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You could go on NSC and find someone slagging off every single one of our players at some point this season. Especially during or shortly after a match when the standard of perspective on display is even lower than usual.
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[Albion] Knockaert joins Fulham on initial one-year loan
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You could go on NSC and find someone slagging off every single one of our players at some point this season. Especially during or shortly after a match when the standard of perspective on display is even lower than usual.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Why? You wouldn’t even consider signing him on current form.
Sounds like the rest of the Albion team TBH.
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I think people think this for two reasons.
Firstly nostalgia for those wonderful seasons he spent with us.
Secondly because despite reports (not sure how true they are, but I'm aware that he hasn't played all their games) of poor form with Fulham, we've witnessed he's reached a level as high as or higher than the other wingers or attacking midfielders at the club, so people reason we're likely to get more out of him than we are out of, say March, Ali J or Izquierdo
GT49er
Well-known member
What's that got to do with the terms of the deal with Fulham?
Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
We all love Knocky for who he is and what he did for us but does anyone really think we made a bad decision?
It was a move that suited everybody.
It was a move that suited everybody.
doogie004
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drummerboy10
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- Apr 18, 2012
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Sure about that?
Grombleton
Surrounded by <div>s
- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
I love Knocky, but he's too one-dimensional to make it in the PL regularly. He's showing that at Fulham this season, if the quoted tweets earlier are anything to go by.
It's a move that suited all parties at the time.
It's a move that suited all parties at the time.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
And we've also got MacAllister as well now. Not the same, but will take a squad place and should be creative
Trossard > Knockaert > Craig Noone > Dean Cox
Basically slightly better version of the same kind of player
Wellesley
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- Jul 24, 2013
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Form is temporary. I rate him very highly. His work rate is phenomenal and he has the ability to turn a game. We could do with his passion and fighting spirit too. That's just my opinion of course but he is one of Albion's all time finest to me.
GT49er
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I don't think MacAllister will take a squad place (too young) but his arrival is one more indication that we have moved on from Knockaert. I do wonder why Fulham took him on a year loan and didn't buy him outright, if they are committed to buying him anyway this summer.
and smith must score
Member
FFP? or cashflow
GT49er
Well-known member
Yeh, probably a good shout.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
You may well be right. Mind you, if this is the case, we would probably not have paid the compensation and left him where he was for the rest of the season.(I don't know).
Why did the club spend money in January and make all the effort to get MacAliister back to us early?
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ha ha
yeh mate, I can imagine the conversation
Where were you before? Ah Boca Juniors, ah, you have full international caps for Argentina you say? OK then Alexis, well you'll now be playing for our u23 team. You might have a few problems dislodging Jordan Davies from the team as he's been playing well recently.
Don Tmatter
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I’d start him on Saturday if he was here.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Sorry, I meant in the matchday squad.