Yeah, that team they had was Champions League standard
Di Maria, Saviola, Ramires, Pablo Aimar, David Luiz, Javi Garcia who ended up at City I think, Luisao who played 40 odd times for Brazil, Fabio Coentrao who went on to play for Real Madrid -...
The complicated part of signing a young talented player is trying to convince them to join a club he's never heard of that don't have European football.
We will have to agree to disagree here, because I think that's the blue-tinted glasses.
Players want to play at the highest level possible (and be paid as much as they can). Forest are in Europe, we finished 13th.
If you're a footballer, I...
A lot of the time that can't be helped. It's great to get deals over the line quickly, but ultimately the better deals get done late in the window when prices drop and other deals are done so the domino effect happens.
Our problem, of course, is...
Why? He might be our number one target, but take your blue-tinted glasses off and ask yourself why a player would currently fancy a move to Everton over Nottingham Forest?
Yep, I've no issue with slowish playmaker types in wide areas. It's pretty much how he set us up last time he was here. The issue is that you've got to have full backs who can overlap and deliver the ball and we currently don't have them on...
Free transfers are only worth it if they are good enough though. Considering KWP was set to move to beskitas, im not convinced we have missed out there. And was there many others better than him available?
Personally, I want the RW in by the US...