According to the EDP, we've gone back in for Brady with a bid of £6M. I hope Hull turn it down, that's just stupid money! Let Bruce end up with egg on his face, payback for the disgraceful manner of his engineered move to Man Ure!
It depends on who you believe, Dave. The £6m is reported by the Mirror, while Sky Sports are saying it was £3.5m. The latter seems more believable to me.
Agreed, there is also no way anyone would bid more than 3x the transfermarkt asset value for any player.
Not at all, come on you honestly think £9 million is fair? Like others have said probably pay back for making you over pay for Snodgrass.
£9m is slightly above his true value but we don't need or want to sell him so it's probably what he'll cost. He's a 7 or 8 million player any day, genuinely quality, young, experienced and very versatile. If he played for someone like Villa or Swansea no one would think that price excessive.
6 million I would say is fair, but I guess you put on the high price tag to discourage clubs going in for him. No matter what club he played for, I would still consider it too high.
Larrivey is an interesting move. 11 goals for a team who only scored 47 isn't a bad return at all, and much as you can debate the relative merits of la liga versus the Prem, we wouldn't sign a striker who scored that many in the championship for £2m. Whilst you can argue about playing time, Grabban and Hooper did comparably in the championship and both cost us more. In terms of playing style, Whoscored reckon he's very strong in the air and likes to bring others into play with knock downs and flick ons. He also played as a lone striker for most of last season. To me, he sounds like a good understudy/competition for Jerome, and fits our system better than any other striker we've currently got. 30 is older than I'd like, but if his game doesn't rely on pace that's less of a concern, and he had the fitness to regularly play 90mins last season. He might lack resale value, but at that price surely he's worth a punt? Wasn't Michu 29 when Swansea plucked him from relative obscurity in Spain?
I'm also intriqued by the Larrivey development DH. He had 11 goals in 26 starts and 9 sub appearances at Celta Vigo, which isn't bad for La Liga. I think you're right about him being another option for the Jerome role either as cover or to come on as sub. His age is my main concern, as he'll be 31 on the 20th of August, but then if he isn't starting every game that might not be such a problem and it would leave more money for strengthening elsewhere. Michu is 29 now, though, so he was plucked at 26.
While we look at possible comings and goings, there is also the issue of our developing youth players. Josh Murphy is obviously the closest one to a breakthrough, but this interview with Harry Toffolo makes a good read: http://tbrfootball.com/exclusive-interview-with-norwich-citys-harry-toffolo/?
He could certainly be one to watch. I wonder if apart from him and the Murphy twins anyone will make it to be part of our first team squad from the FA Youth Cup winners???
Larrivey is certainly not going to put up with any rubbish from the opposition. He's all these rolled into one
Presumably there's a more accurate subscriber version of it for people using it "professionally" whereas us plebs get the order info. I don't know either way I'm just guessing but wouldn't surprise me.
Nice one JK. An even clearer indication of his play through the interaction with his attacking partners. He does look well cut out for AN's system of play.
Not impressed Gandy? Slight concern how few goals came from his feet during open play in those clips, but he did use the ball well at times, and certainly bullies defenders. Even as a squad option, he's good cover for Jerome and I can't imagine tiring defences being happy to see him come off the bench. Still wouldn't be surprised to see another striker come in though, should some leave.
IMO, in AN's approach, the lone striker is a target man to hold up the ball and lay it off to midfielders coming into the box. For that reason he's looking for certain qualities of team-work and interplay which the standard English CF seldom has. Jerome is an exception in that he fits that approach well. Rhodes and Gestede, for example would not, IMO. Neither would RvW, sadly. Larrivey would fit it well and like Jerome and Holt, he has the ability to hassle defenders as well. Lafferty's weakness seems to be heading the ball, which is a crucial part of this approach. Hooper and Grabban offer alternative qualities as they showed in tandem yesterday, but we need another Jerome type player and that's why I see Larrivey as a good signing.
