We should be signing both. We need experience and leadership (Norgaard) and another player with legs (Agoume). We could arguably sign both of these for circa £30-40m, which in today’s market would be very cheap and good business.
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We should be signing both. We need experience and leadership (Norgaard) and another player with legs (Agoume). We could arguably sign both of these for circa £30-40m, which in today’s market would be very cheap and good business.
I agree with your concerns but I think you are overreacting and being slightly dramatic with the calls to just sell them. They have huge potential and our whole model is based on these youngsters developing into top players. I know its frustrating but we can't just give up on players after one season, especially when Wilson missed around 5 months through injury.
However I do agree that Solomon is currently ahead of Wilson and Wilson needs to step up. We won't sell him but I'd imagine a loan is very possible. The club will try to sell Solomon instead but I can envisage a scenario where Solomon stays and Odobert is loaned out for experience.
I think the point, really, is that every club struggles to replace 'elite level' players.
I don't see why this club should be held to a standard that pretty much none of them acheive
Yeah the Norgaard signing makes sense if he's just coming in to replace Bissouma while we also go and sign another CDM. My concern is if Norgaard is our only CM signing which feels very possible. Then we'll be weak next year as its debatable if Norgaard is even an upgrade on Bissouma.
incredible - total transfer costs are the best
Well, if he fits Frank's system it's all good i guess?!
And if Frank doesn’t work out we are left with a 31 year old mid level CM on a 3 or 4 year contract..,
I’m a believer in the sports director model of building a squad then finding a manager who fits it.
Don’t really give a fuck if Frank wants Norgaard or not, he’s not the level I’m hoping we sign.
Of course they struggle. It’s a conversation about our model of trying to do it.
I just don’t see it with Norgaard at all tbh.
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Small bit on Eze and Frank really liking Norgarrd
We do try to do it and we have done it. We just don't have a 100% success rate - but who does?
Replacing Modric and Bale was only necessary because the club signed players with Ballon D'or potential in the first place.
The thing that some of the not-so-big clubs are starting to do well is to get a player to fit the system, so the system suits rotation and replacing players better (Brentford and Brighton as the obvious examples). Historically, big clubs tended to sign good players and then struggle to replace those one-off players, such is why I think Chelsea would have a season as champions, then slump back to 8th, yo-yoing constantly.
Not what we need?? Then who do they think we need?
We need a hell of a lot to be fair.
But in that position, we just need to ask ourselves the question: Do we think Madders is a playmaker that will bring us a PL- or CL title?
If the answer is NO, we need an alternative.
Really hope this happens for a bonus reason that palace fans online can’t understand why eze would join us as we’re not a step up from Palace, fucking lol.
Even if we signed Eze, we'd still need another 3 to4 of that quality to make an impression next year on the league.
Brentford and Brighton being held up as examples only works if you don’t have a goal of winning trophies.
They are successful business models no doubt. It’s yet to be seen if you can actually win like that.
That's what we as fans think we need. But not necessarily what Frank think we need.
Brentford mostly played a 4-2-3-1 last season. If he wants us to play that as a first choice formation, we probably need a DMC or two.
But maybe he thinks our squad is better off with another formation, and therefore has different targets.
Personally i'm stubborn when i look at our fullback options, and say we are better equipped to play with wingbacks. All of Porro, Spence, and Udogie are wingbacks not fullbacks. All of them are comfortable on the ball, and good going forward. But are all more or less awful defending.
Personally i want a fullback to be able to defend first and foremost.