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[Albion] Knockaert joins Fulham on initial one-year loan
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John Byrnes Mullet
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He was our best player in the FA Cup Semi-Final and got the goal at Palace.
It was a terrible season for the Albion and from an individual that was quite a good return.
deslynhamsmoustache1
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x 4 in the squad and just brought Trossard. think we will play them somehow
Big Jurg got the winner v Everton and singlefootedly got us to Wembley.
Lower West Stander
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Good post.
Now it looks like he’s going, there’s a bit of rose-tinted spectacles going on here. Bear in mind as well he wasn’t in the team for half of last season.
I just think he’s too high maintenance and Potter doesn’t fancy him. Too inconsistent, and as others have said, just not quite good enough for the top league.
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Spot on. Every word.
Ecosse Exile
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They are all capable of playing more centrally, but wings will obviously still be an option, Knocky was too btw, but more likely to try to do too much and lose the ball.
Outstanding post. Nailed it.
doogie004
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So who do you see in our current squad that does the things you describe knocky as failing at that does it correct
Izzy ? Spent most of last season injured
March ? Teachers pet show me video evidence of prem league moments of brilliance
Aj [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji24]
Locadia [emoji23][emoji23][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]
Trossard ? Untested in the highest league but pray he is the answer
So in a nutshell no one as good as knocky
I’ll take the occasional mistake because of what he is capable of , how many times was hughton shouting at him not to get to far forward held him back and ruined his confidence
Biggest mistake the club have / will make
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AK was largely ineffective (a lack of pace at PL level?), but Izquierdo, Jahanbakhsh and Locadia when played out wide were also ineffective to awful last season. They did next to nothing to worry PL fullbacks or managers.
Perhaps March and Trossard will be our first choice wingers?
Perhaps March and Trossard will be our first choice wingers?
I get what you are saying but he looks like he needs less potter development than quite a lot of them . He has at least shown he can be brilliant in the premier league which is more than a some where the jury is out .
We are told potter will improve what we got . He didn’t need to improve knocky much to have a real asset on his hands ( worth more than 10m)
Nixonator
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Scoring from 3 yards after the opposition handed to you, and a good goal against lower league opposition (we still needed to score again).
Clutching at straws. In no way whatsoever are they comparable.
So one of our best players going for peanuts and some on here think that is okay. Hmmm... I think not. We need to replace with better and that will cost far more. Terrible decision by our club’s leaders unless a new RW who is better than AK is in the bag.
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People losing their shit way too much on this thread.
The transfer window is always a sum of its parts. On the attacker / winger front it is one in, one out so far with Trossard coming in and no one - NO ONE - knows whether he is better suited to Potter's style and the PL than Knocky. A few on here with very rose tinted crystal balls.
I'll be disappointed if we don't sign a quality right back to replace Bruno as well as a striker but as Zamora points out Knocky may well have a "match highest earner" clause in his contract which is proving problematic in attracting those two players. And as [MENTION=17103]Mo Gosfield[/MENTION] correctly points out AK is simply too erratic for the PL. March doesn't have those flashes of brilliance but is a much more consistant overall player.
That said, I would rather have AK than Jahanbakhsh and have said so on the Ali J thread, but the reality is we are NOT going to offload Ali or Locadia for anything like what we payed for them. They need a season with the new manager (or at least until January) before we either cut our losses or realise that CH was constraining them. No. One. Wants. Them.
The transfer window is always a sum of its parts. On the attacker / winger front it is one in, one out so far with Trossard coming in and no one - NO ONE - knows whether he is better suited to Potter's style and the PL than Knocky. A few on here with very rose tinted crystal balls.
I'll be disappointed if we don't sign a quality right back to replace Bruno as well as a striker but as Zamora points out Knocky may well have a "match highest earner" clause in his contract which is proving problematic in attracting those two players. And as [MENTION=17103]Mo Gosfield[/MENTION] correctly points out AK is simply too erratic for the PL. March doesn't have those flashes of brilliance but is a much more consistant overall player.
That said, I would rather have AK than Jahanbakhsh and have said so on the Ali J thread, but the reality is we are NOT going to offload Ali or Locadia for anything like what we payed for them. They need a season with the new manager (or at least until January) before we either cut our losses or realise that CH was constraining them. No. One. Wants. Them.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Seems like Potter, and quite a few on here, might not agree with you there.
- Jun 27, 2012
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I never understand on here that in the one hand Bloom and Barber are considered business fiends, and deal geniuses. Yet dealing with things like this , we assume they’ve tied themselves up in contractual knots (“highest paid clauses “) have let Fulham get one over on us and their first big decision with Potter is to go against his views.
It’s not likely is it.
I know they aren't, they certainly shouldn't be and yet there it is in black and white.
There was a site that [MENTION=33329]Jolly Red Giant[/MENTION] uses that suggests that AK and Dunk's wages are up at the top with the new players. No idea how accurate it is though.
EDIT - just checked, it's spotrac. Knocky is in the top 10 but doesn't match the highest earner on there. Dunk was the highest until our new signings last summer which could just explain the stories appearing in the papers?
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Nixonator
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I would agree with nearly all of that, if not for comparison with our other wide players.
I think the question is why him? Why is Knocky moved on when he has outperformed every other wide player in the squad?
I'm sure we could quite easily rip most of our players apart if we wanted to, they each have some pretty glaring faults. That's why they play for us and not a top side, but surely Knockaert did enough when compared to the rest.
Whether it's for personal reasons, to free up high wages or this highest earner clause crap, that is the question people are asking along with some understandable sentiment.