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Player James Maddison

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So we’ve just appointed a new manager who has no EPL experience, who’s rocked up from a Micky mouse league same as other leagues he’s managed in, every hack and “so called football expert pundit” is just dying for him fail we‘re possibly going to lose our best player? We are not in Europe , no director of football could say not exactly in good form a lot of question marks re next season…….yet we sign a 26 year for 40million one of the best players in his position beating a team who‘s qualified for the champions league and definitely heading in the right direction 🤔….Mm

He is likely following the whims of his Muse, who is expecting his child and wants to be around her family (think I read).
 
Maddison's arrival could easily see a positive reation from Kulusevski, but what we are going to see is real comparison in terms of quality of delivery.
Again where are the detractors? Amazing how they only surface when it suits their agenda.
Detractors? ...

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the scum are so overrated. i think rice is a very good player so well see if he improves them. same with liverpool's new additions, they looked awful at times last year and that teams defo come to the end of its cycle. chelsea are just a fucking mess, could turn it around but could also be just as bad. united need additions to be a worry.

i really dont see any of them being far ahead of us, new keeper, new backline and now maddison...we could easily fly in front of that lot. bissouma going to be like a new signing this year too! it really does all boil down to these new CB's imo. get that right and it could be a great year. lot to be optimistic about anyway.

There's plenty to be optimistic about. But for me, thinking we can finish as high as second suddenly is just setting ourselves up for dissapointment. Whether you think they are over-rated or not, how many players as of right now do we have that would realistically get into Woolwich's team outside of Kane? Maybe Bentancur? Son at his best, but he's 31 in a few days and has peaked already whereas Saka and Martinelli are years away from theirs.

If we sign a few good defenders then we'll look strong on paper, but then the team still has to be given time to gel. That takes time. We don't even know yet what we're getting with Ange. Doing well for Celtic in the SPFL is neither here or there. He's completely unproven at any sort of high level.
 
He definitely has that Spurs aura about him, technical ability, creative, confident - I think our fans will absolutely love him and take to him in an instant.

He's one of those Gasgoinge/Hoddle/VDV types where the fans will adore him.
 
You can't just write him off as 'shite' either. Nobody can. Our entire squad was mainly shit last season, bar one or two.

So if you're telling SpiderSpurs SpiderSpurs that 'you can't say he's very good', then the same applies to calling him shite.

You don't get to be Brazil's number 9 by being uber shit though.

Obviously he still needs to prove himself with us, and he deserves another season, no matter what the more fickle amongst us say.

End of story.
Richarlison scored 1 league goal which is obviously bad.

But in context he got very few mins as a 9.

Like Son, he’s evolved and become less versatile than I thought he’d be.
 
I did ask on the transfer thread how we might use Maddison and what his best position is. He is capable of being lethal in the final third. More lethal than Richi or Kulu perhaps ?
 
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