Don't agree with this at all tbh mate.
Attacking player are more expensive and we've had no money for years along with being a pretty grim proposition for a player.
Elanga, Gyokeres, etc - we've been trying to sign attacking players as much as...
There's a combination of that plus not wanting to overpay.
Balancing act. We may not get him, but he's the sort of player who would make a big difference to our level
Loan for Iroegbunam makes a lot of sense and having it teed up now also makes sense, but we'd have to sign a new centre mid before we could actually allow it to go though
Yeah, I'd be really surprised at that.
Moyes actually said "9 or 10" according to a couple of tweets I've seen, so I expect that has to be including the 3 we've already signed
Right back, left back, 2 x centre mid, 2 x winger and then maybe...
I am not sure that sponsorship deals are necessarily designed to be mutually beneficial other than one party gets money and the other get exposure. It is basically a form of advertising and we are the billboard.
Dave, I'm not entirely sure what you thought was going to happen here. We wanted the best deal we could get and as a result whoever is paying is going to want the most brand-recognition they can get for their money.
And it's not like this is a...
The lad from Boro would be an absolutely tremendous signing. I know signing players from the Championship is a bit underwhelming at times, but he's the best I've seen at that level since I saw Olise play for Reading.
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.