The good news is that Adrie Poldervaart has a Wikipedia page The bad news is that it's a stub on the Dutch Wikipedia A little digging on Transfermarkt says his results at his previous job, at third-tier Barendrecht, read like this P103 W48 D21 L34 GF194 GA169 Also, judging by his Twitter, he looks uncannily like a serial killer
It's hard to not think that Onomah being loaned says that Poch has more faith in Oakley-Boothe, Skipp and Amos as long-term prospects On the other hand, Ogilvie is out of contract at the end of the season so it looks like his loan to Gillingham is putting him in the shop window
Mauricio Pochettino enjoying himself with the hacks... “Harry Kane is here, Dele Alli is here, (Victor) Wanyama is here, (Eric) Dier is here, (Fernando) Llorente is here, Alderweireld is here….I don’t understand why you focus only on some names. If you review all my press conferences when did I say expect this or expect that? Never, why you focus on a few names only? “I don’t understand rumours about, you know, transfer window closing. It’s not a problem if we lose one or two or three. Because we have plenty of players in the academy, no problem. I am more than happy. I am more than happy to keep all the players and I am more than happy if they leave and we play with the U23s. It’s not a problem, I promise you. Not a problem for me.” ...he really does ****ing hate them.
Marcus Edwards made his Excelsior debut yesterday, coming on for the last ten minutes when they were already 4-2 down So that's already an improvement on his loan to Norwich, then...
As we haven't been linked with an Ajax player for a couple of weeks, we're now being linked with Frenkie de Jong - who (in the Eredivisie at least...) looks a lot like the Modric replacement we've been asking for since 2012
Loan roundup (we probably need a thread for this...) John Onomah didn't make the matchday squad for Sheffield Wednesday's 2-1 win over Reading Cameron Carter-Vickers was on the bench for Swansea's 2-1 win over Millwall Connor Ogilvie didn't make the matchday squad for Gillingham's 2-1 loss to Barnsley ...so basically it'd be nice if Shashoua played in Baleares match against Alcoyano later today, because our loanees have averaged two minutes and thirty seconds playing time between them this weekend
Somebody's made a supercut of Edwards' cameo over the weekend While his buildup play has curbed the worst of his Taarabtedness, there's still a couple of instances of him getting near the opposition area and trying to take on the entire opposition team when there's other options available
Really hope he sorts his **** out and knuckles down. So undeniably talented. Goes past players with ease. The ‘doing too much’ thing is what many young skillful players do at their age, the maturity will hopefully come with game time. Eredivisie is a great league for him, it’s where Shash should’ve also gone too.
That pitch looks a state and he needs to stop floating in crosses and get some pace and whip on them.
It's that time of the day where we need to sit the Levy Out mob down and explain to them very carefully that their latest crusade is as ill-informed as you can expect, namely how they're now banging on about Verts being a free agent at the end of the season...
Aaaaaaaaand right on cue, the random player links have begun... * CalcioMercato (no, please, don't go!) are linking us with Porto's Mexican central midfielder Hector Herrera, who falls firmly into the Dembele Replacement category * As mentioned a few days back, Ajax midfielder Frenkie De Jong's been linked with us by both the Grauniad and Express - although MundoDeportivo report that Barca are hovering * The Corriere dello Sport are once again linking us to Napoli midfielder Amadou Diawara, who I swear we've been linked with for eighteen months * Benjamin Pavard has denied he has a pre-contract agreement with **** Bayern in place
