It's all up in the air to be honest. We don't even know who will be at the helm come August. We could well see a shift in formation meaning, the attention on transfers would / could shift.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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It's all up in the air to be honest. We don't even know who will be at the helm come August. We could well see a shift in formation meaning, the attention on transfers would / could shift.
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....It's very unlikely that things won't shift. Only the core 'for sale' list is relatively predictable.
Perisic's wages were hiked in order to compensate for a signing on fee when he joined.... If he goes to Inter for free on the same wage it will prove a great resolution for us.
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You don't want to eat into the budget yet you want to spunk ~£30m on Danjuma? Because he's played about 25 minutes in total and scuffed one in against Preston???
True it doesn't happen very often. Kepa and Laporte are their 2 highest profile sales. Players often return to the club.
I think what's going missing for some is that Danjuma won't be here to be assessed by the assumed new gaffa in pre-season....... We don't have that luxury to decide if he's worth buying or not at that point.... All we have is his time in training with Conte and the pittance of time he's spent on the pitch... Then he's off back to Spain.
The value of the whole option to buy facility has already been pissed away by a combination of a lack of game-time and the fact that Conte (presumably) will leave too.
I struggle to see a world where Danjuma is here next season.
Absolutely bizarre signing, at a time as well where it had just started to look like Gil was playing his way into Conte's thoughts.
I know it was reported that Gil wanted away, but that seems like the kind of thing that was down to lack of playing time and had he continued to build his way up then you would assume he would have regained happiness.
Instead we get Danjuma for a few months starting from square one.
I think the loaning out of Gil was the "bizarre" (dumb) part......
Once we was, we had to bring someone in that area (Lucas barely fit, Son playing crap, Richy & Kulu could have re-lapsed as they were also still feeling their way back from injury) and the option to buy meant the Danjuma deal had potential progression to it, but..... (See last post)
For bench and rotation purposes and with the capacity to score maybe 5/6 goals in all comps he'd have at least proved a short term hit.
Well yeah, I guess it depends on how the whole thing went down...
Did we loan in Danjuma because Gil insisted on going, or did we loan out Gil because Danjuma became available?
If the former then ok, he was available as a quick fix when we were in a pinch, if the latter then it just seems like needless player trading to ultimately stand still.
Even if the former, then it would have been preferable to go all out to turn an area of weakness into a strength rather than just sit back and say "yeah it's fine, we've got an arse in that seat".
I mean, he seems to be behind Lucas in the pecking order FFS, might as well have just not bothered!
He couldn't force him out before either, not much has changed in that regard, that's how contracts work.
Oh yeh, it's played out terribly in that respect and yeh if it's B (above) then that's dumb........ I suspect it's C though; that Conte wasn't keen enough on Gil to reassure him about game-time and thus he requested the loan.
......I don't mind such young players as Spence (*) & Gil on loan if there's a long term plan for them; it's just the dicking about with them that I'm at odds with.
(*I've said it over and over; we should have loaned Spence straight back to Forest when we bought him.... They subsequently went out and bought TWO RBs ffs! ....He could have had a full year as #1 in the EPL under his belt by now!)
The only wafer thin sliver of hope (and I'm talking between Bob and none and Bob left town ages ago) here is that Mbappe plays in the same position.
Gil Needs some strength and conditioning work.
Look at his legs here compared to Lamela.
That's mostly down to genetics & there are lots of wonderful players who compete well physically who do not have legs anywhere near that big.
I definitely agree with hindsight, in the summer though I was assuming/hoping he would be one of 2 rotating and either Emerson or Doherty would be on their way.
Obviously the club shouldn't have required hindsight for this though, it should have been clearly communicated between Conte/Paratici/Levy that he would get minimal game time at best and would be better served in the long run by doing exactly as you say.
That's got to be some odd trick of the light/angle or something, Lamela's left leg does not look healthy there! Also looks much bigger than his right, unsure if perhaps it is his wanking leg???
One of those guys is continuously injured. And it's not the skinny one.
Biggest myth ever the huge muscle mass equates to better fitness. Gill will never ever look like that nor should he want to. His frame is utterly wrong for that vanity. Giggs Modric Silva B. Silva Crouch Waddel it's not nessasary.
I am aware of that but with 4 years on his contract Levy has leverage , Kane is more empowered with only a year left