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Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4290 on: July 19, 2019, 12:07:12 PM »
Sturridge will go to MLS imo.

Surely the warning is he went to West Brom in January 2018 on loan. Chance to score, save them from relegation and prove a point to Klopp.

Six games, no goals. Two hamstring injuries.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4291 on: July 19, 2019, 12:09:18 PM »
No to Hart, no to Sturridge, yes to Heaton and Maupay. Time to get these done and start to look forward to Spurs.


No to Hart. I was a big fan of his for several years but he is a player in decline.

Sturridge would be a decent signing if we could guarantee getting thirty odd games out of him but I doubt that would happen. Maybe he could put a bet on himself to go all season without missing any games through injury and that would spur him on to do so.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4292 on: July 19, 2019, 12:21:56 PM »
Sturridge.  No.

Hart.  No.

Simples.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4293 on: July 19, 2019, 12:27:53 PM »
We need a striker who is prepared to be understudy to Wesley. Irrespective of money that is not a strong selling point to a player so this will be a tough part of the recruitment process.

Offline Clark W Griswold

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4294 on: July 19, 2019, 12:29:06 PM »
I would have thought that the only PL club daft enough to take Sturridge would be Newcastle.

Offline Diablo

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4295 on: July 19, 2019, 12:29:34 PM »
Daniel Sturridge

PL stats (not including Champions League or League Cup)

Year            Games          Goals      Assists
2018-19      18                 2            1
2017-18       9                  2            1
2016-17      20                 3            1
2015-16      14                 8            1
2014-15      12                 4            1

But would you take Daniel Sturridge on a pay as you play contract?

or would you take him on £25k a week with a high scoring bonus?
Good questions. You've got to go back 4 seasons for a good goal return from Daniel Sturridge. Would you not be better sticking with a younger forward/understudy (e.g. Keinan Davis?) and developing them (and in the process increasing their market value) if you're going to get the goal returns of his recent seasons?

DS and the whole team in interviews place a major emphasis on the player's character, temperament and how they would potentially integrate into the group as a whole and how they do their due diligence (research on the players they look to sign). I'd personally be surprised if this happened although it may under the possible monetary conditions that you propose with those questions LondonVilla.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4296 on: July 19, 2019, 12:40:05 PM »
Daniel Sturridge

PL stats (not including Champions League or League Cup)

Year            Games          Goals      Assists
2018-19      18                 2            1
2017-18       9                  2            1
2016-17      20                 3            1
2015-16      14                 8            1
2014-15      12                 4            1

But would you take Daniel Sturridge on a pay as you play contract?

or would you take him on £25k a week with a high scoring bonus?

Neither.

I would have thought after all the Hasbeen Leeches we have had in recent years lookinh for a last pay packet nobody would even dream about him signing for Villa

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4297 on: July 19, 2019, 12:55:57 PM »
Hart is this year's Rob Green, going downhill faster than an Alpine skier.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4298 on: July 19, 2019, 12:57:22 PM »
He wouldn't be offered a contract probably pay for play. It seems that no one else wants him.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4299 on: July 19, 2019, 01:05:02 PM »
He strikes me as someone who has already mentally checked out of the game. House in Los Angeles, betting on matches etc... hardly the actions of an individual committed to making the most of his career in England. He'll end up at LA Galaxy.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4300 on: July 19, 2019, 01:14:15 PM »
Sturridge would be Lescott all over again. Just don't do it.

Buy Maupay, Trezeguet, Luiz, Heaton and Marvelous and sit back, smile and say yeah, we smashed that window.


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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4301 on: July 19, 2019, 01:16:03 PM »
Sturridge is a solo artist and not a team player. Hart in decline. A big 'No' to either from the Baldy Jury.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4302 on: July 19, 2019, 01:25:28 PM »
Sturridge would be Lescott all over again. Just don't do it.

Buy Maupay, Trezeguet, Luiz, Heaton and Marvelous and sit back, smile and say yeah, we smashed that window.

Agreed.

Offline Diablo

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4303 on: July 19, 2019, 01:25:51 PM »
Didn't Pep let Hart go due to his inability to be able to play it out from the back? I'd have thought DS will want someone who is good with his feet in goal.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #4304 on: July 19, 2019, 01:41:05 PM »
Definitely don't want Sturridge; it's got bad news written all over it.  Not sure what the fuss is about Maupay.  Butland would be my choice as keeper.

 


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