[Albion] Nicolás González

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Who rattled your cage?? We live in a world of opinions. I have mine, you have yours.

Wind your neck in and move on.

I'm entirely relaxed about you having an opinion. But it would be a very boring board if we all logged on, stated our view and logged off again without interacting with each other.

 

[Swansman]

If he'd done the business in multiple leagues then i might agree with you. Never shown up at the World Cup either. Ronaldo has done more tbh.

He's not even the best player Argentina have produced!

It's not the top 6 he'd have to worry about btw, it's the journeyman center halves and the hardman enforcers that would kick the shit out of him...just so they can say they have! He'd get nowhere near the protection he gets in Spain.

Old football tropes.

He's not done business in multiple leagues, but in the best one. He has also faced teams from multiple leagues in the Champions League, performing quite well. As for not showing up in World Cups, there is no chance Argentina would have gone to the final in 2014 without him.

As for "journeyman center halves and hardmen", its not like a team like eg Osasuna are a bunch of soft tiki-taka players. And no protection? If Jack Grealish is in the same half of the pitch as a defender, he gets a free kick.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Job done

 

[Hugo Rune]

Job done

2pm announcement?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Agreed. I also suspect a front 3 of Welbeck-Gonzalez-Trossard could become common place if we sign the lad. He seems to have an alround game that is at least the equal of Neal's.

How do you know! we haven't seen him play yet! and since when has Trossard suddenly become a front three player? His best work is either out wide or in midfield pulling the strings.

Write off Maupay at your peril too, on his day he can be very effective.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

since when has Trossard suddenly become a front three player?

Maybe since Potter has been playing him in a front three all season??

 

[Icy Gull]

2pm announcement?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

2pm announcement?

Which day ?

 

[Farehamseagull]

This thread has got really odd!

 

[bhanutz]

How do you know! we haven't seen him play yet! and since when has Trossard suddenly become a front three player? His best work is either out wide or in midfield pulling the strings.

Write off Maupay at your peril too, on his day he can be very effective.

This... This... and This!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Job done

Job?

 

[Bakero]

Which day ?

Which year?

 

[schmunk]

Job done

Psalms next?

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Psalms next?

All we need on this thread are Revelations.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Psalms next?

How very droll.

 

[Zebedee]

Are we really singing a striker at long last? I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Hugo Rune]

How do you know! we haven't seen him play yet! and since when has Trossard suddenly become a front three player? His best work is either out wide or in midfield pulling the strings.

Write off Maupay at your peril too, on his day he can be very effective.

There is enough videos and data of Nico online to get a good idea of how he plays, it's not last century where you need to have watched him in person to have a valid opinion.

Also, I'm not writing Maupay off at all, I just think he needs better competition for that No.9 role.

I include wingers, forwards and attacking midfielders in the 'front 3' I refer to. I can't find any line-ups where Potter doesn't use Trossard as an attacking player, he is no midfielder in terms of the passing and creativity of a Lallana or Gross or the tackling, dynamism, positioning and drive of a Bissouma. He really doesn't pull that many strings in midfield, he is normally more advanced than that except when he's giving the ball away in defence.

 

[zefarelly]

Psalms next?

Singing Ouija board?

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Was that all?

Gosh in my mind we sold the legend that was Mike Small, got in Raphael Meade as a replacement, then replaced him for a season with Stafford Browne.

As it's taken me all morning to remember his name I guess I shouldn't be surprised I had no idea of his Albion career.

Are you thinking of Mark Gall, who came in early in the relegation season after Small left? I think he was probably John Byrne's replacement. Blew hot and cold; could be brilliant one match, then you virtually never saw him in the next one, and he had a Maupay-like propensity for missing sitters, alongside scoring some fairly brilliant goals. He just seemed to leave without trace after that season; I've no idea whether we got a fee for him, but I did hear rumours, no idea whether credible, and I can't remember from whom I heard this, that he was a disruptive influence in the dressing room. We started the next season with Steve Cotterill and Paul Moulden on loan.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

This... This... and This!

Agreed, