OUR SUMMER IS GOING TO BE THIS:
ARSENAL OFFER <LESS THAN ASKING PRICE> TO ATLETI
ATLETI SAY NO
ARSENAL OFFER <SLIGHTLY MORE THAN PREVIOUS FAILED BID> TO ATLETI
ATLETI SAY NO
ARSENAL OFFER <SLIGHTLY MORE THAN PREVIOUS FAILED BID> TO ATLETI
… and so on.
It seems that we’ve offered them the deal I suggested a few weeks ago… they get an u20 French midfielder + some money. That is not tickling Simeone.
Remember though, Atleti is in deep shit on the money front. They used one of those fancy lending firms that ‘ease cashflow in football’ to fund a bunch of their deals, now they are drowning in shit. They likely want the £50m because that’ll help ease their €500 million debt burden. They’ll also want to save face, a bit like Palace last season with Zaha (lol).
I have no idea if they’ll do a deal with us, but it might be easier for them than forking out a double-your-salary deal for the Ghanaian.
Talks seem to be gathering pace that Dani Ceballos has no chance under Zidane next season, and he’s believed to be keen to join Arsenal for another year, when it is hoped Arsenal might be able to muster the funds to buy him. That works for me, he’s been a revelation since he returned from the breaks. He’s an all-action player that needs to work on his final ball, but it certainly looks like he could be capable of growing into that role in the double pivot. He might looks quite good next to someone like Partey.
ESR is 20! Happy Birthday, let’s hope he lands some minutes next year, the hopes are VERY high for him.
The Coutinho and Willian rumours continue to stink out the internet, I really think you need to brace for impact there. I think at least one of the players will end up at Arsenal next season. No offence to the player, who I think is decent, but the deal will just double down on two things.
- Raul doesn’t learn from his mistakes
- Leadership at Arsenal is a touch bland
- Raul and Edu do not care one jot that the English press is scrutinising their super-agent best friend deals
Edu really is embarrassing, brought in to be a fine smelling, very handsome, Invincible™-so-he-must-love-us cover to allow Raul to do whatever he pleases. It’s all super disappointing, but I won’t lose too much sleep over it until it happens. THEN I WILL NOT SLEEP AND I WILL RAGE.
David Ornstein says we’ll hear offers for Reiss, Sokratis, Holding, Guen, Torreira, and Mustafi. To be honest, I think we’d listen to offers for most of our players. There aren’t many that are indispensable.
Man, I’m depressing myself out here. A short one today, listen to my LATEST podcast with an actual person this week. Then tomorrow, we start talking FA CUP FINAL WOOO YES HIT ME WITH THE JOY BATON! No, that sounds weird. Inject joy into my veins? No… just, you know, show up tomorrow and we’ll have lovely post for you.
CkuntryBoy – couldn’t agree more. I have never seen Buendia play and Thomas is still fine to some extent but taking Coutinho doesn’t make sense. He may shine at Arsenal but it’s a year at loan.
We are not fighting in Champions League. There is no short term target. What benefit it would do to get Cou on loan for an year and paying shit load of money?
We should be all up in Said Benrahma’s business
mb
Seen Buendia, I am telling you, he is what we are missing.
Close control, switches play effortlessly and cool in tight spaces.
And he is 23. The only way is up.
Countryboy
Sao plays in RB Salzburg… i think we’ll have to shoot Matteo dead before being able to ship him to Salzburg 🙂
I meant Szo
‘Instead of the Audi options-
Coutinho
Partey
We can do with the Honda options
Beundia
Perreira’
Chelsea, meanwhile, are doing the Bentley options. Man City always Ferrari and Liverpool go BMW these days.
How are we gonna compete at the same uptown party with our Honda?
Sorry
Meant Salzburg
The Brentford coach get a yellow card for delay of game. He is preventing the other team to throw in.
Andy “So that’s three seasons or so in the history of the club. And around the English game the creative #10 has been something of a flash in the pan too. Popular when sides were using a single striker but now more or less a redundant luxury.Every single league title we have won was without an Ozil or Coutinho style #10.” Except coutinho would be playing as a left Sided midfield (LCM), he played there for liverpool and ceballos would be on the right side. People are asking for Szobozolai and he plays the same spot where Coutinho would play… Read more »
All we really need at Arsenal is Kroenke out.
Does he not understand his asset is depreciating? Putting money into Arsenal right now and getting us competing again will make him more money long term.
