Vinci
The Sultan of Unai
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Why are people so high on Dembele? His numbers at Celtic are far from impressive and he isn't even an indisputed starter at Lyon right now. Seems to be more hype than substance.
Moussa from Lyon.Which Dembele are we talking about?
Heard some rumours PSG was interested in Guendouzi for 60M a while ago. If thats true, I’d rather sell him
Laca is our best player ffs...
Moussa from Lyon.
We should probably try to keep our good players imo.
BarcabeleWhich Dembele are we talking about?
Moussa an upgrade on Lacazette?
Have you seen him play this season?
The only selling we gotta do is sell Lacazette the idea that this club is actually going somewhere.
Who can he look to in this current team that gives him the confidence we are heading places in the near future?
We need this EL trophy now and a big summer window.
His numbers at Celtic were very good, especially his first season. Second season he had a few injuries but still put up decent numbers and scored in the big games. His numbers at Lyon are very good. Important goals at important times. Has he struggled, yes. But the quality is clearly there. He is stepping upto a higher league but also a less physical league which takes away from one of his main strengths.Why are people so high on Dembele? His numbers at Celtic are far from impressive and he isn't even an indisputed starter at Lyon right now. Seems to be more hype than substance.
That I have. Numerous times. The boy is gonna be a star.Moussa an upgrade on Lacazette?
Have you seen him play this season?
I could maybe have gotten on board with the logic when Sven was here. As of right now we have no true DOF, we don't know how much of a hit our scouting and recruitment has taken with Sven's departure and the only evidence of Emery and Raul's competence(or lack thereof) in the transfer market thus far is the almost hilariously bad loan of Suarez. So then the question becomes whether you want to cash in on a player whom you know performs for you in the hopes that people who have not exactly shown themselves to be great recruiters can gamble on some players who may just as easily turn out to be a Xhaka or Mustafi as a Torreira or Guendouzi. No thanks. We aren't in a position to be taking those sorts of risks right now.He actually is my favourite player at the moment at the club, but if it means we can finance Zaha and Ziyech, it's a no brainer. As someone else pointed out in this thread it is the same situation as Liverpool had with Coutinho. They bought VVD and Allison with that money. If we can manage to sell Mkhi and Laca we'll raise about 100m. That should be enough to buy Zaha and Ziyech.
A front three of Zaha-Auba-Ziyech is a versitale front three with the ability to tear defenses apart.
If our remaining budget is about 65m without selling we should target Tierney and a CB. With the other transfers going out we should be able to buy a Ramsey repclament (Nkunku or Brandt for max 25m)
His numbers at Celtic were very good, especially his first season. Second season he had a few injuries but still put up decent numbers and scored in the big games. His numbers at Lyon are very good. Important goals at important times. Has he struggled, yes. But the quality is clearly there. He is stepping upto a higher league but also a less physical league which takes away from one of his main strengths.
That I have. Numerous times. The boy is gonna be a star.
If the 45m transfer budget reports are true then we can probably not afford having 100m locked in a position where we can only play one of Laca/Auba ideally. That money is better spent elsewhere.We should probably try to keep our good players imo.
If the 45m transfer budget reports are true then we can probably not afford having 100m locked in a position where we can only play one of Laca/Auba ideally. That money is better spent elsewhere.
And if Auba/Laca then get hurt, who do we have as striker? Welbeck is leaving. We spent years having no depth in that position. Now that we have it we should keep it. We'd have to buy a CF if we sold either Auba or Laca, so we'd be putting money right back into that position.If the 45m transfer budget reports are true then we can probably not afford having 100m locked in a position where we can only play one of Laca/Auba ideally. That money is better spent elsewhere.
Most managers these days, including Emery, prefer to play with one striker. Emery prefers to play in a 4231 formation and Auba on the wing isn’t ideal for this.We can play with 2 striker tactic. Also top teams need at least 3 good strikers anyway. We have now 2. Also we need rotation.
It makes no sense to sell either when we have been lucky to get both to come and they get along great.
Most managers these days, including Emery, prefer to play with one striker. Emery prefers to play in a 4231 formation and Auba on the wing isn’t ideal for this.
There’s no top teams with 3 good strikers. Most top teams have one good striker and a couple wide forwards who can fill in as a striker like a son, mane etc. No top team in the world have two good out and out strikers like we do.
If Suarez, Kane, Firmino gets hurt then their wide forwards step up and play as a striker. Their back ups are Kevin-Prince Boateng, Llorente and Origi, not a 60m Auba/Laca.And if Auba/Laca then get hurt, who do we have as striker? Welbeck is leaving. We spent years having no depth in that position. Now that we have it we should keep it. We'd have to buy a CF if we sold either Auba or Laca, so we'd be putting money right back into that position.