Transfer Rumour Luis Diaz

[toffeeblue9]

You don't have to build your team around one player

In this particular instance, you pretty much do. To get him in the team, the team structure needs to be adjusted to compensate for his weaknesses. You can make the argument that he's so good that he's worth doing this for, and Ancelotti was of that opinion, but equally the club should have perhaps foreseen that not all managers would think this way and agreeing £10m a year for a player like that might not necessarily be a great idea.

 

[Barnfred 55]

here we go?

Here we go Here we go
That Porto, they're the worst we all know
I just hate doing business with them
Cos they piss on Ev-er-ton.


Where's that coat? I'd better get my hat too

 

[BlueToff]

In this particular instance, you pretty much do. To get him in the team, the team structure needs to be adjusted to compensate for his weaknesses. You can make the argument that he's so good that he's worth doing this for, and Ancelotti was of that opinion, but equally the club should have perhaps foreseen that not all managers would think this way and agreeing £10m a year for a player like that might not necessarily be a great idea.

Well if we had signed an athletic right-back that has been needed for three years mate, we could play James in a 4-3-3 which actually suits him and our other two attackers really well. In some games of course.

In others we could be more resolute and about intensity and switch him out for Townsend or Iwobi and a midfielder out for Gray (in theory of course).

You know, options and that.

James being here isn't the reason our useless DoF hasn't signed a right-back mate.

 

[BlueToff]

For reference, Diaz directly contributed to 17 goals last season, according to transfermarkt.

That's across 47 games in all comps (most of them in a poorer (not awful obviously) standard league).

James was at 14 in 26 games.

So if we did do the swap deal (which I wouldn't mind on the right terms), then we'd be doing very well if Diaz kept his output as high in English football or even matched James' return.

And I think our attackers this season are already better than the options we had last year...

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Well it makes sense if Diaz is a straight replacement for Richarlison and we can only afford Diaz with the Richarlison fee.
Of course I haven't got a clue what's happening but that is the only way of making sense of what the Portuguese press are apparently saying.

The Spanish media is also reporting it now as also ESPN Colombia.

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[LocalNative]

Luís Diaz will NOT leave the @FCPorto . Player wants and will continue under the orders of @CoachConceicao
#FCPorto#TransferNews#Transfers

 

[mikel_88]

I thought was the club being on the front foot getting one player in a season before rich goes. Seems like a similar player teally starting to question brands and the club now

 

[RomanReigns]

ah well we tried

back to the drawing board

 

[toffeeblue9]

Well if we had signed an athletic right-back that has been needed for three years mate, we could play James in a 4-3-3 which actually suits him and our other two attackers really well. In some games of course.

In others we could be more resolute and about intensity and switch him out for Townsend or Iwobi and a midfielder out for Gray (in theory of course).

You know, options and that.

James being here isn't the reason our useless DoF hasn't signed a right-back mate.

You could argue that the £10m per year that James is costing us could have been redirected to an athletic right back. In fact I'd probably argue that the "useless" tag is deserved more for the decision to agree £200k per week contracts when we are already aware from painful experience of how difficult it is to shift players who earn that sort of money.

In any case, given this is the Diaz thread, I suspect that even if he isn't the player James is (I've seen nobody with the natural talent that James has in a blue shirt in my living memory - I'm 40), there's more value to be had in this sort of signing. Doesn't look like it's happening though :-/

 

[Sassy Colombian]

It's only 9am in South America. Maybe earlier I don't know all the timezones

It is actually only 9:51 am at the moment so still is pretty early in Bolivia.

 

[DanB90]

Yep, just to confirm what that says

"Holy Cow, no mercy in Europe. Mum says my attention is like Pasta. To complicate it, Everton intend to put James in concrete. James is proper paranoid though and wants to slide on his side whilst eating a Solero. Patience, it's difficult.

Or pretty close to that anyway

Excellent work.
Or as the Spanish would say: Tres bien.

 

[nsno-chris]

as if we were ever signing him

 

[bullybeef]

Close thread.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

what is 50 million on an Icelandic iceberg 5 years ago equal to?

A lot of melted water in the ocean

 

[john jako]

Always end up gutted with the ones we don’t get even though I’ve never heard of him in my life before a couple of days ago.