Now we're into imaginary numbers. Eleventy-seven million for sure.How about with 5 years on his contract
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I think he's improved a lot over the last 18 months personally, and feel if we did say no, we made a mistake.
I think you sum it up pretty well mate
I don't see doing well against League 1-level competition in Scotland as improvement. He went to an easier league, and scored. Not bad, but not good enough to be worth a look given what else is out there.
That was after we had already pulled out of signing him because he reportedly failed our medical testing.
Around 11pm deadline day assuming Barca's and our fax machine works.So when are we making our play to poach Neymar
I'm guessing you didnt see his performance vs Man City in the Champions League where he scored two goals and played fantastically?
He also played very well away from home in Germany v Monchengladbach - grabbed a goal there also.
You had quite a few good teams when I was growing up. You seemed to usually qualify for the cups too. Not as many good swedish players coming through these days or from scandinavia in general actually. I wonder why? Maybe its just a cycle & you will be pretty good again in a few years.
I rated edman. His goal against liverpool, wow.
What position is sam larsson? & has brolin lost weight yet?
Sample size isn't large enough. Two good games is the same as how many Moussa Sissoko had at Euro 2016.
We looked, and passed. Other clubs around Europe have also looked. And passed. Being a lower-league talent isn't enough.
We're on a upswing again slowly but steadily. With our national team in particular (thanks Hugo for the blunder in Stockholm) with a lot of promising young talent coming up like Forsberg (any PL team would be happy to have him), Nilsson Lindelöf, Ekwall, Sam Larsson, Jordan Larsson (Henrik Larsson's kid), Nyman etc as well as the guys still playing in Sweden.
In a way I think Zlatan halted development. He was so good that every other Swedish player was measured after him and rated a failure if you cannot measure up to him. I saw some numbers a while back that we've never had as many players abroad as we do now. Granted a lot of that is in leagues like Belgium, Holland, France, the German second division and Serie A but we still have guys out learning on the continent.
Sam Larsson is a guy I rate. Same age as Janssen and a speedy dribbler on the left midfield/wing. Only thing holding him back from starting in the national side really is that he competes with Forsberg.
I'm so glad Tottenham didn't have your outlook when looking at MK Dons and Dele Alli in lower league football.
But we did have that outlook when looking at Moussa Dembele, which is why we didn't pursue him and haven't since.
But we did have that outlook when looking at Moussa Dembele, which is why we didn't pursue him and haven't since.
So its safe to say you believe whatever outlook they have regarding players is the correct one?
N'jie and Nkoudou is all i will say.
I'm just of the opinion Dembele could be a good back-up for Kane.
Pleat brought Alli to the attention of Pochettino and Levy, and the choice was made. Pochettino and Levy were looking at Dembele as well. Dele made the grade for Pochettino. Moussa Dembele did not.
Don't blame me for Pochettino's choices.
I didn't mean it in a good way...
I've not suggested you are to blame for Dembele going to Celtic.
It does seem like you have the opinion that Dembele wouldn't be good enough & shouldn't play for Spurs because 18 months ago we chose not to sign him. My opinion is, maybe we made a mistake and should go back in for him.
Interesting. I can see how ibra could have that impact. Well I hope your youngsters turn out good.
That larsson does look tricky & fast which we could probably do with for some variation in our play.
I forgot about Lindelöf. Never heard of him until I saw man utd paid about 30m for him.
Do you think he will do well in the premiership?
Which is fine, you're allowed and welcome to your footballing opinions. I'm just offering the rebuttle that we looked at him before Celtic, and didn't like him, and there are reasons his success at Celtic may not be regarded as highly as you think it may deserve to be.
Lindelöf will do amazing in the PL me thinks. He's 23 (I think, I know he's not old) and his career has been pretty much a rocket since the 2015 U21 euros (which he wasn't even supposed to be in but got in last minute due to a injury). He was a regular for Benfica in Portugal and won a couple of trophies there and got regular CL football as well. He's now a first choice CB for our national side as well.
Another name I'd personally like would be Henrik Larsson's kid Jordan. He's young so he would obviously be a name for the future but he has almost as much raw talent as his dad. He was a solid young player in the Swedish top flight for a couple of years and made the move to Holland last summer which sadly has not gone that well for him and he's hit a slump.
Problem with him is would he be allowed to sign for any team on the British isles that isn't Celtic?
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