Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £40m
OK 28 but almost 30...
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davids
Player Valuation: £60m
Three year deal,job done.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
A loan is not too bad. We need a striker.
Dwight K Schrute
Player Valuation: £20m
Hmm. Of all the French based forwards we are linked with, he is the one I am least convinced by. He's not bad, but he's not that good either. Also 28.
I am worried that, in signing him, we won't also sign Broja - who has the potential to be a top player. I wanted a quality wide forward to replace Richie (as McNeil ain't it) and a centre forward. Think Guirassy, Moffi and Broja would all be far better options.
Still, I'll hold out the faint hope that this deal would allow us to sign someone like Terrier. Signing Ajorque and Broja would not be a good move.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
Wouldn't shock me if it was how we do our scouting...
Marcel Brands is still trying to find what club Alex Hunter plays for now.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Keep extending Broadhead's contract but he had a good championship last season if we couldn't sell him this summer why will we send him next? So odd
Was in League 1 last season.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Do you watch a lot of French footy? I watched Guirassy highlights and he had some good points but looked a bit clumsy too.
We don't need a forward on loan, what a short sighted idea that is.
We need someone to come who is a viable alternative to DCL and someone capable of making that position their own. The last thing we need is a stop gap because we can't be sure on DCL's long term fitness. We have to prepare for the worst and find the alternative now. This is the most important business we will do all summer by far.
We need someone to come who is a viable alternative to DCL and someone capable of making that position their own. The last thing we need is a stop gap because we can't be sure on DCL's long term fitness. We have to prepare for the worst and find the alternative now. This is the most important business we will do all summer by far.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
If we had even played him in a handful of first team games in his time here we could probably get 10-15M for him. We never seem to maximize stuff like that.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
I've never watched as many player youtube videos as I have this week as all these players I've never heard of have been linked.
Dwight K Schrute
Player Valuation: £20m
Yeah I do. Have said it on here before that I prefer watching the Championship and Ligue 1 to the PL tbh. Possibly because the PL is corrupt as hell! ? Last year, I watched us but probably watched less PL overall than I ever have.
You are right, Guirassy can be a little bit clumsy, but he is also capable of travelling with the ball well and has decent pace, as well as a good scoring record from the bench. My thinking is that it is possible for Guirassy to play wide or as a partner to DCL when he is back fit at a push, based on attributes rather than actual experience.
Ajorque would make us very one dimensional. It would be like having a good version of Rondon. But that means that he can't really play alongside DCL as neither will press and neither possesses the skillset to play wide. We need to be very careful with this as we have a squad full of players that don't score goals.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Agreed. We need an alternative striker to focus on and get them in ASAP. Broja on deadline day as a Brucie Bonus would be nice though. So too would be any one of 3 or 4 other Chelsea players. They are going to have a lot surplus to requirements and also need to balance their homegrown contingent.
Baggzio
Player Valuation: £15m
What a farce, the club is obsessed with holding onto "young" players. It's not good for the player or the club. This lad has to be on at least £15k a week, if not more. That's over £750k a year, now what club in the Championship is gonna pay more than £750k for a 25 year old forward, with one year left on his contract who even if he plays every single game this season for Wigan will have less than 100 appearences in his whole career. That's a goalkeeper statistic ffs.
It's literally losing money for the absolute sake of it. He'd have to tear up the Championship to get anything close to value on what we've paid him and if he was good enough to do that he'd be staying with us and we wouldn't be after a forward from Coventry who's younger that did just that last season. £15k a week won't bankrupt the club but this is pure textbook Kenwright, give the "young blues" deals well past their sell by date for sentimental reasons.
I'm sure the players will be happy with the money but they have absolutely no careers to look back on afterward. Luke Garbutt is a prime example of this, promising young player that could've probably been playing at a decent level throughout his career and might've made a Premier League squad at some point if he left us at 21 or 22, he's just completed his first full season of regular football at a permanent club with Blackpool in League One at age 29. Antonee Robinson on the other hand left at 21 or something, played in the Championship for a few years and is now a Premier League regular with Fulham, he might even make it back to Everton one day. Both players were rated but everyone knows Garbutt seemed destined for great things, it didn't work out but we kept giving him contracts and he'll likely finish his career having done nothing. Robinson on the other hand will now become at least a lower level PL / Top Championship player playing internationally and will make more money because of it.
Despite the optics of it by the club giving these "young" players consective deals that they haven't earned and don't deserve is a detriment to every single party involved. They need to be let go to have their own careers ffs. I could care less about trying to make a few hundred grand off of a young player, if there wasn't a single youth player that couldn't get into the side regularly aside from Gordon last year they're clearly not good enough, no amount of more money time and effort spent will make a player that's already 21+ good enough for us. Let them go!
chippy1722
Player Valuation: £35m
Looks like Rondon with a tash.
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