Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Some random Spanish player that I've never heard of? FFS sack the board
Had you ever heard of Bruno, Calderon or David Lopez before they signed for us?
Some random Spanish player that I've never heard of? FFS sack the board
So, the possibility exists that the club had looked at him and decided he's not worth pursuing, which is why he's gone to Brentford? It's irrelevant as to whether we can outbid them or not if we're not interested in them. Besides, a left sided midfielder isn't exactly the biggest problem in terms of positions at the moment.
No as we have an abundance of attacking midfielders.
Had you ever heard of Bruno, Calderon or David Lopez before they signed for us?
Brentford have money as well. And a new stadium on the way.
We have no alternative to the erratic and occasionally brilliant Lualua. A decent left footer able to deliver set pieces, with a reasonable goal scoring record, would have got a big thumbs up from me.
The club can't win in this situation, can they? They sign him and people go "We need experience, we need big names lalala". We don't sign them, and people are "Oh, we should be signing them, we should be able to afford him etc". There's no middle ground, is there?
Lopez and Bruno had well over 100 La Liga appearances each, this kid, at the age of 23, has played 40 games at Segunda level. If you watched Spanish football regularly you would have heard of both of them. You would have to be some sort of obsessive to know who Jota is.
But we are not signing anyone! The fact that Agustien may well start tomorrow tells you how short we are at the moment.
But I think that the OP is saying that we don't want players experienced in their top leagues. What we want is an unknown who has played a season in the second level of their national league. I can see why he is getting so upset that we missed out
Yes, because the club has a policy - bringing in people that improve the squad, not just bringing in faces for the sake of it.
We know we can't afford experienced premier league/ la liga players so have to look elsewhere.
According to rumours site Fulham preparing bid of £1.5m for Lua Lua, yes please.
Aaron Hughes?
David Stockdale?
Had you heard of him before you read that article?