paul514

6 hours ago, thabucks said:

Just read UTD are interested in Nice’s LB Melvin Bard - weren’t they interested in Digne previously - attack minded left back so maybe we could negotiate a Digne or Moreno plus £££ deal for him. 

United will be careful in their dealings with nice because of ownership

2 minutes ago, omariqy said:

In a weird way, it might be a good thing we lost to Man City the way we did. Man City will get a bit of confidence back ahead of their game to Real Madrid (which we need them to win). It also keeps them in the title hunt with them playing Spurs towards the end of the season. We don’t want them treating that as a dead rubber. 

Reaching

1 hour ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said:

Hate to be the bringer of bad news but there are tentative signs that God is going to go down the Matt Le Tissier route, still love the man but would wish he stops with this nonsense.

 

 

people are allowed to have opinions, bumping old player threads makes me click them thinking they are dead -.-

1 hour ago, Sulberto21 said:

Hopefully Lee Hendrie will finally fulfil that potential…..

Duran is going to be a top striker.

lets see some more evidence before going that far.

He has looked better this year than last, he also seems to have some rare qualities.

1 hour ago, Wezbid said:

It's not a half arsed selection to me. Olsen had to step in. Duran had to. Tielemans is working his way back to full fitness and will be needed in games where he's not run ragged by City's possession game.

Bailey can't start every game and was replaced by Zaniolo who had upped his game and needs the minutes for the run in, Pau is only just back from injury and can't be over-stretched, he's far more pivotal against the likes of Brentford.

I get the frustration travelling there and not seeing the players you want to see but there is nothing half-arsed about what we do. 

These players are humans, with limits and there's also still a lot of games to come.

some fans think if you pay a player another 10k that week they somehow become less fatigued.

Newer understood how some fans don't get they have bodies the same as the rest of us.

36 minutes ago, ben1505 said:

Anyone on here remotely concerned about top 4 favourites Manure catching us?

No, zero, nada, zilch.

1 minute ago, Callum said:

Pay off his contract and get this malignant leech out of this club. 

well they have tried to get rid, the player has to want to do a deal to be worth paying him off for us to do so.

bare bones tonight, hope we don't conceed anymore.

I think we all knew we werent going to win when we saw who was missing from the team sheet

I also thought we played well first half.

I don't think we should sign him anyway, but one error doesn't rub out a decent first half from him.

10 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

" With the entourage "... are we going clubbing or? Who is this anyway?

 

signed a 5 year deal last summer, taking him into his mid 30's............

captain and an italian. He isn't moving here

6 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Does anyone remember the media fawning over Newcastle last season in their race for CL?  I don't see the same from them regarding our pursuit.

well the media tagged them onto the big 7 straight away too.

It's just lazy pundits who don't have a clue how the finances work and just think to themselves.... 'dey av loadz of munney'

5 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Angeball isn’t sustainable- they looked very tired after that game. 

A huge confidence boost knowing we are fourth going into the City game regardless of the outcome. A point would be huge.

True it would be unsustainable if they had to play in Europe too, but they don’t. I don’t think they will conk out, we might, especially in midfield 

2 hours ago, Pongo Waring said:

Monchi wasn't bought here to buy no one. He a wheeler and dealer

hopefully, there is MASSIVE opportunity this summer. It is a sliding doors moment

Good result for us dare to dream, we can get something from tomorrow

7 hours ago, Tomaszk said:

No.

They don't look at a list of numbers and say ah look, this bloke has higher figures so he's better.

That's very much not what they do.

That’s exactly what they do

3 hours ago, thabucks said:

I wonder if there’s a deal we could do with Archer for Arblaster given the buy back clause? 

They own the player, from what I have read we are obliged to buy him back

5 hours ago, Zatman said:

Data doesnt take into account a lot of things. Players attitude, wages, adaptability and level of opposition

Its why Monchi had hundreds of scouts at Sevilla

No it doesn’t take into account everything, but it does take into account most things. So if the data is roughly right, you look into it. If it’s bad, you don’t bother

1 hour ago, Tomaszk said:

Are you just looking at FBREF numbers and decreeing if a player is good or bad?

Obviously, the data recorded doesn’t lie.

That is why all modern football scouting at the top level is done like this now 

56 minutes ago, thabucks said:

He’ll be halfway through his 6 year deal this summer so £50mill left to amortise - can see them accepting a small hit on him to get his £300k + wages off the books. If he were to do a Coutihno and accept a vastly reduced salary to facilitate a move and then if Emery wants him back I’d be all for it. They say never go back but Cowans played for us on 3 separate occasions and Grealish is up there with our best ever talents we’ve ever produced and could become a club legend if he were to return and shine. 

I don’t see it to be honest but they can have 40 off me and 150 for him on. 4 year and no more

1 hour ago, thabucks said:

Very good player , would fit our style our play and much more realistic than Neves for sure ! 
 

https://breakingthelines.com/player-analysis/player-analysis-mats-wieffer/
 

He’s a slam dunk imo, worst that happens is we have a good back up that’s worth what he costs if you want to sell

2 minutes ago, useless said:

 

Never heard of him and no data to look at because he has played so little

6 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

He's at Benfica so they'll be demanding 70m + no problem.

Actually weren't we linked to Kokcu when he was at Feyenoord? He's more realistic and IIRC the reports at the time were he had a similar profile to SJM so that could be a smart signing.

100m plus

Dunno on Kokcu, there are Feyenoord players though on my summer list in Wieffer and Geertruida

6 minutes ago, useless said:

We reportedly want to boost our home grown ranks

that is very difficult

4 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Didn't someone on here a while back say we were interested in Ruben Neves and he was open to coming back to the West Midlands?

I do not follow the Saudi league at all so couldn't care less about how he's doing there but ultimately he was top quality at Wolves for many years and is still only mid 20s and he'd be a very nice option to have in the squad to give McGinn and Luiz breathers at various points when you're playing three high intensity games a week.

Guess wages would be an issue but we found enough room in the budget to get in Tielemans in similar circumstances last summer.

Wrong Neves

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/joao-neves/profil/spieler/670681

2 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

He's on double the wages of our highest paid players so not happening

Not unless he took a massive cut, I agree. The fee couldn't be above 40 either