Sounds like a plan. Two such players is a must if we lose Mane and Tadic, and Vilhena's not likely to walk into the first team straightaway.
To be fair he's only come on as sub recently so that's all we've got to go on. Not enough difference to get over excited about either way.
I would hope Reed gets brought into the first team. So we have: DM: Clasie Romeu Reed Then if we are really stuck Davis/Prowse. Vilhena isn't that kind of player.
He's a long way from a midfield destroyer. Advanced central mid rather than an out-and-out number 10 at the moment, but probably will evolve into a one-way attacking mid.
I didnt think anyone was brilliant against Leicester, Forster excepted. I cant say that Clasie has been that brilliant all season. Solid on occasion but a lot less than spectacular. Cant say that I knew what to expect from him but what we have from him seems to be in the Steve Davis mould. Workman like, effective but not likely to change a game and less likely to bag a goal. We aren't short of that in midfield. Ward Prowse can change a game. I'm not saying that he does it often but he can. And when he rolls up his sleeves and gets stuck in he can do a workmanlike shift. We really need players who can turn a game around because for me this season we have turned into grinders, we do the same things over and over and over with the same result. We're hard to beat but we dont seem able to beat anyone either. I'm generalising hugely but thats my overall impression this season.
Yeah, he could be a good long-term fit for the role Davis plays now. And he was once talked about as a DM; I can't really remember much if anything about where he played when he first broke through, though, so whether it was Wanyama-style DM or a deep playmaker people saw in him I haven't the foggiest.
Whether it is 1 in 1 out depends on how Ron wants to play next season as well. 3 years is enough time to make the team pretty much all players you want, and of course he will have learnt and developed in that time too. Could be fun. The main thing I want to know about anyone we sign is "are they fit enough to start 35 games". A quick look at Leicester and Tottenham suggests that those kind of players might be quite useful. edit: also not likely to get 3 red cards in a season is useful
Payet is apparently on 93K at West Ham; his demands would have ruled us out. Came across it other day flicking through this; wages in relation to goals of attacking players in the PL. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/photos/...ry-kane-scored-22nd-goal-photo-002700080.html 45/56 -Graziano Pelle Goals: 9 Weekly wage: £35k Cost per goal: £132,22 Minutes played: 1,949 38/56- Shane Long Goals: 7 Weekly wage: £40k Cost per goal: £194,286 Minutes played: 1,617 26/56- Dusan Tadic Goals: 6 Weekly wage: £49.5k Cost per goal: £280,500 Minutes played: 1,784 21/56- Sadio Mane Goals: 5 Weekly wage: £54k Cost per goal: £367,200 Minutes played: 2,163
I believe he was signed on a deal where they pay Marseille £10k per game. Or him. Or something like that.
Bizarre, and it was already a strange deal in my eyes. Marseille signed him e11m (where in his final season he made more successful through-balls than any other player in Europe, with the exception of Lionel Messi) sold him to a PL club for "just" £10m, where signs he a 5 year deal; which is boosted to a 6 year deal the following Feb, a month away from his 29 birthday. Ah, it seems it was amended to come inline with what the Chinese club offered him in January, in length of contract and money. DP's weekly wage amounting to 125k, just shy of Shanghai Shengua's 135k. He was originally on 63k. Now, it's a shame there wasn't another 75k... who signed the petition for a public inquiry into the West Ham & LLDC deal for rental of the Olympic Stadium.
