Yeah. It’s almost like Arsenal’s ploy is to have the WAG tour London.
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If we could find an interested buyer, sure Chiesa would be more expendable. But in terms of actual interest Gakpo has attracted concrete interest from Spurs. I have a feeling we will find out very soon who’s on the auction block once the Barcola deal is completed.
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Plus Gakpo is valued around 70m, I doubt Chiesa would fetch much.
Anyhow I reckon we see movement on this Friday.
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Watched some video last night with French journalist speaking of the high number of chances that Barcola misses, I recall the same thing being said of Salah and we all know how that one turned out.
Being honest I don’t see Chiesa as an option at all this season, even from the bench. Time to get him off the wages somehow
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Maybe we are playing the long game with Barcola,not much more time though,doubt he is worth what PSG do,so time to leave them with a full squad of midfielders to play toy soldiers with and move on.
well, no…
but i’ve been around long enough to know when the distance from rumour to lean for a high profile transfer is taking a long time.
this ones taking a long time, you can deflect by attacking the poster, but its a bit hard not to look at it, with a few days to go until the season starts, and think if we are genuinely in for the guy…genuinely…then its taking a very long time.
i wonder at point when transfers start taking longer than a certain period of time that people start looking at the people involved, even down to the lawyers vetting the deal, and wonder if they want to deal with them again…there would be a point…
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The comparison with Mo is pretty astute. I think they are similar in the sense that their misses typically occur after a long carry, dribble or sprint with defenders in close proximity.
All classified as big chances but often have taken a decent amount of work to get into the position.
According to the video below his big chance conversion is pretty low, However, his conversion rate from shots that included big + regular chances is better than guys like Kvara, Olise, Doue, Hugo…
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So you don’t have any idea what a long time is only what you interpret to be a long time got you.
no. you are incorrect.
i have a personal opinion on what a long time is, as there is no industry standard on what a ‘long time’ is, i’m happy to back my estimate of what, to a fan on a fan forum, is a ‘long time’ for a transfer to take place.
you can try and be as clever clogs as you like, its just making you look confrontational for confrontations sake.
the bit i mentioned i was not sure of, was at what point do you get a reputation for dragging things out…one transfer? five transfers?..that, is something a fan on a forum cannot answer.
hope that clarifies
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Iraola and us fans will also love his work rate/pressing going by that guys comments.
It will be great to have a new player onboard with pace that scares the shit out of defenses, if we can get him.
Yeah he’ll miss chances but hopefully score and assist plenty too
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LFC and PSG have more conversations than me and the Mrs …
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In my head the conversation goes something like this:
Ring ring
Hughes: Morning, ha
PSG: No, the price hasn’t changed. Pay up or stop bothering us.
Hughes: Ok, speak to you again next Friday
PSG angrily slams down the phone
Hughes sets his out of office message and starts another 6 day weekend
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Still don’t understand the point of spending 120-150 million euros on this guy. This position was never supposed to be our pressing need.
We have known Mo departing for over 6 months and we could not get a right winger in. Instead we have spent our entire window chasing this guy who will play left wing only as confirmed by Joyce in his recent article.
And, Mr. Hughes came up with the idea of signing another left winger when we have primarily Rio, Munoz and Gakpo who can play on the left. Either of Rio and Munoz will have to compensated to play on the right.
And, I find this absurd logic to buy a player for another 100 million+ spend 300k per week,signing fees, agent fees…and let go of an investment in Gakpo who has signed the contract with the same DoF a year ago.
We need to understand that some players are more than just resources. Club has invested in them. Gakpo being one of the few who knows the ethos from Klopps time and it matters alot when you have already lost half of your spine to keep players like that,to continue the culture, discipline and work rate.
I wish we don’t have to sell Cody. I don’t have anything against Barcola, but he is not what this entire window should have chased about.We need a number 6 and a right winger.
Instead, it’s another 100million + madness from Hughes…his last Hurrah.
Hope this guy works out…just don’t want another 100 million down the drain fancy signing from Hughes.
I’m not sure we are getting Bradley.
The bums hughes and Edwards seem set to watch us screw up another season.
If it had to happen , it should have happened by now
Mom, can we buy Bradley?
No, we have Bradley at home.
Bradley at home…
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Last I read somewhere, deal was agreed in principle only payment structure is under negotiation.
Add to that price of Mbaye might also be part of the delay.
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I can’t think he’s staying so if he’s not coming here then where is he going?
I’m greatly disappointed by the summer but whilst we’re all focussed on who is playing against Newcastle and wondering why Barcola isn’t here yet, the club will be thinking about more than just this season and so if Barcola is the one then a couple extra weeks wait to get it done won’t be an issue they’re too concerned with.
There are so many deals that could be done before the deal for Bradley.
If nyoni is going to be played more , the club needs to put that down in writing otherwise I’m still going to be looking at a #6.
I get that this is the world cup year and transfers do run late. But to start this season with Munoz and Araujo (loan) doesn’t give me enough confidence. I don’t buy the Jaquet and Leoni are new transfers (the deals were done before and Leoni still has to recover from his injury)
For all the praise that Edwards gets or used to get , this transfer window has been the ultimate cluster fuck.
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This was the argument being made by skeptics of the Mo signing - why are we signing another RW for so much money when Sadio already plays there?
It would be great if we could get a like for like replacement, but if we determine the best quality we can add is more natural on the left, and other players already in the group are capable of making the opposite switch Sadio did, from left to right, then that makes sense.
I have far more questions about whether Barcola is THE guy who justifies this sort of expenditure than about him being a LW.
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Left wingers are more easily available because they almost always are priced for the ability to cut inside and shoot with their stronger foot.
Any guy who can play in all three positions would most likely be having his stronger foot be his right foot.