catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
They are mate. It would be a big step up for sure.
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They are mate. It would be a big step up for sure.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £15m
The RB franchise have a decent track record with having an eye for youngsters, would be a risk yes, but not one I’d be averse to the club taking.
Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
Sign him up
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Defending
It is Onguéné’s athletic qualities that mark him out as a high performing defender, standing at 6’2 with long legs and an impressive turn of speed. Simply put, he is a beast in the air. He is incredibly dominant, rising high and attacking the ball aggressively to win 72% of aerial duels in the Austrian Bundesliga this season. He closes down angles well, limiting attackers’ options and smothering them in possession. He has only been dribbled past 0.3 times per 90 minutes and averages 2.2 interceptions, showing it is very difficult to evade him under pressure.
His speed is very important to this Salzburg side who like to defend high up the pitch, allowing him to recover lost ground and keep up with pacy attacking players. This strength was not lost on Jesse Marsch, who started Onguéné in both matches versus the all-conquering Liverpool, preferring him to the long-serving André Ramalho against the likes of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané.
There are at times, however, question marks over his decision making as he can be sucked into a challenge in the middle of the pitch, leaving space in behind for attackers to exploit with direct passes. He can tend to switch off positionally, with André Silva’s first goal in the 2–2 draw against Frankfurt in the Europa League a prime example. A cross came in from the left and Onguéné was caught flat-footed as Silva got in front of him at the near post and headed in. This is not uncommon for young players, with the mental side of the game still developing in a sport where one lapse in concentration can have such a big impact on the result.
He does, though, possess excellent defensive qualities, often being able to out-jump, out-run or out-muscle opponents, making him an impressive centre-back option.
Jérôme Onguéné: Red Bull Salzburg's Underrated Defensive Cog - Pundit Feed
The Red Bull Salzburg production line shows no signs of slowing down. The Austrian Bundesliga side are market experts in buying young, talented players from
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It is Onguéné’s athletic qualities that mark him out as a high performing defender, standing at 6’2 with long legs and an impressive turn of speed. Simply put, he is a beast in the air. He is incredibly dominant, rising high and attacking the ball aggressively to win 72% of aerial duels in the Austrian Bundesliga this season. He closes down angles well, limiting attackers’ options and smothering them in possession. He has only been dribbled past 0.3 times per 90 minutes and averages 2.2 interceptions, showing it is very difficult to evade him under pressure.
His speed is very important to this Salzburg side who like to defend high up the pitch, allowing him to recover lost ground and keep up with pacy attacking players. This strength was not lost on Jesse Marsch, who started Onguéné in both matches versus the all-conquering Liverpool, preferring him to the long-serving André Ramalho against the likes of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané.
There are at times, however, question marks over his decision making as he can be sucked into a challenge in the middle of the pitch, leaving space in behind for attackers to exploit with direct passes. He can tend to switch off positionally, with André Silva’s first goal in the 2–2 draw against Frankfurt in the Europa League a prime example. A cross came in from the left and Onguéné was caught flat-footed as Silva got in front of him at the near post and headed in. This is not uncommon for young players, with the mental side of the game still developing in a sport where one lapse in concentration can have such a big impact on the result.
He does, though, possess excellent defensive qualities, often being able to out-jump, out-run or out-muscle opponents, making him an impressive centre-back option.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Is that depay’s fault
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
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Impressive turn of speed you say. Get him signed up immediately.Sign him up
DefendingJérôme Onguéné: Red Bull Salzburg's Underrated Defensive Cog - Pundit Feed
The Red Bull Salzburg production line shows no signs of slowing down. The Austrian Bundesliga side are market experts in buying young, talented players from
It is Onguéné’s athletic qualities that mark him out as a high performing defender, standing at 6’2 with long legs and an impressive turn of speed. Simply put, he is a beast in the air. He is incredibly dominant, rising high and attacking the ball aggressively to win 72% of aerial duels in the Austrian Bundesliga this season. He closes down angles well, limiting attackers’ options and smothering them in possession. He has only been dribbled past 0.3 times per 90 minutes and averages 2.2 interceptions, showing it is very difficult to evade him under pressure.
