People always point to Rose, Walker and Kane.
If we had those 3 players they'd be getting torn to shreds on here.
Rose was shit until he was 25. He was still on loan at relegation candidates Sunderland at 23. Compare him to someone like 20 year old Denayer, who people have already written off as shit, and don't want him anywhere near the squad next summer - a lot of the time because apparently "if they're getting relegated he can't be doing well" or "he wouldn't still be on loan if he was up to it" etc.
Kane couldn't get a game in the championship at 22, compare him to Patrick Roberts, who is 2 years younger, has Champions League experience and people are still unimpressed with, most don't think he'll make the grade.
This fanbase doesn't have the patience to accept that players bought in their late teens/early 20's might not be world beaters right away when they're playing on loan, god forbid what they'd do if the players were making their mistakes on the pitch like the Spurs fullbacks got to do for years before Pochettino.
You only need to look at the Iheanacho thread lately to see that.
People get the odd snippets, but the ongoing lads(Tolmie aside) are generally wums. Only last year a friend was working on directing a tv advert with Lionel Messi, and the only thing I got from that was that he was p*ssed at the Spanish govt. Hardly surprising :-)
This makes sense, and is worth quoting to get people to read it again. Only problem about Kelechi, though, is that Pep's now had plenty of time to see him in training and, for whatever reason, just does not seem to fancy him really.
MCRJON - Keep an eye out for his posts. Very rare he does post but when he does its always good information.
Jon has gone dark a good while now. But yeah, you could bank on his info.
Tends to pipe up a couple of times in the summer months though... Then off he goes back into the sunset ha!
Jon has gone dark a good while now. But yeah, you could bank on his info.
Most of the time, yeah. But we wouldn't even have had last year's Isco Disco thread if he hadn't said he was "at advanced stages" with City, which of course never materialized :(
Oh well, we got some good gifs out of it.
Corentin Tolisso would be a brilliant signing for us Central Midfielder or RB, very good at both.
Brilliant passer, I think he'd possibly be better than someone like Fabinho at RB, because he's more like Yaya with possession - Fabinho's never going to replicate that.
And he's brilliant in transition, a key part of Yaya's job now, getting the ball to KDB and Silva.
He's been used in attacking midfield and been superb as well.
Just springs to mind as Lyon President has said they have to make significant sales.
Fuk!! There goes my first choice RB :( So what's the fallback option? The Monaco guy? :(
We can still go for Perreira. I think he is currently injured or just got back or Tolisso. Perhaps Henrichs (Tugay, I can't spell his name right to save my life). Semedo maybe. Urhh, not happy with this development.
There are a few good options, but when I thought of who we should get at fullback. 2 things high on my list were possession skills and aggression. Karsdorp and Hernandez showed some of th most aggression of the good possession fullbacks.
Oh well back to the drawing board.