We should never ever have been in this situation to begin with...it's friggin Aug 27th and we still got shitloads of unshifted deadwood and a real need for a CB + CAM/Winger + CF.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Is the rumour that Salah's not playing?
Completely agree. A quality back up CB is highly needed though. We are currently a Romero injury/ suspension away from being in trouble.
For starters there is a major question mark over GLC and PEH is better than Skipp at this time.
He's only 18.
His movement is better because he plays a different position?
If you think Gil looks lost positionally, that's laughable. Even Conte praised his football IQ and understanding of where he needs to be and when he needs to be there.
Pace and opportunity are the only things Johnson has over Gil.
willing to make you a bet:
Kulu finishes the season with more goal involvement.
It will be close either way that's for sure.
This is an interesting post actually, and one that I’ve debated back and forth on myself for a bit.
a) this is a disingenuous post about City considering that Pep started Leroy Sané and Raheem Sterling for their glory years - and more importantly, that they just signed Jeremy Doku who is the definition of a running quick winger. Madrid use Vinicius, Bayern Sane/Coman, etc, Scum use Saka/Martinelli etc
b) it does however get to the heart of the issue which is what profile is actually best for us. Son is very fast and gifted at getting in behind, but he isn’t really that quick (in short spaces) anymore and isn’t going by players 1v1 easily.
Grealish and Mahrez while lacking long pace are 1v1 takeon masters.
It seems to me that what we need is invention and the ability to both stretch a defense with pace and drive at the defense with skill and guile and make correct decisive actions.
C) I actually don’t know what our future matches and struggles will look like. Compact defenses can still leave gaps for players to run into in semi-transition: there will absolutely be space for Johnson’s pace and running to be used on a quick switch or on an overload with Sarr/Porro flanking him.
In short I think pace is secondary to 1v1 brilliance and that’s why Eze is my long term favored target for the wide areas, but that Johnson has the potential to be a weapon against parked busses and be much more than a runner for us
I think Kulusevski was a loan with an obligation to buy - the obligation being triggered when we got CL 6 months into his loan.
You couldn't possibly know that lol. We have no idea how well he might take to the PL, people said Haaland would flop when he got a move to a big 5 league and yet he's been banging them in at the same rate ever since he left Salzburg.
Again, how would a new striker change the fact that Richie has taken only 4 of our 57 shots on target?
Have you watched Diaby or are you speaking from blind loyalty to Kulusevski?
Nah, it was an option and we didn't even trigger it, we just negotiated with Juve.
Inwould rather the cheating cunts fuck off regardless
You're basing that on his prolific scoring record in the month of August, I assume.
It seems likely that after last season's ridiculous transfer splurge, Forest need to generate some pure profit for FFP reasons.
Selling Brennan Johnson is the same move the Boehly Chav Consortium are making: selling HG players to generate pure profit on the books.
If this is so, then surely Forest will not want us to include players in any transfer package, because this would reduce the amount of profit they can record in the accounts.
Whereas we are surely highly unlikely to pay £50 million in cash for Johnson, and will only do a deal if we can include players as part of the deal.
So this may come down to how desperate Forest are to sell Johnson.
No it isn't..... I clearly made reference to last season... I didn't claim that no good teams have ever had quick wingers.
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Eventually. For this season without Europe we can get by being short in the odd position.