Amadou Onana

[Woody17]

Someone said he looked like an injury-prone player trying to stay out of trouble until the World Cup, and I think that's on the money.

So come August we can look forward to the rebirth of Ian Taylor......Not a chance.

[eamonn]

Does that means Tiely will also be playing with the handbrake on when he returns? Ffs. McGinn about to lead Scotland to their first WC since before most of their squad was born and yet you know he'll die for the Villa this spring.

[tony scott]

He’s played some good games for us, which I found surprising, never rated the signing. However because of our injuries he’s expected to the carry a rejinked midfield imo he’s just not that type of player.

[cdbearsfan]

He's still young and going to get better. Pretty much all of our best players had spells where people had decided they weren't good enough and were writing them off, most of them were much older at the time.

[Ozzjim]

Way to inconsistent, way to injury prone. Get £50M we should be selling without even thinking about it, go and scout someone who doesn't give up at the first opportunity. Watching Onana makes you realise how good Kamara actually is at football.

[N'ZMAV]

If we can get our money back I would sell. Keep Tielemans and Luiz, one of them plays alongside Kamara, then use any money we have to bring in someone who can fill in for Kamara's usual half a season off.

[Ads]

Tielemans is miles better than Luiz.

[KevinGage]

Both at their best I don't think there's much in it.

Luiz's allround game prob better than Youri's.

More goals, better set pieces better defensively.

[KevinGage]

I think he has a bigger opinion of himself than what we have of him.  if we get £50m or around that mark, absolutely sell.

Unless every CM/ DM in world football gets injured at the same time I can't see anyone ponying up anywhere near £50 mill for him. Even the mad Saudis.

[brontebilly]

Debate about the levels between Tielemans v Luiz is one thing. But the cliff like drop off between Kamara and Onana is another level entirely. It's not even just Onana's technical limitations that are a problem - his tactical awareness is nil. Last few games, DCL for Leeds, Garnacho for Chelsea, if Kamara is there he is screening that pass out to DCL and at a minimum he squeezes that space near Garnacho so Cash can get tighter. Onana did zero. Kamara would be reacting to what's in front of him and adjusting his game, Onana doesn't.

I'm a big fan of Ampadu, I think he has a much higher ceiling to him than Onana.

[KevinGage]

We need to be scouting a player with abilities closer to Kamara's game -  whilst accepting that an actual improvement on Kamara is nigh on impossible.

Would've liked to see Barrenechea given a chance to step up. But that looks highly unlikely with the nature of the deal we struck with Benfica.

[Ian.]

It’s a pity Man Utd are utilising Mainoo as he’s decent, could have had a sneaky bid for him while Amiron was in charge.

[Mister E]

We need to be scouting a player with abilities closer to Kamara's game -  whilst accepting that an actual improvement on Kamara is nigh on impossible.

Would've liked to see Barrenechea given a chance to step up. But that looks highly unlikely with the nature of the deal we struck with Benfica.

Yeah, I made the same point a couple of days' ago: given that we didn't make loads on Barrenechea, we'd have been far better hanging on to him. That we didn't may be down to UE's view of Bogarde's potential, but Lamare has not progressed into a reliable DMF in the way expected.

[jwarry]

The thing is if our three best midfield players hadn't got injured at the same time we could have rotated the January acquisitions in seemlessly instead of having to rebuild a completely new midfield.  A real bugger really

[eamonn]

Still, could have been worse. We could have blown our summer budget early on Conor Gallagher.