Absolutely not, Yamal is obviously exceptional, I don’t think it would be fair to thrust an 18 year old striker into this side and expect them to be able to cope with the demands of this league and fire us to promotion, I don’t think we will do that for what’s it worth either mind
I think you have to look at if the club would be in a better place after reinvesting the incoming transfer fee, so £5m for Ekwah after West Ham take their cut would be in the £3-4m range, I wouldn't accept that. Hume for £7m i'm not sure if Linfield have a sell on, if they don't I think I would take that. Clarke for £15m, if we got all of that money i'd be tempted, Spurs take a cut though so i'd want it to be higher. The lack of reported interest in our players, especially Clarke, has surprised me though. Think i've only seen one Neil link as well.
Not saying they should be the only one we need 2 but if he’s got a season in British football and would be competitive why not have him and Mayenda ready to step in. I know literally nothing about him btw just think ruling out immediately through age is daft.
Weird when people try and use an exceptional case as if it’s the norm. Barring Williams, Yamal was the only player in the Spain Xl under the age of 26. How many of our best Xl last season were 26 or older?
Don’t mind the back up being a youngun at all but we all know the main man should be an experience head, can’t wait for the window to shut to be honest so we can just get on with the season
Christ it's quiet. Feels like nowt will happen until the last couple of days of the window. I hope to God Speakman and co know what they are doing...
With the prem starting this weekend we'll have a better view as to who is available to us for this loan we're after.
Tbf to city they are pretty good at developing players and getting them 1st team minutes They develop n sell players for huge sums of money, think they sold at least 1 academy player for approx 20 million last few yrs
It’s also a matter of opportunity I think. If you’re gonna sit on a bench or in the stands you might as well make it the bench of the best club you can. Don’t think many of our fanbase would have wanted him being a starter at safc this season so why choose us over clubs with much higher standing? In a similar vein, it’s why it’s so important that we give chances to promising young players to actually play - and accept the ups and downs of form from a fledgling career. Otherwise they might as well earn more elsewhere for the same amount of time on the pitch.
Only two weeks left, this summer has flown by. Maybe we are just waiting to sell ekwah, we aren’t too far off and I hope they give RLB what he needs.
