Yes but he's left footed. Wissa is right footed and often played on the left. Frank is as much a fan of inverted wingers as every other manager nowadays.
AS claim that Atleti have dropped their pursuit of Cuti and are moving on to different targets Just a reminder, at no point of this "pursuit" did they actually make us an offer
Looks like Cuti is really excited to stay please log in to view this image ...oh wait, that's one of the handlebars
Delighted with the Kudus signing, exciting and unpredictable and we desperately needed a forward that can dribble and take players on, especially against opponents that sit back against us. Kudus excels at this and hopefully we get the Kudus from his Ajax days and first season at West Ham not the one that down tools last season. Rumours circulating that we really want Hutchinson from Ipswich too. Very good young player , had a great U21 tournament and plays LW / AM Wissa linked too and he would be a very good signing but can’t see Brentford selling him and Mbuemo. If we bring in another attacker then would mean Son or Richarlison would surely be off.
What’s your honest views on him as a player? I’ve been reading through KUMB the last day or two. Outside of the obvious annoyance at who he’s joining, there’s a sort of split opinion from your lot with some being disappointed to be losing him and others loving the fact you’re making a profit on him. My view of what I’ve seen is that he’s seriously talented but massively inconsistent.
Hard to say, his attitude stank all season, he made the wrong decision far too often, and when teams put 2 defenders on him (which they did once they'd worked him out) he was ****ed and would just run into them. Against bigger clubs that attack he looks good.
So as it stands we need a minimum of three more players now - Another attacker with the likelihood that Son or Richarlison leaves, cover at LB and a defensive ball playing CM . it seems likely that Romero stays but if that changes then he would also have to be replaced. If we could keep Romero and Sonny and get Wissa, Robinson and Douglas Luiz that would be a great transfer window for me.
Not convinced we get Eze considering we're probably going to spend £120m+ on Gyokeres and Madueke (lol) and haven't made any significant sales yet. Also, no chance Palace accept less than the £68m release clause for Eze, and we seem to be determined to not pay that. Additionally, if we get Eze, I don't know what happens with Nwaneri - whose best position is as an 8/10, and he still hasn't agreed a new contract yet. Do we loan him out? Does that just kick the can down the road? We're very active in this window and a lot is going on, but there's still a lot of question marks over some of the players we're after. I know we didn't spend much last Summer (I think our net spend was +ve), but I'm not sure how we afford it all or make it work without 1 or 2 significant sales. And I haven't seen any first-team players (i.e. Zinchenko, Trossard, Martinelli etc) linked with any concrete moves away.
IIRC we were linked with Kudus when Conte was around Can't think what possible roadblock there was to the signing then...
You're doing some haggling with Palace. The club bean counters may have actually determined that the above price is tolerable (should it come to that) .
Sell your car park to Chelsea. They pay with Green Shield Stamps. Then they buy one of your players for £100 million on a thousand year contract, with nothing payable for 50 years. All the income counts this year, the expenditure is deferred.
There's rumours that Kudus either put in a transfer request or was threatening to put in a transfer request, hence the sudden increase in movement yesterday
I think the Kudus deal is rather astute. Just the type of player that we have been demanding over the past few years. Hopefully he can work on his attitude as we haven’t had a destabilising personality in the squad for some time.
So what will our players achieve in the league next season do you think? Will we improve from close to relegation? Is Levy sitting on his hands as usual? Can you imagine? Spurs v PSG? I love 'em both but ....we'll be killed!!!!!?
