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  1. DubaiSpur

    Transfer thread

    Strange that the club wants a senior centre back, *unless* the plan is to shift to 3-at-the-back. Otherwise, there are far too many already at the club - we have four senior ones plus Takai, and that's not counting the likes of Vuskovic, Dorrington and Phillips who are on the loan circuit...
  2. DubaiSpur

    Eberechi Eze

    True, Eze isn't as pacy as Kudus. As for him not coming here, you're probably right, but I still have a spark of hope that @Bedfordspurs 's take turns out to be the right one.
  3. DubaiSpur

    Cristian Romero

    Romero is more individually talented than Verts or Toby, but the Romero-VdV pairing cannot hold a candle to the Toby-Verts pairing. What made those two great was their telepathic understanding with each other, which elevated both their games. None of our defensive pairings over the last fifty...
  4. DubaiSpur

    ITK Thread

    Doesn't look like it given the windows everyone else are having. On the stadium bit, that's a fair point. There was an element of luck in the timing of it, given it arrived *right* before COVID descended and devastated global supply chains + brought an end to the era of global free trade...
  5. DubaiSpur

    Transfer thread

    Fair, but on the flip side, could be that we overpaid for him - time will tell on that front, certainly not judging him based on his first season here.
  6. DubaiSpur

    Eberechi Eze

    That's exactly what Spam fans say about Kudus, yet we ended up going for him anyway. I don't think that's necessarily an impediment - think the team needs a few lads who can take control of the ball and make the right choice, as opposed to the quick one. Plus, helps that he's a ridiculously...
  7. DubaiSpur

    Transfer thread

    Know a few around here keep mentioning that chap from Middlesborough, Hayden Hackney. It seems he's turned down a move to Ipswich because a Prem club are in for him. Fee agreed at 20m, so that's the price for him. Don't really see it being us, but with Palhinha being 30 and clearly a stop-gap...
  8. DubaiSpur

    Joao Palhinha

    I really don't think he's for the long-term - it seems to me that the club puts a great deal of hope in Bergvall and Gray to be the long-term solutions in central midfield. It's more a loan that acknowledges that a) we have a shortage of first-team-ready central midfielders who can defend well...
  9. DubaiSpur

    Mohammed Kudus

    Nah, he'll be an example. The picture was, is, and will always be of Mousa Dembele. ;)
  10. DubaiSpur

    Ben Davies

    It's super rare - probably the rarest thing in football next to one-club men. To stay at a club for the length of time Ben has (11 years at this point), not only do you have to show that you have the quality for it, but you also have to be adaptable (since your role will inevitably change during...
  11. DubaiSpur

    Cristian Romero

    People really don't give him the credit he's due. The man is a World Cup-winner. And all of his teammates - including the greatest player to have ever lived in Leo Messi - respect and recognize him as one of the best defenders on the planet. Yes he's had fitness issues. Yes he's had the...
  12. DubaiSpur

    Son Heung-Min

    The thing is, it could be that his last competitive game would be the European Super Cup final against PSG - it's only 10 days away, and although it's a glorified pre-season friendly, still is 'official' in the sense that it's counted by UEFA in European trophy tallies. Just imagine if he goes...
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    Eberechi Eze

    With Sonny leaving, it finally made sense to me why we've been pursuing an attacking midfielder of the Gibbs-White mould despite the squad having more gaps elsewhere. If you assume we stay in the rough 4-2-3-1 shape Frank used against the Goons, then you need a winger on the left capable of...
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    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Fair, but like I said, I don't think MGW's actual worth is more than 60m. Buying in the Premier League means prices are inflated way beyond what the player is actually worth. Objectively, a player in his mid-20s, with somewhere around a dozen goal contributions, playing for a mid-table side...
  15. DubaiSpur

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Spot on. I do get what @SissokoWasGood (BoL) meant, but only in the Premier League would 60m be considered a bargain. Again, you can find much better on the continent for that money. I am usually against the idea of buying the cheaper player just because he's cheaper, but in this case, I think...
  16. DubaiSpur

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    This is where Paratici was really useful - man moved in elite circles and apparently had a rolodex of a dozen different players in negotiations for one position, so if a deal fell through like this, he'd still have a number of others on speed dial (not least, a bunch of players at Juve he could...
  17. DubaiSpur

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Sure mate, but the question is if we actually have that ambition for now or the future. I severely doubt we do, and it was just so much useless spin. But, that's derailing the MGW thread. Suffice to say this deal is dead, we move on, there are other fish in the sea - though time is running out...
  18. DubaiSpur

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I'm increasingly doubtful the money ever really existed mate - but let's see. Fair. Personally I don't rate Solanke or Rich as being good enough for where we (allegedly) want to go, which is (allegedly) winning the PL and CL if that bombastic Levy interview is to be believed. But, defo signing...
  19. DubaiSpur

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    We don't pay wages life-changing enough to get players fighting to move to us, we don't build teams that get players excited to play for us, we finished 17th so some must be wondering if we're all that. For established players like MGW, Forest can probably offer him higher wages than we can...
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    Morgan Gibbs-White

    To be fair, buying from teams in the Premier League is hard for everyone, because most have no need to sell their players. Too many owners now who can easily blow us out of the water in terms of cash, ambition, determination and sporting vision (and in Marinakis' case, sheer criminality, where...
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