Well he's been poor for them and they have been ruthless which is fair but I've always said that he's not as bad as people make out and will most probably have a point to prove at his next club.
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Well he's been poor for them and they have been ruthless which is fair but I've always said that he's not as bad as people make out and will most probably have a point to prove at his next club.
I only recognise about half the words in that sentence.
Good read.
Hope he backs up his words with performances this year.
Go on lad
Yes, I’m sure the entire football operation are working on it feverishly as our top priority.
Whilst Conte was undoubtedly a difficult man, this does have the strong whiff of player power winning every time. Don’t like the manager? Let’s conspire to fuck his chances of succeeding .
I’m 100% glad he’s gone in favour of some bright, attacking football, but it’s a concern that player cabals can down tools and fuck up the whole season for us fans- just to get the boss out of the door.
The good thing about Ange from what I’ve seen so far is that he doesn’t talk in riddles, has a set idea about how he wants his team to commit and play to his style, & frankly “fuck off” if you aren’t on board.
It reminds me of the toxic atmosphere Poch had to wade through in his early days.
I pray that the trigger happy bald dwarf doesn’t still have the ear of the players.
“I’m going to speak to Daniel” springs to mind from that abomination of a documentary on Amazon.
Yikes , please don’t , I often drive down that road on my way to visit familyThe journo is Colombian?
Thanks for the info.
If we sell Sanchez to a Russian club while there is a war in Ukraine then I will unignore the Levy out thread andHonest John and run naked down the Balls Pond Road.
Who gives a flying fuck?
I think Pleat wrote that post.
He's been the best CB at the club since Verts and or Toby, and certainly one for the next decade.
Love the guy.
I said international break, not world cup break. ie after the Southampton game where there was 2 or 3 weeks off.
We got far worse after Conte left. That's the crux
Messi didn't exactly reproduce his Barcelona form and there's more than 1 team in Spain
Here’s my only thing on Veiga. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a talent. Physically gifted, has an innate sense to arrive on crosses, tidy finisher, quick feet, energetic, all-around.
However - he doesn’t do any work in the first phase of buildup and is not a deep midfielder whatsoever, an 8 who needs to be advanced and not particularly gifted with passing or vision. Yeah, that can still be a great profile, but something about him screams to me the same uneasy feeling I had about Jenas, Paulinho, Dele, more recently Matheus Nunes, where they have these gaudy G/A totals but don’t really impact games as much as you’d think.
My issue is what does he excel at? Our best midfielders have always been specialists. Eriksen, Dembele, Luka, Carrick, Ginola, VDV, Gazza, Hoddle, Mackey etc. you can point to all of them and say, he was very close to the best in the world at this specific part of the game, be it dribbling, close control, stamina, long range shots, vision, tackling, crossing, free kicks, etc. Each one of them had something truly special in them, they were all well-rounded too, but each of them had that piece of true clsss in their locker that made them unique to any other midfielder in the world.
Veiga I don’t think has that, or at least, I question what his stand-out skill is.
And here’s why I’m cautious. Hasn’t he been linked with all the top clubs? All of them? City, the Spanish giants, Woolwich, Bayern I believe, Liverpool, the hits keep on coming. Why hasn’t anyone pulled the trigger on him, the summer where he was supposedly the darling of half of Europe? That concerns me.
He’s probably better than Gallagher tbf. But I don’t feel he’s a star. Look below, those are shocking passing statistics!
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Who knows, but he was “reportedly” offered $200k According to th article. We don’t know what he was offered. But $200k/1 yr (article doesn’t mention the length of the contract offered) is £10.4m.Side note: Zaha went to Turkey for £3m sign-on and £80k a week (approx. £125k a week). Apparently despite being offered £200k a week by Palace. I don't know what's going on in that lads head, but I suspect 'fuck all'.
Wilfried Zaha: Galatasaray sign former Crystal Palace forward
Former Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha joins Turkish side Galatasaray after leaving the Eagles at the end of his contract.www.bbc.co.uk
The contract he accepted has a £2m bonus, and is 3 years at £3.75. That’s £13.25m.
It’s probably that simple. He was likely offered more money and a longer contract.
So it’s taken over a month to conclude they are out of our price range. Think that is bs. Vdv would not cost much prbly £30M. We are interested in Gallagher and he would be upwards of £40M so we can afford the CBs.
Can win the title and play in Europe with Gala. Intense atmosphere and, if he's decent, will be hero worshiped.
Or stay at palace and get a pat on the back for finishing 10th
And look, that’s not a death sentence. Dele recently had one of the most productive runs in our club’s entire history as a similar profile, an advanced midfielder who is all action and isn’t much of a passer. But you have a much, much lower margin for success that way. You’d better have outlier physical ability or some sort of elite dribbling/goal-scoring threat. Once Dele’s pace and ability to be everywhere went, soon did his finishing and G/A totals, soon did his overall threat as a player and general value proposition to a top side, and sadly soon did his career.
You need auxiliary game-controlling skills to fall back on, and those are exactly why Bentancur has become our best midfielder.
And look I don’t watch Celta week in week out.
But I do know trends. And one trend is that when a player is touted to all the top clubs and very well known in transfer rumor circles, but doesn’t have any concrete offers, that’s a red flag. Teams have done their due diligence, there wouldn’t be so many links if they hadn’t. And they all decided to shop elsewhere. That says something. No one has actually made a real offer to Celta yet.