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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1620 on: November 01, 2017, 01:04:54 PM »
Didn't Reading win their first game for about six months last night?

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1621 on: November 01, 2017, 01:41:41 PM »
It's possible for players to play well in, generally, unsuccessful teams. Benteke, for instance.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1622 on: November 01, 2017, 01:44:16 PM »
It's possible for players to play well in, generally, unsuccessful teams. Benteke, for instance.

He'd probably be a better bet on the bench than Bjarnason (faint praise indeed), but wouldn't be in our starting XI as it stands.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1623 on: November 01, 2017, 01:54:28 PM »
Didn't Reading win their first game for about six months last night?

First home win since they beat us, the day we sold Bacuna to them.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1624 on: November 01, 2017, 02:44:01 PM »
Reading fans are raving about how well Bacuna is playing for them.

Another example of how we have been destroying careers?

Haven't they been playing him right back? Always thought it was his best position when he was here.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1625 on: November 01, 2017, 02:45:49 PM »
Missing out on Roberto Carlos and now this. We have appalling luck.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1626 on: November 01, 2017, 03:49:36 PM »
It's possible for players to play well in, generally, unsuccessful teams. Benteke, for instance.

He's hardly inspiring them to win after win though?

Bacuna had his moments but was just so sloppy/poor in possession to ever be a first choice midfielder unless he was told just to run about and disrupt the opposition which SB seemed to just tell him to most of last season.

I agree he had some good games for us at RB so if he'd been properly coached he could've been a decent player there in the long term.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1627 on: November 01, 2017, 04:00:02 PM »
He was rubbish and annoying, well shot of him and all the other players we have sold since relegation. I do not miss a single one of them.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1628 on: November 01, 2017, 04:08:19 PM »
He was rubbish and annoying, well shot of him and all the other players we have sold since relegation. I do not miss a single one of them.

Ashley Westwood seems to get the last 15 minutes of Burnley games, generally coming on for Dufour.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1629 on: November 01, 2017, 04:10:08 PM »
Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1630 on: November 01, 2017, 04:26:57 PM »
Reading fans are raving about how well Bacuna is playing for them.

Another example of how we have been destroying careers?

Haven't they been playing him right back? Always thought it was his best position when he was here.

Agree.  I think if he had thrown his lot into playing that position then he could have become a good Championship / possible lower half Premier League level player in that position. 

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1631 on: November 01, 2017, 04:34:56 PM »
Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

Hardly pulling up trees for Everton this season though. Could well find his way back to the Championship with them.

Another player that was hard to like, and barely registered a shrug upon leaving.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1632 on: November 01, 2017, 05:17:29 PM »
Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

Hardly pulling up trees for Everton this season though. Could well find his way back to the Championship with them.

Another player that was hard to like, and barely registered a shrug upon leaving.

Along similar lines the Traore/ Odomha deal is one of the few cases I can remember of a transfer trade working out well for us.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1633 on: November 01, 2017, 05:44:03 PM »
Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

Hardly pulling up trees for Everton this season though. Could well find his way back to the Championship with them.

Another player that was hard to like, and barely registered a shrug upon leaving.

Decent player but a questionable attitude when things aren't going well.

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Re: Leandro Bacuna - Sold
« Reply #1634 on: November 01, 2017, 08:09:31 PM »
Gana did win POTY for Everton last year.

I think pound for pound the player we've sold in recent times who's gone on to have a good career elsewhere is Matt Lowton. Every time I see Burnley, they've been on Sky a fair few times this season, he's generally been very solid.

Just shows in the right formation he can be a good full back at premier league level.

 


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