Transfer Rumours January Transfer Thread

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PLT said:
It shouldn't be. This is what puzzles me. He's seen outside of Hull as a serious attacking talent who we did extremely well to land, and his 7 goal involvements to date shows he's not just a workhorse.

I agree with your point that being on the wing shouldn't be an excuse for him, but I don't think he's been bad there. He's not an explosive winger, but that isn't the only type of wide player that can be valuable, and like a lot of things, I'm sure people used to accept that much more readily than people do now.
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He looked much better on the wing with Vinagre overlapping him, the one time they played that side together vs Leicester they were great together. I think he’s almost been stitched up in a way playing out there by and large with Coyle playing behind him in a similar fashion or Greaves who does play the full back role like a centre half playing full back. It leaves him with a lot to do and not much to work with.
 
NewcastleTiger said:
He’s a creative midfielder and the main thing he’s praised for is work rate. I watched him a fair bit at Mk Dons and know what he’s capable of. That often involved being in wide areas where he finds himself a lot for us. He’s not going to start ahead of Tufan centrally, Tufan has better passing range, physicality and finishing ability. So if he can’t contribute from the area of the pitch by which he’s only going to get minutes playing in, what’s the point?

Also I don’t think we have a single lazy player on our books at the minute apart from maybe Lokilo everyone seems willing to wear their heart on their sleeves for us so it’s hardly a good selling point for him.
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I think once the balance of the team is right, Twine will be able to show his quality, to me it feels like he’s not able to focus on what’s he’s really good at because he’s compensating for what’s missing in the rest of the 11. Add in that we’re going through a rough patch at the moment which isn’t helping, I think he’ll come good.
 
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NewcastleTiger said:
People keep bringing this up like he didn’t follow up with a goal in his next appearance. We waited half the season for Twine to do that.
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That's an odd, abstract way of comparing their goal records to find a way of stacking it against Twine, given that Twine has twice as many goals, and 3 assists to Traore's 0.
 
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NewcastleTiger said:
People keep bringing this up like he didn’t follow up with a goal in his next appearance. We waited half the season for Twine to do that.
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I brought it up as it was a horrendous miss - but credit to him for bouncing back and scoring at Stoke. However, for me he is something of a luxury player and not someone who is going to take a game by the scuff of the neck and dominate the opposition midfield. In the pecking order I'd put him behind Carvalho, Tufan and Twine.
 
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