Nebby
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£30m now is a huge gamble. £90m in four years might be a sure thing.
Antonio Nusa
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carpediem991
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He can only develop in a 80/90 mil player if he plays regulary and gets time to develop. And even then its far from a certainty. How many wonder kids haven't made the step up?
Just thinking how exciting Gelson Martins looked when we were linked to him. After lots of failed moves now playing somewhere in Greece just as an example.
0-Tibsy-0
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I just really wanted an attacker with a different profile - we seem to have a lack of creativity in one on one situations and too many that want to play on the shoulder. While only one attacking midfielder that specialises in through balls that suits that style.
Coupled with you fact that we will soon be needing to replace Son (after not really ‘replacing’ Kane - not that was ever going to be likely given his immeasurable talent!)
I guess that it can be argued that Solomon changes that profile - but jury is out on whether he can affect games to a great degree. Let’s hope he proves he can after his injury.
Coupled with you fact that we will soon be needing to replace Son (after not really ‘replacing’ Kane - not that was ever going to be likely given his immeasurable talent!)
I guess that it can be argued that Solomon changes that profile - but jury is out on whether he can affect games to a great degree. Let’s hope he proves he can after his injury.
Nick-TopSpursMan
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The problem is Sons time is coming to an end. I reckon we may get 1 more season out of him as a starter. He’s our only top class attacker.
I think we’ve already seen while he’s been away how poor we are in attack without him. On top of that we haven’t really replaced Kane (I don’t mean a direct replacement, I mean a quality attacker of any type).
If we don’t get quality attackers of the right type in very soon we’re going to be in big trouble in attack because without Sons quality we are bang average up there especially compared to the rest of our team.
I don’t see any of our current attackers stepping up massively either. Johnson MAY develop in to a good player but he’s still quite limited.
alfiemacdaddy
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Nice post mate. We’re not playing football manager! Reading the comments on X from the usual muppet mob is mental…it’s like they define success as how much we spend and how many players we sign regardless of value, risk or suitability!
Trix
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Solomon nearly back, and Werner needs a few games to acclimatise and gel with his team mates. I said before he came in his movement is world class and on Friday that was beyond obvious. Problem was no one was looking for him to be in the area's and space he was finding for himself. A couple of games and some direction from Ange and they'll start to look for those runs and hit them.
LWF is not a priority right now regardless of Son's age and how long he has left.
KirstyG
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Reminds me of the clammour for Gift Orban, then poof and fairly poor season so far from him. You can never tell how these things will work out.
Ray Ray
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I know it's disappointing to not sign these types of players, but in all honesty, the amount that Brentford are paying for an 18yo with limited playing time is insane.
Realistically we have bigger needs in the squad in CM and possibly CF, and we only have finite resources so would it have meant missing out on top targets elsewhere if we signed him?
Also as we are now out of all the cups, we only have PL games left for the remainder of the season, so attacking options of Son, Kulu, Johnson, Solomon, Richy , Werner and Gil should be more than enough to get us through. Added to Madison and Lo Celso being able to offer more from deeper.
Let's just see where we are come the summer, as we will need to evaluate the squad for when we hopefully have some European competitions as well.
Realistically we have bigger needs in the squad in CM and possibly CF, and we only have finite resources so would it have meant missing out on top targets elsewhere if we signed him?
Also as we are now out of all the cups, we only have PL games left for the remainder of the season, so attacking options of Son, Kulu, Johnson, Solomon, Richy , Werner and Gil should be more than enough to get us through. Added to Madison and Lo Celso being able to offer more from deeper.
Let's just see where we are come the summer, as we will need to evaluate the squad for when we hopefully have some European competitions as well.
Nick-TopSpursMan
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I also thought Werner’s movement was very good to be fair but he’s another player who’s quite limited on the ball and is best running away from it.
Until we address the lack of quality in possession in attack we’re going to have a ceiling we can’t get past imo. The rest of our team looks so good now but the attack just has a really poor balance to it and lack of quality imo and I think it will become more and more of a problem.
That said when Maddison etc are all back and fully fit I’m hoping that the lack of quality and balance is mitigated a bit by how good we will be everywhere else.
When everyone is back I wonder whether our best balanced attack may actually be Werner, Son and Kulusevski.
It’s also worth considering the case of someone like Maddison. We could have (and maybe should have) bought him earlier in his career, when he was at Norwich, for example, but we still bought him in the end at a decent price.
Who knows where Brentford will be in three or four years time and what Nusa’s situation will be by then. It’s not like because we have passed up the opportunity now that he will be forever out of our reach, even if he does come good.
worcestersauce
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Poorly worded, we don't get him in the summer either.
I don’t think being seen as a stepping stone (if that is the way Nusa was viewing us) is much of a big deal. For us to become a stepping stone, Nusa would have to develop into a truly special player for us, over the course of two or three seasons at least.
During the last twenty years, about seven or eight players have left us to move onto better (or supposedly better) things. Off the top of my head: Carrick, Berbatov, Keane, Modric, Bale, Walker and Kane. Possibly you could say Eriksen too. And they were all generally fantastic for us while they were here, and most of them were here for several years.
felmani26
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I fail to see how we can be surprised at Brugge's tactics of touting the player to all and sundry - we were told this from the outset so it's just feigned outrage to moan about it now.
Whichever way you want to cut it, it's hugely disappointing to miss out on this transfer as Nusa represents the exact skillset we lack currently and we will need to remedy this in the summer.
Whichever way you want to cut it, it's hugely disappointing to miss out on this transfer as Nusa represents the exact skillset we lack currently and we will need to remedy this in the summer.
worcestersauce
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It's disappointing after we seemed to be so close but had we not bothered in the first place we'd be fine, it's not like the CB situation where we'd have been gutted if we'd got nobody in.
LeSoupeKitchen
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Any thoughts on the fact we've lost out to Brentford though?
If we had lost out to a club that can afford to stockpile promising youth then it would make sense to me that it was too much of a gamble for us. But this transfer must be a far higher risk to Brentford than to us and they are a well run club so can't help but think there really is something special about this kid. Especially when they are willing to wait until summer when I'm sure they could use bodies through the door now.
Teegart
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Couldn’t agree more. We require that top 1v1 threat in our front line, and it’s glaringly obvious in some of our matches.
Every top team has one: City with Grealish, Doku and Foden; Liverpool with Diaz and Salah; Arsenal with Saka; Chelsea with Sterling; Brighton with Mitoma etc. It’s a vital string to our bow that’s missing.
Now that’s not to say Nusa is the only answer, far from it, but it’s the position I personally think requires high priority for the summer.
Just a thought, but we might be relaxed about attracting other comparable high profile youngsters, whereas Brentford might see this as an opportunity that doesn’t come around too often for a club of their size. So they might be more willing to gamble on it than we are.
