…Jota, terrific footballer (I’ve posted how highly I rate him) but the human side of it is so tragic. Only just married, 3 young children.
Apparently happened early hours of this morning, seems like his brother has also died in the car accident...
I think we need a right back irrespective of Tarkowski’s injury.
- sign Barry / Gueye / Keane
- new RB
- new winger
- new CM
- new keeper
Minimum requirement for me.
…..how the deal is structured isn’t a good deal if we acquire a player who isn’t good enough. Hopefully we finally find out about Chermiti next season.
Celik is pretty nondescript / average which sometimes has be to fair enough if you're on a budget and need 8-10 players. If you were looking for experience and adding squad options then he ticks those boxes. Not great, not bad.
….maybe this thread should be in World Football forum.
US sport has historically been much more analytical and stats based and maybe US culture means ‘watchers’ want to be involved rather than just watching.
Chermiti deal in theory made sense, we just decided to park him on the bench for 2 years and expected him to somehow develop as a player there. Of course that wasn’t helped by the previous manager who had no intention or clue how to coach and...
….Doucoure, Young and DCL look like they left despite being offered deals, suggesting this new regime have strict criteria regarding contract extensions.