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He did nothing to impress even when healthy really. I think he was meant to paper over the Richarlison gaffe and became one himself
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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He's never in the right place. And if it wasn't for his pressing, he's a 30m rotation player. He's good. He's not great. He's not going to turn into a prolific beast.
He'd probably be more accurate than Bobby soldier.
To each their own Bruv.
I can appreciate the artistry of the Studio Ghibli animation, some of it is quite stunning, but the pace, or lack thereof, of the stories just had me dozing off or completely losing interest.
One studio that my daughter got me interested in is Cartoon Saloon, from Ireland. If the Gibli artistry is your thing, check out the films from CS, like Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers or The Secret of Kells. The artwork in them is breathtaking.
My daughter has been heavily influenced by CS. If you're interested, you can see her graduation animation short on YouTube, it's called "Guardian" and features a horse. I cried like a baby when I first watched it, it's absolutely beautiful.
All over the place.
I feel like the club have got it in their head that they must buy experience this summer so they will probably pass over him and we may regret it in 6 months time.
He's scored 38 goals in 161 Premier League appearances. it's about 9 goals per season, just like last season 9 Premier League goals. But because he's joined Spurs he's great, he's a Europa League cup winner, absolutely fantastic player!!
I think we should move for Stiler. There's a strange cosmic balancing that would make us unstoppable if you could put out a Stiler Bergvall double pivot.
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Kulusevski isn't underrated at all, overrated if anything
Does this kind of graph take into account the strength of opposition?
I suppose it depends on which company you go to for the stats and how they score the expected assists. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The point I'm making though is that Bowen is seen as elite on here by some, when he's not really performing at an elite level if he's only marginally ahead of our own winger, who has been pilloried on here since he first joined.
Maybe. Don't get me wrong, I think Bowen is a very good player, I'm just trying to bring some perspective here. If he is this "elite" player that many claim him to be, stating that we should be dropping a cool £80M to get him, then why were these same people complaining about BJ' s price, which was half of that, when we're getting almost the same productivity? Don't you at least see the disparity in that thinking?
He can, now he's matured somewhat. Johnson still has a way to go before we can truly compare like for like, as Bowen has 3 seasons of top flight on him. Bowen's start wasn't particularly scintillating, and he had a poor third season after a good second.
You'd expect him to have less touches in the opposition box when playing as a striker? Really?
Sorry, whilst I agree he's a better dribbler and creator, "monumentally clear?" We'll have to agree to disagree there. Better yes, monumentally no.
No you wouldn't as they play in different leagues. Bowen and BJ are comparable for precisely the reason that they play in the same league.
Regardless, the whole point of my comparison was to show that Bowen is not this "elite" winger, worth £80M+, that he's made out to be on here. He might be better than BJ, but this narrative that "other than tap-in's BJ does nothing" is patently false, and shines a light on the unreliability of fan perceptions. Bowen is a better winger than BJ I can go along with, an elite, essentially World Class, winger I won't go along with.
It's got a little sidetracked, but my original purpose here was to highlight that fan take unreliability, which then brings us to Kudus. I've now seen West Ham fans saying he's a liability and get rid, whilst others don't want to sell him to us because it would destroy them to see him realise his potential with us. Some see a waster, some see a World class talent.
Unreliable. Same as the takes on him from fans on this board.
Personally, I'd be quite happy to take him, if the club has done its due diligence on his character. I couldn't care less what the price is. If we were able to unlock that talent properly then we'd have an absolutely awesome player on our hands.
Eh, I mean Eriksen only made 11 grand total all comps appearances for them on a six-month deal. That he was brought in in the first place speaks to the way the operation has always been adding to that squad since joining the PL.
I just want to rewind back to your initial statement.
Their best players during their first PL season were, in some order, Toney, Wissa, Mbuemo, Norgaard, Janelt, Ajer and Raya.
5 of those 7 remained regular starters for them this season.
In fact, the only players who made at least 12 starts for that team who are not still there are Toney, who they spent 23M on Kevin Schade to replace (moving Wissa to CF), Sergi Canos who between Wissa and Mbuemo's emergence and the purchase of Mikkel Damsgaard for 16M they didn't need anymore and sold off to Olympiacos, and Raya who they replaced for 11M with Mark Flekken, decided he wasn't good enough and now paid more for Caomhin Kelleher to replace.
Your bolded statement is wrong. Brentford gave Frank unusual stability in his squad for a lower half PL team, and quite well funded and of course very modern and intelligent recruitment to fill in and supplement that squad.
I don't know how that cuts in terms of arguing about Spurs, it really doesn't, it's just the truth, and feels important in terms of understanding Frank's Brentford.
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Agree on Raphina - we’ve got Tel and Odobert so doubt he would make the bench, let alone start for us
And a 2nd cheese room ?
That’s really great choice. So many havecsaidvifcwecstart the season with a front 3 of tel Solanke and Johnson we are fucked. Even though that lot cost nearly £150M yet we still look poor in those positions. All 3 Ange signings btw. He truly fucked us with those signings and money spent.