I can’t imagine Elliott in Italy, Spain or France for some reason. He’d do well in Germany, but could they afford him?
A Brighton/Brentford/Bournemouth type team would be ideal for him.
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TBF, Nunez must also accept going to the Middle East for the football too!
Tap-in merchant Romano reckons we’re working on signing Ekitike from Frankfurt. I don’t think we’ll pay anything close to the €100M I’ve seen mooted, reckon a deal will be done for closer to 70M with some add-ons.
Looks a quality prospect but he’s still a bit raw. Will need to manage him well in order to get the best out of him.
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A bit different, but I get the sentiment. Both of them have finishing issues. The prevailing wisdom is that Nunez was a Klopp buy, not an Edwards/Ward buy. Klopp overruled the data guys on that one and it didn’t work out.
From what I understand, our data guys love Ekitike. He compares favorably to Isak in a lot of metrics, and the feeling is that he just needs a season or two of development in a strong team.
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I agree it is risky paying that much they come down to 40M then include add ons and incentivise the whole transfer.
We weren’t buying a prospect when we bought Nunez.
We bought someone who should’ve come in to be one of the key players.
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40M is a pipe dream given the state of the striker market. It’ll be 70, maybe inclusive of add-ons, but the days of getting even a one-good-season prospect for less than 60M are over.
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you are right look at Bayern trying to buy the 21 year old striker Woltemade for 50M euros but they were quoted 100M by his club. they are having the same row as the one for the transfer of Wirtz.
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If Elliott ends up at Dortmund he will be turn into a star. Young players with upside tend to develop really well over there.
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He’s already a star!
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A bright North Star
He’s already stated he doesn’t want to move to Germany.
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I think he has been given bad advice, imo a move abroad will help him with the major uefa competitions. What’s his alternative in the PL, none of the regular top 4-5 teams need him. If he wants to be a consistent starter, he needs to go to Spain or Germany.
Or did he state he doesn’t want to go to Bayer 04 Leverkusen, which is most likely a good decision with all the major exits.
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With all this emotion. No Jota. I want to keep Nunez.
Don’t think Darwin or Arne really wants him to stay . We need changes there and I do wonder if the club will feel their hand is forced and pay up to buy Ekitike
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its business. shouldnt stop the club from functioning
Whilst that is true, I did find the reports that Barcelona were still sniffing around Diaz to be in incredibly bad taste.
We’ve already told them no and now we’ve just suffered a huge tragedy.
Go fuck off and never come back (barca, not you).
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that’s Barca for you…
fuckers think the world spins around them
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