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Transfer thread

SteveAWOL said:
Does go to show how much strength training that Xavi Simons needs to do in the gym when you consider that he weighs almost 3 stone less than Eriksen or Rose!

Xavi Simons 5’10” (178cm) 9 stone 2 lbs (58kg)
Eriksen 5’11” (181cm) 11 stone 13 lbs (76kg)
Danny Rose 5’8” (173cm) 12 stone 0 lb (76kg)
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Modric is 10Kgs less than both Eriksen and Rose, David Silva as well, and I'd say Modric and Silva managed the PL well enough

Xavi has some adapting to do, but it's not needing to put on 3 stone.
 
5'10" and 58kg?? No chance...I'm not having that. That's surely just his weight when he was a Barcelona or something

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Finney Is Back said:
What problems does it create?

The PL is what we need to worry about, without sorting out a bigger and better squad for the PL then we won't be in Europe anyway. Note that I don't see us qualifying for Europe next season anyway so it hardly matters but if we do somehow scrape in then both Gray and Bergval can come off of the overseas list next season which would open up two further spots.
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Injuries and need for rotation, but then some players can only play in some games meaning that the options available to Frank becomes more limited. Also potentially players getting unhappy about missing out on CL football.

I agree that the league is more important and worth having players not registered for that reason. My initial point was just that we have had registration issues and for that reason and others selling is important.
 
braineclipse said:
Injuries and need for rotation, but then some players can only play in some games meaning that the options available to Frank becomes more limited. Also potentially players getting unhappy about missing out on CL football.

I agree that the league is more important and worth having players not registered for that reason. My initial point was just that we have had registration issues and for that reason and others selling is important.
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I respectfully disagree. If we have a bigger squad then we can ensure players play fewer minutes overall and that will keep them fresher, irrespective of what competition.

If players are unhappy about missing out on CL football then they should play better and ensure that next time there is a squad to pick they are selected for the competition instead of being left out.

Selling is always important but we had no reason to sell Johnson so early in the window for ‘registration issues’. We now have a smaller squad at a key time and a lack of rotation options will make it less likely we’ll play in Europe again next season.
 
Raziel said:
Modric is 10Kgs less than both Eriksen and Rose, David Silva as well, and I'd say Modric and Silva managed the PL well enough

Xavi has some adapting to do, but it's not needing to put on 3 stone.
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It's less about weight and more about strength, weight distribution and balance. Modric was essentially perfect in all of those areas whereas say someone like Richy whilst taller and maybe even thicker lacks the same degree of co-ordination and definitely strength.

I don't even think Xavi is especially weak, he just looks for easy fouls too often. He usually could potentially stay on his feet but he takes the easy option and falls over.
 
Raziel said:
Modric is 10Kgs less than both Eriksen and Rose, David Silva as well, and I'd say Modric and Silva managed the PL well enough

Xavi has some adapting to do, but it's not needing to put on 3 stone.
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Whilst I agree that Simons shouldn't need to bulk up by quite that much you're comparing him to 2 players who are several inches shorter than him.

Plus they're both generational talents and whilst we all hope that Simons will finally fulfil his potential the chances of him reaching the heady heights of Modric or Silva are very slim and it's more likely he'll simply get bullied out of the PL like the similarly slender Bryan Gil.
 
Raziel said:
So outside of Souza .. nothing?
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I imagine it will be like last January. Souza earlyish as a young squad player (like Kinsky). Then a bigger signing or two nearer deadline day (like Danso and Tel).

It also fits with the no leaks MO of the past year or two. Souza is only leaking from Santos. Our end seems watertight these days.
 
Yiddo said:
The more this transfer window goes on and the more nothing has been said or done the more Levy comes out smelling of roses imo.
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Not really. We never did amazing in January. Levy was a good chairman but the transfer market was not really his . I guess people will then say he was never acting alone. So you can’t praise or knock him in this. The facts are we have not done good business for a long time which coincides with levy. I’m sure he is not solely to look at btw
 
Yiddo said:
The more this transfer window goes on and the more nothing has been said or done the more Levy comes out smelling of roses imo.
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Remind me of all the times Levy had smashed it in the transfer market by 7th January? January isn't the time to be be doing the best/big deals usually, bit of a stretch to try and judge the competency of ENIC post Levy on the first 7 days of the January window, or the January window at all....
 
harr1984 said:
Remind me of all the times Levy had smashed it in the transfer market by 7th January? January isn't the time to be be doing the best/big deals usually, bit of a stretch to try and judge the competency of ENIC post Levy on the first 7 days of the January window, or the January window at all....
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Whilst I agree.

I don't think the new structure has much time before it goes sour

We are in a relegation fight again
 
Gazza said:
Not really. We never did amazing in January. Levy was a good chairman but the transfer market was not really his . I guess people will then say he was never acting alone. So you can’t praise or knock him in this. The facts are we have not done good business for a long time which coincides with levy. I’m sure he is not solely to look at btw
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The only time we had a great January window was the season Redknapp came in and we were looking as though we could be relegated. Magically, significant money appeared that Jan for signings.
 
harr1984 said:
Remind me of all the times Levy had smashed it in the transfer market by 7th January? January isn't the time to be be doing the best/big deals usually, bit of a stretch to try and judge the competency of ENIC post Levy on the first 7 days of the January window, or the January window at all....
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Bro even if we have a brick January that's what we usually had under Levy anyway.

I don't actually know when we had a good window under him but that's a different conversation.
 
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