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Player Luka Vuskovic

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Maureen said:
This is the thing we keep sending these lads out on loan never given them even a sniff if first team football. All the while buying crap over priced players. How many would rather have Vusco than say drag.
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Also fans are EXTREMELY impatient. If it were up to the fans Gray would be gone, as well as Odobert, and even Bergvall at times.

Supporters don't know if we should be challenging top 4 or just being happy with developing a young exciting team whilst being PL secure.
 
Maureen said:
This is the thing we keep sending these lads out on loan never given them even a sniff if first team football. All the while buying crap over priced players. How many would rather have Vusco than say drag.
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I think at the start of the season it made sense to get him a full season on loan so he could get guaranteed minutes. Especially as we had 2 nailed on starting CBs and a solid enough 3rd choice in Danso.

Probably a stretch to say, but I wonder if we'd kept him and played the lad we'd even be in this mess? A CB can't single-handedly fix a team but the way the PL is going aerial duels from set pieces are more important than ever and I don't really rate Romero or VdV as pure penalty box defenders (VdV especially).

Think it's certainly possible he would've helped us pick up 5 or 6 more points over the course of a season. Especially with Romero's injury/ban (assuming Frank + co had the balls to actually play him).

Think it was the correct decision at the time to loan him but, boy, he would've been useful.
 
Timberwolf said:
I think at the start of the season it made sense to get him a full season on loan so he could get guaranteed minutes. Especially as we had 2 nailed on starting CBs and a solid enough 3rd choice in Danso.

Probably a stretch to say, but I wonder if we'd kept him and played the lad we'd even be in this mess? A CB can't single-handedly fix a team but the way the PL is going aerial duels from set pieces are more important than ever and I don't really rate Romero or VdV as pure penalty box defenders (VdV especially).

Think it's certainly possible he would've helped us pick up 5 or 6 more points over the course of a season. Especially with Romero's injury/ban (assuming Frank + co had the balls to actually play him).

Think it was the correct decision at the time to loan him but, boy, he would've been useful.
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Not to mention that it was Vusco himself who wanted to go on loan.
He wanted regular game time but didn't think he was ready for that with us because of Mickey and Cuti, who would always be first picks.

Now it seems like at least one of those will/should be off in the summer, there's every chance we'll look to bring him back.
 
Timberwolf said:
I think at the start of the season it made sense to get him a full season on loan so he could get guaranteed minutes. Especially as we had 2 nailed on starting CBs and a solid enough 3rd choice in Danso.

Probably a stretch to say, but I wonder if we'd kept him and played the lad we'd even be in this mess? A CB can't single-handedly fix a team but the way the PL is going aerial duels from set pieces are more important than ever and I don't really rate Romero or VdV as pure penalty box defenders (VdV especially).

Think it's certainly possible he would've helped us pick up 5 or 6 more points over the course of a season. Especially with Romero's injury/ban (assuming Frank + co had the balls to actually play him).

Think it was the correct decision at the time to loan him but, boy, he would've been useful.
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3-4-3 is a great formation with a coach that knows how to work the tactics, and Vuskovic of all players is the young player you'd want to build around if you were going with that. A season in the champo with Udogie/Spence LWB/RWB flanking a back 3 anchored by Vuskovic? We could completely transform ourselves. It could be something to be excited about.
 
Maureen said:
This is the thing we keep sending these lads out on loan never given them even a sniff if first team football. All the while buying crap over priced players. How many would rather have Vusco than say drag.
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How many games has Drag played though? Players needs game time to play and he wasn’t getting that here , easy to say I hindsight we should have kept him but he would have been given the Dane treatment by Frank and been pissed off Sat on the bench
 
McFlash said:
Not to mention that it was Vusco himself who wanted to go on loan.
He wanted regular game time but didn't think he was ready for that with us because of Mickey and Cuti, who would always be first picks.

Now it seems like at least one of those will/should be off in the summer, there's every chance we'll look to bring him back.
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and his brother is there isnt he?

He'll play next season for us. Some concern though about his speed and acceleration isnt there but he is obviously a determined chap.
 
Brian Fantana said:
and his brother is there isnt he?

He'll play next season for us. Some concern though about his speed and acceleration isnt there but he is obviously a determined chap.
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If we are going down to the championship and he most of all wants to play with his brother maybe we can buy him. Both are CB’s and if Dragusin, Romero and VDV are gone we will need another one.
 
Brian Fantana said:
and his brother is there isnt he?

He'll play next season for us. Some concern though about his speed and acceleration isnt there but he is obviously a determined chap.
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Yeah, his brother returns from his ban in November, I think, and it's been said that Luca badly wants to play with him, which is why another loan to Hamburg next season is a possibility.
So I think a lot depends on what happens to us this year and if our current crop of CB's are wanting to leave.

And yeah, he's not particularly quick which can be an issue in the PL, depending on the set up, but he does seem to be very positionally aware which somewhat covers for that.
 
McFlash said:
Yeah, his brother returns from his ban in November, I think, and it's been said that Luca badly wants to play with him, which is why another loan to Hamburg next season is a possibility.
So I think a lot depends on what happens to us this year and if our current crop of CB's are wanting to leave.

And yeah, he's not particularly quick which can be an issue in the PL, depending on the set up, but he does seem to be very positionally aware which somewhat covers for that.
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If we go down we may well have to send him back there. Although he’d be a beast in the championship but can’t see him wanting to hang around to play in it.
 
McFlash said:
What makes you so sure?
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Jaynola said:
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So nothing really then?
I mean he's a player who's contracted to us and who we've looked after very well to help progress his career, so I think there's every chance he'll be turning out for us within the next two seasons and maybe even next season, if the cards fall the right way.

A sweeping statement and a silly meme doesn't mean that you're not just going off your gut and being somewhat negative.
Common sense would mean that you actually have a foundation that's worth discussing...
 
Pepperami said:
Going by talk here this lad must be a future superstar. Unless he gets a serious injury of course. Which definitely won't happen if he's playing for Tottenham.
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Well, he took the first pen successfully this weekend, and then won the second one to seal the game for Hamburg. He's not just great in the box defensively- he's the number one danger in the opponent's box as well- even sometimes in the course of regular play when they get set up in the oppo final third him and their other CBs take turns going forward. He's a really, really good player. Would be absolutely perfect as CCB if we switch to a 3-4-3. I'm sure he'd do fine as RCB in the champo, too. Prob in the Prem as well, especially if we paired him with a speedy defensive type RCB (just to make sure he's well covered for pace season 1 with us)...
 
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