..there have been a few recent rumours suggesting Leicester have joined us in the race to sign the player.
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..there have been a few recent rumours suggesting Leicester have joined us in the race to sign the player.
That's a massive sandwich to be fair.
..hopefully Mrs Zyich.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Can't argue with your response or that of maccavennie.
Thing is that we always seem to get dumped on whenever we try and build a team around our better players.
Until we can be considered as genuine and regular contenders for the top four places we won't attract the really good players.
But we need the really good players to become that team.
Catch 22.
Totally agree.
I think he is a very good player and could do very well with us.
We hope that over the next couple of seasons we will be fighting hard for a CL place, if we succeed then we can fulfil the players ambitions,
But, if he does well for us then the very least we should do is get our money back on him if he decides that he wants to leave.
Sandro(10m), Keane(25m), Bathsuayi(35m), Pickford(15m), Klaasen(20m)....if these were to happen , it would be some serious business and probably for not much more than 20m more than we get for Lukaku
I heard she can play centre back and cover for left back as well.
Yeah, that's the difficult part of being ambitious when lightyears away from the top teams. We'll have to do it the Tottenham way. Imo that's the only way we can get where we want to be.
Add Gylfi and another cb and that would be some decent incomings imo
ijjysmith
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Hes magic you knowwww
5foot bloody 3, I didnt even know they shipped humans in that size.
Imagine the blood
http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/new...-stands-tall-among-german-giants-2885016.html
A mere 5'2 tall, he had to crane his neck to look up at Germany’s towering defenders, who stood an average eight inches taller than him. Yet what he lacks in physical stature, Manzanita ('Little Apple') more than makes up for with his devilish talent, as he proved by giving the German rearguard a torrid 90 minutes.
"They were all pretty tall, but I like being small because it makes it harder for them to get a hold of me," the Venezuela No10 told FIFA.com after starring in his side’s comprehensive 2-0 win in their opening match at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017.
Though Soteldo did not get on the scoresheet, he drove his markers to distraction from his withdrawn position just behind the strikers, not least in the second half.
"It’s hard for them to stop me there," he said. "I like to be facing the goal when I get on the ball. It makes it much harder for them to get their hands on me than when I have my back to goal."
Soteldo found it hard to make much of an impact in the first half, mainly because of the suffocating heat, with temperatures feeling distinctly higher than the 28ºC on the thermometer. "The weather didn’t help me much. I felt very tired," he explained. "Whenever I got on the ball, I had two or three around me and I didn’t even have time to think. We had a chat at half-time, I freshened up for the second half and things worked out better for us."
Though Soteldo usually operates down the flanks – mainly the left on account of being left-footed – Venezuela coach Rafael Dudamel and Miguel Ponce, his coach at the Chilean club Huachipato, have been deploying him in a more central role. The idea is to minimise the physical disadvantage he normally faces by giving him shorter distances to cover. It is a switch that has made him a real threat to opposing defences.
"I come from a very dangerous part of town, but luckily football saved me from a life of crime."
"He’s an explosive player, which makes him very hard to stop when he’s one on one against a defender," his national team coach told FIFA.com. "We’ve worked hard on teaching him how to play in the centre of the pitch, where he can link up more and get the team playing. He’s learning where he can take people on and where he can’t, and having him around makes us stronger as a whole."
The attacking midfielder is still striving for full match fitness after falling victim to a hefty challenge sustained in a Chilean league match a month ago, which almost caused him to miss the tournament. "I was crying when I went down because I was scared I wasn’t going to make the World Cup," he recalled. "Luckily God is great. He’s always with me and I was able to recover."
Missing out on the first major tournament of his career would have been a cruel blow for Soteldo, who has already represented his country on three occasions in the South American qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™. (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Also interesting that though he's clearly left-footed, he took the penalty in the video I linked here with his bloody right-foot!
A mere 5'2 tall, he had to crane his neck to look up at Germany’s towering defenders, who stood an average eight inches taller than him. Yet what he lacks in physical stature, Manzanita ('Little Apple') more than makes up for with his devilish talent, as he proved by giving the German rearguard a torrid 90 minutes.
"They were all pretty tall, but I like being small because it makes it harder for them to get a hold of me," the Venezuela No10 told FIFA.com after starring in his side’s comprehensive 2-0 win in their opening match at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017.
Though Soteldo did not get on the scoresheet, he drove his markers to distraction from his withdrawn position just behind the strikers, not least in the second half.
"It’s hard for them to stop me there," he said. "I like to be facing the goal when I get on the ball. It makes it much harder for them to get their hands on me than when I have my back to goal."
Soteldo found it hard to make much of an impact in the first half, mainly because of the suffocating heat, with temperatures feeling distinctly higher than the 28ºC on the thermometer. "The weather didn’t help me much. I felt very tired," he explained. "Whenever I got on the ball, I had two or three around me and I didn’t even have time to think. We had a chat at half-time, I freshened up for the second half and things worked out better for us."
Though Soteldo usually operates down the flanks – mainly the left on account of being left-footed – Venezuela coach Rafael Dudamel and Miguel Ponce, his coach at the Chilean club Huachipato, have been deploying him in a more central role. The idea is to minimise the physical disadvantage he normally faces by giving him shorter distances to cover. It is a switch that has made him a real threat to opposing defences.
"I come from a very dangerous part of town, but luckily football saved me from a life of crime."
"He’s an explosive player, which makes him very hard to stop when he’s one on one against a defender," his national team coach told FIFA.com. "We’ve worked hard on teaching him how to play in the centre of the pitch, where he can link up more and get the team playing. He’s learning where he can take people on and where he can’t, and having him around makes us stronger as a whole."
The attacking midfielder is still striving for full match fitness after falling victim to a hefty challenge sustained in a Chilean league match a month ago, which almost caused him to miss the tournament. "I was crying when I went down because I was scared I wasn’t going to make the World Cup," he recalled. "Luckily God is great. He’s always with me and I was able to recover."
Missing out on the first major tournament of his career would have been a cruel blow for Soteldo, who has already represented his country on three occasions in the South American qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™. (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Also interesting that though he's clearly left-footed, he took the penalty in the video I linked here with his bloody right-foot!
ijjysmith
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Can't believe he wasn't in Watford's first team after seeing him today. He's about 89 times the player Tom Cleverley will ever be already.
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