Brentford going to wembley.
I don’t understand that clamour for No10. It has never been very popular in UK anyway. And now even on the continent most team don’t play with No10 anymore. Even when Mikel Arteta was playing Özil, he did not used him as a standard No10. His team was lopsided, with Xhaka on the left to help out Saka on the left, AMN tucked in from right back into slightly right midfield. Özil was playing deeper and off center than a standard No10 on the right to compensate for Pepe not really defending. So Arteta is unlikely to want a No10.… Read more »
Anyone see the brentford match?
Quality team when did the championship get so fookin good
Benrahma is such a Joy to watch
Yeah this guy is a don
‘Edu really is embarrassing, brought in to be a fine smelling, very handsome, Invincible™-so-he-must-love-us cover to allow Raul to do whatever he pleases. It’s all super disappointing, but I won’t lose too much sleep over it until it happens. ‘
Sir P!
Of course you remember that your sauce theory started with Edu before being injected into the Mikel debate don’t you?
See how badly sauce could go wrong?
I think the key word with respect to any forthcoming was used a few times by Arteta in his pre match and post match interviews: “SPECIFICITY.”. Arteta wants particular types of players fulfilling particular functions in terms of creativity, pressing , pace and power, use of space, dribbling ability, etc etc. And he has a set of very defined characteristics in mind. For each position/set of characteristics he/Edu has in mind, there will be 3-4 players ranked in order of preference/cost. Who we get (if any) will depend on finances (e.g. whether We get into the Europa via winning Fa… Read more »
Bruno Fernandes is playing as a #10 though. He has Matic and Pogba playing behind him.
Valentin “Even when Mikel Arteta was playing Özil, he did not used him as a standard No10. His team was lopsided, with Xhaka on the left to help out Saka on the left, AMN tucked in from right back into slightly right midfield. Özil was playing deeper and off center than a standard No10 on the right to compensate for Pepe not really defending.” Its always Pepe for you right… Not that immediately Arteta came we were playing similar to how City were playing with Mahrez on the wing, Debruyne close and Walker tucking into the midfield. You didn’t talk… Read more »
Coutinho hardly enters the right Midfield zone, always the left.. Ceballos would take the right midfield and Partey at the base, and if not Coutinho then Szobozlai would do, the same thing minus the dribble.
Cazorla initially played as a 10 when he first came to Arsenal.
Backpass, we couldn’t play like that, our 3-5-2 could only accommodate a #10 playing in the hole behind two strikers.
If we play with wing backs and two attacking midfielders we’d need two DM’s and have to play with one striker. Given our midfield options we’d get overrun in the middle of the park
If you’re suggesting a 4-3-3 with full backs, one DM and two wide attacking MF players we’d get absolutely slaughtered down the spine. Just Xhaka in front of two suspect CB’s.
Sorry, I just don’t see how that would work.
Most Arsenal supporters are a case.
You rely on Ceballos for creativity and you are gonna sneer at the prospect of bringing in Coutinho?
The things that are written here.
Un
Come on mate you know the rules on here –
signing looks good or works out = it was Mislintat or soon to be Arteta
signing looks bad or doesn’t work out = IT WAS SANLLEHI
Backpass, Mikel Arteta gave that exact same explanation after a game. He wanted Saka higher up the pitch more like a left winger and Aubameyang closer to the striker. He moved Xhaka to the left to cover Saka. That in term created an void in the middle of the midfield. In order to void it, he then ask AMN to play higher up and tucked in. That meant that the right winger had more space to defend which Pepe did not. So to cover that extra space without asking him to drop deeper, Özil was tasked to drop deeper and… Read more »
Willian looks like signing on at Chelsea. Thankfully
Andy “Backpass, we couldn’t play like that, our 3-5-2 could only accommodate a #10 playing in the hole behind two strikers. If we play with wing backs and two attacking midfielders we’d need two DM’s and have to play with one striker. Given our midfield options we’d get overrun in the middle of the parkIf you’re suggesting a 4-3-3 with full backs, one DM and two wide attacking MF players we’d get absolutely slaughtered down the spine. Just Xhaka in front of two suspect CB’s.Sorry, I just don’t see how that would work.” I doubt Arteta would play a 3… Read more »
Un, nope, DB10 was a striker. Nothing like Ozil or Coutinho (I knew you’d bring that up, we’ve had that discussion before). If you don’t believe me perhaps you’d believe the man himself, he’s always said that he considered himself a striker. Dennis was what was traditionally called a second striker. Neither MO or PC are anything like Dennis. Not even close. The man offered a goal threat, had the sort of power that those two could only dream of, and he was a hard b*stard too, played with an edge. I first saw DB10 in a WC qualifier at… Read more »
Un
Maybe we all imagined that Bergkamp was the archetypal no.10.
