foggy1974
Well-Known Member
You miss Garry CookWe need our own Ed Woodward who's not afraid of coughing up the big money. 300k/w for Sanchez turned out to be a bargain we missed out on. Fred and Jorginho as well. Txiki out
You miss Garry CookWe need our own Ed Woodward who's not afraid of coughing up the big money. 300k/w for Sanchez turned out to be a bargain we missed out on. Fred and Jorginho as well. Txiki out
HAHA you know it's trueBlah blah blah, sad woman
July 1stAnything happening soon, next week, the week after, before deadline day?
Think you hit a nerve there chuck :)HAHA you know it's true
Probably.Anything happening soon, next week, the week after, before deadline day?
Certainly the smarter of the two.
Van Dijk had the physique to deal with the roughouse players & Denayer swept up his mistakes.
It was simple enough & dirt cheap to pair them up for City as 3rd & 4th choice but we kept Demichelis & signed Otamendi instead.
I disagree. You can only play against what's in front of you, & in that respect VVD excelled in Scotland & continued that form into the PL.This sort of hindsight neglects what happened over the interim years. We had Boateng at a similar point in his career and he was on the fringe of the team - form suffered and he left having achieved little. As we know he went on to do much better things and became a top class defender. VVD would have been in a similar position had we taken him from Celtic - no guarantee it would have worked. He had 2 and half years at Southampton and without that I don't think he would be the player he is today. Sometimes you have to accept the best path young players can take is with smaller clubs until they hit the top level.
I disagree. You can only play against what's in front of you, & in that respect VVD excelled in Scotland & continued that form into the PL.
At only £8m, surely he was worth the risk?
This sort of hindsight neglects what happened over the interim years. We had Boateng at a similar point in his career and he was on the fringe of the team - form suffered and he left having achieved little. As we know he went on to do much better things and became a top class defender. VVD would have been in a similar position had we taken him from Celtic - no guarantee it would have worked. He had 2 and half years at Southampton and without that I don't think he would be the player he is today. Sometimes you have to accept the best path young players can take is with smaller clubs until they hit the top level.