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Offline Steve67

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #900 on: June 03, 2019, 11:25:18 PM »
Chalobah and Hayden for centre of the park?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #901 on: June 03, 2019, 11:27:30 PM »
Nyland didn't exactly impress.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #902 on: June 03, 2019, 11:35:55 PM »
Purslow and Smith said last week they would deal with moving players out in the next few days before looking at bringing people in. All seems very much part of their plan.

Etheridge, Steer and Nylund for the keeper roles - Loan or sell Kalinic if we are not sure - he looked out of his depth in the Championship but I am sure someone will pay near enough what we did to take him.

Jota as a backup 10.

Mings, El Ghazi and Hause on perms.

Leaves 2 midfielders, a left back and 2 strikers as a minimum to add seriously good players to have a competitive squad.

Buying Kalinic for that money in Jan was crazy considering the state of the team at the time. Presume it was a Suso special ? Would have been a very expensive mistake if we didn't get promoted....

Etheridge would be an excellent buy. Hopefully Warnock might take Hogan or someone as part exchange.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #903 on: June 04, 2019, 12:05:46 AM »
Chalobah and Hayden for centre of the park?

Chalobah been very injury hit at Watford. Doucoure is the one to get from there.

Hayden just strikes me as an average player who looks better as Newcastle are a defensive minded team in their general approach.

Domestic market is all wrong when he's being quoted for 20m move when there's plenty of good DMs in europe who'd go for much less. Gana for example is a much better player.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #904 on: June 04, 2019, 06:32:06 AM »
It does look like they think they've bought a turkey in Kalinic doesn't it? I think the consensus is he was more of a suso signing

I think the same may be true w Guilbert. So it would be interesting and possibly a bit alarming if Smith now wants Tavernier from rangers.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #905 on: June 04, 2019, 07:34:17 AM »
I think it’s way too soon to judge Kalinic. He only came in in January and he’s been injured.

I remember some people were also slating El Ghazi after a shaky start. Sometimes players take a bit of time to settle.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #906 on: June 04, 2019, 08:26:39 AM »
Nyland didn't exactly impress.
Whilst I agree, he was also playing behind a shit back four. It wasn't until Mings, Hause, Axle, Elmo & Taylor became the settled defence that things settled down.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #907 on: June 04, 2019, 08:48:24 AM »
Nyland didn't exactly impress.
Whilst I agree, he was also playing behind a shit back four. It wasn't until Mings, Hause, Axle, Elmo & Taylor became the settled defence that things settled down.

that's true but you could also use that for the reason Steer looked better than before

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #908 on: June 04, 2019, 09:55:25 AM »
It does look like they think they've bought a turkey in Kalinic doesn't it? I think the consensus is he was more of a suso signing

I think the same may be true w Guilbert. So it would be interesting and possibly a bit alarming if Smith now wants Tavernier from rangers.
Harsh on Guilbert who has yet to play a game for us but seems to have had a good season in France.Could the truth be that we can  now afford to be interested in Tavernier and that offers competition for places  and flexibility ,especially as Guilbert has played in different roles in defence.I see this as a positive not something alarming.
It might spel

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #909 on: June 04, 2019, 10:00:47 AM »
If I am being a little brutal I’m not sure any of the 3 keepers particularly inspired confidence going forward - all 3 made top class saves at various times but none of them were commanding of the penalty area when corners/long throws were coming in.

Part of me wonders whether I am too harsh on our keepers since Enckleman’s two brain farts against Small Heath though

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #910 on: June 04, 2019, 10:51:42 AM »
🔜

#PL #AVFC
Tweeted by official club account

???

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #911 on: June 04, 2019, 10:52:29 AM »
They're just saying we are going to be in the Premier League soon.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #912 on: June 04, 2019, 11:13:11 AM »
They're just saying we are going to be in the Premier League soon.

Awww thought it was going to be the end of the Mings wait, never mind, fancy tweeting something we already know !

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #913 on: June 04, 2019, 11:15:38 AM »
🔜

#PL #AVFC
Tweeted by official club account

???

The Pravda accounts on Facebook and Twitter have been sending out some cringe-worthy stuff since promotion.


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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #914 on: June 04, 2019, 11:27:16 AM »
Yes. And all those 'it's been one week since the playoff victory' tweets. Cringeworthy.

 


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