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  1. Thats2
    He’s one of that rare breed of athlete who absolutely relishes the role of the villain. He feeds off hate.
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    Right he's young and has a bright future, but we don't have the luxury of using him as Emi's #2. All of his growing pains will be magnified by the title race.
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    Fair and to be honest, I'm not advocating for an approach for David specifically as much as I am a player like David - a talented player in poor form. Honestly I don't know enough about David one way or the other to back his signing, so perhaps I erred in calling him "talented." But there are loads of good players out there in bad form for one reason or another, I think that might be the best way to find a bargain.
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    David might be a bit too high profile for a January move, but I think we should be looking at this type of player. Someone with a good reputation who's lost his form. Maybe we can find a January bargain. Given what Unai has done for the players he inherited, I have full faith he can bring out the best in a talented but out-of-form player.
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    If this is the criteria, I think losing Martinez would hurt worse than anyone else. Of course there are no like replacements out there willing to come on as Emi's backup, but there must be an upgrade from Olsen.
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    What kind of striker will agree to come and be Ollie's backup? If we're determined to sort it in January, I think the answer is old heads and youngsters. One of which we already have (Duran) and one of which we sold last January (Ings).
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    We could really use a backup striker as cover for Ollie, but who would come? I read an article recently saying we had the same problem as Spurs with Kane - there's an in form striker blocking the way to the starting 11. The author surmised we would have to settle for youth (which we have with Duran) or an old head like Ings. I think he might be right. I see the suggestion of Solanke slated on here, but I really think we would do quite well to bring in that caliber of player to serve as Ollie's understudy.
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    To be honest if I was ranking them when fully fit, I'd have Carlos as our 4th best CB overall. And for the most part he had the world's best striker in his pocket today. Bodes well for us, I'd say.
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    Omari Kellyman

    Thats2 replied to zab6359's topic in Villa Talk

    There was another play, I wish I could find a video. Lovely bit of skill to get in on goal, had the Newcastle defenders twisted in knots, but got a little too cute in the end and gave them time to recover. Eye-opening composure to create that chance, especially from a 17 year old. Has a touch of class to him.
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    Omari Kellyman

    Thats2 replied to zab6359's topic in Villa Talk

    First I've seen him, very impressed. Occasion wasn't too big for him.
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    Are there players at other clubs for whom this might be true as well? Potential bargain signings struggling due to situation? I know we have the money to spend but Moreno's proved Unai has an eye for talent no matter the fee. Barnes might qualify I suppose.
  12. Thats2
    You have decided all that based upon a 3-game sample size?
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    Deadline day is the worst day to be a buyer, look at all the mad prices. Once yesterday passed without activity I had a suspicion our business might be done. I held out some hope that since Brentford bought as if they expected to lose Benrahma they might capitulate to our offer, but they held firm. Fair play to them.
  14. Thats2
    Hmmm... I’ve got Smalling to Manure for 92M. Not exactly sure how that would work.
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    Is it a French striker, or a striker who plays in France?
  16. Thats2
    We’ve wondered multiple times throughout this thread who we could sign as a young, squad striker behind Wesley so this sort of signing wouldn’t surprise me at all, really. All this big time striker talk has skewed our perspective on it, I think.
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    Looks like Chelsea made a bid for Diagne in January.
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    I strongly suspect we will have 10 million available (at least) in January, no matter what we spend now.
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    As the manager has had just shy of a year to watch those players play and train and he’s still decided to get rid, I think the far, far riskier approach would have been to hold onto them. I also trust in his judgment more so than anyone on an internet message board.
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    Juan Nosaves? Gareth Wrongfoot? Howler Jones?
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    I agree that Lampard was the right kind of brilliant player to make it as a manager, more willfully excellent than a born talent. Terry too, I think, and they both played a ‘thinking man’s’ position more conducive to management. I expect there are far more midfielders and defenders in the coaching ranks than strikers and wingers, no matter the level. That Klopp quote sums it up quite nicely for me. I think there’s this sort of belief that says the better your players are, the better your manager needs to have been to gain the respect of those players. Not only is that nonsense to me, I think it’s counter-productive. Hopefully Dean can join Klopp in helping to overturn that narrative.
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    I’ve always found this a quite interesting facet of football management. Here in the States, there’s a belief that the best players don’t usually make for the best managers. The thinking goes that the game comes too easily for them and to impart that greatness to lesser players is difficult (‘just do what I did’). Across the most popular leagues, there have been very few great players who made great managers. Larry Bird maybe. Mike Ditka. Forrest Gregg. It’s far more likely to find managers who never reached anywhere near the highest levels as players and if they did, they usually did so as backups or ‘role players’. Bill Belichick, Steve Kerr, Greg Popovich, Sean McVay all fall into this category. So does Dean Smith.
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    I don’t like these buy-back clauses. They’re simply another means of control for the largest clubs, and they’ve got advantages enough already. As it stands the penalty for hoarding youth talent is only to sell them on for a large profit, now we want to weaken it further by giving them a way to get them back if they turn quality? To hell with that.
  24. Thats2
    It’s agent tactics. Creates interest by keeping his name in the news, exerts pressure on Brugge, makes anyone who is actually interested think they need to move quickly and potentially up their offer. These agents have teams of social media experts and will know how to best manipulate it. Surely this isn’t surprising, agents are the source of 90% of the names we’ve seen in the transfer news for the past month.
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    The Nakamba link has always felt like agent-driven nonsense to me. He just wants a move and is using the window’s most active participants to get it. To be fair, his agent is doing a good job.
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