his goal when the ball is at the other end.
He takes free kicks too.
I reckon we'll end up seeing him starring in the Champions league for someone over the next few years.
And he'd cost a lot less than Luke Shaw who is only valued at £10m+ because he's British.
I've been watching all their games since the England match as I was impressed with their style. He has been the stand-out player for them all tournament and is up there amongst the best overall.
He's big, strong, fast and brave. He has one hell of a left peg and his ball delivery has been outstanding. He has a great engine too. He seems to be a part of all of their best attacks yet he is always there to defend his goal when the ball is at the other end.
He takes free kicks too.
I reckon we'll end up seeing him starring in the Champions league for someone over the next few years.
And he'd cost a lot less than Luke Shaw who is only valued at £10m+ because he's British.
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
signed for Galatasaray last month, lid - at least according to his hilarious wikipedia:
chico?
Azzurri
Player Valuation: £70m
Did he? Not according to wiki.
Chang Elephant
Forum God
I posted this about two months ago for the people who were against the idea of us bringing in McCarthy as people said he's crap an not good enough
Apps 36 38
Goals 5 3
Assists 2 2
Key Passes 27 36
Pass Suc% 85.9 87.2
Dribbles Completed 28 27
Dispossessed 56 26
[TD="width: 86"] Leon Osman [/TD]
[TD="width: 86"] James McCarthy [/TD]
He is younger and was playing in a worse team than us but his stats from last season are on a par if not better than Osman's who people are saying is a good player, some of the same people who were saying McCarthy was not good enough for us! He might not be worth the money Wigan want for him but he's a good player like Osman
McCarthy's stats there are well better, the dispossession ones are crucial in centre mid.
Also, one stat not shown there is possession gained/opposition possession disrupted and I'm gussing the software hasn't shown this on this comparison as the Osman negative value threw it's workings out.
Good shout that, I was very impressed with him in the couple of games I saw of him in the under 20s.
Said to my Dad how rare it was to see a team rely so heavily on a left back for attacks at which point he reminded me of every one of our games last season!
CallumGamble
Player Valuation: £500k
Players like Osman, Cleverley, McCarthy or Ramsey (of which we've recently been linked with one way or another) will do nothing to take us to the next level. If you're going to look for central midfielders to advance us, swerve Britain, it's a wasteland of average, overhyped, statz orientated, overpriced midfielders. We need to be looking at players like Banega. Our ideal player would be someone like Dembele, obviously he's a million miles out of our league, but he's the kind of player we've been screaming out for over the past few years.
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