Kudus upgrade......and a big one at that
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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26
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Kudus upgrade......and a big one at that
Vinai isn't in control of the purse strings, the owners are. So the owners may better benefit from the crowds feedback.
Frank wants him mate, has been a big fan for ages apparently. We aren't bringing in Paqueta if Frank doesn't want him are we...he's not a club signing at nearly 29 years old and on huge wages.
What does not a Frank player even mean? a player who can't pass forward? Old and slow? I don't know lol
Richy rarely wins a header when we go long to him. Yes he runs all day, but he isn’t particularly fast so he can close players but doesn’t have the pace that frightens defenders.
The man either does not understand or completely refuses to comply with the offside rule.
His passing is epically shit, yesterday he had a relatively simple ball to square to RKM and instead hit the defenders ankle.
Finally, his finishing is patchy, admittedly we were spoiled with Kane and Son but Richy is a 10 Prem goals a season man and that’s not good enough.
Vinai , how many pounds do we have to spend in the January Window?
Vinai isn't in control of the purse strings, the owners are. So the owners may better benefit from the crowds feedback.
I know he isn't , as stated he's just the only face to get to. levy wasn't either but he still got it from the fans while the real evil lurked in the shadows.
We have been linked to Paqueta pre-dating Frank. We have form for long standing "club" targets that we eventually sign regardless of manager.
Our recruitment "structure" is a fucking incoherent mess
Frank is on the outs - would be silly to spend big money on Franks behalf only to change the manager in the following weeks/half season
I find it much easier to believe the PA to the tea lady thinks its a steal so we're getting him than he is anything Frank has asked for.
As I say, what will Frank do with him? Bin Xavi to the bench (some more) and tell him to play as a #10 but in the style of a DM?
Something like that
Look how he sets them up. He basically wants workhorses, athletes, not footballers.
When their first act post Levy was giving a new contract to Bentancur i thought it didnt bode well.
We have very few genuinely decent players - VDV, Romero (who loves an off day) Maddison and Kulu.I'm really not sure what part you disagree on, the players overall are bad, if they weren't then we wouldn't be lingering around the 17-12 place positions in the league.
However many good attributes you can point to in our players, there are way more negative ones that completely outweigh them, and I think more importantly than any physical or technical issue is the severe lack of any brainpower whatsoever.
Our club captain is an absolute halfwit, and I honestly think the "half" might be being generous to him!
Prime example he is, he's a terrible defender. A "good" footballer, but not good enough to actually play in any of the other positions on the pitch, but a poor defender, who might have a 9/10 performance every 5 or 6 games, but balances that our by being a 3/10 with much greater consistency.
Everyone fully fit and on the top of their game and the ceiling for this squad would be very high, but the floor for them when everything isn't in their favour, is genuinely relegation level.
I would put Solanke, Spence, Danso, Kudus, Udogie and Porro into a “good enough category”
Sarr, Bergvall, Vuskovic, Moore, Tel and Gray as promising.
I would sell everyone else we can get money for and I wouldn’t be against selling Romero also if we were offered decent money.
We need a real clear out and a complete rebuild in the midfield as I genuinely believe that if they were still at the club then Winks and Skipp would’ve getting a lot of minutes currently, which is shocking
I dont mind that in the sense of protecting an assets value
We have been linked to Paqueta pre-dating Frank. We have form for long standing "club" targets that we eventually sign regardless of manager.
Our recruitment "structure" is a fucking incoherent mess
Frank is on the outs - would be silly to spend big money on Franks behalf only to change the manager in the following weeks/half season
I find it much easier to believe the PA to the tea lady thinks its a steal so we're getting him than he is anything Frank has asked for.
As I say, what will Frank do with him? Bin Xavi to the bench (some more) and tell him to play as a #10 but in the style of a DM?
Something like that
Look how he sets them up. He basically wants workhorses, athletes, not footballers.
That's true. Even Palhinha was linked to us heavily a year before we signed him and he's been touted as a Frank signing.
I just don't want Frank to be given his signings, I want him sacked.
Our recruitment and behind the scenes is a mess.
Oh no he's not.
Then you're stuck with that 'asset' clogging up the squad on £100k a week. Cut your losses and move on.
As we've shown with Johnson, we're quite capable of cutting our losses when it suits us...
Is he one of the Hackney Marshes?
We have a squad full of players that could be good enough, and nobody in the squad that is good enough to drag the could be good enoughs up to the level of being good enough.
Porro's always my go to example, could be a great right back in a coherent side set up to maximise his strengths and cover his weaknesses, we absolutely are not a side that does that.
Odobert and Tel, they aren't bad per se, they just aren't in any way ready to be the nailed on starters expected to get us results every week. They should be understudying a senior player, they should be getting minutes in games that we're winning, and starts against sides that we can roll over easily, and in those minutes they should be surrounded by players that can relieve the pressure on the youngsters' shoulders.
Instead you see Odobert and/or Tel chucked on with the burden of salvaging something because the seniors have gotten us into shit situations. They're on a hiding to nothing as they are given no platform to shine.
I fully expect Vuskovic to return from his loan an absolute star in the making, and then I give it 6 weeks before we've destroyed him, the idiot keeper behind him will be ranting at him every time he concedes, the idiot next to him will spend half his time AWOL up the pitch, the idiots in front of him will provide no outball, or cover, and the idiots up top will cede possession every time the ball enters the oppo half, ensuring that we're constantly facing pressure on our goal...
Romero does not love an off day as much as a day off …..before an international break"
Go get Locatelli.
Then go get Anderson or Wharton.
Midfield: sorted.