23 - Jules Kounde

[Andresito]

Think he is RB with most goal contributions this season iirc, equal with Hakimi.

 

[Etoshow]

Kounde wants to put his name in the club's history. I feel his love for the club when he plays.

 

[MonteCuler]

Really good

 

[Messi983]

More goals in 2025 than tractor.

 

[Total-Football]

No one commented on his penalty shout here ? That was a 100000% penalty. My only blame is Kounde running back immediately after that while his teammates actually pushed for VAR. Kounde should have acted smarter than that.. players got penalties against us for far far softer "hugs"

 

[Horatio]

No one commented on his penalty shout here ? That was a 100000% penalty. My only blame is Kounde running back immediately after that while his teammates actually pushed for VAR. Kounde should have acted smarter than that.. players got penalties against us for far far softer "hugs"

Yeah, but we fans grew up this season. We’re taking responsibility for the loss and not looking at bad calls by ref. Same way we didn’t with Sociedad game where Lewandowski erroneously was called offside.

 

[Alik]

Disaster class

 

[serghei]

Almost as bad as Araujo. Bad match. He was like a traffic cone, everyone crossed from next to him as if he wasn't there.

 

[khaled_a_d]

Bad on defense, did a decent couple of runs in the 2nd half

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Give him a rest. The guy has played way too many minutes in the most demanding position of football.

He will be Pedrified soon. Murder on the pitch. Then we will curse for few years how he is always injured.

 

[Porque]

Good point. Needs a rest.

Actually Eric played on the right before, we could give that a go- or Casado like under Rafa with Frenkie-Pedri at the pivot.

 

[Joan]

Good point. Needs a rest.

Actually Eric played on the right before, we could give that a go- or Casado like under Rafa with Frenkie-Pedri at the pivot.

Araujo can play there. With Eric and Chris on the bench, shouldn't be too hard to give our best 9 some rest.

 

[JamDav1982]

Very sluggish.

Needs a rest.

 

[TacticsTim]

Another terrrible game. If this club is smart they will sell and get another player who doesn't move like he's carrying kettlebells.

Did you guys watch Hakimi vs city? 100x better player for example

 

[jamrock]

For some reason the gab and Jules podcast came on, while driving home today and they brought up Alfonso Davis renewal with Bayern.

Which is

15m + 4m in signing on bonus, which comes from a 20M bonus that is being prorated over the life time of the 5 year contract.

19m all in, excluding other bonuses.

It highlights two things for me.

1) all this talk of kounde being on 10-12m, you have to pay what the market demands and now his 12m with 2 years left in his contract, looks like good business.

2) it resets the market for top FB, like TAA, kounde and a few others, I'm thinking that's the kind of money trent will demand from Madrid or Liverpool.


If we can get our entire back line to be on around that 10-12m mark, which I think is reasonable, that's pretty good business.

balde will obviously be on less, but I'm talking medium to long term, the max we should ever be looking to give to a defender should be 10-12m.