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I think all you are saying is that its only in England where clubs don't develop enough HG players (hence we have issues with price/availability), whereas in rest of europe they develop more of their own players (as HG in their own countries) so don't run into the problems of price/availability.
This makes me laugh. The 'majority ' of fans despise any player that don't play for them Matt is really projecting his dislike of Richarlison on to whetherthis is a good or bad deal. Lots of fans hate Kane. It has zero bearing on what coaches think of him. I'm indifferent to the Everton striker but I don't care what we pay thats bookkeeping FC's problem and Levy's problem. Looking at the length he has remaining on his deal, Everton's situation and the players clear intrest in the move if Conte wants him it will happen. As most hated Kulu on first sight I'm happy to go with whatever Conte decides.
It's more than that. There are people we just don't like. That's often far more irrational and unexplainable than not rating them.Look at the end of the day there are players we all rate and don’t rate.
Did he not sanction Iwobi for stupid money?good news seeing that
im talking about the other namesDid he not sanction Iwobi for stupid money?
How did you sleep mate?im talking about the other names
i saw the everton bit and thought the same
not with it to be honest, work dont help lolHow did you sleep mate?
Article refers to him as a 48 year old ex-Man Utd midfielder, so not our very own Simon Davies.Simon Davies as in our former player? Or am I mixing him up with a different Simon?
You work at the lodge by any chance?not with it to be honest, work dont help lol
how did you guessYou work at the lodge by any chance?
God our fans moan at tight arse Levy and Lewis’s who are historically tight arses then we finally get £150m investment plus player sales plus CL money to produce a giant war chest of £250-300m and our fans becomes the Levy tight arses themselves.
Spurs fans: SPEND MONEY!!!!
Lewis: ok I will stop being a tight cunt, here you go.
Conte: Get me Richarlison, Bastoni, Eriksen, Bissouma, Paqueta, Spence, Bremer, Forster, Perisic, another RB. Cost about £250m, back me and let’s go again next season.
Spurs fans: NO, NO, NO don’t do that, Richarlison is only worth 50p, Bissouma £40m is way to much £25m no more. Plenty of players out of contract or nearly out of contract look there.
Liverpool just spent 80m on a guy far less proven than Richarlison yet we think £60m is too much. This is the mentality of a small club that hasn’t got the balls to make it big.
Cheers.Article refers to him as a 48 year old ex-Man Utd midfielder, so not our very own Simon Davies.
What I'm saying is that it's not an even playing field for clubs at home or playing teams abroad. Other countries don't charge absurd money for HG players when trading between each other. So a smaller team can afford to buy a useful HG player to actually bolster their squad. It's getting to the stage in this country that even wealthy clubs like us are going to struggle to buy anyone HG. Grealish at £100m, how much today for JWP or Rice or Bowen. They'd all be hugely over priced and their clubs would rather not sell to another PL at all. I don't think that' s anywhere near as prevalent overseas.
It's more than that. There are people we just don't like. That's often far more irrational and unexplainable than not rating them.
I don't get what you mean.
Even if we have 250 mil£, I still don't think we should party like there is no tomorrow.
Nor should we ship out any kind of money other teams request. It is still possible to operate in smart fashion.
Liverpool and Spurs are WORLDS apart in our top scouting. Our top player recruitment has been criminal. Literally - someone should be sent to jail for the shit we have done.
For comparison reason top 10 transfers in Spurs and in Pool -
SPURS:
1. Ndombele - 60 mEUR
2. Lo Celso - 48 mEUR
3. Sanchez - 42 m
4. Sissoko - 35 m
5. Bergwijn - 30 m
6. Soldado - 30 m
7. Regulion - 30 m
8. Lamela - 30 m
9. Son - 30 m
10. Moura - 28.4 mEUR
POOL:
1. VVD - 84.65 m
2. Alisson - 75 m
3. Keita - 60 m
4. Diaz - 47 m
5. Benteke - 46.5 m
6. Fabinho - 45 m
7. Jota - 44.7 m
8. Salah - 42 m
9. Mane 41.2 m
10. Firminho 41 m
From our top 10 there has been ONE obvious star and constant starter. ONE (!!). Sanchez has never (even once) been our best defender during one season, let alone across longer time. Regullion has been at best decent LB. Lamela and Moura have been at times acceptable squad players but never starters / stars of the show.
From Liverpool top 10.... well... Benteke was awful flop and Keita has been squad player, not superstar. But VVD, Alisson, Fabinho, Salah, Mane, Firminho, Jota - they have become undisputed superstars.
So take it down a notch - I rather see us signing clever deals like Kulusevski then just stupidly pay over the odds for likes of Richalidson.
His attitude may change once he's not a big fish in a small pool. He is able to behave as he likes at Everton but if he comes to a much bigger and better team, he's only going to succeed if he drops the attitude and acknowledges the fact that he's playing alongside real stars. It will be the making or the breaking of him. It's going to be an expensive experiment but Conte knows what he's doing.Going round in circles here
Richarlison is not a player who is going to change clubs to sit on the bench.
Jota obviously is. He comes across as a team player and a good, mature person.
Richarlison will be trouble. It would be a bad decision to sign him and use him as a squad player.