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Player Richarlison
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It’s almost inevitable that the dumbest poster on this board would speak up in favour of this god awful footballer. Shut up you fucking dunce.
Go and play snakes and ladders. See if you can figure out the rules.
You're such a gent
I am absolutely convinced though that some of these "big" signings we only actually signed because they were doable. Not because we identified them as some great talents.
This is how we were run under Levy. Richarlison, Solanke and Johnson were signed due to them fitting into our wage structure, and probably because we could take advantage of some preferable financials on the deal.
They were on the list of targets, but not the best we could buy. It's how this club has been run for too long. We can only hope things are changing, but I will believce it when I see it.
Richarlison absolutely has to be sold this summer latest. He's garbage, I can't wait to see the back of him, and not because I like looking at Neymar.
They were all cheap when you factor in wages, agents fees, back handers etc etc.
Haaland cost City less than Solanke cost us*
*If you ignore even his starting wage, let alone his current one.
Plenty of volunteers to Crowdfund it I’m sure!
it wasn't only cringe (which it was) but it gave the opposition more motivation to push for an equaliser and more stoppage time to do it in. It was just stupid on so many levels.
Truth is he was one of many bad purchases we have made and I think most the fan base could see it was a bad purchase at the time, hopefull at best, and reckless at worst.
Re:going cheap, one last thing I might add is that the verdict about it on a given case shouldn't be influenced by the post-hoc knowledge of how that signing eventually went. These are two separate notions.
This leads to a 2x2 table where all 4 combinations are possible based on
Conversely, someone like Maddison was a case of going cheap, by taking advantage of Leicester's highly unexpected relegation when we could have gotten an even better player by opening the wallet, but hitting.
Young punts, or middling players like Doherty would be examples of going cheap and missing I guess.
Can't think of a clear cut recent example where we went for it and got paid dividents.
This leads to a 2x2 table where all 4 combinations are possible based on
- The primary motivation behind the signing: Cost cutting vs going all in as two extreme ends of a spectrum
- The result: From a total miss to a total hit, once again in a spectrum
Conversely, someone like Maddison was a case of going cheap, by taking advantage of Leicester's highly unexpected relegation when we could have gotten an even better player by opening the wallet, but hitting.
Young punts, or middling players like Doherty would be examples of going cheap and missing I guess.
Can't think of a clear cut recent example where we went for it and got paid dividents.
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A very plausible signing at the time.
Backup to Kane, so wouldn’t play that often. Brazil’s number 9. Able to play off the left too. Scored a decent amount for a shite team, so would score more for a better team. Everton needed the cash.
But it’s not worked. Get rid.
Backup to Kane, so wouldn’t play that often. Brazil’s number 9. Able to play off the left too. Scored a decent amount for a shite team, so would score more for a better team. Everton needed the cash.
But it’s not worked. Get rid.
Not true, Haaland's whole family got £millions out of that deal!
Agree. Get rid.
Your post has made me ponder…good governance with regards to player trading suggests you replace who you want to sell, about a year before you sell them.
If Levy applied that, then did he sign Richarlson as Kane’s replacement ? And if he did how blood chilling is that decision!
Most definitely was the replacement to Kane. That's not up for debate.
The bigger problem is why was he even on the scouting list.
I watched him a lot for Watford and Everton. He is the type of player that gets plaudits for a good bit of play on MOTD, but if you saw the full game you'd think he's shit. A lot of the hype was from a good dribble and piece of skill like overhead kick. He did this playing mainly LW for those clubs. After a string of injuries, which should have been a massive warning sign to our scouts, he lost his pace and dribbling ability that made him a nuisance to play against. He's never looked the same and without pace you need a good intelligent head and technical quality which he has always lacked.
I was gutted we signed him. 1 good game every 10 and that was his career at Everton and Watford too.
And also people need to stop using Brazil's number 9 as a reason for him being any good or signing for us. The metrics should have been based on what technical ability he has, injury history, how well he fits into the coaches plans think it was Conte at the time and also how does he fit with the players we had at the time. None of those reasons should have led to a decision for us to sign him. And if Conte gave the green light then he is a bigger fool than people care to admit.
At the same time I think I mentioned in one of the transfer threads that there was a player called Mateta at Mainz that would be worth getting. Look at him now at palace compared to Richarlison. I watched a lot of bundesliga coming out of covid mainly because it was the first league to restart and both Mateta and Cunha who was at Hertha Berlin at the time were options for us. Instead we are still having to suffer from watching Richarlison.
I have heard that from a few people the last month or so.
Course you have.
Richie is now on the take according to the detectives at the fighting cock.
He fucking scored a goal as well FFS loooooool.
It’s genuinely poetry how strongly the dumbest people on here will get behind our absolute shittest players.
These guys can either do nothing for 90 or actively be a hindrance for 90 but have a ball bounce off them at some point and go in and they’ll justify it with tHeY sCoRED.
Game after game after game. This guy needs a DNA test frankly, he’ll find some fucking donkey in there somewhere.
There's something up!
He's just shit mate, no decent Brazilian comes over to play for Watford, Everton without being crap.
Sometimes a player makes one too many moves in their career and maybe that's the case with Richarlison. Good international player who was a fan favourite at Everton. If he had stayed there he'd be getting all the minutes he wants and wouldn't have the pressure he experiences at Spurs. I hope for him he finds a situation that's a better fit for him.
It not that he's shit - it's the way he's being shit.
Something is off.