Improved a lot since the derby! Talk about damed by feint praise..!If he was he would have been snapped up. Nunes has improved a lot since the derby.
Gotta be a shit Player to play for the best team in Italy. Not everyone ends up at Madrid.So how come he is still at Inter Milan at 29 years old?
Or could be a revelation in our set up.Not that good. One player who looks good in Inter's set up but would be totally exposed in ours. Nunes has earned his chance.
I disagree. This seems a scraping the barrel type of signing.Or could be a revelation in our set up.
Nunes is a round peg, square hole. Can't fault his application at trying to adapt to the position but it's Zinchenko/Delph all over again.
Not many clubs had decided to take the gamble on him. Especially Premier League clubs. Got to be targeting younger players.Gotta be a shit Player to play for the best team in Italy. Not everyone ends up at Madrid.
Proved his worth during the run in.Improved a lot since the derby! Talk about damed by feint praise..!
Nunes was beyond dog shit in the derby. Bordering on professional sabotage ..
He has put in some decent effort since, so fair play to him.
The fact is that he is just not a right back.. whenever he plays there, it is obvious.
Don't know how credible the source is, but at that money we could do a lot worse
Don't know how credible the source is, but at that money we could do a lot worse
This is why Pep picked Bernardo. He realized that 'player democracy' nonsense was what elected a Captain that quit on his team halfway through the season.Walker shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the training facilities of the club ever again .
He was the captain but decided he wanted to quit the season ,the club & his team mates for pastures new .
Regardless if it was a private matter or frustration of performances or not enough game time ?
A captain has to set the standards & leadership for the rest of the team to follow .
He was a letdown in the end & jumped ship.
Walker should never have been anywhere near the armband! I don’t care if he can be a presence in the dressing room, being the Captain means far more than that and he was ill-suited to the task, as his public sexploits and COVID Bunga Bungas clearly illustrated.This is why Pep picked Bernardo. He realized that 'player democracy' nonsense was what elected a Captain that quit on his team halfway through the season.
Walker got way too little flack for that move :(
A squad of players voted for him, so if we are to criticise anyone it's the 20+ men still here.Walker should never have been anywhere near the armband! I don’t care if he can be a presence in the dressing room, being the Captain means far more than that and he was ill-suited to the task, as his public sexploits and COVID Bunga Bungas clearly illustrated.
Pep picked a good selection for this season.
Ok where's the data for this then seeing as you seem to know it?Nunes is considerably faster than Dumfries. Thats not an opinion either thats one of the few things that has a definitive answer to it. Dumfries recorded top speed is signficiantly slower than Nunes'.
Valid point.You think hes stronger than Nunes, fine, he is a powerful player, i dont agree he's stronger than Nunes but either way, I asked what he brings that Nunes doesnt. Given nunes isnt 9 stone and 5ft 2 we can surely agree nunes' power isnt an issue. same with his height, he's vastly taller than most fullbacks and again isn't an issue.
Again, the numbers to back this up would be nice. And in fairness you would normally expect a guy who's naturally a midfielder to have better attacking numbers than a natural full back.Hes scored more goals than Nunes but as I said previously, Nunes has a better goals and assists per minute ratio from fullback than Dumfries has as a wingback.
Nunes is braindead at times. But thats made worse by the fact he isnt a natural fullback and he gets caught out in ways a proper full back who knows the position wouldn't. You protest that Nunes is a full back because he's done a job there for 6 months. That doesn't make him a full back any more than it made Delph a natural left back when he did a job there for us for a year. Dumfries' advantage in that area is that that is his trade by nature.Its funny how Nunes gets slaughtered for being braindead at times, have you guys actually seen dumfries play? He's twice as braindead. His technical ability is really poor and his final ball is atrocious that makes walkers delivery look competent.
Maybe for some people but not for me. My view is based solely on what I've seen of both of them in the last year or so. If you were to say Nunes is a decent option to draft into that area of the pitch if a proper first choice RB came in and got injured then I'd have no issues with that personally because he on the whole did a decent job there last season all things considered, but going into next season with him as the first pick in that position? Over the course of a long season where we want to be challenging for trophies again I believe that's asking for trouble.For all the main reasons people want to see us replace Nunes, Dumfries is even worse in those areas. Its a model example of people going purely off name and reputation.
Also when he didn’t play at Southampton (and Nico O on the left) we had fuck all creativity from full back positionsAs of 6 months ago, he is a right back. Where he's played previously is meaningless, hes being used as a right back, hes playing very well there, so hes a right back until hes played elsewhere.
Players switching positions is nothing new. Yaya Toure was bought as a holding midfielder that could also play centre back, yet in his best ever season, he played as a 10 for us. Gravenberch wasnt a DM 12 months ago, he was an attacking midfielder that couldnt buy a start yet the dippers just strolled the league with him playing as a 6. Declan rice was a centre back that earned a £100m+ move as a holding midfielder yet plays for arsenal as an 8.
Was in the top 3 performers for the entire back half of the season. Wins us the game against villa, makes the late opener against Everton in a tight game we didnt look like winning until then, creates the opener against fulham, makes a couple of crticial blocks/tackles when we went down to 10 men against bournemouth to stop them getting back into it before things evened out and every time he was left out, we badly missed him.
Delph/zinchenko's level was starting for a poor city side? You think the centurions and the domestic quad winning sides were poor city sides? You wouldn't have said we could win the CL with John stones playing in midfield before we won the CL with John stones playing in midfield.
You have clearly made your mind up on a player seemingly based off one game 6 months ago and you refuse to see the excellent work hes put in since then that would make any reasonable person admit they were wrong to make such a quick judgement.
Sort of but really we are restricted because of the 17 non homegrown limit and we are already over it. Making room in the homegrown list should be easier,though there currently is no room in that either.I suppose we're restricted due to the English quota.
Dumfries is decent, especially for ‘only’ £25m.
He’s a better right back than anyone we have now, so therefore he’d improve the team and would be a good signing.
He’s not as good as Livramento, and personally I’d prefer we spent about £85m to get the best available, but equally if that’s not feasible then for his release clause Dumfries would be better than out of position Nunes and far better than Lewis who’s unfortunately just not the standard required.