Josh Abe, RW at the ripe old age of 15 might be 16 now?
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Josh Abe turns 16 on 17th July, highly rated prospect but might still be a season or two off consideration for the first team.
One that could be closer is Keyrol Figueroa, 19 and whilst mainly seen as a striker can also play on the right or left - recently made his international debut for Honduras after previously playing for USA at U17 - U20 level.
Kieran Morrison is a 19 year old Northern Irish right winger who recently extended his contract.
Of the others listed Kaide Gordan is expected to leave and Trent Kone-Doherty joined Molde permanently after a loan spell there.
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Tbf we also did our part, but yeah market is on its arse. Football should implode tomorrow, really.
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Kieran Maguire shared a quick analysis the other day that Trevor Francis transfer to Forest is the equivalent of about 180m today. His cost adjusted analyses suggests that both of Rio’s big moves were more expensive for the time than Wirtz’s was.
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Yeah I think everything has to be relative to the most expensive transfer in the world as the measuring stick
Sad if true, but also understandable.
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Not really - I think the pathway is being created for Abe, I think that Morrison will head out on loan (unless Iraola takes liking to him in the pre-season) but I also think Morrison will end up playing centrally in the future. His technical ability and creativity are his stand-out attributes for me but I don’t think he has the pace to play out wide.
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Or just sell our fucking players instead of letting them all leave on a free.
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folks thought i was joking when i said lets just wait for bournmouth and brighton to bid for players and then gazup them. i was not joking. we need to go back to signing players that are not highly hyped yet. the way the market works now is based on potential , hype and not so much on current ability. diomande, anderson, all these players are not even close to the prices they are going for. My hope is the market bubble bursts and soon…
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I’m still lamenting it.
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To this point I remember being at one of the theme parks here in Florida the day Leeds, at the height of “spend next year’s revenue now” mode, signed up an coming star Seth Johnson from Derby. It was before cells phones so people didnt have instantaneous access to info like today and so when I found myself criss crossing paths with some older lads in Leeds tops while queuing up for a ride I wondered if they had heard. On the second pass I leaned over to ask them if they had heard the news. They were ecstatic. By the 4th pass they had decided it was stupid money for a player they did not need and proof that the “game’s gone.” That was, I think, 24 years ago.
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I really admire the
United model (if its true), that they will not sign players over 60 million pounds unless those players are tried and tested…for the market to self-correct, teams have to fight back by not buying these players at these prices.
I think that is not so much borne out of choice but necessity as they had spunked all their cash on the wrong players for too long.
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We’ll see how long they get success with that approach. Very often in life the expensive thing is expensive because it does the job better and saving money on a cheaper alternative turns out to a waste because it doesnt in fact do the job you needed to be done.
United needed to introduce some sanity into the process after overspending on the wrong profile of players for a decade. But i think the jury is still out on how good a window they had last year and it’s going to be a lot harder to take the next step or even sustain themselves at this level by only shopping in that bracket moving forward.
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hopefully that happens to the entire market and it self-corrects
I think the market works best when you mix and match. we did it when we bought VVD and Ali. but then spent wisely with ginny, sadio, origi, salah etc. we dont neccesarily have to shop in the same bracket as a bournemouth or brighton, but we can shop in a bracket slightly above… i like the munoz signing for this very reason
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That’s the name of the game really isn’t it
Splurging when you have to get that top quality that will really make a difference, but otherwise being efficient and building the best side possible with your budget.
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I don’t think you can ever have a strategy based on the market normalizing, because there will always be enough poorly run sides making bad choices that keep the wheels spinning. I feel this is partially what happened with Arsenal and a decade later they found themselves in a big hole.
I think you instead have to accept the market for what it is today, acknowledge that it might be different than the one in which you have succeeded in the past, and try to identify where the opportunities are in that version of the market.
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very true and i agree. there is value in the market, we just have to find it. Bouaddi is a perfect example of this, 18 years old and great world cup. Lille demanding 100 million euros for the kid. there are market opportunities and options such as sangara from lens and camara from monaco. not the next hot thing, but very good players with immense potential and probably can be had at half the price of Bouaddi…