Think it's our sense of desperation that creates the illusion.
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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread
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Think it's our sense of desperation that creates the illusion.
And you cant bring balance, if you keep shifting managers. He joined in Nov 23 as technical director before getting promoted to sporting director... how many managers we have had since ?
Players he got in are good players on a given day - thats all is that I am saying. He isnt a manager picker.
And no body can pick easily using data. I doubt many Sporting directors buy Jhon Duran scoring 8 goals in 27 games from chicago fire for 14m - He did that and paid of by selling him for 64m with 50m profit.
He was surely influential in getting Frank, no? A man he’s knows for years and he thought could work with a squad constructed to play Angeball?
Why? Because he failed at Everton as a kid?
He wouldn’t be my choice but there is a lot of upside to him. He seems to have matured as a player and person and he has the physical gifts to survive in the PL, and scores with both feet and his head.
If not for deals like that Villas FFP issues would be a lot worse than they are
I dont mind him as an analyst at all, he just cant be "the guy"
Same!
Absolutely - he should be no where near 'the big picture' at all - but by all means use his ability to spot talent
And I guess you didnt read what I said ?
I said he is not a manager picker and he failed at it
You want to go back and read again ?
£63m for an "OK" striker just to send him out on loan twice afterwards certainly has a bit of a whiff about it imo.
He's absolute dogshit
Wikipedia says 27 goals in 58 appearances for Fiorentina. Good numbers.
You worded it slightly vaguely to be fair. I read it as you saying he had no involvement in picking managers, hence my reply.
Then we can park the Van
I'll get my coat
Quite a few of theirs deals did, wasnt there the weird over priced buy/sell of academy players deals with Newcastle (and Forest?)
Very dodgy indeed
Although the Duran one seemed to me more like typical Saudi dick swinging
Serie A is dogshit at the moment, so you have to factor that in. But his physical profile is what you’d want in a PL striker currently. Big enough to fight with defenders who are allowed by refs to assault forwards, and quick enough to run in behind on transitions.
I wonder if Fabio would take a package deal for him too?
Solomon, Dragusin and Sarr?
Men with Ven, Jeremy.
2023/24 : 8 goals 1 assist across all comps in 1053 minutes : goal or assist every 117 minutes. 9 starts overall
2024 / 25 (PL, CL,EFL cup) : 1050 minutes, 12 goals. Goals every 87.5 minutes
7 of this goals came in games where he scored late winners including Bayern, City, Leipzig, Westham ,Everton etc... And he only started 7 of these games. Most of his goals were just spectacular finishes
All this was him as 20 yr old.
He is not a OK striker. Even if its some odd Saudi club, they arent going to spend 64m & 300k salary on ok strikers
He took a bad decision now reaping the consequence of missing out on WC after he chose money. Still has his career ahead. If he choses to give it up and come back, I dont mind at all. I would rather have him in our squad than Kean
I went into sports direct the other day, and it was one I worked at when it was "sports soccer" and ran like a Nazi operation. I was telling my daughter about it and I was like "I worked in this exact area when I was about 17" and it's been nearly 25 years and yet I couldn't fathom that it had been that long with so little changing physically in the store.
If the kids go to the playing park I like a go on the swings, but I'm a tall and bulky guy and forget that I'm a 100kg+ adult and not a scrawny teenager. Occasionally I'll try to kick a ball like I used to and I'll need a knee strap for 3 weeks
If Joe is your Uncle are his kids your cousins?
There's a LONG list of strikers who couldn't score in Serie A and didn't magically become good in the PL, but an even longer one of players that looked prolific in Serie A and did a good Jozy Altidore impression in the PL. Dare we include Shevchenko in a list that has Zirkzee, Hojlund, Jovetic etc
The thing is Serie A was close to the level of the PL in the 00s and Shevchenko came here. He just had too many minute s in his legs to adapt and lost a yard or two.
Nowadays every Euro league is miles behind the PL so every signing is a gamble. You just have to see the right qualities in a player that could help them adapt quickly but the mental challenge of dealing with the relentless grind and a constant slew of tough opponents week after week is unknowable until they get here.