Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Makes sense, seems the same for Swansea also...their only notable defender.
Whose next on your conveyor belt?
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Makes sense, seems the same for Swansea also...their only notable defender.
Whose next on your conveyor belt?
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Our loanees always appear to be on the losing side.lol
Anybody know if Henry needs an operation or if we are going with rehab, it’s not clear?
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Just meant the way he moves around the pitch. McCarthy is a decent shout.
Philw
Player Valuation: £50m
Anderlecht said he needed surgery, would be out for 6 months. Our staff say he won't, and should be back in 6 weeks possibly.
Watching now. Hasn't done much, struggled to get on the ball, but good delivery for the opener. Watched their last game, and the right winger Matty Cash looks good.
...and Dowell scores controversial double hit penalty...
NIGHTMARE
Player Valuation: £25k
I finish work at 13-15 on a Friday, the U23s kickoff at 13-00 normally, so I call down Oakwell on my way home and watch the last 60 minuets, Matty Wolfe, is the stand out player for me most weeks, he’s a long lad in the middle of the park, old fashioned box to box type player, good sense of danger, brilliant range of passes, seems to float across the ground despite being a big lad, I’d guess he’s about 6’3” ish, he’s only 17 years old and hasn’t had a sniff of the first team yet, but it’ll not be long before he ether gets a chance in our first team, or some shithouse for the premier league nicks him.
At U23S matches I keep hearing conversations about our really young kids, under 9s 10s and 11s they’re absolutely hammering every team they play with cricket scores to nil, apparently 4 or 5 years ago the club invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in employing FA licensed coaches to go into all the schools in our area every week and teach the kids as 6 year olds and upwards and it’s starting to pay off.
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FA Cup
Nottingham Forest - Kieran Dowell started, scored and was substituted in the 93rd minute of 4-2 home win over Arsenal
OS Match Report
"Dowell had done well to initially win a free kick on the byline, then the loanee delivered a dangerous free kick straight at Ospina, and the full back dived in front of the keeper to head into the roof of the net."
"Dowell assumed penalty taking duties and, despite slipping when kicking it, sent the ball high into Ospina's net, cueing a raft of protests from the Arsenal players who believed he kicked the ball twice."
Twitter stuff
21' #NFFC 1-0 Arsenal: Kieran Dowell's powerful free-kick is headed home at close range by Eric Lichaj as Forest take a first-half lead.
85' #NFFC 3-2 Arsenal: Kieran Dowell scores the penalty but the referee goes over to talk to his assistant...
87' #NFFC 4-2 Arsenal: After discussions with his assistant referee, Jonathan Moss awards the goal and Forest restore their two-goal lead.
90+3' #NFFC 4-2 Arsenal: Final substitution for Forest as Matt Mills replaces Kieran Dowell. Barrie McKay had come on for Matty Cash minutes before.
No particular comments picking him out apart from universal general praise for team performance amidst Forest fan delirium...
Matthew Pennington was not in squad for Leeds match.
Nottingham Forest - Kieran Dowell started, scored and was substituted in the 93rd minute of 4-2 home win over Arsenal
OS Match Report
"Dowell had done well to initially win a free kick on the byline, then the loanee delivered a dangerous free kick straight at Ospina, and the full back dived in front of the keeper to head into the roof of the net."
"Dowell assumed penalty taking duties and, despite slipping when kicking it, sent the ball high into Ospina's net, cueing a raft of protests from the Arsenal players who believed he kicked the ball twice."
Twitter stuff
21' #NFFC 1-0 Arsenal: Kieran Dowell's powerful free-kick is headed home at close range by Eric Lichaj as Forest take a first-half lead.
85' #NFFC 3-2 Arsenal: Kieran Dowell scores the penalty but the referee goes over to talk to his assistant...
87' #NFFC 4-2 Arsenal: After discussions with his assistant referee, Jonathan Moss awards the goal and Forest restore their two-goal lead.
90+3' #NFFC 4-2 Arsenal: Final substitution for Forest as Matt Mills replaces Kieran Dowell. Barrie McKay had come on for Matty Cash minutes before.
