Search results

It's a very tough call. Most of us are agreed that his movement and control is largely excellent, but he lets himself down with his finishing. Personally I wouldn't replace him unless it was with a carbon copy striker who ALSO puts away his chances because I don't think you can underestimate...

We paid £2.5m for Craig McKail Smith over three years and I think he was the club's highest earner. The first season he was fine - not a world beater but overall after that season we had reason to think he might kick on. He didn't. He was below average in year 2 (worth £1m tops by then), and...

But if you buy a player and he doesn't perform, then his net worth is likely to fall too. Andy Carroll, as a glaring example (because the numbers are astronomical), cost Liverpool £35m. Predictably, he wasn't all that good. They sold him to West Ham two years later for £15m. Had Liverpool...

I would say that if you are going go down the loan player route, then this is certainly the way to do it, as opposed to 3 or 4 bang average loanees over the course of the season. A single player on loan for a season is unlikely to negatively impact team morale, unlike several uncommitted...