Well you can see with your own eyes this far he doesn’t look a good fit! We spent a lot of money on him apparently told he is what we needed. We didn’t spend that much money to have to develop him.
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I think that is his idea of fun!
Would be ridiculous to spend that much money so late in the Jan window. Hardly anyone spends that much on players. We should wait till the summer. We have just one game a week and have enough players albeit not good ones in certain positions. However once son, Biss and Sarr are back we have good options. We could still have midfield 3 of Biss bent and Sarr pushing MADDs up
top along with son and a.n.other.
top along with son and a.n.other.
So it's looking very likely we have "only" signed a backup winger on loan and a backup CB for a fairly reasonable sum.
If you isolate that from the fact everyone else is broke as fuck and can't seem to keep the lights on, is it actually a good window? Even for January?
I guess we'll find our as the likes of Sarr, Bissouma and Son come back in February. With a full squad and no cup games, we have an opportunity to try to establish who our absolute best 11 are and if they are good enough.
In some ways, adding a few more would be muddying the water for now. We've seen how adding tonnes of players at Forest and Chelsea just completely confused them both.
If you isolate that from the fact everyone else is broke as fuck and can't seem to keep the lights on, is it actually a good window? Even for January?
I guess we'll find our as the likes of Sarr, Bissouma and Son come back in February. With a full squad and no cup games, we have an opportunity to try to establish who our absolute best 11 are and if they are good enough.
In some ways, adding a few more would be muddying the water for now. We've seen how adding tonnes of players at Forest and Chelsea just completely confused them both.
Dragusin has been signed to compete for a starting role. We needed him in the winter but better late than never.
Also factoring in the timing of signings makes sense. We did our business early to maximize the impact of the players coming in.
Just saying as he dies t seem to be like the other players we get linked with out of the blue. They look more data driven. Don’t think we were looking at CJ or BJ before Ange got his feet under the table.
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100% We did this with Perisic too - Didn't like him that much at Spurs other than a brilliant dead-ball player he's never as good as he is when playing for his country.
For all my positivity surrounding how I feel based on what we are doing (and have done recently), it's still largely vibes-driven. So for instance this season (admittedly not until we get Biss, Sarr and Son back) I need to see us playing consistently well, as we did for most parts pre-chav game. I've been encouraged by our results with so many players out (I was mostly encouraged by how we played when we lost e.g better team vs West Ham, Villa & Man U) the only PL game we've been outplayed in this season was oddly vs Brighton their only win in their last 7 games and the Wolves game which wasn't a good watch either).
Whilst Davies & Emmerson were excellent when covering Romero and VdV, we saw vs Utd their impact in helping us dominate the majority of the game. Need to see us finish this season with some beautiful football, we've shown and I've been impressed with our resistance and competitiveness without our best players.
We've shifted some massive wages off our books this season (Kane, Lloris, Perisic, Dier, Reggy, probably 50% of Ndombele's £200k and others) and largely recruited some very young players, where we've gone from the oldest team in the league to one of the youngest in a shortish period. Always feel that leaves the door open for one very key "old head signing" but maybe we don't need that as we already have one in Son.
Neto recently came back after being out for 2 months with a hamstring problem
Top talent but far too injury prone to spend that amount Wolves would want for him.
10 g 12 a in 103 apps for Wolves.
Has good games and people get excited but he's a back up wide player on a title-challenging prem squad.
They might need to be imaginative to find the missing piece tbh. Not sure that's Pedro Neto, especially for the money they'd ask.
Had looked at HS's recent lineups and seen he wasn't playing. A bit concerning that they don't want to make use of him for the next 2 years (if he's as good as we are made to believe).
He's 16 and they aren't going to make any more money from developing him so don't have much incentive to push him over any experienced CBs they have on the books. I think we only left him there because we couldn't bring him and loan him ourselves yet.
Same reason we wouldn't start a highly rated youngster and continue to develop them if he was no longer our player, I reckon.
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Transfer window in S Arabia closed yesterday.
Actually we DID spend all that money to develop him. The club/Ange/Ali Gold literally said he was signed with the future in mind, and not expected to be anywhere near a finished article.
Before you ask me to post a link, no I won't. It was said/written/social media'd so you can do your own research because I do not have the time to go back hunting for it.
2 years is a long time and I would hope he's already better than whatever rando they have at CB despite his age. If that's the case the value for them is improved performances for the next 2 years.
Not much of a revelation, really. It has been proven that transfer spending has little correlation with performance, period. Whether it's January or the summer. So yeah, the more challenging of the two windows will definitely have even less correlation than the average.