2024/25 Charly Alcaraz


Lanolin said:
I say this all the time but it remains true. If your manager needs to play people 5 or 6 games in a row to 'know how good they are' then something has gone seriously wrong. They get to see them in training, can watch pretty much every game they've ever played in their career, have access to all kinds of data about their fitness and performance etc. Giving Chermiti a few games would be nice so that we can see what he can do. If Moyes doesn't already have a very good idea of that and might have his mind changed by a good 90 minutes then we probably need to rethink paying him £5m a year.
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There is the other side of the coin also where managers have their favourites, Doucoure and Harrison help to make us more solid with their workrate I can see that but don't like it myself, I prefer guile, skill but I realise you need different characters, style of players to make a good team.
 

I would like us to sign him....I just feel we are going to try and negotiate that fee down....or maybe even anonther loan with an obligation NEXT season, kicks that fee down the road.
 
Lanolin said:
I say this all the time but it remains true. If your manager needs to play people 5 or 6 games in a row to 'know how good they are' then something has gone seriously wrong. They get to see them in training, can watch pretty much every game they've ever played in their career, have access to all kinds of data about their fitness and performance etc. Giving Chermiti a few games would be nice so that we can see what he can do. If Moyes doesn't already have a very good idea of that and might have his mind changed by a good 90 minutes then we probably need to rethink paying him £5m a year.
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Im not sure i agree with all of this. Players can look fine in training. I imagine Harrison pings cross after cross in training, in the same way, the likes of Dacoure has the first touch of Zidane, and beto finishes like Messi. Matters not one jot if they cant do it in a real match.
 
Blue Smoke said:
Im not sure i agree with all of this. Players can look fine in training. I imagine Harrison pings cross after cross in training, in the same way, the likes of Dacoure has the first touch of Zidane, and beto finishes like Messi. Matters not one jot if they cant do it in a real match.
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Like I said, it's not just training (although I don't believe what you're saying is true anyway). The fact is, players don't get to audition for more game time. Should we give Reece Welch and Luke Butterfield the last few games to see whether it turns out we've actually got a couple of stars on our hands, or do we assume that the people working with them every day are capable of deciding whether or not they have what it takes? The same thing applies really, at some point we have to trust the judgement of the people we're paying huge amounts of money to make these decisions. I'm not saying they're infallible by any means, but expecting them to just give everyone a run of games in case it turns out they've misjudged them is unrealistic.
 

Gilbert.. said:
Is there one negative to signing him. I cant think of one.
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We have to put up with Zats laughing reaction to every post that doesn’t declare him Maradonna reincarnated.


For the money supposedly agreed and with the amount of players we’re going to need to bring in come the summer, it seems a no brainer to me though.
 
I don’t know why people are speculating and in some instances panicking

The window is shut right now, we’ll sign him when we can sign him and/or when it makes the most psr sense (remember that point between June and July which we had to make sure Richarlison was sold to Spurs by so it counted for that seasons accounts)

There’s a real possibility we’re waiting for next seasons accounts and don’t have 12m wiggle room until then
 

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