His stats here are hugely skewed by the fact they were from one of the worst La Liga teams of all time. Spent 90 mins under the cosh every game pretty much. So the defensive stats will be a fair bit inflated and the attacking stats will be hugely...
I like this a LOT.
These were the vibes at youth level:
And at senior levels he was putting up elite dribbling numbers and extremely good defensive numbers on the worst team in La Liga at age 19:
That's a lot of good looks for £8m in a...
Hopefully just a way of telling Sociedad we have other targets that we'll move onto if need be. Don't understand how any game-playing via the media like that actually helps, but all clubs and agents try and do it so who knows
Definite credible links that we're trying. Not enough credible links that he's interested though.
Feel like it's one where we may ride our luck a bit. Happens to be a summer where he wants a move and we want a new RW and by chance there's not...
Good answer.
I think Luiz would be great alongside Gueye and a huge upgrade on Garner.
But I take your point. He would be a depreciating asset from the start and we aren't exactly one player away from competing for a Champions League spot.
On...
Yeah absolutely he's a huuuge upgrade for us immediately. This is all just conjecture from me projecting out yeeaars in the future - which is hard! That's why even pros at football clubs get it wrong so often. It's just what I reckon. It's not...
He would be our best central midfielder since Arteta and an absolutely massive improvement on what we currently have. We have absolutely no chance of signing an established player who is better than him because of price/attraction and signing a...
I guess it's more that I think weighting our resources into moving the dial for the next season or two shouldn't be our main goal, or at least not at the cost of impacting our ability to rebuild long-term. In absolutely every sense of the word we...
Compared with other CMs in the prem that year
Edit: again, I just wanna be clear because discussions on the internet push people into taking two opposite viewpoints - I don't think he's a bad player at ALL. I just don't think he moves the dial...