Confirmed Signing Idrissa Gueye

Do you want Gana back?

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Even if his legs give out after next May, this is still a massive deal. He's older I know but this the position that everyone was crying out for. So excited.
 

Gana will definitely have an impact on reducing the amount of goals we concede this season even if he is nearly 33 and his intelligence and awareness for moving the play forward will help us be a lot more creative and score more goals. Will be made up when this one is announced. Really important one this for me.
 
Assuming the deal is not mental fee/wages then I'm happy with this. He has age and experience, worked with the worlds best players and can hopefully add a bit of calm to the midfield.
 

hktoffee said:
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Ive still not got over him leaving, would love him back even just for this season, the perfect player whilst we sort our financial mess out. Knows the club and would probably get the best out of docoure and Allan by allowing them to play there natural game whilst controlling the midfield, with tarkoski at the heart of defence I feel we would be really solid especially away from home.
 

TheBigIguana said:
I don't remember your personal thoughts but there was a period of "Gomes does the passing, Gana does the tackling" while Gana was doing the passing too.
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He's not comically bad or anything. Just a bit of a deer in the headlights when there's no obvious, easy pass on.

I didn't mind him when he was here - thought he was mostly decent - but he was limited in possession and a bit of a ball-watcher, not to mention more reactive than somebody who always knows where to be. I feel like that's not the sort of player who ages well, nor is it really what you need in front of three centre-backs. It's a recipe for having half the team camped on the edge of their own box.

Hopefully, there'll be no cause to see him and Gomes reunited. I did have high hopes for his partnership with Schneiderlin way back when, but then they got laughed at by Wanyama-Dembele and I gave up on them.
 
TheBigIguana said:
This is all just so strange and just highlights how directionless we are overall. I do think Gueye is still pretty good and that he'll fill in the desperately needed hole we have in midfield. He's also still somehow underrated by our supporters who somehow think he's not good on the ball. I'll fill you in on a little secret: anyone playing for a club at the level of PSG is far better with the ball than your average midfielder and we don't even have average midfielders largely. So he's going to help us in and out of possession. That's the good news.

The bad is that we're reversing one of the few good business decisions we've made in the last few years. Similar to selling Digne it isn't really the end of the world to get off of an ageing player while he still has value. That we signed Gbamin and he has never been fit doesn't make selling Gana worse. We just got the next decision wrong and that happens.

I know we're still going to be in the green on this and that's obviously good but it just isn't smart to now bring in a 32 year old with previous muscle injuries on a multi-year contract. He's already not the guy he was when he left and it is hard to say how much longer he'll even be the guy he currently is given mobility is central to what he does well. We should have just taken the win when we got it and moved on.

It also highlights a ridiculously limited scouting approach which is also just not very good. At some point we have to start uncovering players so we can make a little money here and there. Sell on isn't everything but if you're never doing it you will run into issues.

It's tough because for the next 12 months this could be a really good move for us. But it also gives me no confidence that we're on the right track to sorting out the deeper issues at the club regarding recruitment and that has dug us a pretty big hole.
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of course our scouting and recruitment has been terrible and without a plan for awhile but recognise this signing for what it is.

It is a stopgap signing of the best most effective player we can get on our budget who will plug a gap straight away and buy us time.
 

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