….you have an obsession with age, Branthwaite is 23, O’Brien 24, Garner 24, Alcaraz 22, Ndiaye 25, Beto 27, McNeil 25, all regular starters, all contracted for next season. If we bring Barry in, he’s 22.
We need good footballers.
Villarreal is in Spain isn’t it?
Not really. People saying we should make these deals before they become £30m. So arguing we should have signed him a year ago. The issue then, like Chermiti, is can he get the experience within our team?
Do you...
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...
Literally none of that was wrong though.
We had agreed a deal, he had his medical on the Saturday and done his PR photos.
Then we sacked lampard and he decided not to sign for us and went to spurs.