No particular comments picking him out apart from universal general praise for team performance amidst Forest fan delirium...
Matthew Pennington was not in squad for Leeds match.
..there were rumours that Leeds were keen to make Pennington’s deal permanent. I assume he’s injured if he wasn’t in the squad unless Everton had a clause that he couldn’t play in the Cup.
Armel
Player Valuation: £15m
Concerning Onyekuru's knee:
"The whole Onyekuru affair is very bizarre. He (=Onyekuru) told me that he can be fit in two weeks. Yes he can continue without an operation, but he risks blowing his entire knee and that's not a risk RSCA is willing to take. I understand he wants to go to the WC, but I (manager) and the club are convinced that he really needs an operation.
Onyekuru returned to Everton
"They have to decide, in accordance with the player, but once they see the results of all the medical examinations they should reach the same conclusion. If Onyekuru blows his knee, then Everton has spent millions for nothing (money down the drain etc...)."
Armel
Player Valuation: £15m
Another update from today (well technically yesterday) from Onyekuru:
"Everton beslist om voorlopig niet te opereren en drie weken te wachten", zegt Van Holsbeeck. "Als ze daarna het licht op groen zetten, mag Hein Vanhaezebrouck hem meteen weer opstellen van mij. Het is Everton hun speler van acht miljoen euro he."
Hoe dan ook is Van Holsbeeck zelf ervan overtuigd dat een operatie wel degelijk nodig is. "Ik ken de dokter die Onyekuru in België onderzocht heeft. Toen die aan Andy Najar zei dat een operatie nodig was, sprak Najar dat ook tegen. Acht maanden later moest hij dan toch geopereerd worden en daar hebben we nu spijt van."
(General Manager of Anderlecht)
"Everton have decided, for now, not to operate and wait for three weeks. If afterwards they give the all-clear, then I'll allow our coach to play him. At the end of the day it's Everton's 8 million player. Even though we remain convinced that an operation is absolutely necessary. I know the doctor who examined Onyekuru in Belgium. When he told Najar that an operation was necessary, Najar said no. Eight months later he still ended up having an operation and we regret it to this day (Najar one of the best RSCA players; since that ordeal he's a perma-crock like Wilshere etc...).
[it's a good doctor btw; he operated Ballack, Kaka, Izaghi, ...]
"Everton beslist om voorlopig niet te opereren en drie weken te wachten", zegt Van Holsbeeck. "Als ze daarna het licht op groen zetten, mag Hein Vanhaezebrouck hem meteen weer opstellen van mij. Het is Everton hun speler van acht miljoen euro he."
Hoe dan ook is Van Holsbeeck zelf ervan overtuigd dat een operatie wel degelijk nodig is. "Ik ken de dokter die Onyekuru in België onderzocht heeft. Toen die aan Andy Najar zei dat een operatie nodig was, sprak Najar dat ook tegen. Acht maanden later moest hij dan toch geopereerd worden en daar hebben we nu spijt van."
(General Manager of Anderlecht)
"Everton have decided, for now, not to operate and wait for three weeks. If afterwards they give the all-clear, then I'll allow our coach to play him. At the end of the day it's Everton's 8 million player. Even though we remain convinced that an operation is absolutely necessary. I know the doctor who examined Onyekuru in Belgium. When he told Najar that an operation was necessary, Najar said no. Eight months later he still ended up having an operation and we regret it to this day (Najar one of the best RSCA players; since that ordeal he's a perma-crock like Wilshere etc...).
[it's a good doctor btw; he operated Ballack, Kaka, Izaghi, ...]
You'd hope we/he won't be so dumb trying to get himself to a World Cup at the risk of permanent damage. At his age he'll get another chance.
It’s odd . You’d expect us to be in the “ no you can’t play him , he needs an op” camp , as it won’t affect us this season but may well do if he needs an op next season. I had a knee op 3 weeks ago and prior to it did a lot of reading , consensus was have the op , get it done , though there were a few stories about people who managed the injury by strengthening various leg muscles. So there will always be differing opinions. I would add that it was a different type of knee injury,and come to think of it completly irrelevant to this debate
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