Ansu Fati

[PaulThurston]

How can we both be in pole position?

It's a drag race.

 

[FrankSpencer]

The kid’s knee is fine. It’s not like he blew out the whole thing and had it restructured. He had a meniscus tear/rupture which they attempted to repair. The repair failed and they removed the damaged part of his meniscus. It’s a very common sports injury. Had it happen to myself while teenager playing basketball. The major concerns are years down the road when older and arthritis kicks in because you have no cartilage and you are bone on bone in areas. You do tend to get sore after workouts and physical activity but your speed and explosiveness are not at all impacted after recovery.

I concur with this, I had a sizeable part of my lateral meniscus removed about 10 years ago.

 

[Gbspurs]

This reminds me of Stoke signing Bojan

 

[mark87]

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

The kid’s knee is fine. It’s not like he blew out the whole thing and had it restructured. He had a meniscus tear/rupture which they attempted to repair. The repair failed and they removed the damaged part of his meniscus. It’s a very common sports injury. Had it happen to myself while teenager playing basketball. The major concerns are years down the road when older and arthritis kicks in because you have no cartilage and you are bone on bone in areas. You do tend to get sore after workouts and physical activity but your speed and explosiveness are not at all impacted after recovery.

Thanks for the info, very interesting, informative and reassuring.

 

[the yid]

Reeeaaaalllyyy hope this isn't instead of Brennan Johnson, I know we had ITK to suggest both but to me from experience this seems like cheaper

 

[GioW]

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Is 100 percent of the salary gonna be an issue? Probably on crazy wages no?

 

[Gpnash84]

The kid’s knee is fine. It’s not like he blew out the whole thing and had it restructured. He had a meniscus tear/rupture which they attempted to repair. The repair failed and they removed the damaged part of his meniscus. It’s a very common sports injury. Had it happen to myself while teenager playing basketball. The major concerns are years down the road when older and arthritis kicks in because you have no cartilage and you are bone on bone in areas. You do tend to get sore after workouts and physical activity but your speed and explosiveness are not at all impacted after recovery.

Can’t be doing with rational, well informed posts like this. I prefer the comments that say he has no knees.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Is 100 percent of the salary gonna be an issue? Probably on crazy wages no?

€268,269 PW supposedly.

 

[mark87]

Is 100 percent of the salary gonna be an issue? Probably on crazy wages no?

No idea how true but I swear I read somewhere he was on £200k+

 

[AJW]

Is 100 percent of the salary gonna be an issue? Probably on crazy wages no?

Supposedly 200k a week. Can’t see us wanting to pay that much depending what fee they want too

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

Is 100 percent of the salary gonna be an issue? Probably on crazy wages no?

Definitely an issue as apparently he’s on around £230,000 a week.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

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There better be an option involved. This deal goes from potentially interesting to utterly pointless if there isn’t. Would even take an obligation dependent on performance over a dry loan.

 

[Stoof]

£11m a day I heard.

 

[Stoof]

There better be an option involved. This deal goes from potentially interesting to utterly pointless if there isn’t. Would even take an obligation dependent on performance over a dry loan.

You’re a dry loan. X

 

[Joshua]

Massive talent but need some kind of option to make permanent. Pointless otherwise surely. Unless he’s a stop gap until we can go after other forwards.

 

[The Scarecrow]

The more I think about it, the more excited I get by the prospect of signing him. His knee may be fucked, but he's still an excellent player who regularly contributes to goals.

In his breakthrough season, 19/20, he had a goal contribution every 128 minutes in the league. Then, in 20/21 before his injury, a goal contribution every 87 minutes. When he came back from injury the season after, he had a goal contribution every 66 minutes. The sample sizes for these two seasons are small, but it's still impressive given the circumstances.

Last season he had a goal contribution every 128 minutes in a relatively low scoring Barca team. Despite only playing 40 % of the available minutes, he was involved in 1/6 of Barca's goals.

With Son being captain and hard to drop, I think there's a very good chance he'll be played up front for a number of games this season, which means we need a quality LW to cover that position. A loan with option would be a deal with a huge potential upside, and next to no downside imo.

 

[Fredo]

Option/obligation otherwise forget it

 

[Stoof]

WLB > Tap In Magoo (Romano)

Barca want to insert a buyback clause that won’t happen with levy. They’re open to a sale with a loan . Gio could sweeten the deal . But right now hoping to reach an agreement on loan aswell as securing the club with a say if he does well option/obligation.

 

[Dakes]

People acting like a meniscus surgery is a career ender. He'll struggle to walk without pain when he's 60, but it has very little impact in your 20s. Also from first hand knowledge as a guy who played three different sports every single weekend after such a surgery.

But you can't compare playing darts, bowls and snooker every single weekend after such a surgery to playing footy weekly after it.

I joke! I hope you're doing alright mate