Are there figures for wins, draws and losses when playing?
I'm sure there are, but I'm not sure that would tell you much in itself. If you can then team's win % when the player plays and compare it to when they don't, that could be revealing.
No idea what that's show for any of them. Tbf even then it wouldn't be totally useful because often the best players get rested for easier games etc.
Rice had that brilliant season in Europe captaining West Ham which definitely added to his price tag as the media were so invested in it.Don't really see much difference between Rice and Anderson at 23 years old, so get him in imo. We did mess up not getting Rice. He's not a #6 but he would have been a great Gundogan replacement. Don't see any reason why Anderson can't be that guy.
At the age of 23, Rice had played about 130 PL games for a mid-table West Ham side, had around 25 caps for England, and had scored about 5-10 career goals. Having just turned 23, Anderson has played about 110 PL games for mid-table sides, has 6 caps for England, and has scored about 10 career goals.
By the start of next season he'll be on around 130 PL games with around 15 England caps. Definitely worth going for.
Worth a punt imo.
Don’t think so nowadays. Especially because there are other players in the same bracket now. As long as the player backs themselves we’re all good£100million price tag unfortunately puts huge pressure on a player's shoulders, this would be my worry.
Even then that was 2023, by which point Rice was a year or two older than Anderson is now.Rice had that brilliant season in Europe captaining West Ham which definitely added to his price tag as the media were so invested in it.
Rumours online that Anderson has a secret release clause like Gibbs white. If Forest don’t get European football, one coming from a Forest fan channel.
I mean Rice was a West Ham player and hes doing pretty good now, Caicedo was at Brighton etc.I might be a transfer snob but it makes me nervous filling our team out with Forrest and Bournemouth players
Here me out:
Our recent intra-league signings
Trafford - binned off after a couple of games. Didn’t look up to it. All too big for him at this stage
Ait Nouri - early days but where is he? Kept out of the team by an academy midfield player
Nunes - can’t hack it in his position is filling in at right back
Phillips - we all know about that
Grealish - a few good months but he even admitted he was blown away by the quality when he got here and is now on loan at a bottom half team
I want players to turn up with attitude and/or medals. See Dias, KDB, Haaland, Donnarumma
That’s not to say PL players are automatically flops, look at Stones and Walker
Maybe Anderson is the man and I’ve got this wildly wrong but our recent track record leave a lot to be desired on that front
I mean Rice was a West Ham player and hes doing pretty good now, Caicedo was at Brighton etc.
Maybe why we might try and move in Jan as you’d expect them not to qualify so if we bid more than 50 they’d get a better deal.If he does just offer 50m then keep upping it by 5m till it has to be excepted!
But with these so called release clauses will have something in them that they can say nope we not selling!? Maybe like the one that’s rumoured that the club has to be in champs league?! Now they can say in January we don’t know if this club will get champs league? Just because they are so many games left!
We've also had Ake who was far from a flop. Players from anywhere can flop or be successful . Ait Nori is neither more nor less successful than Reinjders or Marmoush , he's been injured. Plucking examples of either does not determine where we will get good players from in the future.I’m not saying it can’t work, we’ve do it with Stones, Walker and Marhez. Just our track record hasn’t been great
Which has been shown recently to be uselessErrm no, he isn't good enough right now and we have a global recruitment network.
Its not always just about the money, but rather sometimes its about the opportunity cost.Who cares if he's £100milliion? He is a quality player, been really impressed the last couple years and seems to be improving still so his ceiling is unknown. Other teams don't seem to care about the money anymore funnily enough, let's go for it.
We've also had Ake who was far from a flop. Players from anywhere can flop or be successful . Ait Nori is neither more nor less successful than Reinjders or Marmoush , he's been injured. Plucking examples of either does not determine where we will get good players from in the future.
Personally I think you tend to have to pay somewhat more for the same quality from premier league teams than from leagues elsewhere but you do need domestically qualified players of good enough quality for a squad capable of competing at home and in Europe.
Maybe why we might try and move in Jan as you’d expect them not to qualify so if we bid more than 50 they’d get a better deal.
Apart from losing him in January