His speed is very important to this Salzburg side who like to defend high up the pitch, allowing him to recover lost ground and keep up with pacy attacking players. This strength was not lost on Jesse Marsch, who started Onguéné in both matches versus the all-conquering Liverpool, preferring him to the long-serving André Ramalho against the likes of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané.
There are at times, however, question marks over his decision making as he can be sucked into a challenge in the middle of the pitch, leaving space in behind for attackers to exploit with direct passes. He can tend to switch off positionally, with André Silva’s first goal in the 2–2 draw against Frankfurt in the Europa League a prime example. A cross came in from the left and Onguéné was caught flat-footed as Silva got in front of him at the near post and headed in. This is not uncommon for young players, with the mental side of the game still developing in a sport where one lapse in concentration can have such a big impact on the result.
He does, though, possess excellent defensive qualities, often being able to out-jump, out-run or out-muscle opponents, making him an impressive centre-back option.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
I would go along with the assessment of Gibson leaving because he's not deemed ready yet, even if he impressed in the lower leagues, it must be thought another loan move out, this time to Reading in a higher level than his last loan, would benefit all sides.
Although while nowhere yet ready for any sort of extended run in the team he could have filled in in an emergency, similar to Branthwaite even if a little behind him in his development as a player. They must then think a more experienced player playing put of position such as Coleman or Digne the more preferable possible cover, but we're so short we could have two full backs at centre half shortly.
Centre half has to be our number one priority before anything else, strengthening elsewhere can be put on hold until this is done, it's easily our weakest link and it's easily the position we have to fill right now.
Remember Manchester City last season, Kompany left, the media all screamed at Pep to act to get replacement cover. Pep doesn't do defence, a few deals didn't come off so he just switched to his favourite attacking parts of the team. The areas where they were already extremely strong, the areas which didn't need attention, ignoring the elephant in the room and the screaming media saying you can't just leave it, he knew best. Sure enough long term injury struck they had joke cover (Calamity Stones etc) and they lost the league by a million points.
Always look after the weakest links first and ours is centre half, nowhere else comes close.
Although while nowhere yet ready for any sort of extended run in the team he could have filled in in an emergency, similar to Branthwaite even if a little behind him in his development as a player. They must then think a more experienced player playing put of position such as Coleman or Digne the more preferable possible cover, but we're so short we could have two full backs at centre half shortly.
Centre half has to be our number one priority before anything else, strengthening elsewhere can be put on hold until this is done, it's easily our weakest link and it's easily the position we have to fill right now.
Remember Manchester City last season, Kompany left, the media all screamed at Pep to act to get replacement cover. Pep doesn't do defence, a few deals didn't come off so he just switched to his favourite attacking parts of the team. The areas where they were already extremely strong, the areas which didn't need attention, ignoring the elephant in the room and the screaming media saying you can't just leave it, he knew best. Sure enough long term injury struck they had joke cover (Calamity Stones etc) and they lost the league by a million points.
Always look after the weakest links first and ours is centre half, nowhere else comes close.
SuperKev91
Player Valuation: £500k
Onguene would be very interesting, remember noticing him when watching Salzburg in the champions league (purely to see what the hype around Haaland was all about) and he definitely stood out as a bit of a beast. Looked clumsy on the ball though.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Thats where Southampton got mane from isn't it?
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Good post mate.
I personally think we will have a player to come in. It may also be that the Brainthwaite/Holgate injuries are not quite as bad as first feared, (Holgate was 2-3 months, Brainthwaite 3-5 weeks).
The shorter recoveries look very different to longer ones. At the shorter end, Brainthwaite is back in 2 weeks, while Holgate is back in approaching a month.
I think we will see a CB come in though.
Vänstersläggan
Player Valuation: £25k
BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £35m
Yes mate.
This also involves clubs wanting them. I think thats the catch here.
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