went with xhaka as he is pretty much the glue in the team, he keeps them all together while not wanting to be 'the headline' but cannot wait for his first goal. really can not choose between them to be honest but i feel he just shades it.
Xhaka for me, that was a statement signing. A player like that doesn't sign for a newly promoted club unless we mean business.
Xhaka because he feels like a more important signing than the player itself. The two centre backs and potentially the keeper close behind.
Xhaka is the obvious one for all the reasons above. I've voted for Le Fee though as a nod to his quality - stepped the team up a couple of skill levels and just has magic in his feet.
talksport sport were saying yesterday that other than the blunder against Villa, Roefs has been the stand out keeper. And I'm sure I heard Walcott say everyone was "angry" when Granit came to Sunderland on match of the day 2 the other night. Big Sam hit the nail on the head when he Said that because when newly promoted teams have been ****e and went straight back down, the West Hams of the world have seemingly thought "ah, we'll be fine". Sam said Burnley Leeds and especially Sunderland have shown better recruitment and up to now its showing. Personally I'm glad we could possibly play a part in one of the stale teams that just hang around like a bad smell in the Premier league for years getting away with being ****e because the newer teams haven't been equipped enough, drop out the leauge..Long way to go, but when pundits are saying that we don't look out of place, it's looking good. Oh, and no new signing still haven't scored for us. Pathetic.... lol
I've thought the same tbh, you saw it last season with Spurs in 17th and Man Utd in 15th but being easily safe by March. Some of these teams, notably West Ham, Brentford and Wolves look complacent, like they don't need to be that good to stay up comfortably. Well it looks like it might be different this season.
£10m?! . Eh?? I don't keep up well enough. But £10m??? That is mental mind. I think we could be in some sort of trouble here. Nicking players of his quality for that kind of cash looks shady. And he's not the only one at all. I think we've had the heavies in. We'll be hearing from Interpol .
Roefs and Alderete looks to be very cheap for what we have got. With Roefs i think the price €10.5 million was probably fair due to league he was coming from but with Alderete even their chairman was complaining that they had to sell him cheap as they needed funds to be able to even register a team or summit!
I know we're all on the same page regarding new signings but the recruitment department has been absolutely spot on. We all rave about Xhaka, the experience he has and his be transmits that to the rest of the team, other signings that we and other "experts" haven't heard of but are shining lights. We are so lucky this season. It may be far too early but I have no doubt that we can avoid relegation this season with the team we have now
