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I had been engaging in on-topic good faith discussion about transfer strategy. You can agree or disagree and that’s fine.'Am I defending the quality of the quoted post?' I'm going to be honest I don't even know what that means. Are you asking me if I agree with the content? That might make sense, we are not at school (and I'm not the teacher)so it's subjective 'quality' wouldn't come into it.
If my statement was any kind of critique, then it would be in regard of the authorial tone. With you it oftentimes seems to come down to that. You can be insightful, intresting and perceptive. But mostly there is a tone: brittle, whiney, and pompous above all. You can be a hard read.
Is ccv a Ange request? If so his looking at wrong targets. Might as well get every Celtic player as they prbly all performed all well in the SPL.imagine needing to sort out your defence and the best you get is CCV and lenglet
joe hart the return part 2Is ccv a Ange request? If so his looking at wrong targets. Might as well get every Celtic player as they prbly all performed all well in the SPL.
Personally think this is good tactics from the club.
Liverpool need another 2 CMs and want a LCB, we know they are looking at the same 2 players but don't need both.
Shake them out early and get a clear run at the other.
Yes I said as much dealing team raiola! Wouldn’t trust them….Good tactics from "team Raiola".
Leak our interest in van der Ven to Fabrizio Romano & spark a bidding war, both in terms of tranfer fee AND agent fee / player salary with the scousers.
Exactly ccv sounds like a step back. Ofc he looks good in SPL any quarter decent player would. This would just be showing Ange having no clue about the epl and thinking he can bring from his ex clubs in lower standard leagues abd foi g the biz in epl.If he wasn't good enough last time, why would he be any better now.
Hopefully not with davies home. Keep saying these players should have gone ages ago but the 2 Dino managers loved them in their 8 man defence. Now we are gonna play a different attack ing system , well on osier we are, players like davies need to move on.Or get in there early and pitch a better sale.
He'd likely get far less minutes with Liverpool than us, as he's competing with VVD. Here he's competing with Ben Davies.
Exactly this. Brighton are doing it and being lauded for it.Fine if he wants to. Sell him for a load of dosh and pick up the next talent. No player should be irreplaceable, if you have a proper system, philosophy, and scouting in place.
How do you know what Maddison gets up to and his outside football activities ? By all accounts he speaks very about football and his analysis is great. Seems far more intelligent than given credit fir. Further think his settled down and has kids or expecting first child. Som completely diff to dele who was chasing anything in a skirt.I think he'd be the perfect signing for us... And can really see him at Spurs...
But I thought that about Ndombele and Lo Celso, so the fuck do I know?
All I know is that in Dele's case - for reasons best known to him - decided to squander his undoubted talent and piss it all up nightclub walls...
I'm not saying his form dipped 'cos of Poch or bad management, it all seemed very much self inflicted.
Yet you look at how other clubs manage their players (Grealish at City for example) could've and did start to go down a very similar route at first, but the club got him to knuckle down, and now he only saves his public piss ups for AFTER the trophies are won, not halfway through the season!
It's a shame, cos we had such a player there in Dele... we HAD him!
...and then it all went away again....
Dele got his head turned badly, and we didn't intervene quickly enough... the signs WERE there though!
I can just see some occasional similarities with Maddison, thass all...
Hopefully Ange won't take any shit from any fucker who doesn't wanna give their all at ALL times.
Exactly ccv sounds like a step back. Ofc he looks good in SPL any quarter decent player would. This would just be showing Ange having no clue about the epl and thinking he can bring from his ex clubs in lower standard leagues abd foi g the biz in epl.
Wouldn’t surprise me with our board having chosen Ange ahead of other managers and think he can perform miracles.
They haven't set a price? Where's the £60M come from then? I'm pretty sure this has been reported by numerous sources. One even quoted the sum and stated that we've offered half of that.The level of risk is reflected in transfer of his opinion of worth of the player though. In this regard we are right that Raya’s price was too high at £40m (and above his value too if you ask the market as nobody wants to pay it) and we probably think that Middison’s valuation isn’t worth it at £60m either, which is probably right. If that is the case then I expect we will move on.
The difference with Maddison over Raya though is that Leicester haven’t set a price like Brentford did because they just need the money and are obviously willing to negotiate the price. It’s why I think it will drag until we either move on or someone richer than us comes in for him.