Recent content by toffeeblue9

Alcaraz isn't as good as the players who were on the pitch, ditto McNeil. Dibling is yet to be decided. So no

If you watched his YouTube stuff of what he's done before he's got here, this is pretty much what his body of work has looked like. Not very polished, moments of good stuff and moments of Beto-esque stuff. Quick enough, decent in the air and not bad with his bad to goal but finishing and...

Opinions and all that, but I wouldn't have wanted Alcaraz near the pitch today

You're weird you lad

This is a very fair point and is why the playing contract may have made sense.

He wasn't at all. Pre-injury Arteta was underrated if anything

Read them both. Nevin's is a decent read, he's an interesting fella. Southall - not so much. He's clearly a legend, but not really a book I'd recommend.

Like most clubs, we will need to trade players - and the best way of doing that is selling the ones who are expendable for PSR profit. Alcaraz, McNeil, Beto, Patterson, Mykolenko, maybe even Iroegbunum. I'd say they're all in that category. Not a problem for now, but we won't have another...

James Wallace, formerly of this parish, is the sporting director there now I think? Would expect he's leant on his Everton links a little bit for recommendations etc which is how Lewis Gibson, Thierry Small and Dobbin have all ended up there at the same time and now Armstrong too.

My theory with him is that he would suit a poor side whose strategy is to sit in and counter attack because TBF to him, he's very good in transition. My issue with him is that I don't think he looks after the ball very well and in a team like the one we've started to construct where we are a...

Not really - I'm not sure Moyes was 100% sold on him (nor am I) and I think there's a reasonable chance we bought him simply because the price made sense and we will be able to sell at a profit in 12 months

Oh, maybe then...

Someone at work told me yesterday that Moyes had been at a golf day and had said really good things about him after a day or two of seeing him in training. Take that with a pinch of salt, but would seem to corroborate that

Other problem you have is that in January, he costs City more on their books than he does in July. He's currently worth about £30 odd million in amortisation costs, whereas in July that's closer to £17m. It should, in theory, be easier to drive City down from that £50m figure in the summer

That's a hefty addition on the accounts that we don't need to account for until next year. Things can change, obviously, but it would be a big surprise to me if that happened