£25m??! Bloody hell. I thought maybe £10m+. At this rate the Scouser a will make a profit this summer! Justin is a decent player mind. Comfortable on both sides too. Good signing that .
Cesc will have qualified as he came at about 16 I think. Mayenda might be borderline but I think he might just miss out on homegrown status. We do need to be careful, and of course the club will be. Going into this season there is around 12 that qualify I think. Some of them will be away. I posted some analysis a couple of days ago about it. If Neil goes our 8 becomes hard to find, or rather we have 1 or 2 in the 25 that really are fillers. Not too bad due to the number of u21s we have.
Some people have expressed concerns about Onions defending in the box, then there are others talking about these like this, then there are the new rules for the new season . . . . Scary, isn't it . . . . for all teams, who will have to 'adjust'
Aye. And would just crown it all. Play wide or 10, English, value could rocket. It’s such a textbook signing
Eli just misses that line I think. A lot going on, but a lot needed to. I too would have liked to see a couple more "English" lads brought in. Then, today Ben Doak is said to be going to Liverpool for £25m! He looked canny at Boro mind, but he has barely had a game for Liverpool, had an injury, and isn't 20 yet. English tax if ever it existed that. Abringa had played fifty plus PL games, scored a dozen goals, is not a lot older and cost £5m less. I'd have liked to see Doak here actually, though I know he is Scottish, but the " tax" thing I think also applies to an assumed familiarity with the game here, the language etc. But, £25m?
I can see loads of corners given in the first two weeks and it’ll be forgotten about after the 1st international break. Just like the 10/15 min worth of stoppage time after the World Cup
If I was in charge it’d be loan with pre agreed option to buy. Not sure what his current contract is?
£40 million and i think they would sell, dont think wages would be an issue. Get on the blower to the club
I still think we have one more big one in us The keeper, CB, CF and now RB have been smart ‘cheap’ buys. There’s room to manoeuvre for another CB and a forward of some kind Exciting couple weeks ahead.
