trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
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All I know is with this window, the squad's average nob length has trebled.
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n01efc
Player Valuation: £20m
Why is the world ending?!!!
aglee
Player Valuation: £8m
Would that look like this...
--------------Kean--------DCL----------------
Iwobi---------------Iceland------------Richy
-----------Gomes------------Delph-----------
Bernard-----------Gbamin----------Walcott
----------------------------------------------------
---------------------Pickford--------------------
How are you these days Mr Keegan?
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Pros
Average age of the squad reduced.
Genuine cover at right back
Resigning Gomes
Centre forward with genuine promise secured.
Cons
Weaker at centre half.
Losing our best midfielder.
Not securing two of our most prominent targets (zouma and zaha)
Average age of the squad reduced.
Genuine cover at right back
Resigning Gomes
Centre forward with genuine promise secured.
Cons
Weaker at centre half.
Losing our best midfielder.
Not securing two of our most prominent targets (zouma and zaha)
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Two very influential players have left (zouma and Gana) it’s how we cope without them, will determine if this window was successful.
I was obviously referring to our midfield and attacking options, but I can handle a few 10-10 draws.
ijjysmith
Calm
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Quite happy with this window as we have got players in and it has shown that Brands knows it's better to walk away empty-handed than to spend for the sake of it. The money we haven't blew caving in over the likes of Rojo and Zaha is now there to go towards the right player at the right price when the opportunity arrives.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
Pulling Iwobi out of the bag at the last moment probably more than compensates for Lookman leaving. Having Kean in attack is a big plus. Sidibe should offer better cover for Coleman than Kenny did. Delph should offer experience, versatility and give us extra options in midfield.
They're the positives
We've signed Gbamin to replace Gueye. It's impossible to know how this will work out and whether we will be better or worse off for it. Given Gueye was probably one of our most important players, it's probably understandable to be slightly nervous about this.
That's probably a neutral one
The major negative is the centre of defence. We are left with a central partnership of Mina and Keane, neither of whom have any real pace and this could be an issue in itself. On top of that Mina had lots of injury issues last year. Once you get past those two, you have Holgate who has never really convinced, Gibson (who by Silva's own admission isn't ready for this level yet) and possibly the untested Gbamin playing there in an emergency.
That centre of defence worries me a lot and it's the glaring weakness.
There are more positives than there are negatives, but I think we are all going to have to cut Silva some slack if we have defensive issues between now and January because he's been let down pretty badly on this front.
They're the positives
We've signed Gbamin to replace Gueye. It's impossible to know how this will work out and whether we will be better or worse off for it. Given Gueye was probably one of our most important players, it's probably understandable to be slightly nervous about this.
That's probably a neutral one
The major negative is the centre of defence. We are left with a central partnership of Mina and Keane, neither of whom have any real pace and this could be an issue in itself. On top of that Mina had lots of injury issues last year. Once you get past those two, you have Holgate who has never really convinced, Gibson (who by Silva's own admission isn't ready for this level yet) and possibly the untested Gbamin playing there in an emergency.
That centre of defence worries me a lot and it's the glaring weakness.
There are more positives than there are negatives, but I think we are all going to have to cut Silva some slack if we have defensive issues between now and January because he's been let down pretty badly on this front.
Diogenes the Cynic
Player Valuation: £40m
Both Mina and Keane will be injured or suspended at the same time for at least one of the derby matches this year.
Vault me.
Vault me.
Was bordering on giving it a 2/10 but then we didn’t sign Marcos Rojo so it’s a 7/10.
Toffeeslam
Player Valuation: £35m
Apart from Iwobi (fee is far to big) and no CB option it’s been a good window.
With Iwobi the price is steep but he can do a job and he fills a hole, more disappointed we couldn’t get a defender in but relieved we didn’t sign Rojo permanently as that would have been criminal.
With Iwobi the price is steep but he can do a job and he fills a hole, more disappointed we couldn’t get a defender in but relieved we didn’t sign Rojo permanently as that would have been criminal.
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