Virgil van Dijk

[r.soleofsalford]

Does that go for every other club that didn't buy him. Maybe you should tweet the club when you see a player we should buy ;-)

8-}

 

[Innsbruckblue]

Does that go for every other club that didn't buy him. Maybe you should tweet the club when you see a player we should buy ;-)

No, mate. Not what I mean. At Celtic, he would never have been considered good enough for City. One season with Southampton and he's the answer to our defensive problems? It's this myopic view of players because they have no prem experience. We won't take a chance at 13m, but once he's played a few games in England, we'll happily lube up for the selling team. I really do despair at our scouting team at times

 

[Southern]

No, mate. Not what I mean. At Celtic, he would never have been considered good enough for City. One season with Southampton and he's the answer to our defensive problems? It's this myopic view of players because they have no prem experience. We won't take a chance at 13m, but once he's played a few games in England, we'll happily lube up for the selling team. I really do despair at our scouting team at times

To be fair, even Scott Sinclair looks good in Scotland.
It's difficult gambling on a player like van Dijk who'd never played in a major league.

 

[1961_vintage]

Can't help but be a bit worried if his predecessors Scott Minto, Alan Kernaghan, Gordon Smith, John Foster and Jeff Whitley are anything to go by.

 

[AshLunn92]

No, mate. Not what I mean. At Celtic, he would never have been considered good enough for City. One season with Southampton and he's the answer to our defensive problems? It's this myopic view of players because they have no prem experience. We won't take a chance at 13m, but once he's played a few games in England, we'll happily lube up for the selling team. I really do despair at our scouting team at times

Not sure that's a fair statement at all. Our scouting team has been especially active in hoovering up young, unproven but promising talent before they reach mega money values. In fact I would say we are one of the best teams in the world at doing that these days. I hope I don't need to list all of the young talent we've signed up.
But because we missed out on Van Dijk you 'despair' our scouting team?

Not sure you've thought that through

 

[BlueDeadHead]

Not sure that's a fair statement at all. Our scouting team has been especially active in hoovering up young, unproven but promising talent before they reach mega money values. In fact I would say we are one of the best teams in the world at doing that these days. I hope I don't need to list all of the young talent we've signed up.
But because we missed out on Van Dijk you 'despair' our scouting team?

Not sure you've thought that through

Spot on. Best scouting organization in the world.

 

[Chevelle]

This really pisses me off about our club. Another player we could have bought for much less had we taken the gamble. But no, let's get ripped off again, and it's still a gamble!
Will we ever learn?

If we went and brought a player who was the lesser of two with Denayer at celtic everybody on here would have been cracking it including you that we had done another Rodwell or Sinclair buy. Cheap underwhelming purchase etc

 

[Innsbruckblue]

Not sure that's a fair statement at all. Our scouting team has been especially active in hoovering up young, unproven but promising talent before they reach mega money values. In fact I would say we are one of the best teams in the world at doing that these days. I hope I don't need to list all of the young talent we've signed up.
But because we missed out on Van Dijk you 'despair' our scouting team?

Not sure you've thought that through

Do you really believe our first-team scouts are doing a good job?

 

[city saint]

Do you really believe our first-team scouts are doing a good job?

I do on the whole.theyre always going to be failures every team has them

 

[Sir peace frog]

Not sure that's a fair statement at all. Our scouting team has been especially active in hoovering up young, unproven but promising talent before they reach mega money values. In fact I would say we are one of the best teams in the world at doing that these days. I hope I don't need to list all of the young talent we've signed up.
But because we missed out on Van Dijk you 'despair' our scouting team?

Not sure you've thought that through

ahh go on then list all the young talent :)