To be honest I think Andy is just desperate to convince everyone that the no.10 is obsolete and previously had no real influence in games.
Valentin “Backpass,Mikel Arteta gave that exact same explanation after a game. He wanted Saka higher up the pitch more like a left winger and Aubameyang closer to the striker. He moved Xhaka to the left to cover Saka. That in term created an void in the middle of the midfield. In order to void it, he then ask AMN to play higher up and tucked in. That meant that the right winger had more space to defend which Pepe did not. So to cover that extra space without asking him to drop deeper, Özil was tasked to drop deeper and… Read more »
Backpass, the problem with that is you’re talking about £20m loan for Coutinho, £50m on Partey, plus another £10m to extend Ceballos. I can’t see us spending £80m with two of those players being loanees for a year.
I agree though that we need an AM plus a dominant central midfielder. One without the other is only doing half a job.
Andy
“I agree though that we need an AM plus a dominant central midfielder. One without the other is only doing half a job.”
Exactly, and if we get Szobozlai instead, then its fine.
I’ll be happy with Szobozlai/Coutinho and Partey and leave the defense like this depending on sales at the back.
If laca leaves, get benrahma for £30 million.
Un
Sanllehi was epic last summer, Pepe – marquee signing get the fans juices going, Tierney – going to be one of the top LB’s playing in the PL, Saliba – top rated young CB with a really high ceiling, Martinelli – live wire young player going to be electric, Ceballos – was rubbish now half in here are bitching that we didn’t nail done a purchase price.
It was the best TW we’ve seen for years.
Sorry are we talking “real world” or are we talking “Football Manager” with the signings people are talking about on here?
Coutinho can do more than play in CM its true he doesnt start on the right but he is right footed if i remember right which means in a pinch putting him in at right wing isnt like putting ceballos there, probably a step up from pepe/nelson whoever else is playing out there anyway. Saka is still so young you cant rely on him the way you can a vet. My point with all of this is i disagree w current project youth/dortmund 2.0 philosphy pedros talking about. We need guys over the age of 26, preferably a bit older,… Read more »
Marc
“Sorry are we talking “real world” or are we talking “Football Manager” with the signings people are talking about on here?”
Am guessing this is addressed to me, so let me bite.
We are definitely getting Partey or Danillo
Coutinho on loan
And if we sell Lacazette for 30-35 million, we can then use that to buy Benhrama… Chelsea were quoted £25 million in January.
I doubt Partey, Coutinho on loan and Benrahma( if Lacazette gets sold) is Football manager stuff.
Honestly, what do you think we will do?
My feeling is that D Luiz has been at the center of our worst and beat moments. Hes a lightning rod and has it in him, as a defender, to decide a game. He did it many times at chelsea. We need a few more lightning rods even if they have a few errors and reds in them and they’re past their prime. Who can argue with that after all these spineless years????
Just my take i guess
backpass
No wasn’t directed at you specifically – just people are arguing over big sums when I really don’t think we have a pot to piss in and we could be looking at sales to balance the books.
I’d love to be wrong though!
Sorry Un, can’t agree. The guy scored over 200 career goals and a rate of better than a goal every three games. Coutinho is in his peak and scores fewer than one in four, and that will decline in the latter stages of his career just as Dennis’ scoring rate did. Ozil isn’t even remotely a striker, is as robust as a limp lettuce, and has all the determination of a two year old. If Pierre thinks he’s anything like DB10 that says more about his understanding of the game than anything insulting I could come up with. Which is… Read more »
Best*
Marc
I agree partey doesnt seem realistic but I think coutinho is going to make sense to a lot of the hierarchy. Whether mikels on board, dunno. Whether coutinhos up for it, dunno.
Zach
You’ve then got to add in a tonne of journo bullshit and then times it by ten for the agent multiplier.
An alternative to Coutinho would be Chanaloglou at Milan, games matured so damn much this year. Of course we can’t get him on loan and we’re skint according to some on here.
