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Author Topic: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.  (Read 1091755 times)

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10005 on: September 04, 2023, 02:32:46 PM »
Not the worst idea I've heard, especially with Bert seemingly made of blamcmange and out injured again.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10006 on: September 04, 2023, 03:34:01 PM »
I know that he and Bailey are similar, I'd just say that AEG can finish too, and will cause problems for defences.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10007 on: September 04, 2023, 03:41:30 PM »
I'm not sure AEG has anywhere near the quality we need.  But he would be great if any games ever go to pens.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10008 on: September 04, 2023, 03:53:27 PM »
I'm not sure AEG has anywhere near the quality we need.  But he would be great if any games ever go to pens.

I know what you mean, perhaps I'm just desperate for Moreno and Ramsey to be back and am clutching at straws.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10009 on: September 04, 2023, 04:00:05 PM »
I would pick AEG over Bert and Bailey every time.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10010 on: September 04, 2023, 04:58:39 PM »
I would pick AEG over Bert and Bailey every time.
Absence does make the heart grow fonder.  The truth is, mostly he was a bit shit.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10011 on: September 04, 2023, 04:59:47 PM »
I said ages ago AEG is the sort of player I think would thrive under Unai. I'd take him until the end of the season on a free.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10012 on: September 04, 2023, 05:02:02 PM »
I would pick AEG over Bert and Bailey every time.
Absence does make the heart grow fonder.  The truth is, mostly he was a bit shit.
Yep.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10013 on: September 04, 2023, 05:37:32 PM »
I would pick AEG over Bert and Bailey every time.
Absence does make the heart grow fonder.  The truth is, mostly he was a bit shit.

I’d agree, like Bailey would go missing for huge portions of games…Bailey is capable of going past defenders though.

Will always love AEG for his Wembley goal but I fully remember him bottling the finish during lockdown against Everton(?) and also spending lots of that season moaning about AEG & Trez not being PL standard.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10014 on: September 04, 2023, 06:19:10 PM »
I know Bailey is frustratingly inconsistent, and I wouldn't exactly be heartbroken if we moved him on in the near future, but he's a level above El Ghazi.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10015 on: September 04, 2023, 06:29:09 PM »
Had to go back a page to make sure these weren't three year old posts.

Bring back El Ghazi, have people had a collective mental breakdown? Christ almighty, who next, Carles Gil?

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10016 on: September 04, 2023, 06:36:07 PM »
Barry Bannan would do well under Unai I reckon. Also Benito Carbone might link up well with his compatriot Zaniolo.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10017 on: September 04, 2023, 07:07:00 PM »
I said ages ago AEG is the sort of player I think would thrive under Unai. I'd take him until the end of the season on a free.

Unai would just have to tell him to shoot straight at the keeper and we'd have a 25 goal a season attacker.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10018 on: September 04, 2023, 07:10:35 PM »
Barry Bannan would do well under Unai I reckon. Also Benito Carbone might link up well with his compatriot Zaniolo.

Dean Saunders would be ideal too.  Can hold the ball up, has good movement and knows where the net is - or at least the post.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #10019 on: September 04, 2023, 07:18:35 PM »
I would pick AEG over Bert and Bailey every time.

If we're talking washing machines, dishwashers or fridges I'm with you all the way. That said I've never heard of Bert domestic appliances.

 


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