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Milan very rarely spend much over 30m euros on a player these days. Would take 50 or 60 to start a conversation.
I don’t understand how we can argue how £65 for a target man who holds the ball up is in anyway good value.
Off the top of my head I can think of players like Keifer Moore or Antonio who are excellent target men, but don’t play at the elite level because they are poor in front of goal.
Solanke was signed to score goals and his return in the Premier League is not acceptable.
I am not saying the guy is tat or trying to infer he is rubbish, but he is currently certainly piss poor value if he’s mustard as a target man and that’s it.
I wonder what Data would say about him v Keiffer Moore in that regard ? Is he really £65m worse than Solanke.
Gonna tag this on, and not aimed at you mate, but Lange is a joke DoF. He clearly spaffed up a critical transfer window in January. He got Gray only due to Brentford failing at the last moment and he got Solanke last knocking when we know he was on the market from at least April ( having been in talks with West Ham ). I don’t think Lange gets past Summer. And heaven help us if he does.
Solanke, Havertz, Nunez, Hoylund, Jackson - all signed for relatively high fees - all hit and miss players...The common denominator is the market, the striker market is or was distorted, the £65m is just pure inflation just because of the dearth of quality of strikers over the past few years and naturally strikers always command a premium.
For example go and have a look at the Prem top scorers this season, there's only like 4 out and out strikers make up the top 10, 2 are Haaland and Isak who are elite, Wood is having a purple patch freak season and Watkins is the other one - that tells you that the market is on it's arse.
I'll also say that watching how he plays in this system he barely gets a look in, we don't play anywhere Bournemouth where he was scoring 1 in 2, nowhere near because we don't create chances for him. I'm pretty confident that if we get a manager like Iarola who he's already worked under he's going to be hitting the levels he hit previously under him - he's clearly a good player.
Also this fanbase just focus so much on our DOF's but don't understand that they are merely working under the framework and the structure of the board, if Lange leaves another DOF comes in and doesn't magically turn things around, Paratici didn't, Hitchen didn't, Baldini didn't, Commoli didn't - one common denominator.
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Perhaps there's a simple explanation, but if Paratici was exquisitely familiar with the players at Juve then why didn't he hip us to Huijsen when we went shopping there for their castoffs? 2021 seems the date Huijsen transferred to Juve and that's also the summer Paratici came to us...so he must have been acquainted with this player...why weren't we keeping an eye on him and nabbing him before Bournemouth...or earlier?
Possibly because Huijsen isn't very good?
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If we are desperate to keep Paratici then what is going on I wonder. A lot of cooks.
As I understand it (based on rumours and whispers mind you) Levy really likes Fabio and he's become his closest confidant in regards to football. But Fabio wants to return in a position like his old one as director of the entire football side if he was to return, not as some underling to Munn. Which I get.
In my head that's an easy decision to make if I were Levy.
Levy has clearly lost belife in Munn, and from the gossip Lange. If Munn was driver behind the appointment of Postecoglou then they all need to be fired.
Lange is probably the least of our worries since he clearly has an eye for talent. But I can totally see Levy doubting him as a negotiator.
On paper Fabio and Lange would probably compliment each other quite well. One a data driven analyst that can find talent, the other a smooth talking wheeler dealer that gets it done. If they actually can work together however is up for debate.
There was a brief rumour the other week that we are also looking at Markus Kröshe, the current sporting director at Frankfurt, for the role.
Iraola now Paratici rejecting him , must remind Levy of the school disco
If they were 16 year old girls
Munn doesn’t exist. He is a phantom, a figment of Levy’s imagination.
Chekov's Munn. He has to be seen eventually.
I hope so because Chekov said that it had to be fired.
Paratici probably not coming back to us because of Munn. He's not gonna be under Munn for sure is he. Both Munn and Ange have to go IMHO for Paratici to be back.
I mean Lange cried when Tel initially said no which he probably got from our 'captain'.
If he comes back your right it will probably be as the ‘chief football officer’ and he would be on the board but unlike Munn with an actual football role rather than some admin bloke. Far as I am aware Lange is the head of technical/scouting so he could easily remain with Paratici as his boss but hard to see Munn and Ange being a part of that.
Levy hasn't got an imagination
Is this actually true and verified or just scurrilous internet rumour? I find it very hard to believe.
That It was reported at all is deeply worrisome.