Sarri’s Juve are maybe the worse Juve title winners ever, horrible they’ve been allowed to win the league. What’s that 32 or 33 goals for Immobile this season, absolutely brilliant footballer
Marc
You used to accuse me of being a doomsday merchant…and here you are beating the same drums.
My tactical knowledge is more limited than mikel artetas but i’m guessing he’s gonna be looking for a highly technical forward/AM who can do what ozil occasionally did. I think he’ll be looking for a MF more along the lines of partey than cazorla As well. Its summer on le grove ffs
I’m gonna make some fucking guesses
Marc
Care to elaborate on this equation. What do i multiply it with?
“backpassNo wasn’t directed at you specifically – just people are arguing over big sums when I really don’t think we have a pot to piss in and we could be looking at sales to balance the books.” I actually think it would be hard to shift lots of them. Ozil : going nowhere Mustafi: going nowhere Kolasinac: no buyer Sokratis: agent already said he is going nowhere Guendouzi: we will sell him for dirt cheap. AMN : maybe Brighton £20-25million Eleney: Besiktas claim they don’t have the cash. Torreira: Milan already got a better player in bennacer. Nelson: No idea.… Read more »
I also forgot to say, i believe we need a master free kick taker, one that isnt Pepe so that we arent forced to use him in games away to stoke where we should win 2-0 on free kicks/pens etc
If we’re so he’ll bent on getting a No 10/Playmaker,then I give you a player that is like a hybrid of Szo and Coutinho, I give you Van Der Beek. 23 I think, contributes at both end of the pitch, physical, and can definitely improve his goalscoring.
I don’t know why we keep missing the blindingly obvious.
Zach
I have been understating it!
I may have – doh
*hellbent
Dissenter
There’s a difference – you’re a miserable bugger and I’m just alert to reality!
Andy
” If Pierre thinks he’s anything like DB10 that says more about his understanding of the game than anything insulting I could come up with.”
Sorry, I didn’t realise that all No.10’s have to be the same.
It’s you that is making comparisons not anyone else.
I would give up now if I were you as you could be going into Bamford territory of stupidity if you continue with the absurd notion that Bergkamp wasn’t a no.10.
Bastistuta
Immobile 35 goals.
If he scores 2 in his last match on Sunday, he surpasses the record set by Higuan at 36 goals.
Some might say he scored 15 penalties so he shouldn’t be compared to Higuan, but to me a goal is a goal.
Thorough
“If we’re so he’ll bent on getting a No 10/Playmaker,then I give you a player that is like a hybrid of Szo and Coutinho, I give you Van Der Beek. 23 I think, contributes at both end of the pitch, physical, and can definitely improve his goalscoring.
I don’t know why we keep missing the blindingly obvious.”
Maybe because he would cost at least £40 million?
Pierre, by your way of thinking then anyone who wears a ’10’ on his back is a number ten. Different types? Yeah, Dennis was a striker – he said so. Ozil is a midfielder – that’s what he’s listed as on Arsenal.com (not a forward), and Gallas wore #10 for a while too.
As usual your rambling makes no sense. To coin a phrase you could just keep quiet and let people think that you’re an idiot but instead you go and open your mouth and prove it.
Other reason we arent positioned to be dortmund 2.0 is that theres been an albatross hung on the club since the move to emirates. A bad smell. Mikels gotta clear
That shit out before we can be aplace for youth that isnt a cesspit of toxicity. Lets be realistic
Thorough
I dont know anything about Szo but i dont think van der beek, or any young world beater whose getting courted by the big continentals is going to be super eager to head our way.
I know theres lots of talent out there. Seems like championship might be a better place to start looking considering the inconsistent, limp look our squad wavers to against championship level teams
Un, I agree with that but the discussion was focusing on getting a modern no 10 not the old style one like Dennis which is why I said that bar Ozil we’ve never has one of those, which I believe is accurate (and why I noted the differences between them).
Just like Chelsea, United and Barca are all fighting for Willian, but the lots here led by Sir P would sneer at Willian. Without even an assurance of the GREAT Europa league. People really think past glory matter in football when no one knows in what decade you will return to the CL…..plus the attraction of a rookie coach with no CV prospective quality incomings can assess. Reality is: With our current situations, If we pull off any of Coutinho or Willian, then it’s a fucking bloody coup. One of the reasons we ended up with Pepe at £72m was… Read more »
****does matter
Pierre is right, Arsenal fans care too much about the transfer fees and wages of players these days. At the moment, we’re linked with Zaha and Coutinho. Wages and fees aside, these are 2 top quality players and at 27/28 years old they are at the peak of their game. They would stroll into our first team easily. For years, fans moaned that we didn’t spend enough. They moaned that Wenger was always ‘penny pinching’. Now we have the money to spend, and even when we brought Aubameyang, people on here were saying ‘oh he’s too old’, or ‘he won’t… Read more »
Has anyone mentioned Brentford on here tonight?
