Baleba

[SK14BLUE]

Then you saw his face

Very good! ;)

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

As a general rule, everything that the "analysts" at The Athletic say is stupid and wrong.

same with that footballfancast site.

 

[Stoned Rose]

It’s doable..since I’m fairly sure it’s not a scouting team per-se that Bloom relies on but his infamous algorithm based approach in scouting players.

Although last thing he would do is sell his algorithm, so City really should be looking at the future and at least explore creating an in-house or outsourced solution perhaps to even work alongside their scouting based model.

As people have been telling us for yrs who knows when Sheik Mansour will eventually get bored of us lot ;-)

Pretty sure most clubs will already be exploiting AI for this. Bloom doesn’t have some magic algorithm he keeps to himself.

 

[OldhamBlue94]

Absolute big yes from me this one. Plays exactly like caicedo did for Brighton but from what I’ve seen so far looks like he’s got an even bigger potential ceiling

 

[TheBlueCat]

Sounds like this is the usual Brighton tactic of generating interest and a massive fee for a player who is no better than decent.
Have any of Brighton’s players sold for unrealistic, exorbitant fees gone on to excel or even perform as expected?

 

[bluesmith]

Sounds like this is the usual Brighton tactic of generating interest and a massive fee for a player who is no better than decent.
Have any of Brighton’s players sold for unrealistic, exorbitant fees gone on to excel or even perform as expected?

In recent years their big sales have been Caicedo, Macallister, White, Cucurella and Trossard i doubt any of the buying clubs would regret those deals.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Baleba had a good game yesterday against Arsenal, He made a difference when he came on against us a few months ago.

Watching Brighton midfield yesterday along with Newcastle midfield at Tottenham you can see the press from their midfield all going together and all with very little distance between the midfield players when they do press.

At the minute watching other teams midfield that has legs to cover ground looks great as it's the complete opposite to what we are watching at City in recent months unfortunately.

I'm not sure Baleba is at the level we need to compete for the big prizes, He's a good player but most midfield players are looking good right now because they can actually run.

 

[TheBlueCat]

In recent years their big sales have been Caicedo, Macallister, White, Cucurella and Trossard i doubt any of the buying clubs would regret those deals.

You may be right.
My point was more about value for money. Despite going for huge fees I don’t think that any one of those players are more than decent. I would argue that even in our current plight none of those players would improve our team and probably wouldn’t get much if any game time if we had a fully fit squad.

 

[City64!]

How many of these Brighton lads that are sold end up being worth the money?

The two lads at Chelsea aren’t great, and they were bought for a lot of money!!

Trossard is a second string player.

 

[bluesmith]

You may be right.
My point was more about value for money. Despite going for huge fees I don’t think that any one of those players are more than decent. I would argue that even in our current plight none of those players would improve our team and probably wouldn’t get much if any game time if we had a fully fit squad.

I would start all 5 in our current team personally.