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Player Valuation: £70m
Last summer was a marked improvement, so he’ll need to keep that up. If he does, we’ll become top 4 contenders under Carlo.
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Yes, for the very reasons I’ve just explained.
We still have the likes of Bolasie and Besic on the books who haven’t played for us for 2 years.
Could anybody had predicted the likes of Delph would be so garbage? That Gbamin would break before he’d even been taken out of the packaging?
Its all fine lines, like I said, some bad some good.
What more indication that we are happy with the status quo could we ask for beyond signing the very average Brands to a new contract?
Set the tone for the day this.
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Yes. People could predict Delph would be garbage, Iwobi too. Just not our infallible DOF. He just got unlucky.
Sadly Jake, I don’t possess a time machine to see into the future like you do, so I’m out of my depth here.
I am pleased that he is staying. At least him and Carlo will continue to build the first team together. The other part of his job is the Academy. The changes he has made there are not headline grabbing but there is a definite improvement in the performances and seemingly a policy change in moving youngsters through the system.
mccole
Player Valuation: £35m
Brands and Carlo are going to get a boatload of cash come the summer.
I have been impressed by Brands in terms of making the bloated squad more slimline.
Transfer wise he is better than Walsh given the restrictions he has faced.
This summer, we have deadwood gone, a healthy wage bill to use so here hoping we have a good budget to bring in key players and with Carlo, I think we will attract and find the best.
I have been impressed by Brands in terms of making the bloated squad more slimline.
Transfer wise he is better than Walsh given the restrictions he has faced.
This summer, we have deadwood gone, a healthy wage bill to use so here hoping we have a good budget to bring in key players and with Carlo, I think we will attract and find the best.
Don't need a time machine just eyes to watch these players before we signed them.
Delph robbed a wage off City for years filling a homegrown spot. Iwobi was always crap.
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
The only matches we have lost this year have been the ones the players the brought in this past summer werent available for.
If he does that again with a CM, RB, Winger, GK this summer, this team will go from hard for the Scab 6 to beat, to impossible.
If he does that again with a CM, RB, Winger, GK this summer, this team will go from hard for the Scab 6 to beat, to impossible.
....quite a mixed bag of signings. For me, a good injury record should be part of the transfer criteria so Delph has been an almighty failure even if the aim was to get winning mentality & experience into the dressing room.
He wanted midfield runners to transition defence to attack, I can understand why he targeted the type of player Iwobi is but that has also been a poor acquisition. I don’t blame him for Gbamin’s misfortune & Doucoure looks the part. I assume he was asked to get Rodriguez & Allan by Ancelotti & made it happen.
Real need for pace & power at the back so an excellent purchase in Godfrey.
If I step back and look at all transactions (good and bad), I can at least see a reason why he got those individuals. I think that’s what we call a ‘transfer strategy’ and at last we appear to have one.
And you say other people are rewriting history?
Hmm. Not convinced by Brands but if Carlo thinks working with him will benefit the club in the transfer market then so be it.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
Carlo likes him obviously or he wouldn’t be renewed
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