Ollie Watkins is a super player.
Congrats to The Bees.
The Backpass.
You actually think Arsenal can’t afford a 40 million dollar midfielder? Maybe we’re not ready to love forward then.
Zacharse Once in a while you may hit it off with an occasional amazing player in the championship. But if we really wanna move forward we’ve got to shell out for the best we can get. See Chelsea for example, with all the midfielders they’ve got, players all over championship and elsewhere doing great, yet still had to get Ziyech and about to get Havertz. Its a fact of life, we have to adapt or die. And we’re dying slowly. If this billionaire can’t see that FFP at its best is lame, and he may need to invest and invest… Read more »
If Arsenal are registering an interest in Grealish can I register an interest in Margot Robbie?
Thorough
“The Backpass.
You actually think Arsenal can’t afford a 40 million dollar midfielder? Maybe we’re not ready to love forward then.”
Without Sales or kronke helping us out sadly we can’t.
Partey for £45million to be paid once.
Van de beek for £40 million
That is a lot of money, lose to Chelsea and whatever we have shrinks. Sadly, we need Kronke to pump money in.
The Backpass. Exactly my point. And sadly if we don’t find the money we’ll keep treading water. We need a transfer season when we’ll blow everyone out of the waters. I’m talking the kind of Malgaes, Partey, Van Der Beek, summer. We may even need more than one. That’s the way to go. City and Chelsea have done that and now can relax and add cherries on top. We have to invest big over 2 summers and then take it up from there. And I believe the money must come from outside as we have few players we can sell… Read more »
“If we’re so he’ll bent on getting a No 10/Playmaker,then I give you a player that is like a hybrid of Szo and Coutinho, I give you Van Der Beek. 23”
Found something to agree with Thorough about. Would be a great signing. May even have a small advantage with him too seeing as he’s trotting out DB10’s daughter. I’m sure Denis will be in his ear.
To add to the number 10 debate. Andy talks about a ‘modern’ number 10. These type players sit in a hole and spray balls left and right and do very little else, they are link up players. As he correctly says, there is little space for these in the modern game. In the days of DB, Totti etc, they were not referred to as ‘number 10’s’. They were second strikers that sat deeper, were more creative and a bit less selfish. They assisted, but also scored a good number of goals from all over the pitch. They were also all… Read more »
Overmars the goalposts moved on judging transfers for very good reason Context is everything 10 years ago we could’ve bought two excellent players and been title contenders and done much better in the CL. Instead we were insisting on being clever about the final pieces of the jigsaw to be successful and we kept turning out less clever than expected Now arsenal are miles off the pace, the worst we’ve been for a few decades and most of the team needs replacing either urgently or within the next 2 years. Funds are tight and we need to make a bigger… Read more »
120k*
If it was 120 I’d be all over that haha
But that’s the exact point about the difference between decent players and value for money
Just watched a new You Tube video from Bellerin interviewing Florencia Galarza. WTF! We have a Cup final in 3 days and Bellerin is spending all the time producing You Tube video.
Well now at least we know FFP doesnt matter
Time for kroenke to pump in the big bucks
https://youtu.be/PqwWCIOmIhA
China01
I think Zaha at around 30 million pounds is great value for money, if that’s what he costs.
We will have money this summer. Even more so with potential sales of Sokratis, Chambers/Holding, Kolasinac, Mustafi, Guendouzi, Torreira, Lacazette, Elneny, maybe Ozil. I wouldn’t worry. We’ll have enough for a couple of midfielders, a defender and a winger.
Sokratis and Ozil day they won’t leave. Chambers and mustafi are hurt. No one wants elneny. Other then that you might be able to sell the rest on your list.
