I agree; Huijsen - Madrid. Pedro - Chelsea. Elanga - overpriced. Mbuemo - Man Utd. Guehi - likely Liverpool. Last year Olise - Bayern. I think there's justifiable frustration about the ridiculous 'obviousness' of the players Howe allegedly wants. Accusations of pissing about, however, are clearly wrong. Bigger clubs with bigger wage structures are clearly going to win. I'm a broken record on this, but quite why or how we haven't signed someone like Simons, Scalvini, Bakayoko, David, Akliouche, Adeyemi, Moukoko, Reyna, Vlahovic, Almada, Alexsandro, etc., is strange. These guys are the same level as the likes of Bruno, Botman, Isak. There's a risk aversion that makes us currently look very limited. But we'll see how it unfolds, the next fortnight will be very telling.
I mean, clearly ****ing not! I'd be happy for any one of Palmer, Pedro, Neto, Madueke, George, Guiu, Fofana, Delap and Estevao.
No bargains from Villa - they've agreed to sell their women's team to themselves for £55m. This is a woman's team that has one honour to its' name and is less than 30 years old. For context, Sheffield Wednesday are currently valued at £40m. What a ****ing mess football is.
Eh? Joao Pedro, Neto, Madueke and Delap are all better than Barnes (IMO). The others are young with a lot of potential.
Neto and Madueke aren't. Delap plays a different position and had 1 more g/a than Barnes despite playing now games and Barnes being a sub first half of season
Shelvey is available on a free at the minute. Might be a canny shout. Knows the club. loves the club and could do a decent job as cover for tired legs.
NUFC transfer dealings are about as predictable as they come at the moment and the outcomes as well. When the Cartel can throw longer contracts on higher wages with bigger fees and not really care if they recruitment is a success or not, NUFC are wasting their time. Go aboard or pick up young talent in the UK lower leagues. Chasing established PL players is just mental. Can't understand our approach at all.
Sick of hearing about PSR now. Villa sell their womens team to a holding company. We on the other hand do jack ****. Hate to say it but since Staveley left we have become a joke behind the scenes. Eales is a charlatan.
Yep has to be said I was way off, thought replacing Staveley was a logical step but it’s had the absolute opposite effect. Everything is ludicrously slow paced and one dimensional. Felt like Staveley could get quick answers from Saudi whereas Eales feels like he doesn’t even know his bosses. Hes been a ****ing abysmal appointment by all accounts and here we are some 9 months into finding a replacement and absolutely nowhere near doing so. We’re woefully understaffed and mismanaged at C level.
Why would we sell the women's team? We don't need to and Chelsea did it after we had to sell players, so it's not like it was available last year either.
Igor Jesus getting rave reviews and the Club WC, Forest look like gettting him for under £20m. Why are we just nowhere near these kind of deals? Wish someone, somewhere could tell us what’s going on.
You lot are all ****ing nuts. Absolutely off your tits, chucking accusations about willy nilly. Everything has to be authorised by PIF in Saudi, and it's them who are notoriously slow. If you have a problem, take it up with them rather than the club and expect an answer back along the lines of "**** off you ungrateful moaning bastards"