Albion Dan
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It would certainly be very odd for the interviewer to be asking about Florin in detail without an agenda in there somewhere.
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[Albion] Florin Andone just tweeted training pics of himself
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Billy the Fish
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I've always thought that was closer to Hayward's opinion than reality. Because he's a respected journalist everyone assumes he's got inside info.
Pretty sure the players will be media-prepped to the hilt before these things...................that's how I saw it too, although not so sure about a new striker - probably depends on whether we cash in on a big sale.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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blue-shifted
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Agree that the club have decided on reintegrating him.
Which is obviously the sensible thing to do.
I expect to see lots of training pictures and I also expect GP to be asked about him in the pre match press conference.
Which is obviously the sensible thing to do.
I expect to see lots of training pictures and I also expect GP to be asked about him in the pre match press conference.
The thing is, I'm still not 100% convinced a silver bullet striker is needed. Welbeck for another year seems like smart business currently, a fully fit Andone is certainly added value to the squad, Maupay is a good striker (but he needs to stop scuffing his shots). All we need it 5 or 6 more goals out of Maupay and we have a 15 goal a season striker already.
The bigger concern for me is that up until recently, ALL the pressure falls on the striker to score because we score zero goals from midfield. Trossard has started to step up again but is more of a forward than a midfielder, Gross adds a couple plus 6 assists, but other than that we have six, SIX goals from midfield.
If you look at clubs in a similar position to where we'd like to be Villa have 16, Palace have 11 (20 if you count Zaha as a midfielder), Leeds have 16.
Probably a lot easier to do now that Bernardo has gone........
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
I would love to see a fit Andone in the match-day squad.
As he's just become a father (from the Welbeck interview) you would hope he'll be a little calmer on the pitch now.
As he's just become a father (from the Welbeck interview) you would hope he'll be a little calmer on the pitch now.
nwgull
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I'd like him to continue being the aggressive little shit house he was in his previous spell. Our current squad is a bit too nice at times.
blue-shifted
Banned
Same. We're too often bullied by wily opponents who know all the tricks in the book.
Florin will give a bit back.
You'd imagine he won't feature heavily this season. If we can get him a decent preseason though, (along with Solly and Tariq) he'll hopefully be raring to go for the start of next
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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It’s laughable how contrived that segment is, like we’re complete idiots. You can imagine the pre-interview brief to Danny: “I’ll ask about any characters in the squad, at which point we’ll segue into an Andone segment, so if you could talk about him and mention a potential return to the squad...”
That saiid, a ‘Well-done’ bromance, bring it on!
The Welbeck interview seems to be the pre-cursor to his inclusion in the match day squad this weekend. Especially with Connolly a doubt.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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TWOCHOICEStom
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Yeah wasn't subtle was it?
"How you doing Danny? yeah yeah yeah but FLORINE THE MAD DOG ANDONE THOUGH!!!11111"
"How you doing Danny? yeah yeah yeah but FLORINE THE MAD DOG ANDONE THOUGH!!!11111"
sydney
tinky ****in winky
iv'e got a stiffy......
come on.......
come on.......
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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There did seem somewhat of an agenda in that video. Maybe we're about to see his return or it was a bit of a promo video for prospective buyers.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Still a few phone boxes about, hardly any with phones in them now though.