Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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My memory's terrible - but I remember him being great.

Just had a quick look - PFA Young Player of the Year two years running and in 2018, the Swiss based International Centre for Sports Studies rated him as the most expensive midfielder in the world.

But apart from that, he was ****e.

Yeah but what's he ever achieved?
 
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Elementary My Dear Watson, Alfred means of course Alfred Gelder, architect supreme in Hull.
So Holmes, the player is a footballing architect?
Precisely Watson, a person who can create mental structures on the field of play.
Interesting Holmes, but perhaps it is more a reference to a player currently lurking about Alfred Gelder Street.
You might be onto something Watson, yes indeed, a reference to a location rather than a man - Watson, be damned, you do surprise me at times.
You're full of s..t Holmes.
 
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I hope for Dele Alli's sake that it is nonsense!!!

For a lad who's had sexual abuse dished out on him during his childhood,I think it best he's kept as far away from short sighted ignorance and the general lack of understanding from one of two posters on here..

Never judge an Indian till you've walked for 2 moons in his moccasins...
 
Only ever had pace, his decision making and final pass has always been poor. He’s lost his pace, so is now just a very ordinary player.

I don't think that was ever true. I think because he was famously fast it became easy to say he was crap at everything else, that's always the stereotype with really fast players. He scored some good goals in his day and was a decent crosser.
 
I don't think that was ever true. I think because he was famously fast it became easy to say he was crap at everything else, that's always the stereotype with really fast players. He scored some good goals in his day and was a decent crosser.

Scored some good goals but missed some better ones :emoticon-0100-smile.

I still think his decision making was poor, only eclipsed by Raheem Sterling. When it came to giving out football brains he was at the back of the queue!
 
I don't think that was ever true. I think because he was famously fast it became easy to say he was crap at everything else, that's always the stereotype with really fast players. He scored some good goals in his day and was a decent crosser.
I'd agree with that, if judging by the standards of internationals and top of the Prem, but that's not where we are. I always thought |Walcott was best when he had no time to think about a cross or pass, if he had time to think he was more likely to mess it up.