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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Try 5.
If we assume Bentaleb, Mason and Alli are going to make up 3 of our 4 CMs, that leaves just one space for Capoue, Paulinho, Dembele, Stambouli and Carroll, before any incomings.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
We've got previous on young hairloss too though - Eriksen, Chiriches
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indianspur
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if Poch only wants one centre mid, and he is going to be a first team player, then id be disappointed if we delayed bringing him in just because we need to get rid of what we currently have.
Poch knows who he has to sell, we have all summer to offload, he must be allowed to bring his main midfield target asap so he can get to work the squad he wants for the start of pre season.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Carroll is 23. You can't send players that age out on loan - you have to back them or sack them.
He's made just 20 EPl appearances. Compare that to Shelvey, who is the same age, and already made 100. Or Eriksen - again the same age- and 175 top flight appearances and more than 50 national caps.
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indianspur
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why do they bother? is not hard to see why we are linked and there maybe something in it. Going by all the signings made under Poch so far, this is the kind of level we seem to be after. Plus, we have a good relationship with Swansea with players going both ways, as i mentioned earlier Shelvey's agent is a big mate of Levy, Shelvey is the kind of young, mobile energetic midfielder which Poch seems to like. Into the last 2 years of his deal, maybe Swansea want to cash in
I dont rate him either, but heyho what does it matter what fans think.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
it's not just an age thing, players mature at different rates
glasgowspur
Nayim
I like shelvey, underrated IMO. But when he had a bad game it is a VERY bad game.
NaijaSpurs
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Tell me it ain't so
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
I wasn't aware of this rule that didn't allow players over 23 to be loaned out.... Has anybody told this to the numerous European clubs that have players out on loan older than 23?
It is slightly churlish to compare Carroll to a player like Shelvey. Carroll's slight stature always meant that he was likely to take longer to be ready for top level football and Eriksen was able to do his developing in a far less physical and fast paced league.
Carroll could well develop further by being given another PL loan next season. Even though he is 23 already, it is probably still slightly too early to either keep him or sell him. If we keep him then he would be unlikely to get too many games for us and if we sell him now we could regret it as there is definitely a good football there who just needs more experience and confidence to start really demanding the ball and trying to really run games in the way that Modric did.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The championship player of the year last season (Pritchard) says hello
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
I'm still waiting for the call from Baldini!