Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
The window was closing and Palace were asking for ridiculous money for Zaha, and Brands's MO is scouring big clubs' reserve teams. I think that's about the long and short of it.
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TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
He literally explained in the rest of his post what really happened.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
You think that the plan going into the summer was to pay £28-34m for an Arsenal reserve player on Deadline Day?
That's even worse than me thinking that Brands just makes it up as he goes along.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Zaha was the first target. We know now that the pursuit ended a week before the deadline. We moved on to Iwobi.
We bought Iwobi to be a ball progressor who would hopefully become more effective in the final third. Although a different style of doing the job, I believe the chief reason for the Zaha interest was also his ball progression. He just had less question marks over production (well maybe not in hindsight) so we went for him first.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
If I was a director of football, I'd want you supporting my club.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Without turning this into the Brands thread, can we really complain about the job he's done on the whole? I'd say with the exception of DCL he's signed all our best players currently. And all of his signings are worth keeping around for the time being to. I'm more than willing to let him keep going and I don't know why anyone wouldn't be tbh.
Iwobi could still come good. Bernard and Walcott have both gone up a clear level under Carlo and Iwobi has played one half fit game under him. Iwobi's also the kind of player who needs an actual coherent attacking set up to thrive and we seem to have that now. With Walcott looking a doubt I'd hope we see him given a go this week.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
We've only played twice since he got back and he started 1 of the 2...
KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
He’s played 90 minutes 5 times this season and has only started 12. That’s quite poor imo for someone who’s come in for a lot of money
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
He's only not appeared in 2 of the games he's been healthy for. Lots of criticism to throw around but not sure about this one.
I don’t think Brands ever really wanted Zaha.
I think the pushing for him started before Brands arrived and came from either Silva, or more likely IMO, Moshri himself.
It did come out in the wash sometime later that our offer for Zaha was considerably lower than what was being said at the time.
I think the pushing for him started before Brands arrived and came from either Silva, or more likely IMO, Moshri himself.
It did come out in the wash sometime later that our offer for Zaha was considerably lower than what was being said at the time.
I can see why Brands went for an Iwobi type player, someone with power and strength who could carry the ball into forward positions. With the improvement of our front players under Carlo the need for him has lessened considerably and he is not getting game time. With Gomes coming back he will get fewer opportunities, hopefully.
Looks like he and Brands have been victims of circumstance, with Arsenal dropping away he may have been better staying where he was.
Looks like he and Brands have been victims of circumstance, with Arsenal dropping away he may have been better staying where he was.
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Most of which was under Silva,who lets face it was clueless.
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