Is this really the best offering you can make to the gods ?
I can also offer my right tit.
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Is this really the best offering you can make to the gods ?
You're a right what??.....I can also offer my right tit.
Speed is a part of his game, but it's most certainly not his biggest part or the most important. He's one of the best 1 v 1 wingers in world football due to his close control and his ability to create separation (the exact thing none of our wingers are capable of providing) and has been for half a decade. The exact profile fit for an Ange team.
If someone like Chiesa is available, wants to come and can be signed for a good price because of his contract situation, you simply get him in.
We will be playing 50+ games next season. We need a squad. If Chiesa doesn't harm our chances of getting someone like Eze in, even better.
Not sure being Prem proven means too much at all besides being a lazy trope. Most of our best signings of the last 20 years weren't Prem proven. And most of them probably turned out better than the Prem proven ones.
Sure you make some good points. I’ll still maintain if he loses just a bit of speed his game will drop off. We’ve seen how it affects Son.
I brought up PL experience because you brought Eze in to the discussion. You know what you’re getting with Eze. You’re hoping/speculating Chiesa will quickly adapt to the PL.
I can’t think of many 27/28+year olds we’ve bought over the years let alone ones from abroad that did well here. Persisic on a free I guess ?
Exactly, should never have bought Villa and ArdillesImagine judging a player on an international tournament
He's being linked to Roma not the top level coubsChiesa is perfect for what we are looking for, Juve played him as a striker last season because they didn't play wingers but he is brilliant
Can go on the inside and outside, great on both sides, dream signing, but doubt he wants to come here
I'll give you Bale and Dele. Dele more so than Bale as we'd seen Bale do some mad shit for Southampton before we nicked him.Tbf a good few of our ‘punts’ have worked out
Bale
dele
Son
Dembele (is this a punt?)
Kulu
Benta?
These guys were all bought for 20M odd
Played a lot less and a lot less motivated to play given he's been actively moved on.Wasn’t the premier league. Wasn’t half the tempo and intensity of the premier league
Fair enough, probs 40 ish mil then. Juve ain't gonna give him away for peanuts. Wages would be huge too.Why on earth would Chiesa cost 60m!?
I'd be amazed if Juve got any more than 35m for him MAX.
One year left on his contract. Doesn't want to sign a new one. They're not going to bleed anyone dry.
One of our best transfers in modern history was pinching Luka Modric before Euro 2008. If we waited until after that tournament he would've gone to Madrid 4 years before he did.. if not a peak Man Utd or a Bayern or someone like that. But because we acted quickly, we got to see one of the midfielders in history at our place for 4 years.. And really he helped change the perception and future of the club. Would we have got that first champions league season without him? Probably not.
Why do we refuse to learn from anything? Be it our failures or few successes.. Nico Williams was the one to try and get done before this tournament started. It might have already have been a fight with Barca, Liverpool or so on, but there may have been a small chance that they blinked and were unsure, allowing us to go in. This tournament has and will continue to raise his stock to a level that we can't get him. I had the same fear that something would happen with Eze.. But luckily it doesn't seem like he's gonna get too much of a chance.
Why go after a kid who only wants to join Barca? Actually, that could apply to both of them lads.Just have the fucking conviction to go and get Nico Williams or Xavi Simons you bastards