Who you talking about there bro?
Give us a clue.
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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread
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Give us a clue.
Spot on IMHO.
I'm not sure what KWP has done to be so on the nose. Surely a just reward for MOTM is another game. Good on him for sticking around. I probably wouldn't.
Maybe the reason KWP is not getting playing time & sticking around is because he’s not that good.
I mean Poch decided to play Foyth out of position ahead of KWP. If he wasn’t an English academy player, people would want him gone
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We aren't going to be signing a 36 year old to play in the starting 11. It goes completely against our strategy.
It seems to me that Foyth is being groomed to play right back and we know Aurier has the required quality if he can remain fit. Aurier / KWP and Foyth seems good enough for RB going into this season.
Of course, if Foyth is transitioning to a full back, that does mean that Poch doesn't seem him as a CB. If Toby is going, I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable with Sanchez/Jan and Dier/Davies being our only CB choices.
So, IF Toby leaves I say come deadline day we will bring in an experienced young CB.
I don't disagree with that, but our current squad isn't short of winning mentality. We got to a CL final, 7 of our players got to a WC semifinal, and one won the WC. So, although only one lifted a trophy, getting that far in the two premier tournaments in football builds the kind of mentality that'll get us there in the short term.
Just look at Lollerpool this year. Only Milner had won anything of note, but getting so close to a major trophy gave them the belief they can get over the line eventually.
I so want to believe this. Kai Havertz please please please!It strikes me that all the talk concerning our potential transfer signings seem to be concentrated on three possibly four names. I sincerely hope that we have other 'irons in the fire' in case the Lo Celso/Ceballos and Sessegnon ones go belly up. Hopefully Levy is allowing the media and other football clubs to be totally distracted by the rumours about these players and he is secretly planning a swoop on someone not even mentioned yet. (Let me dream...let me dream.....we discover the next Messi playing currently for Gillingham and snap him up for £4m)
I think Lo Celso will happen and Caballos will remain at Real, just a case of reaching an agreeable fee now for Sessegnon, rumour is they want £40m and we are offering £25m....surely something around £30m plus bonuses would seal the deal ??
Have to say that I would assume under present circumstances Mr Eriksen would be an automatic consideration for inclusion in any transfer negotiations with other clubs. I would also therefore assume that with no developments either the clubs we are talking to are not interested in him or vice versa....the only other conclusion would be that our valuation of him in such 'swap' talks is considered too high and renders him non-negotiable.
Bayer Leverkusen’s Kai Havertz is not going anywhere in 2019
For at least another year, it looks like Kai Havertz will remain with Bayer Leverkusen.
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Disagree.
We won't be buying Alves for lots of reasons but I think we most definitely do lack a winner's mentality.
It's what we really need to find or how else do you explain 13 Premier League defeats in 38 games?
I gave up reading after about 20 seconds, dropped to the end there it was - yet another player's reputation saved by demonising Sissoko the footballing satan.
No doubt another stat and CE wankfest
Agree, those semi final losses would much more likely become wins with his aura in the dressing room.
Jesus wept man, just listen to yourself
Leave Zokora out of this, what a man.
Christ, why is it Sissoko’s fault when Trippier plays badly? It’s not Sissoko telling him to mis control the ball is it? This agenda is getting silly now
I thought Sissoko “didn’t resemble a footballer, couldn’t control a football to save his life, had no brain, couldn’t pass to a team mate and shouldn’t be anywhere near the club” though......?
But you go Mick.......you tell him
Alves, Bale, maybe we can persuade Zlatan?
We need younger players not Dad's Army.
No thanks to pretty much any 30+ year old!
We need younger players not Dad's Army.
No thanks to pretty much any 30+ year old!
...this is awkward but it appears you've forgotten to include Trippier, expressly, in this list.
Here's my problem with this, and thankfully you've prepped the switch for your own back here when you said this:
Now, you understand how we intend to play but more importantly you know how we had to play this year...you understand what personnel issues we've had this season, and you know that stats are like a bikini. So my question is this: Why would you post, and keep posting, this apologia for Tripps. He is not good enough, never has been, and just like Walker he has brain farts that cost us.
Why does Trips average more passes/game than our MF? Because we literally bypassed the MF all season as per the Mgr. So what value is there in a comparison relative to our current MF? It's like saying Toby has more headed goals from CKs than Rose. Yeah, no shit, since Rose is in the center circle and Toby's in the box. It's a stat, it's a number, but it has no inferential value and a 'shiniest turd' comparison does not illustrate the unassailable individual quality of a player.
Tripps creates more chances etc etc - A) we have some cloggers, B) Our football was so mind-numbingly 1 dimensional last season (a point of which you are aware) it was the only friggin thing we did with the ball besides hoofing it. And it was worse when Harry dropped back because he was only going out to Tripps because that's the only way he could guarantee it would come back. Tripps get's the ball more often in the attacking third in our awful attack so it stands to reason he would 'create' more chances. And to be clear they were mostly fucking crosses FFS not perfectly weighted through balls. Is that what we want, more crossing? Hell yeah, more crossing, 442, and Brexit bitches!!!!!!!!! So you know, Lloris makes more saves than anyone on the team. Facts!
Tripps averaging most tackles: No shit? BC, I know you are probably only to the Wolves' game in your viewing schedule but as a word of warning teams will be targeting Tripps for the next 19 (or so) games as they did the previous 19 or so you've already watched and he's played. If this stat had any inferential value we could decipher whether or not his massive tackling year was a function of being targeted or being a good player. I fall on the side of having been targeted and thus having the most opportunities to tackle.
Tripps interceptions: see above
It is in the best interest for all that Tripps moves on.
Suck it BC!!!!
Your meaning?