Just read that he's a relative of Leeds' legends, Eddie and Frank Gray. Eddie Gray was a beautiful footballer. Such a talent in a team full of psychopaths, torturers and knuckle merchants. If his grand-nephew is anything like the same talent, we've got ourselves a complete bargain. Hopefully, he doesn't have the same propensity to get injured as Eddie.. ...which always came as a bit of a surprise, as he didn't get to play 2 games a season against Bremner, Giles, Jack Charlton, etc.
Never heard of Archie Gray so I texted a mate who’s a Leeds supporter and his response was full of expletives that Spurs signed him. That’s worth £30m in my books all day!
His dad Andy (not that one) also played for Leeds, although not that much. Spent most of his career in the 2nd tier making a very respectable 530 appearances, plus two for Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gray_(footballer,_born_1977) When Leeds fans say that he's one of their own they probably have a point!
Per Ornstein, Gray chose us over Dortmund He also mentions he had a £35m release clause, which we paid over in order to break the fee up into installment (and also claw some back with Rodon heading the other way)
Paul O’Keefe says we’re interested in Doue (hardly breaking news) but has also said that Neto is back on the radar. I’m a big fan of Neto but his injury issues are a real concern.
Doue highly rate youngster, would be a good signing albeit I think the club needs to add some experience and ‘now’ players rather than more for the future. Neto would be a hard pass for me for several reasons
The main issue I have with Doue (other than expecting at least three clubs to pounce the second we make a bid) is it looks like he'd play Sarr's role in our system, so unless Sarr is dropping back to be a DM there's a potential playing time issue there Ironically he'd cook under Poch in the Dembele role
It’s only his injury issues that concern me, outside of that he’s mustard. One of the best players outside of those at the big six in my opinion. In that same category as the likes Olise, Eze, Bruno G, Watkins, Toney etc.
I think he’d be utilised further forward if he joined, not sure he’d be right for a CM role right now but with Son, Werner, Solomon, Kulu and Johnson, there’s already a lot of competition for those spots and that’s not forgetting the likes of Moore hopefully getting game time too, plus the possibility of an instant impact (Neto?) type joining too which pushes others down in the pecking order. Another reason why it was so great to re-sign Werner
We also have his younger brother, Harry, who is supposed to be even better. Also 2 of Eddie's grandkids but they're a little too young to know owt about atm.
Kamada has completed his move to Palace, which extends his sequence of playing for sides that have a bird on their badge. Gamba Osaka, Eintracht Frankfurt, Sint-Truiden, Lazio, Palace and even his national team, Japan. Might free up Eze and possibly indicates we may be later in his sequence...
I agree. Very exciting to see all these young prospects arrive, but we desperately needed more experience in and around the team last year. We already have the third youngest squad in the PL, and would have been second youngest were it not for the fact that Forster is 103 years old. Our oldest outfield player is Son and he turns 32 this week. Apart from him and Davies (31), no one is over the age of 30. I think we felt that at times last season, in games where we just let the tempo slip away from us and had no one on the pitch with the wise old head needed to think our way back into the game.
I don’t know if you include development players usually but if you do, Charlie Sayers, Kieran Morgan, Billy Heaps and Han Willhoft-King were all released. Other than that all good, bud.
The following Academy players were also cut Charlie Sayers Han Willhoft-King Billy Heaps Kieran Morgan Technically the only two of note on that list are Sayers and Willhoft-King, Sayers as he was in the U21s and was tipped to step up a couple of times until he missed an absurd amount of time due to injury, while Willhoft-King is the latest example of the Grauniad's Next generation list being a millstone as he turned down a contract in spite turning 18 in January (so expect him to wind up somewhere PDQ)
Romano’s said we’re monitoring KWP but no bid or talks so far. Brighton have also enquired about him and West Ham are trying to do a swap with Flynn Downes heading the other way who was on loan at Southampton last season. It does feel like KWP would be a smart signing, he’s better than Emerson and more suited to Ange-ball, can cover both flanks and ticks the HG/ CG boxes too but it’s whether he’d want to return knowing he’s going to be a squad player considering he left us due to lack of game time in the first place.
