some lad on twitter convinced it's origi....can't imagine we could afford the wages of someone like that tbh
Gk is definetely Bayindir. It's been a while we brought in Fenerbahce player, need to fill that checkbox.
The thing about Origi for me, I’ve never rated him as a striker. Even when he was tipped to be the next big thing or when Liverpool loved him, I’ve always felt sure he wasn’t a natural goalscorer. His career goals went on to prove me correct. Having said that, at this level, I’d expect him to be decent. Of all the names mentioned, I wish it was Tammy Abraham. Not a chance of that one though. I think I just read West Ham were in for him.
Origi one of them that looks “serious” on paper. But id seriously question his motivation for playing if he dropped to us
Champions League winner chat is absolutely pointless and so is the Ings one. The striker in question would cost serious £ according to Baz.
Something I'd forgotten until just now is that Baz has said a few times that Walter wants a fast striker in the mold of Ollie Watkins. His name has been mentioned a few times as an example of the style he wants. So presumably the striker we're still after will be that one? Unless Burstow is considered to be that type?
Never mind then! He looked taller than I expected the other day, and he occupied the box better than a "he runs a lot" type of striker usually does, perhaps a specific Walter instruction. It made me think of him more as a target man type but I haven't seen enough to know either way.
I just mean in the sense that he's quite a quick, pacey striker. Not ready to go - although the chance he created on the weekend looked good - I think if we're bringing in another striker along with Bedia then Burstow should maybe go on loan in January.
One of things I picked up on from Baz on his podcast was that he said we’re trying to sign this mystery third keeper because he became available and we couldn’t pass up the chance to sign him. It all just seems like a little kid who natters his mum for a toy, she gets him it and then five minutes later they pass another shop and he sees something better and he natters for that as well. I think we have two very highly-rated keepers in Pandur and Racioppi and now neither will get much of a sniff as this new guy sounds like he’s coming in as a nailed-on starter. If nothing else, it shows a serious lack of faith in two decent keepers that we’ve signed only in the last eight months.
As Chelsea were taken over at a similar time as us, I haven't been able to resist drawing parallels between the way the two clubs have been run. Chelsea signed KDH at the start of the window and they've already basically rendered him redundant within the same window with Felix signing along with others. Similar here with Pandur signing 8 months ago already being made redundant. Omur signed 8 months ago, is he Best XI now? If neither of those two make our XI, then not a single player signed in the previous two windows is in our best XI, which is just terrible business, putting aside the Philogene fee.
I agree, spending seven-figure fees on 2 keepers in the last 6 months only to bring in a loan keeper seems odd. Seven figures is still a lot of money for us. We're just too PR focussed, and we lack that cuteness in the window. I think for the long term this summer will be very good, but there's a real shortage of players who have come in that you could count on hitting the ground running. Many players will need time to settle/get used to the level, learn the language, bulk up, etc. It's a bit of a place to be in. I do worry about the scouting of certain players too, like how much do we actually know about some of them
I think Brighton are a good example of a club getting it right regarding keepers. They have Verbruggen and Steele competing for the starting spot and then they have keepers they send out on loan like Rushworth and Scherpen plus any under-21 keepers. No club needs three first-team keepers competing for the same spot at any given time, especially one that is already out of one cup competition. Man City have Ederson, Ortega and Carson (who never plays and is quite happy to never play). We just seem to sign players if they’re available and if we can and not if we need them. It’s why last season we ended up playing #10s on each wing for large parts. We required a huge squad rebuild this summer but the keeper and centre-half situation, in my opinion, has been sorted already and signing a third keeper and Cooper just seems pointless.
If we really wanted a senior third keeper we should have just held onto Ingram for another year, loaned out TLT etc. and then next summer either sell one of Pandur/Racioppi and promote TLT, sell TLT, and/or release Ingram so we still have three keepers. I questioned this when we signed TLT and got pelters but I just didn't understand the point of it. Stockpiling young keepers is one of the weirder positions to do it as keepers can play at their peak for so long so in theory Pandur would have been signed with the intention of being our number one for a decade. We were linked to Mannone earlier in the window, he's another that would make sense as coming in as a cheap third keeper.
