Welshspur60
Stephen Kelly
We might not be in the PL by then given our current trajectory.
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Transfer thread
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No issue with Souza, especially as Udogie will be back soon enough and Spence, Davies and VDV can cover.
My issue is
- Why does it take us 10 fudging days to sign a 15M player from Brazil? what the fudge were doing in December prepping for this window?
- Where is the players to help Frank now, again I want the guy gone, but if the club won't pull the trigger, give the guy a bone, something.
- Re experience, again someone like Neves or Lookman is a buyable shout.
If Frank loses the next 3 games, he's fudging gone, then what, you bring in a player on Jan 31st?
If we are smart
- We need to either play Tel or loan him
- Vuscovic would be well served by one more season in Germany
- I'd like to see a fasttrack plan for Williams-Barnett
- We need to make calls on Moore, Scarlett, etc.
Nothing wrong with the strategy but we have to have a focused pla to develop these players in squad or on loan, plus give them an environment to play winning football in. Bergvall would look like a monster in one of the top 3 teams surrounded by a team playing functionally and with confidence.
Bishop
Jimmy McCormick
I agree and I think that's the kind of the point. Saying Johnson might have scored is a pointless comment when the manager didn't rate him, didn't really play him and didn't even play in a manner that created the type of chances Johnson was good at finishing.
thfcsteff
Ralph Coates
Which IMO, considering he is a coach who was reported to be really good at both developing players and using his squad, is a criminal waste.
SpurMeUp
Erik Thorstvedt
Re. the Johnson sale Frank himself said that in hindsight we wouldn’t have sold him. Which says it all.
There is no doubt Frank would have used him and he’d have added some stability as a settled senior player.
On the flip side Kudus will be back and I’m sure the club had another senior signing planned. Whether the player at City who got injured or another, ultimately we are trying to upgrade our squad.
The smart way to act would have been to keep Palave waiting unless they increased their bid, until we were ready with a senior signing. Levy would have done this better. But I also get that selling and upgrading the squad even if not realising the best price, is what we need to do. But don’t weaken us when the replacement isn’t done. Keep Palace waiting until we’re ready.
There is no doubt Frank would have used him and he’d have added some stability as a settled senior player.
On the flip side Kudus will be back and I’m sure the club had another senior signing planned. Whether the player at City who got injured or another, ultimately we are trying to upgrade our squad.
The smart way to act would have been to keep Palave waiting unless they increased their bid, until we were ready with a senior signing. Levy would have done this better. But I also get that selling and upgrading the squad even if not realising the best price, is what we need to do. But don’t weaken us when the replacement isn’t done. Keep Palace waiting until we’re ready.
Muttley
Gerry Armstrong
Is it perhaps like the end of our season? Players just jump on planes and head away on holiday. It's only when they return do they start working on deals.
It does feel like Souza could have been announced on the 1st Jan though.
I just hope that we do have some major irons in the fire. It doesn't feel like it.
ricky2tricky4city
Chris Jones
I don't think anyone will be developing Johnson beyond playing your team/ tactics in a way that suits him. Ange signed him as his profile fitted his system...a wide man that doesn't cut in (pretty rare these days), and had some success in that role.
If Frank is not going to be playing a system requiring similar, then he doesn't require Johnson.
I don't think a manager is going to develop Johnson into something else.
(With a slight caveat that I was intrigued by the thought of him being a go ahead finisher in a strike force pairing)
Chrissivad
Frederic Kanoute
I think Liverpool want him.
Yiddo
Dimitar Berbatov
Liverpool the new Chelsea, just signing players for the sake of signing them.
Bishop
Jimmy McCormick
This is what we are mate.
We have very rarely ever bought players promptly in a transfer window.
Bishop
Jimmy McCormick
Bergvall wouldn't start for any of the top 3 teams. He might get the odd minute here or there though.
Bishop
Jimmy McCormick
We have to accept that just because you've been good at developing players in the past it doesn't mean you think every player has the potential. He's evaluated what he's seen from Johnson and doesn't believe that he can get more from him. I don't disagree honestly.
He's as good as a lot of the "wonderkids" the top 3 have played in the last 5 years, not that I disagree with the "would he start" statement.
All of these players are more what will they be at 25, a few years ago I made a list of the top young players that English media was fawning over at City/Chelsea/United/Scum/etc and made the comment that none of them were what Dele was at 20 and we know how that ended, and made the comment most would be mid tier PL in 3-5 years, too lazy to dig it up, but point still stands.
We would have said that about Sarr & Udogie and they have not really kicked on. Udogie more due to injury. But the reality is maybe half of them will work out.