Your valuations of possible outgoings is unrealistic and out of line with most recognized valuation sources. Certainly doesn’t help your credibility. And if you and other readers want to create and fantasize over proposed deals viewing them from the perspective of the club you are approaching will often lead you to a different conclusion. For example, Simeone agrees to sell Partey subject to the following: $ 45 Million cash, no installments and Martinelli. Now after Martinelli’s injury the counter would be $ 40 Million and Saka. Seems more a reasonable and convincing offer to get Simeone to move. Are you… Read more »
Interesting take on the 5 sub rule:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/29/football-five-substitutes-rule-does-not-benefit-the-big-clubs-and-here-is-why
Hey guys. Been mad busy but I am following as I can. Big ups to the daily contributors and to Pedro for giving us daily dose of agenda driven write ups. Le grove is at its finest in this format. Also shout out to Pierre for choosing to live and die by Ozil. I hope he never plays for the club again. After Arteta admitted we need a creative spark in the middle (Ozil doesn’t spark anything, mind). He will be foolish not to go all in for Coutinho. He’s quality, available and ready to show Liverpool what they’ve been… Read more »
Overmars if he’s 30m that’s one thing, though last summer he was over 70. I don’t think palace will touch 30 unless their finances are in a desperate state
Secondly what does it mean for Pepe? Or you would put one of them on the left side?
Laca needs to be replaced with someone that can attack crosses from pepe and tierney
Frank it’s extremely unlikely arsenal are including saka or martinelli in any outgoing deals. We’d be more likely to pay the release clause in cash or bundle in other players we don’t want to sweeten the deal. Why would we sacrifice either or our two brightest prospects for Partey?
Sid their names are auba and martinelli!
The last thing we need to be spending money on is a CF even if laca is sold
You don’t upgrade your TV when the roof is leaking and the floor is sinking
Save a shiny new luxury CF for when the foundations are legit
Partey(13 yellows 2019/20) is no Fernadinho(7 yellows2018/19)
Fernadinho is an intelligent refined footballer, partey is crude , agricultural like Doucure, jack of midfield trade master of none.
This why we are not moving forward. People would rather get coutinho for a year rather than build for the next two seasons. We don’t need a big money signing. We just need the player that is signed to be a better fit for us. We were Banging on Kante and Mahrez after Leicester won the title. And they weren’t even under consideration. Last summer Hakim Ziyech was available for 25 mil. He was a really good fit for us. He defends, He scores and He creates. Pepe is good but Ziyech was better value. Now we are going for… Read more »
Joel Veltman for 900k to Brighton? That’s a steal, No robbery if I ever saw one.
Pedro makes comments like that whilst claiming to be an oat milk latte drinker
THIS MAKES ME ANGRY
But he’s right
I think that’s a fair assessment about the non negotiables. Disciplinary standards had drifted for a while under Wenger and ultimately failed to be improved under Emery. I see nothing wrong with the stance Arteta is taking, having high standards cultivates the high performance environment that we need.
Thiago is a good shout. Just dont know if I’d be willing to buy another injury prone player.
To build an elite team like Pool’s we need to find players that are robust and dont get injured often.
Best example is Liverpool’s starting 11. Rarely get injured.
They even pulled the plug on Fekir at the last moment due to his injury issues.
Seems as if Sanchez wants the move to Inter to be permanent, but there is the issue of his contract. 2 years still to go and Inter can’t pay the reported £400,000 a week.
At least there is always someone else worse off!
As for quality
Coutinho is levels above Thiago.
Congratulations to Brentford.
One more step needed.
Those of us who suspected that that Joorabchian was using Arsenal’s name to get his client Joelson Fernandes a better deal at Sporting may have been right after all. It is rumoured now that Joelson Fernandes has agreed an extension in principle.
Spinning wheels theatrics will not improve mentality,
we need guys with longstuff so long the can use it to smack the mistakes outta Luiz, mustafinovs, Xhakalson
Mertesecker with his tiny bean will not toughen the junior team, they need a Sol
Emery did try to have standards I think but ultimately came across as a wet fish so it didn’t work out
The image on him constantly playing with his neck whilst grimacing on the sidelines was painful on the eyes
Un
Thiago is levels above Coutinho , in what way exactly?
Coutinho, the “flop”, who couldn’t nail a spot in Barca’s line up and went to Bayern last season has had 20 goals and 13 assists in 5300 minutes of play over the last two seasons.
Thiago – 6goals 10 assists in over 6000minutes for Bayern last two seasons.
This is a nice read, for nostalgia:
https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/a-forensic-analysis-of-santi-cazorlas-iconic-2015-performance-v-man-city/
Alcantara is another Diaby, so much promise so little delivered.
Im telling you for free!