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Bale? There’s some BBC thing where Richards is clearly having traumatic flashbacks at being turned inside out a few times…
But, yeh, I’d block that out - I suspect Maicon can’t remember playing against him without the help of a therapist, either.
Really disappointed how twin peaks panned out and was very weird at end. Used to like sherilyn fenn back then. Good music as well.
Nope.
Once a player makes it clear where their preference is, there is nearly a gentleman's contract in play.
It's only when a player simply wants to move that you get all sorts of movement.
It seems Traore has probably said he wants to come our way.
Cue a move to Newcatle by the morning!!!
Teams will figure out that it's easier to just let Traore have the ball and mark Kane and Son tightly, safe in the knowledge that Traore cannot do anything else other than run fast with the ball. HE will either over hit a cross or balloon a shot over the bar/wide of the posts.
Then he is an idiot because Walker is quicker, although I like the bloke.
More fool them when he cuts it back to Winks who does one of his "most definitely on purpose" worldies then
I can’t wait to sign this fella
This place is gonna plumb new depths
This place is gonna plumb new depths
Saint maxim guy is a bit similar tho aint he.
If teams mark Kane and Son tightly, then traore has more time and space which will make things easier for him. Right now no one is marking any wolves player tightly so they can afford to go double triple team traore.
A perfectly valid thing to say, but you think about it and it’s actually incredibly rare for us to sign a guy who’s a current multi-year PL regular.
Hojbjerg was. You go back prior to that and set your criteria as three full immediately prior years as a PL regular, and I think the first name you hit is Sissoko and the second might be Clint Dempsey?
Amazing, no wonder our homegrown numbers are so bad, and the point about Traore is that to an unusual degree, we know this guy. He’s the big muscley fast guy on Wolves who you can’t stay in front of but who’s also kinda shit.
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LOL, so, with 3 full years as the metric I forgot Wanyama and Vorm.
But, Traore has been a PL regular the last 3 and a half years, so if you go with that as the minimum it is Hojbjerg, Sissoko, Dempsey, and then before that…
(I’m dinging Adebayor for his loan to Real Madrid)
The men, the myths, the legends, Saha and Nelsen.
I don't think it works like that lol
How many times have you seen defenders let Traore just run at them, from what I've seen once he gets going he's almost always double sometimes triple teamed by defenders. When we played them earlier in the season we had to double up on his sometimes because he was causing haovoc and ripping apart our defensive shape.
You don't even have to play football at a high level to realise that as a defender your instinct is to stop the ball getting near your goal so you will do everything in your power to relieve pressure on your goal and if you have a guy travelling at speed towards it your instincts will kick in automatically to try and stop them however way possible.
What's more your eyes are always fixated to the ball regardless (why do you think so many goals are made from off the ball runs?). So your scenario isn't realistic because if they double mark Kane and Son you're virtually saying they'll be happy to leave him free to run into their penalty area every time he picks up the ball.
He can bundle past a couple of players and give the ball away. It's not much of an asset.
Because they know he wants to come to us