It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[DeBlueLou]

Plan C sometimes is to do nothing. It's better than doing tge wrong thing.

Yeah, sadly, i agree. There looks to be no good plan Cs around.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

I'm surprised we're not in for Caicedo. I know they are difficult to deal with but he's a fantastic player.
I thought he was perfect for us. Played full back for Brighton as well.

 

[g180aj]

As I suspected, we missed out on the top 2 players for the position which means we'll wait a year to fill the position.

I fear Rodri is going to be overworked again.

Kova can cover

 

[DeBlueLou]

I'm surprised we're not in for Caicedo. I know they are difficult to deal with but he's a fantastic player.
I thought he was perfect for us. Played full back for Brighton as well.

He's good but not 85-120m "good"

 

[JWCH-99]

But surely you don't think we'd have a Plan B (Rice) player that we wanted regardless of need, after we didn't get the Plan A (Bellingham) player that we wanted regardless of need? Gvardiol I get for that aspect, but strange that we had interest in 2 very high profile players in a position we now don't think is a position of need.

I don’t know he was plan b- I just think they were two players they really wanted and pep really liked at the right age profile and stage in their career. Bellingham they liked a bit more, but rice they really liked as well. Neither worked out and there isn’t a need they don’t think coupled with the fact that no one else on the market is of massive interest to them. If Kimmich became available tomorrow this stance would probably change again

 

[DeBlueLou]

Kova can cover

We just have to trust the attitude of Phillips. Otherwise Stones and Kova will have to cover.

 

[Blue warrior]

Let’s hope a fit Phillips with a point to
Prove a good pre season can finally understand what pep wants can help out.

 

[skillman]

RE Gaughan’s piece. I’ll likely get shit but not signing a midfielder unless one goes is a bit short-sighted IMO. Bernie wants to go, has done for years, so the succession plan needs to start at some point.

Signing a player depending on him staying or leaving doesn’t sit right with me (like that matters) for some reason.

 

[Haaland94]

I think this is wishful thinking but I hope that the club are keeping any alternatives under wraps and comes out of the blue. Imagine we leverage the full potential of our worldwide CFG scouting network and pick up some cheap wonderkid from like under £20M. Brighton-esque.

Look at brighton, they bought Caiceido from Ecuador for £4.5M in 2021 and now he's most likely to be sold for an excess of £80M!!

I know experience and all but I would love us to cut the middleman and pick up these gems ourselves rather than rely on the likes of brighton to develop these players and us then consequently pay 10x the value they were originally bought for.

Yet, some people in the Veiga thread are negative about the player. He represents the sort of player that goes to Brighton and is worth 100m+ after one season. Right now, it's 35m quid...

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Wow what price are we to get relegated I'm depressed reading these threads!