HalfaSeatOn
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TBH, I did read a reasonable amount in to it. The season starts in 2 weeks so Potter must be getting reasonably close to his 11 best fits.
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[Albion] Alireza Jahanbakhsh joins Feyenoord
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TBH, I did read a reasonable amount in to it. The season starts in 2 weeks so Potter must be getting reasonably close to his 11 best fits.
Nottseagull
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Could just be that he was the only one capable of really putting in a shift in that extreme heat, and maybe GP accounted for this in his assessment.
darkwolf666
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Why, cos he’s from a hot country?
Better fill our squad with Icelandic’s for the winter months and Africans for the hotter days then!
Is our star man injured today?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
durrington gull
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Permanently injured based on last seasons shithouse performances
Think one of the top Dutch teams were rumoured to be interested earlier in the window
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Possibly Swansman, but we are in the situation, where we paid £17m for him and he has a juicy Premier League contract, which very few clubs in Europe can equal or better and those clubs wouldn't want him.
I find it very unlikely we'll just cut our losses on Ali J. More likely is that we'll look to loan him for a year, probably somewhere in Italy or Spain. More likely still is that he won't go anywhere, he'll fight for his place and will feature occasionally as a bit part player. With a 25 man squad, there will always be decent players that don't make the 18 in any given game.
Mike Small
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- Dec 26, 2008
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He'd be better this season than last (can't be any worse) in this formation but imo he's got Maupay, Gross, Locadia, Mooy and Trossard in front of him for two positions. He's not particaulry quick, skilful, strong or great at crossing which the others have got at least one of these attributes. None have the haircut obviously. Reckon he'll be here till January but wouldn't mind if he moved on.
If he doesn't come up to scratch with everything in his favour then c'est la vie.
Someone was always going to miss out, I thought it might be Andone, (shows how little it know) but he's in the squad and can't be replaced so I assume he'll have to be really out of favour to leave now.
Personally, I’d get a loan fee out of him, possibly split his wages with said loan club in one of Europe’s top leagues. Hope he does well and then becomes an asset to clubs in Europe and will generate a decent selling fee for next summer. Give him the chance to put himself in the shop window.
Having said that, I wouldn’t mind giving him a chance in the number 10 role behind the 2 strikers, where Gross was today. His best game for us was away at West Brom in the cup replay playing there. So he could possibly excel playing there, in a more attaching ream.
Having said that, I wouldn’t mind giving him a chance in the number 10 role behind the 2 strikers, where Gross was today. His best game for us was away at West Brom in the cup replay playing there. So he could possibly excel playing there, in a more attaching ream.
dingodan
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- Feb 16, 2011
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I'd say we should give him a chance and at least see how he does under the new system before we write him off completely. I rated Propper last season, but he was even better today under this system and Stephens also looked like a better player in this system too, so it's entirely possible that Ali J will do better this season given half a chance.
Andone is going to be a player for us.
Oh yes I agree, that comment just goes back to me initially thinking he'd be the one to miss out if Murray started and Maupay was on the bench.
Instead Pottertinio picked 3 strikers for the first game of the season, away from home.
Remind me what he is good at. Genuine request
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Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Technically he’s very good. But lack of pace really seems to hamper him. Happy to ship him out if we can though, as we have so many options up there. Add to the 6 who were in the squad today Solly - he could play on the front 3 and Bernardo LB if needed - so the depth is huge there.
When he plays is like we put a keepyuppy champion on the pitch who has no clue how to play a game of football.