Dani Olmo

franksinatra said:
As a kid I remember Phil
Babb having a great World Cup.

I’m in the undecided camp on this one. Clearly a very talented player but If we had a chance of the two I would be spending the money on Neco Williams personally.

Of course if KDB or Bernardo decided to
move on prioritise might change but I really enjoyed the blueprint this Spain side have shown of how to play and Neco Williams has such a high ceiling, looks unstoppable at times.
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Nico Williams is a huge talent but a very unpredictable one, we already have those in Doku/ Savio.
 
Cobwebcat said:
His close control is David Silva like despite him looking quite gangly. Pep could work his magic with this player.

One thing I would say as a general point is you can’t rate any player if you have only seen him in the latest tournament and you could waste a lot of money doing so…not that clubs do that anymore!
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Karel Poborsky?
 
strudelslol said:
We surely only move for Olmo if Nunes goes though right? Even with Phillips moving on (hopefully) it's a congested area of the pitch. That being said, I do feel something is very stale about our attack in central areas so maybe it just needs to happen.
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Nunes moving? Where to, what's the story? Would be happy to shift him on, decent lad just like Phillips but doesn't fit our profile.
 
Keeper! said:
This the Mcatee who barely got a game for Sheffield United and who's promising career is going backwards at an alarming rate?

Comparing Mcatee to Danny Olmo is criminal, FFS what are you thinking?
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He helped them to reach the premier league

I think with a proper strong team, he can reach Palmer's level
 
Tevez City said:
He helped them to reach the premier league

I think with a proper strong team, he can reach Palmer's level
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LOL please try harder.

One is playing in the Bunderleague and representing his country in the final stages of the Euros and one is playing for a team of cloggers and one of the worst teams ever seen in the PL.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Great player but do we need him? If only we had got Rice instead of Phillips.
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Fair question and I am only really judging him on these euros but he just looks like he has it all as a player and at the price, and the ceiling he has as a player, I think you just have to make it work. Danny Olmo for me is a very good player but Neco Williams looks like potentially he could be one of the very best.

Yes missing out on Rice (or Rice not being interested) means we’re still trying to fill that void. The money on Nunes and Phillips and we’re still not really any closer to helping Rodri with the hard yards.
 
Keeper! said:
Nico Williams is a huge talent but a very unpredictable one, we already have those in Doku/ Savio.
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Yes unpredictable I agree but I reckon, and this is only a hunch, when we look back in 10 years Neco Williams career will have outstripped those as players. Not often you get the chance to pick someone up like him at a decent fee, should snap their hand off.
 
Tevez City said:
He helped them to reach the premier league

I think with a proper strong team, he can reach Palmer's level
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franksinatra said:
Yes unpredictable I agree but I reckon, and this is only a hunch, when we look back in 10 years Neco Williams career will have outstripped those as players. Not often you get the chance to pick someone up like him at a decent fee, should snap their hand off.
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Not sure, he could become a great, equally become another Sane/Dembélé.
 
Keeper! said:
Not sure, he could become a great, equally become another Sane/Dembélé.
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Think he is more polished than Dembele ever was but Sane is a fair comparison as I thought he had the world at his feet and his ceiling was also ridiculously high.

Either way we spent 55 million euros on Nunes last summer and so it hardly seems a gamble in comparison. Worst case scenario we would make a profit or at worst he would hold his value going forward.

Also really like the Spanish blueprint, a possession game but with two explosive wingers to create the chances. Arguably us signing Doku/Savio indicates its a direction of travel we might see going forward.
 
We will find out in the next week if this is a go or not. Nunes going to Saudi would help.
 
vanchi said:
i am sure it more that just those, and not just in this thread but i’m not gonna go and search for posts now, we’ll have to agree to disagree.

not to mention other places where there were many who mentioned injuries but also many who just said he’s shit without even watching him play.

like i said previously, i get the injuries concern. he is not a shit player though, objectively, and i’ve been watching him play for a long time.

oh and reducing him to just a winger is crazy but what else to expect from experts who don’t even watch the player actually play ;)

anyway, i don’t think this transfer will happen, but i’ll be VERY happy if i wake up on a saturday and see txiki smiling next to olmo in sky blue. :D
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I think you have done to me what many on this thread have done to the thread. Presume to be true and common something that isn't.

1. (Incorporating your comment from the Spain/France thread) I do not dislike Olmo. Never have. Nor am I anti-Olmo. I was simply defending the legitimate opinions held on this thread that shouldn't be waved away.

His injury record is a legitimate issue. And many have voiced that opinion here. 1 guy outright thought he was shit. 1 guy! And I don't even discount that guy's opinion. He probably watched him after one of his shit games post one of his many injuries when he was slow and sluggish. I have seen those games too. And if my opinion was wholeheartedly based on watching one of those games, I can see how someone can conclude he is not up to standard.

But some of the games I had seen were when he balled out. So on one of my group chats I compared him to a mini Kevin Debryune with Spanish technique. Funny enough in going back through this very thread, I realized my original post about him from 2021 was comparing him to "Bruno Fernandez with better touch."

I apologize for the heresy of using a United player as a comparison, but that's it :) I don't apologize for my views on Olmo.

And yes, I agreed with the guy who wanted us to get a Speedy winger over Olmo, because Olmo was like a lot of our wingers at the time (Grealish, Bernado, Mahrez and Torres etc) technical but not speedy.


This doesn't mean I think Olmo is "just a winger: as you put it. Rather, it means that at the time when we were looking for a winger, a speedy specialist winger was of more interest than, say a Bruno/Kevin type player who can also play wide.

There seemed to me to be too much flattening of opinions on this thread. It was that flattening that I was opposing in my most recent posts on here. Not Olmo persee.
 
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