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If you want to cancel his contract you would have to pay it out in full, so we wouldn't make savings and would be losing him for 2 years for no gain, we'd also likely cause backlash from the players and the fans and could face legal action. Even if he won't renew I think it's fine to keep...

Yeah, analysing how good a player is is really different to how enjoyable they are to watch. In fact, whilst it's really effective, a lot of top level football is just mechanical, physical battling, pass and move and mostly running. Football definitely lost some glamour with the advent of the...

Well, looking at Puig, I don't see that much, in my opinion. It goes without saying he is physically poor but I don't think his tactical and positional understanding is very good either. He doesn't defend and at times when he played for Barca he was all over the place and couldn't hold his...

This was against Bilbao ahahaha, I literally remember the exact moment you're talking about as I was like wtf when I watched that sequence and went to write a post in this thread. I can legit see that exact moment in my head lol, I was watching it whilst travelling and I remember being shocked...

I agree it won't happen in reality mainly because he wants to keep his contract and doesn't want to leave. Equally as Porque said he's on good wages with a contract till 2027, he may not want to give that up to take a wage drop to play at somewhere like West Ham for example. But I think if he...

I would say more like 30m and I think Ferran has a far better market than Garcia. Ferran showed top performances with City and Spain and has had great games for us as well even though he missed a lot of chances and has some limitations in terms of not having a clear role. A lot of clubs...

Ferran is a good player. Even though he isn't incredible the hate for him here is so bizarre, I feel like it's because he was our first signing in that lowest moment and therefore people associate the bad times then with him/put unrealistic expectations on him. But he was never that bad and I...

I agree with this. The problem is with taking authority as an absolute truth in today's society is they will always have considerations or motivations that means their opinions are not completely objective. Actually it's a really interesting topic, and objective evaluation skills encompass so...

That is also true. The problem is they just have access to the players that we don't as fans, they get to interact with them, watch them in training etc, and we can only go off games, so we are somewhat limited in the amount of evidence we have compared to coaches. However it may just be that...

That isn't always a fallacy if the authority is valid. Authority can certainly be wrong, but the likelihood of authority being wrong decreases if many different authorities on a subject all have the same opinion. Basically for you to be right, you would have to know better on this particular...

Unfortunately it's probably because clubs actually want Faye and nobody wants to pay for the other two. With Garcia I'm more surprised because he was a starter in a very good Girona side, weird that it didn't get him a good move, rather than preferring to stay here where he is like 6th CB...

Our situation with him is really good as if we keep using him off the bench he likely won't play long enough for any of his flaws to become very clear, and equally, he will grab goals off the bench that will raise his reputation further. His hype will probably stay high constantly. If he scores...

It's surely not the worst. And it's nice to see us come back to making big signings without needing to sell assets. I feel like once the old guys leave, especially Lewa (hopefully next season although looks doubtful) we will be back to normal spending powers.

I think the whole reason he is effective at scoring is that he crashes the box from midfield where he can slip in unmarked. If he has to do it from striker where he is closely marked and plays with his back to goal it won't work, he'll just be marked out of the game.

My problem with seeing him as a top talent is that whilst his movement is clearly elite, he doesn't have that many other defining characteristics. He is a bit technically and physically lacking for me and I find it hard to believe he'll continue to get by with just fantastic movement (although...

We'll have to see how well he does now his name is on the radar. It's different playing as a breakout player to playing with a reputation and opponents preparing for your game. The question is will his box crashing just be a gimmick or will his one trick always work.

Its not as good as it appears and is actually a major gamble. They have a huge amount of contracted first team players on decent wages and long contracts and if they fail or don't get sold for profit it will be a massive amount of budget in the bin in a few years time. They are using a...

Solanke moved to Spurs for 60 million GBP.

That's the thing with signing such an amazing player on a free, if he ever becomes unhappy or wants to leave, you are making a giant profit inevitably.

So are we signing Nico on top of Olmo then? An interesting strategy. I think that's too much money on attackers but I'm happy to see the club's spending power is returning.