Madders or Eze?Honestly no, he goes missing too often in games and is not a box to box midfielder who also doesnt have a DEF side to his game. This part gets over looked due to the moments of good attacking play he does.
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Madders or Eze?Honestly no, he goes missing too often in games and is not a box to box midfielder who also doesnt have a DEF side to his game. This part gets over looked due to the moments of good attacking play he does.
Exactly my point. He is banned from doing his job to the fullest extent.
You said it yourself -
That has cost us dearly.
Do you want us to sign 20 wide forwards?For Gods sake, Chelsea are not having problems , they’ve got about 20 wide forwards.
Tapsoba would get into our first XI if we signed him.It doesn't matter whether he will back himself or not. He simply will not sign for the club unless he is told he is first choice. And he won't be told that.
VDV has been told that and Romero knows that he is first choice.
Only downside to Doku is he has hamstrings made out of spaghetti.
He's missed 50 games over the last two seasons alone due to injuries.
Lo Celso,for FatiI am trying my best not to get my hopes up here, this feels like Rennes offering a 'pay up or fuck off' signal to City imo. But if we could somehow swap Ndombele for Doku that would be absolute magic.
While I'm at it, I hope the Fati stuff is at least being looked at. It also seems unrealistic and he has his own set of injury issues, but we NEED a first team quality winger. absolute must this window imo.
30 or Levy can get fucked
He is banned from doing his job though. And FIFA and Italian FA deems him a fraudster, so he is a fraudster and a liar in my eyes.Fucking hell, man....... Stop it. Just accept that words have meanings:
Fab is not "officially banned from the sport".
Fab is not a "criminal"
Fab is not in prison.
All fair points and if we were in Europe I would agree with you, but the fact is we aren't and there just aren't enough games for a 3 CB rotation. I don't think that does anyone any good.
I don't view it as Eze or Maddison. I view it Maddison next to Eze. Both Maddison and Eze have experience playing a deeper role. If Emerson is going to be our RB, we need more from our CM alongside Maddison. Both Skipp and Sarr haven't shown they have the attacking capabilities yet. I think it would be unfair to think Bentancur comes back in and hits the ground running straight away and even him, outside of last year, doesn't have a history of contributing offensively.
We also don't have anyone to backup Maddison. Lo Celso had a nice preseason but certainly you can't put too much stock in him and I still think we'd sell for the right price.
I was talking about Eze going missing etc ...... for me Madders over Eze
So VDV is dropped?
It's not bogus- let me explain.
Net spend over the past 5 years as a way of comparing clubs can be flawed, because net spend in previous years could influence the value. But the extent to which it is a flaw depends on the the discrepancy in the previous years.
So for example if: Club A and Club B had similar net spend from 2018-2023, but Club A had net spend of 200m more than Club B from 2013-2018; looking at the net spend between just 2018-2023 as a comparator would be very flawed.
But if Clubs A and B had similar net spend from 2013-2018; looking at 2018-2023 in would not be as flawed.
tldr Net spend is not always a very flawed measure- our low net spend from 2013-2018 made it majorly so for the 2018-2023 comparisons. That doesn't really apply to my point here, comparing our net spend in this window to Woolwich's.
without european football its a big ask to have a 50m cb a 40m cb and another over 40m. we should be nailing some recruitment for the backup and doing some actual competent scouting work. to be fair if the backup is sanchez and hes used sparingly, its nt the end of the world. just dont want him having the ball at his feet much.If you sign for a top club, you should always expect to be competing against other top players to keep your place in the team.
And again, I don't think 3 CBs competing for 2 spots is anything unusual. I would prefer the selection headache of keeping good players happy compared to relying on Dier/Sanchez if we have any injuries.
Not for sure tbh.
He'd probably feel upset. But it should be a meritocracy- so if Ange thinks he can do a better job than either Romero or Tapsoba, he should start.So VDV is dropped?
How do you think VDV will feel about signing for a club and then get immediately dropped?
And that's fine- we're a top club so I want to see competition for places.
No, because Tosin probably does not think he can start over VdV (Tosin wasn't even a regular starter for Fulham).
Tapsoba is significantly better than Tosin, so it wouldn't take a lot to convince him that he'd play regularly for us.
Lots of media coverage regarding possible exits for our, possibly unwanted players. A summary of some of the possible destinations :
View: https://twitter.com/Lilywhite_Rose/status/1692159565448573158?s=20