mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Sell and give beni a chance (if he's alive)
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I think... and it's purely my opinion, that Gylfi is played in that 'second striker' role because he is so key to our press.
I also think that's a fair assessment. It does mean, though, that we rely on others to get the ball to him in the final third, and if that's not Gomes then it falls on Gana and we inevitably just go wide.
That's not an excuse for Gylfi to not play well or not be better when he does get the ball. But, he has his limitations in terms of he's not a player that can beat four men on the run from deep. He relies on quick passing and interchanges on the edge of the area.
But like you say, off the ball his movement is, from deep, very decent. He might not be the quickest but he's clever with his runs and finding those pockets of space.
If don't see why it couldn't be tried.
It would also probably mean Richarlison could play his natural 'wide forward' role in a proper front three - and it'd need to be a proper front three that stayed high up the pitch and all interchanged.
I've not seen much of Bernard so far that suggests he'd be better centrally. Honestly, I'd say of the two, Lookman would be more suited to it.
It's wages. That's the issue.
We have a combined 700k (approx) spent on players per-week who aren't contributing anything. I don't just mean playing badly, I mean literally not in the squad.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Feels like there's too much smoke around this to suggest it is happening. I hope we are working on a replacement.
Think that is a (very) conservative estimate of the wasted wages mate.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
He’s great at winning the ball back and at times he’s been one of our better more consistent players. The amount of times I’ve seen him give the ball away when he’s effectively playing as a third centreback when the full backs are pushed on is ridiculous. The opposition know that if you cut out passing channels to Gomes then eventually Coleman or Keane will hit a poor pass into Gueye who will miscontrol and they’ll be in. When he is on the ball his passing range is also very limited.
If PSG want to give us over 30 mill for him then there are better players we could get in this position and make money on it.
If PSG want to give us over 30 mill for him then there are better players we could get in this position and make money on it.
Blue Roo
Player Valuation: £15m
PickeringBlue
Player Valuation: £950k
He is in my opinion a critical part of our team. We lost the two games he didn't play in and we looked pretty bad in those games too (granted we've had our share of games where we've looked bad with him in the team). If we cared about position this year, there is no way we should sell him now. If we care about the FA Cup, then I don't think we should sell him either.
Playing Siggy deeper is definitely not the answer in my opinion because that prevents Gomes from having freedom. Our options are basically Beni, Schneids and McCarthy. None of these have even made the bench in recent weeks. Silva has but Davies on the bench, so I can only assume that he doesn't rate the other three. So we would need to replace him either now or in the summer.
If Gomes was already here permanently, it would be easier, but without him guaranteed to be here next year, its more complicated. I'd sell only if we can acquire a younger, more complete defensive midfielder in this window.
Playing Siggy deeper is definitely not the answer in my opinion because that prevents Gomes from having freedom. Our options are basically Beni, Schneids and McCarthy. None of these have even made the bench in recent weeks. Silva has but Davies on the bench, so I can only assume that he doesn't rate the other three. So we would need to replace him either now or in the summer.
If Gomes was already here permanently, it would be easier, but without him guaranteed to be here next year, its more complicated. I'd sell only if we can acquire a younger, more complete defensive midfielder in this window.
Could well be. Didn't count Vlasic or Onyekuru as I'm sure their wages are being covered by the respective clubs and same goes for Holgate/Dowell. Same for Niasse.
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
He's critical in the games we don't have much of the ball but we're not good enough overall to get a result in them games anyway ( the big 6 )
Against most other teams he is on the ball a lot and isn't good enough with it
Would 1 million percent sell if we got a good offer to get a more all rounded player to help in the games were we should be winning and aren't ( see the weekend for example )
Had a little read of a Villa forum last night, they seem to think they were covering ALL of Bolasies 70k a week, would be interested to see what %% we are paying on other players loans. I mean clearly we arent covering Sandros wages, but all the others might be.
I think the main crux is mate, while this is true if we switch systems (which we probably do need to do eventually), are those players available now? The answer's unlikely to be yes.
We need another midfielder as it is. Like, desperately. Sell Gana, we need two.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
I was very surprised, thought villa would have been paying about half it.
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
Can anyone point to any objective measure that would indicate Gana gives the ball away a lot? I keep hearing this and cannot understand after watching this team all year why ANYONE would believe he is a problem in terms of ball retention. I understand the critcism of his passing game - it's not especially expansive, even if he does pass it forward, as he does. I got that. But we have SO many players that are constantly loosing the ball either due to poor decision making or just technical deficiencies.
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