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pretty decent player until he tore his ACL, but no thanks
pretty decent player until he tore his ACL, but no thanks
I like him.
What I don't like is that he'd be a spreadsheet buy to hit the zero net spend target.
For shits n giggles, imagine if you will...
Ins:
Shaw?? £15m??
Grealish £25m?
Kovacic £50m?
Pavard/similar £40m
Rodriguez £18m
= £148m
Outs:
Toby £60m?
Rose £35m?
Wanyama (Roma links today) £40m?
Janssen £2m Loan fee?
Sissoko £3m Loan fee?
Nkoudou £2m Loan fee?
Llorente £2m Loan fee?
= £144m
No need to take issue with those proxy valuations - the point is you can see where Levy is going with this...
James Rodriguez? If SC did clickbait...Literally clicked this thinking it said James Rodriguez.
Jay Rodriguez? Christ almighty.
I like Jay, and think he'd be great for us.
As has been mentioned, he's HG, Poch likes him, has been proved to flourish in a Poch team before, and our history shows that we seem to do better with these kind of signings.
He's not a bad player but we really need to be aiming higher than someone like Rodriguez
He was pretty good for WBA last season. Battered Liverpool and was a proper handful the bits I saw of him. People seem to think we should sign a worldie to sit on the bench and wait for HK to get injured, but we won't. Martial or Zaha would get plenty of minutes but Son would miss out IMO and is that such a good thing? He'd give us a lot more than Llorente or Janssen and I'd rather get him in than nobody which is a distinct possibility.
I'd rather we didn't sign anyone.
I'm thinking of a Llorente type backup. I think we need players who add that depth without being completely inexperienced, and yet are familiar with what is expected. He can also play in a number of positions, which offers flexibility we don't have.
It'll probably never happen, but just saying if it does, I wouldn't mind.
If it comes down to Rodriguez and having the chance to get Janssen, Llorente & GKN off our books it would be a great deal to do