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Looks quite competent on youtube. I trust Suso on this one.
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I'd say he's more of a rich man's Conor Hourihane.
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Very tidy-looking player. For 6m? seems too good to be true.
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IIRC these players had a better reputation when we signed them than most of those we signed in the summer - i.e. a bit less of a risk. And with the exception of Veretout I though they did quite well for us.
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This has been puzzling me for a long time. I remember when MON signed Reo Coker. Having hardly heard of him I turned to Youtube. In two minutes anybody could see that he would never be able to hit a pass to save his life. I have experienced the same reaction several times when looking at our new players, and it is rare that I change my mind after watching a few performances live. Now you obviously can't make decisions based solely on video clips. But while attributes like price, experience, fitness, character, temperament and availability are all important, I do sometimes feel that when we sign players we don't give enough consideration to pure footballing ability.
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Someone like Diallo doing well in France would fit the bill for me, provided we get at least one new winger. One without the other will not work. I'm not going to write Trez off yet, he can improve with time. El Ghazi, on the other hand, has reached his level of incompetence I think.
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I vote for Villan4Life to join our scouting team!
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Have to say I agree with this and have had doubts about most of them from the off. Overall, a pretty poor recruitment effort, no doubt about it.
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Probably just to keep Wes's spirits up, we've still got a few to play before anyone else can start. Even if he doesn't want to replace Wes as the main man, it's hard to see how he'd turn down the chance to bring backup in at the very least.
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Bit disappointed with Jack who couldn't get hold of the game and let his frustration get the better of him - was lucky not to see red, even if his booking was unfair.
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Am I the only one who couldn't relax until the 5th went in? Thought Norwich looked likely to score every time they went forward, and they went forward a lot.
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I’ll be honest and admit I was expecting to lose by at least 3 clear goals and I have to say I was pretty pleased with that performance, first half at least. People going on about how poor Arsenal are, please give us some credit for putting them on the back foot for decent periods of the game. And before complaining about substitutions please consider the quality of the players we had on the bench. Lansbury and Hourihane for McGinn and Marvelous, had they come on earlier, would have kept Arsenal out? Do me a favour. The one big message I think the coaches need to get across is this: it’s all good and fine keeping your head and trying to play neatly out of defence in the early stages of the game when you’ve got plenty of energy and time to put things right if you screw up. But later in the game when you’re under the cosh, just blast it into the stands ffs.
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And when we did play it long the delivery was terrible for the most part. When our two dominant cbs get into the box we need to make the ball count. We are going to be relying on them for a fair few goals.
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Given that we shot ourselves in each foot so early, I thought we showed good strength of character to fight our way back into it. The players are still getting to know each other so will surely get better with time...whether this will happen fast enough is a tough question. Our set piece delivery was really poor today and this is what we are going to rely on for half our goals so that has to improve quickly. Jack obviously didn't have his boots on today but still had two of our best chances and should have at least hit the target with both. Wesley showed a lot more today than last week - I think he will come good - but AEG was a let-down again, don't know what other options we have there.
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+++ - several key players not up to speed yet
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Absolutely. If we could have started that game with a fit and assimilated Douglas and Marvellous it might have been a bit different.
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The only disappointing thing about that half was that my bottle opener snapped under duress
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He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart… He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say This is the day we battered the Spuds
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Share your surprise, and worry that missing this one item threatens to ruin all the excellent work done in filling out the squad elsewhere. Now I know we have a lot of players who have shown they have "goals in them" in other leagues, but scoring in the PL is a very difficult business and I'd have preferred to get another specialist on board for peace of mind.
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I've a worrying feeling that Wesley will take up that particular challenge as well.
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Let's hope he has to wait a good while for his chance and when it comes, he proves your point quickly
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Not forgetting the goal-scoring CBs
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Absolutely. Reminds me of when TS failed to sign Adebayor. We all know what happened after that.
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Great to see so much confidence on here. I'm fully confident about the season in general but feel we are just too unprepared going into this one. The new players have not had enough time, Luiz hasn't had any time, and I'm sure there will be still more new faces before Thursday night. It's going to take us weeks to get into our stride. I hope we can compete but fully expect a bit of a battering.
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Is it just me, or are our pre-season fixtures rather less strenuous than they might be? Some of our competitors seem to be testing themselves against more serious opposition.
