Watching full match compilations of Johnson atm, warming to him a bit. Without having the high level trickery highlight moments /nutmegs etc that Rashford uses at times to beat a defender, Johnson does remind me of Rashford a bit with his burst of pace to get behind, and his shot placement. First time passing and ball retention looks better than stats suggest, numbers likely seriously hampered by his instructions being "Brennan, get the ball in our half and carry it to their box, thanks".
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Be interesting to see how he received up there.... especially if he doesn't hit the ground running!
What do you mean "lemme know"? You're the one who made the claim!
Is that you stepping back and looking at it objectively?
Im not sure you or I would even be capable of doing that considering how much time is spent talking about spurs and having very, very strong personal opinions about the goings on at the club.
I genuinely couldn't trust you to be objective about it any more than I could.
What will be interesting is to read what someone with the ability to be objective about it thinks and we will likely be able to see that come the end of the window
I'm sure if we'd had lost the first 3 games we would have seen activity by now.
This great start has 100% allowed Levy to rest on his laurels so we've done fuck all since the Kane sale.
No other top team would sell their best/most iconic player for 100m and not have something lined up immediately.
This great start has 100% allowed Levy to rest on his laurels so we've done fuck all since the Kane sale.
No other top team would sell their best/most iconic player for 100m and not have something lined up immediately.
The flipside is that a fancied prospect would likely want to avoid the roadblock of Kane.......
I think IF we believe he'll be the business then it's worth the risk.
Buying STs is always a punt.... At least it's not an expensive one and ought to be an easy-ish re-sale if necessary.
It's not, but we need to start addressing it early. Else we will be desperate next summer and that'll only drive up the prices for our HG targets, which in turn will impact our ability to get other non-HG targets. Better we start now and deal from a position of relative strength next window.
I'm just a glass half full kinda lass
Always trying to look on the bright side and see the positives. Just in my nature.
More high-line nightmares coming Villa's way...... Probably do alright in the early round of the conference league though.
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"Get 'em out... I don't care how" quickly evaporated for the bullshit it always was too.
Yeah, but we didn't lose our first 3 games, sparky. We dominated them.
What a load of bollocks to make up just to further your fucking anti-Levy agenda. Geez...
Possible future resale value, maybe?
Bentancur would fill in. Sarr would fill Benta's place. And we'd still have Skipp and GLC on the bench. It'll be a setback, for sure, but not exactly disastrous.
This, and don't forget what the impact might be of playing with better a better squad around him.
Do I think it likely that Maddison will find him with delicious through balls on the regular? Absolutely.
It’s such a shame we didn’t have Maddison and Kane playing together even for one season. Their intelligence and technical skills another level.
In that context, I'm definitely not objective.
I'd guess any objective observer of our window after the deadline will also be coloured by the recent results and vibe around the new manager.
Fans always have experience baked in.
As objectively as possible:
Vicario, VDV, Maddison are 3 legit 1st 11 stars that make us much better.
That's great transfer business to nail all 3 like that.
BUT
If we end the window with Dier and Sanchez, without a 3rd CB option, that's negligence for a team with ambitions to win things.
Maybe still not objective but it's the best I have.
With a bucketload of salt, as far as I can decipher wot the "ITKs" on the other site are channelling, here iis my paraphrase:
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Paratici & our scouts have done a good job in overhauling the quality of the Academy & securing the best talents on longer term deals. The club is confident we will produce a couple of Club HG talents of genuine quality in the next 2 seasons (eg continued development of the likes of Scarlett, Devine, and our increasingly impressive U21 & U18 teams).
However, with Kane & Winks leaving, and Tanganga & Sessegnon likely to go, we have a potential short term HG problem, particularly if we qualify for Europe next season.
Brennan Johnson is seen as a good HG acquisition, and we can do a deal with Forest (to help / exploit their FFP situation) to get one or more of our "for sale" list out of the door for decent money.
Ange thinks BJ is a player with good attributes & the right character, and someone he can develop.
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That said, the other site's head honcho has now bumped their Marcus Edwards thread, and Marcus is not just Home Grown, but Club HG for European competitions.
Edwards ticks almost all the same boxes as Johnson, apart from not having played regularly in the PL.
I can't see us signing both Brennan Johnson & Marcus Edwards.