See my response to Mikeh below mate - hope I've explained myself a bit better.
And yeh, I agree - the club should only bring Valencia back if there's a good deal to be had. If not we wish him well and on his way.
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See my response to Mikeh below mate - hope I've explained myself a bit better.
And yeh, I agree - the club should only bring Valencia back if there's a good deal to be had. If not we wish him well and on his way.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Problem with Klassen for me mat, I do like him the few games i have seen him in, but the things that stood out most for me about his game is his ability to spread the ball wide to speedy - very wide playing wingers in the channels, and his ability to get in and around a box - and link up with a 'target man' style striker who can hold the ball up and play him in etc.
neither of those we actually have...
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
Is there not a danger of essentially cutting the team off from itself? Schneiderlin Gueye and Davies are used to sitting deep, as well as the back ups to them. I would think we need to have a player who is going to sit in front of them and link the striker and the midfield up but one that can also drop back when needed. Davies is far too young to be carrying that role himself but we do need to think less of sticking a creative player out wide i think and perhaps sticking one in the middle of the park and asking them to create chances.
Klassen might be that player and if so then great, i look forward to him signing. I just don't want to see us shoehorning players into the team and not building a team and links up with itself, or as i put it the other day, i want the team to be a unit.
Pabbers
Player Valuation: £60m
I also think we need more than 1 central option mate. That is obvioud even now with only Ross, if we just replace 1 for 1, for me we are in the same position.
I wouldn't say Dolberg is your typical target man though - although I agree on the principle that Klaassen's best facet is getting it wide and then getting into the box as a third-man runner.
We're looking at wide forwards, clearly. Sandro seems to be the target for the left, and we're keeping Kev. It's a shame about Del but it is what it is.
..I'd be hoping we can do better. I can only think if RK wants him it's because of the number of games we've got to play. I did see an article a few days ago suggesting he could be on his way back to the club West Ham bought him off.
But Ross's best form has come from a wide position, drifting inside.
Personally I think we need a player in midfield who can get up and support better than we currently do. IMO that player is Klaassen (or another like him).
I do like Tielemans, but think we'd be overloaded with central players in that instance, leaving us very narrow.
Klaassen is definitely more that type of player in that he's full of energy and gets up and down, but also has the quality to find that final pass/shot in the final third. Not your natural 'no.10', but that's where having a playmaker wide (Barkley and/or another) and then a player to provide width and pace on the other would be key, with a focal point up top.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
I agree with you mate
We are missing goals from midfield and I totally get why Koeman sees Klaassen as a solution, but I also think we're missing creativity and I don't think Klaassen provides that in a true sense. He joins the attack from midfield, but he doesn't seem the type to have a bit of magic or real vision in his locker to open a defence. Tielemans does. Really drives his team forward and is their playmaker. It looks like that ship has sailed, and maybe Koeman wants the real creativity to come from his front 3 rather than the midfield three, but as good as Davies, Gueye and Schneiderlin have been, they lack goals and creativity between them and I think that needs to be addressed.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
Hit the snooze button.
Klaassen would definitely add a different dimension to that midfield trio mate.
And you touched upon it, but this is why i think Koeman won't be hugely concerned if Ross does go.
He clearly - as most of us do - would rather him stay, but I don't think Koeman sees Ross as a midfielder anymore.
If you look at Saints under Koeman, all of their creativity came from their forward trio. Tadic, Mane etc, with one of Davis or Ward-Prowse offering that third-man runner from midfield.
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Simon baker
Player Valuation: £10m
Not exactly something to aspire to Southampton is it not sure klassen is going to take us to the next level. We will see by who competes for his signature.
I'm guessing West Ham, Southampton, West Brom. Barkley on the the other hand is being linked to spurs arsenal & city. Hmmmm
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