are people saying they don't rate Gordon or that his price is high? or both?
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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I believe it was quite accepted assumption that Rich can cover all 3 positions in frontline, wasn't it ?!?
He is right-footed, so he wouldn't play fully like inverted winger, but it does not mean right-footer cannot shoot from right wing.
Plus there is Moura who can play on the right if needed.
And in general depth of Kane, Son, Kulusevski, Richalidson, Moura and if needed Perisic feels quite sufficient. There has to be some flexibility and if injury crises hits, then tough luck but some players have to play in new positions.
The only reason we would bid for him is to make sure Chavs pay through the nose for him??
I rate him highly but £60m is too high.
You know...there might be the issue of him choosing 2x more money that we were willing to offer + joining shit side where he would get guaranteed playing time, while getting playing time with us would be more questionable.
hoping for asm then
Many players are confident and/or arrogant in their abilities so will not generally think they aren’t good enough to get into a team.
If he delivers one or two 'stop gap' players its because there aren't better options out there - and its always possible he says to Conte there aren't better options out there than Gil which is the worst case probably.
We would all dream of another Kulusevski and Bentancur surprise arrivals - but I'm struggling to think of comparable surprise transfers, possibly since Rafael van der Vaart magically appeared over night with rumours starting less than 30 minutes before transfer window closed. That's how good the January transfers were - although a few on here took a couple of months to recognise it
To be fair thats sensible from the club, probably explains why we moved on from Eriksen with a 3 year deal. I think what Man U are doing is insane.
Gordon is good, has the potential to be great. However that price is ludicrous.
I'm saying he is energetic and hard running, this is mostly a by product of youth. His actual technical merits are somewhat less remarkable. He isnt a brilliant dribbler, doesn't possess an amazing shot. If he were a youngster at Spurs he'd not be getting first team game time but Everton found themselves where, did so he got mins. Its not hard to standout under those circumstances. I'd not spend more than 25m on him. I don't think right now he is better than Pulisic who he would replace at Chelsea. The Spurs links are due to one thing only our HM issues. At the prices Everton want I'd rather offer West ham the money for Bowen. Or Villa that young Central mid they have.
Many certainly claimed to.
I'm not a fan of signing either, but writing them off before they'd kicked a ball for us would still be a pre-emptive disservice to the highly paid proffesional(s) that had decided to sign them.
Flip the script if you like.... Consider how many were wanking themselves silly for a year or so over how much of a "must-sign" game-changer Ndombele was...... How'd that pan out for all the arm-chair experts?
There's absolutely no reason NOT to reserve judgement until a player takes the field for us.
Your initial post suggested you don't think Fab has earned a bit of faith and latitude so far.
I strongly disagree.
Richarlison plays left and centre - rarely right.
Moura is more of a striker so not a back up for Kulusevski, and sadly Moura doesn't get anywhere near the goal involvements we need.
Perisic can only play in one position at a time - if he plays left wing (which he used to several years ago before becoming a LWB) then we only have Sessegnon as LWB and are short there this season.
The above summarises why we want a RW who can deputise/rotate with Kulusevski and provide assists (plus a few goals).
I think this is why malinovskyi might make sense.
Won’t be too expensive, wages probably won’t be that high coming from Italy and he’ll be our 5th choice attacker. Nice shot/set peices so still has the ability to change a game.
Gonna be hard to get someone in who’s happy to be behind richarlson in the pecking order (although I do get there’s a lot of game time to be go around).
Won’t be too expensive, wages probably won’t be that high coming from Italy and he’ll be our 5th choice attacker. Nice shot/set peices so still has the ability to change a game.
Gonna be hard to get someone in who’s happy to be behind richarlson in the pecking order (although I do get there’s a lot of game time to be go around).
60 million for Sid the Sloth. Fuck me.
How much are Manny and Diego going for, and that stupid little squirrel chasing the nut?
You can't unsee it once you've seen it.
How much are Manny and Diego going for, and that stupid little squirrel chasing the nut?
You can't unsee it once you've seen it.
Agreed, but his age probably means we would only want to offer a 2 year contract (as Perisic) or 3 years max (possibly with club option for another year) and limits the transfer fee we want to pay to more like 10m possibly with add ons if we exercise the club option etc