It's usually the player and his agent trying to squeeze a few more quid out of the deal.by playing clubs off eachother.
Villa are basically waiting for someone to come in with a permanent bid that’s too good to turn down in my opinion. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been quietly confident as I suspect with our relationship with Villa we’ve maybe tabled a Philogene style offer
I wonder if we should see any of the new signings play before writing them off? No, you're right, crazy talk. I'll get me coat.
I’m quite happy to get Amrabat. Is he going to tear up the league at 37? Probably not. Is the ball going to balloon off of his shin and out of touch 50% off the times like with the existing alternatives? Also probably not.
That's true and my hope was that his footballing skills would improve as he was young and had a good base to work with given his athleticism. His end product seems to have improved as he's scoring goals and getting assists.
Team lower in the table. Pedro won’t be displaced. He’s a tireless runner who can score, also got decent creative numbers as a striker too. Will be learning from one of Europes former best
yea it is stupid similar to palace with the guy who went to sheff u he spent all last season doing nothing these 'big' clubs really mess around youngsters, you could say the same about morton barry will eventually go to a club before the window closes, im sure we still want him, but we are being proactive instead of putting all our eggs in one basket
What kind of stricker do you get for £2m these days hopefully one that can hit a bus on a bandstand with a biscuit barrel and score some gola’s.
I think Joseph will be signed as more of a team player rather than someone expected to grab all the goals. Someone who will work hard and help create situations that result in others scoring goals as well as him.
We’re signing or being linked with a lot of these types of players though. Forward players who work hard but not prolific. Gelhardt and Amrabat for example are not prolific. After the absolute **** show that was the summer transfer window, you’d expect a goal-scoring number 9 to be the priority. If we want hard-working forwards who rarely score or create, we may as well keep Longman. I would prefer someone like Richard Kone at Wycombe if we’re spending millions on a League One forward.
Seems like a smart signing imo. Covers more ground than any ST in the league, whilst also managing 8 in 24 starts for a team towards the bottom end. What I also like is that of his 8 goals 4 have been with his head, 2 left foot, 2 right foot, so he’s fairly well rounded. Only just turned 23 so will hopefully improve as well
That’s fine but when do we buy the striker to sore the goals. Last season proves the point, all these 10’s and creative positions but we ended up playing without a striker some games. im not having a dig at Acun but it was the position he wouldn’t take risks on….but here we are again
If you add in assists he's virtually a goal contribution every other game this season. It may be a league below in a struggling side but I don't see how that's a player without end product as some seem to be dismissing him as.
“Virtually” isn’t goals though orange I’m saying we have/had these players, we need someone to do the last bit and put the ball in the net
Before I say this I agree with you I would rather go for Kone. The problem is with these number 9’s is that they’re in real short supply. It seems that to combat that managers like Selles are doing what he’s doing with Pedro. Using them in build up and hoping goals come from wingers and midfielders. To that note I wouldn’t mind testing Preston’s resolve on Riis. He’s out of contract in the summer and I’ve always felt he’s better than what he gets there
