Guest av1 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 On a side note, I'd love to be a fly on the wall listening to Tony Pulis sell his vision to an attacking player. 'Honesty Yannick, the keeper will kick the ball to you every time he gets it, all i want from you is to head it' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 Maybe I’m clutching at straws, but they only say holding talks, he may well travel down for talks with Bruce too then make a decision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Would've been a really good signing imo. Can't say I'm overly thrilled that Ojo seems to be the other option. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnmacf Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Surely the player is going to prefer Villa over Boro. Biased obviously but we’re a bigger club and beat them in the playoffs only a few months ago. The only benefit I can see for Boro is from Everton’s perspective, they may be more open to agreeing to a loan to buy than us given the sales they’ve made this summer. There is an element of risk with his injury but you’d hope our medical team would be up to reviewing that prior to agreeing anything. Not convinced by Ojo personally based on what I’ve seen but would be happy to be proven wrong. He is young and still developing. Hoping we’re in for a centre forward also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 If Middlesbrough and Tony **** Pulis are a better option, something is seriously awry. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_007 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I imagine he's spoken to a few clubs. As we've seen with adebayor and Bryan It's not done until it's done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 Not sure about Bolasie tbh! Approaching 30 is not best for a player that relies on speed, then there is that injury to take into consideration. Ill trust Bruce on which winger he wants but Id say that if our hand is being forced now id give him a miss and gamble on one of the others becoming available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 (edited) Also, on Bolasie, if the deal is a loan with option to buy, I can’t imagine us wanting to pay what Everton would want for a nearly 30 year old winger who’s had big injury problems recently. They paid around £30m was it? I’d imagine they’ll want to recoup £20m or so. Doesn’t fit with the rumoured philosophy of younger squad/players. Maybe Maddison or Ojo are close, and maybe better long term options? Edited August 20, 2018 by villan-scott 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Bruce said owners want young players.. Hes almost 30. Ojo makes sense. Targett makes sense. Abraham makes sense. All probably gettable if promoted. Bolasie also has had a few injury issues lately. I can see why we make have not wanted to pay his wages.. Boro possibly willing to pay more of his wages. Although.. Bolasie and Adomah are great friends and he knows Kodjia well too... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, villan-scott said: Also, on Bolasie, if the deal is a loan with option to buy, I can’t imagine us wanting to pay what Everton would want for a nearly 30 year old winger who’s had big injury problems recently. They paid around £30m was it? I’d imagine they’ll want to recoup £20m or so. Doesn’t fit with the rumoured philosophy of younger squad/players. Maybe Maddison or Ojo are close, and maybe better long term options? Prefer we got both Maddison and Ojo rather than paying big wages to Bolasie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'd be surprised if we weren't in for Bolasie as well, unless there's a huge loan fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jareth Posted August 20, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2018 If he signs - what a player If not - he's old and sh*t anyway I will adopt either stance when it becomes clear 7 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Ojo has pace something we desperately lack. Bolaise is very good but pace is not his strongest asset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 of course sky sources say he will be "bitterly disappointed" if he cant get his dream move to Boro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 As much as I like our signings to be long term and signed with a plan and purpose, when it comes to loan signings I just want them to be as good as possible. Be they 20, 30 or whatever. If there is a clause to buy it's obviously preferable if they are a bit on the younger side and not already on inflated PL wages. Moreira and Tuanzebe doesn't make sense to me because of how we have utilized them so far. We didn't need a 4th senior GK and we certainly didn't need yet another bleeping RB. Since we already have a bloated (albeit comically unbalanced) squad any loans brought in should be starters. We lack a proper LB and apparently since Tuanzebe isn't one we also lack a CB. Add to that a winger and a striker and that's 4 positions of which we can fit 3 into the match day squad without putting another loan in the stands. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyavfc Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Quite the coup for boro. Worrying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praisedmambo Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 10 minutes ago, sne said: As much as I like our signings to be long term and signed with a plan and purpose, when it comes to loan signings I just want them to be as good as possible. Be they 20, 30 or whatever. If there is a clause to buy it's obviously preferable if they are a bit on the younger side and not already on inflated PL wages. Moreira and Tuanzebe doesn't make sense to me because of how we have utilized them so far. We didn't need a 4th senior GK and we certainly didn't need yet another bleeping RB. Since we already have a bloated (albeit comically unbalanced) squad any loans brought in should be starters. We lack a proper LB and apparently since Tuanzebe isn't one we also lack a CB. Add to that a winger and a striker and that's 4 positions of which we can fit 3 into the match day squad without putting another loan in the stands. I cannot agree more with the Tuanzebe bit. He's not very good as a right back and having him and Hutton kind of kills our attacks. At least Elmo/RDL know they're meant to get forward and whip crosses in. There have been a few weird decisions and Tuanzebe (as anything other than a CB or maybe even CDM) seems very stupid. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 12 minutes ago, sne said: As much as I like our signings to be long term and signed with a plan and purpose, when it comes to loan signings I just want them to be as good as possible. Be they 20, 30 or whatever. If there is a clause to buy it's obviously preferable if they are a bit on the younger side and not already on inflated PL wages. Moreira and Tuanzebe doesn't make sense to me because of how we have utilized them so far. We didn't need a 4th senior GK and we certainly didn't need yet another bleeping RB. Since we already have a bloated (albeit comically unbalanced) squad any loans brought in should be starters. We lack a proper LB and apparently since Tuanzebe isn't one we also lack a CB. Add to that a winger and a striker and that's 4 positions of which we can fit 3 into the match day squad without putting another loan in the stands. this. seriously, just try to tap the blatant holes with loans that make sense is what we should and need to be doing. the 4th goalkeeper is an odd one. using tuanzebe out of position in a position where we're fully stacked and more is another odd one. old or young, I don't care. as long as it fills our gaps. and boy are there gaps even though we have a massive squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 37 minutes ago, guyavfc said: Quite the coup for boro. Worrying. He's very good at dribbling & (was before his injury) lightning quick.. But he never scores many or gets that many assists. He's exciting to watch and I'd like to see how it went if he came here, but I'm not that bothered if he chooses to go elsewhere. Again, I'd rather we got Snoddy back because he's more or less guaranteed to get 10 assists and 5-10 goals a season. Less spectacular, more effective. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'd take Puncheon as well to be honest. Decent delivery, he's not slow and he has good experience (hes 32!). Think he'd fit our profile/style. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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