[Albion] Club Brugge reportedly interested in Steven Alzate

[Weststander]

 

[Farehamseagull]

I hope for his sake the Everton thing is not true and Fiorentina works out!

 

[Hugo Rune]

I hope for his sake the Everton thing is not true and Fiorentina works out!

Yeah.

This:

Or this:

 

[Hiheidi]

Can't really understand the loan idea when he's in the last year of his contract?

 

[Hugo Rune]

Can't really understand the loan idea when he's in the last year of his contract?

Do we have an option on an extra year?

 

[The Fits]

Loaning is nuts imho. What's the point?
He went to Liege, had a decent season and is still regarded as surplus to requirements. What now? Joins another team, is decent. What exactly are we expecting? Let the kid go, find a new club that really wants him and kickstart his career

 

[RM-Taylor]

Can't really understand the loan idea when he's in the last year of his contract?

Probably rather let him leave for free next summer, than having to pay a percentage to Leyton Orient due to the high sell on clause they have

 

[AZ Gull]

Probably rather let him leave for free next summer, than having to pay a percentage to Leyton Orient due to the high sell on clause they have

That makes absolutely zero sense.

 

[Mellotron]

That makes absolutely zero sense.

Unless you are (still) fuelled by an irrational, vengeful hatred of Leyton Orient, in which case it makes perfect sense.

 

[GT49er]

Loaning is nuts imho. What's the point?
He went to Liege, had a decent season and is still regarded as surplus to requirements. What now? Joins another team, is decent. What exactly are we expecting? Let the kid go, find a new club that really wants him and kickstart his career

Yeh, he's been on the fringes, but then sent out on loan for what - the past three or four seasons? If he's not going to break through here, let him go (for as big a fee as possible, of course!) - not another rather pointless loan for the lad.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Loaning is nuts imho. What's the point?
He went to Liege, had a decent season and is still regarded as surplus to requirements. What now? Joins another team, is decent. What exactly are we expecting? Let the kid go, find a new club that really wants him and kickstart his career

Possibly if he had a great season at Everton he could be worth £15m. That's assuming we have an extra year clause. Right now he's probably not worth north of £8m.

 

[The Fits]

Possibly if he had a great season at Everton he could be worth £15m. That's assuming we have an extra year clause. Right now he's probably not worth north of £8m.

So what though? Probably Ali J was worth more than a million (or whatever insane amount we sold him for). Molumby was unquestionably worth more than we sold him for, same with Gyokeres.
It's not a meat market. The kid got utterly f***ed over last season with the WBA move falling through.
I honestly think (if we don't fancy him ) we should just release him and let him find a decent move. We don't need 7 million pounds that much- we spent more than that on Sima (who Alzate would be better than if we put him up front).

 

[Reddleman]

I simply don’t understand letting him go at all. Look at the run of fixtures we have in September/October. It’s three games a week for 4/5 weeks in a row.

I know he wants to play but tough, we need you, he’s definitely got the quality to cover in some of those matches.

The squad is so thin.

 

[rebel51]

I simply don’t understand letting him go at all. Look at the run of fixtures we have in September/October. It’s three games a week for 4/5 weeks in a row.

I know he wants to play but tough, we need you, he’s definitely got the quality to cover in some of those matches.

The squad is so thin.

Exactly true, all this talk about getting more players in, and we get one who is 19 and probably not ready for 1st team when we so need some extra quality or at least keep alzate in case the extra injuries because of europa league fixtures.

 

[Mancgull]

Maybe we are looking at a loan option in for a player that we think may give better back up to Baleba? Eg Lokonga.
Would only make sense if we thought he was a better option than Alzate or Alzate has specifically stated he wants to play a certain number of games.
Or we think that Milner can give back up in the defensive midfield position.

 

[Springal]

Being allowed to leave permanently this window.

Not surprised, good player but was never that convinced by him

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Every time we get one in we then have one out. Squad is no bigger than it was last year - and that got stretched without the Europa League

 

[The Fits]

I have to say I'm slightly surprised (only slightly) that he wasn't considered for this RB/CM hybrid role. Feels like he could've really excelled there. Wish him well. Good, honest kid.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Quite sad about this.

I started a thread on NSC after his first couple of games for us asking how we were going to keep hold of him I was that impressed. Still think there’s a top player there, hope it works out for him.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

RdZ knows what he wants and that's players operating at a higher level or with potential to. No point keeping Alzate and hoping.