I’m quite convinced that Toby playing has gained us several points this season, making the £25m money well spent as we’d be sixth without him.
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I’m quite convinced that Toby playing has gained us several points this season, making the £25m money well spent as we’d be sixth without him.
Losing him to Utd.... For a shit fee...... It couldn't sting much more unless it was the Goons, could it?
I wouldn’t be comfortable with him going to any other EPL team.
Word is that at least one of his knees has gone all Ledley King.
I actually think he looked pretty OK yesterday, considering he's barely played and it was Hudersfield. But my argument isn't that he's now looking "shot" it's that even if he starts to look like the old Wanyama, when a player has serious knee (or other particular issue) problems that have dogged him persistently over a two year period, it's often going to become kind of chronic (both on that knee and effect other muscles, ligaments etc that interact.
Maybe others have anecdotal evidence of players who have gone through this, aged 27/28 and come out the other end and continued with a normal career? maybe I'm just generalising unfairly?
The Fekir situation is getting interesting. He's out of contract in 2020. He's sacked his current agent (the agent has claimed the Liverpool medical had been passed and he'd had the "photo" but it collapsed not just because of doubts about his knee, but "other" reasons too). He's rejected Aulas's contract offer and Aulas has apparently rejected Fekir's demands.
Someone is going to get a bargain this summer me thinks. Would swap him for Lamela in a heartbeat. And he can also play in Eriksen's 10 role too. And as a 9/false 9.
Someone is going to get a bargain this summer me thinks. Would swap him for Lamela in a heartbeat. And he can also play in Eriksen's 10 role too. And as a 9/false 9.
All very easy to "say" without declaring what exactly.... This from the very guy that's just been sacked. Then again, that would at least suggest he's got no cause to protect the player and play down the knee aspect any further.
Also, it implies the knee WAS still a contributing factor.
Medical passed; yet knee still "doubted".
He's looked the business whenever I've seen him play; but any trf looks no less dubious.
I think the rumour was, he passed the medical but Liverpool wanted to use it to "renegotiate" the deal already agreed, not that they pulled the plug because of the injury.
He did his cruciate in September 2015 (Aged 21). He missed most of the 15/16 season with that. Since then in the three subsequent years he's only missed 23 days (vague knee injury) at the beginning of 16/17 season and 35 days (bruised knee) midway through last season.
Was dropped from the last Lyon squad along with Memphis Depay for fighting with his team mates. Doubt he’s going to be Poch’s cup of tea.
Memphis Depay & Nabil Fekir 'come to blows' with team-mates during training
Canal Plus claim Fekir came to blows with centre-back Marcelo, while Depay also had a physical confrontation with left-back Ferland Mendy.
That's a shame. Lyon were great to watch in the ECL this season.
Fekir is definitely interesting. Cornet is a prospect.
Canal Plus claim Fekir came to blows with centre-back Marcelo, while Depay also had a physical confrontation with left-back Ferland Mendy.
That's a shame. Lyon were great to watch in the ECL this season.
Fekir is definitely interesting. Cornet is a prospect.
Please, please, please don't let the rumours of our interest in Andre gomes be true - every time I've seen him perform for Everton I have been less than impressed, slow on the ball, slow to get back and defend and just slow on pace generally.
Happening: 0,000000000000%
Would be happy: 100%
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Would be happy: 100%
Tottenham should consider shrewd swap with Real Madrid reportedly wanting Eriksen
Tottenham Hotspur should consider asking Real Madrid for Toni Kroos in exchange for Christian Eriksen if there is no way the playmaker will stay.
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I really don't think a training ground hand bags is much.
Fekir, NDombele, Mendy (closely followed by Aouar, and even Chiekh isn't a bad DM) Been banging these drums for a couple of years, about 5 years in the case of Fekir.
I'd happily take any of them or all of them. But with Fekir you get three players in one and they are all very good.
Good shout.... Make the winners face off and we can we sign the prevailing supreme champ.
Happening: 0,000000000000%
Would be happy: 100%
Tottenham should consider shrewd swap with Real Madrid reportedly wanting Eriksen
Tottenham Hotspur should consider asking Real Madrid for Toni Kroos in exchange for Christian Eriksen if there is no way the playmaker will stay.
Hahaha.... Read that as "the Spanish GITS".
Sometimes dyslexia is fun!
Bollocks as usual from Ahab but Hazard price to Real only £85m apparently?
Must admit, I had the impression it was one of those 'could explode at any time' jobs like Demba Ba's knee(s). I'd have expected him to have made a step up to a bigger team by now... He's one of these guys who's been a young starlet forever.
A fair amount of proverbial smoke either way when coupled with the Rocky tendencies noted above.
Like I said before, he looks tasty to me, but we all now how picky the gaffa is.... (I'd imagine Levy being less enthused by the idea of signing players with such medical question marks hanging over them too.)