Anderson and Bernardo are 2 completely different players. If they the same can’t wait for Anderson on the wing then
Elliot Anderson
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Anderson can play on the wing, he played there for Newcastle, he’s just developed better as a midfielder.
I have to agree with this. Not many out there that look like they could come in and play for us, especially replacing someone like Bernado.
Someone made a great point on here the other day, not sure on which thread, saying how we should be looking to buy in the prem as even now prem players seem to be at a higher level than those around Europe. apart from the top top talents I think it goes to show how physical and technical the league is. Look at how Scott McTominay is dominating Italy yet Wirtz and Reijnders are struggling in England.
I think if Anderson can do it consistently at a high level in this country he's worth the risk. Like Rice would have been for that money.
He'd be a great signing.
Neves is class - another one we missed but at the same time he looked destined for Paris.
johnny crossan
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too short
Did anyone say that about Maradona?
If you are good enough you are good enough. He ran circles around us when we've played them.
johnny crossan
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Might have been even better with an extra few inches as would County's Johnny Price 4'11" :-)
Had Maradona been a few inches taller, Shilton wouldn't have had to spend all those years whinging about him.
I don’t want to go overboard with the commentary, but I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that, on wages of £600k a week combined, we could easily imagine having Anderson, Wharton and Guehi in the same squad.
What currently feels more difficult than signing any of those players is actually getting certain names off the wage bill — players like Kovačić, Phillips, Aké, Stones and Bernardo.
It’s painful to see how much Phillips and Kovačić are costing the club while offering virtually nothing on the pitch.
Matt Diablo
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Fair enough. Let's see Ray
Matt Diablo
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Each to their own mate
WesthoughtonJohn
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Closer to home - a certain David Silva *waves* and says hi
Ortega is getting more than Nico G and Doku?
johnny crossan
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How much is Sav on?
Himself and Bobb and Doku and Nico G seem to be missing off that list.
One of the rumoured reasons Ederson fell out with the club was we never increased his £100k wages which saw him on less than the likes of Ramsdale and we put Ortega on £10k a week less than him.
He felt the club didn't value him as much as some of the other players who got consistent pay rises.
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He must have a brilliant agent!
If we turned down anywhere between £50m-£70m for him in the summer, his agent will have been in Viana's ear saying pay him like a £50m-£75m player.
We shot ourselves in the foot with that one.
His agent sold him out not getting £100k+ plus if we did value him that high.
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The problem teams like us have is that we can't afford to give the game time to develop the 'next Anderson.' Unless we're willing to have more seasons like the last one.
This always comes up every time someone like Brighton sell another player for 70 million, and someone says something along the lines of "Why don't we sign the players that Brighton go for before they do?" And the answer is because Brighton can fail to win over half of their games and still have a good season. We can't, so we can't go into a season with 5 or 6 players who may or may not come good. For every Cucurella, Caicedo or MacAllister, there are countless others who remain mid-table standard or never make it off the bench. We don't have space in our squad to take those sorts of risks. Ultimately, Forest took a chance on Anderson, developed him into one of the PL's best players and deserve to be paid for that. And for a club like ours, paying 80 or 90 million for him is probably a better deal than spending 30 million each on the three or four players you'd end up buying in the hopes that one of them gets to his level.
Personally, I'm a big fan of buying the best English players if they become available. I think there's a lot of value in having those English players forming the core of the team, because the alternative is to have all of the best players being foreign, and the only local players in the squad being people who are willing to play second fiddle, who you have to massively overpay for anyway, because you need a certain number of homegrown players in the squad.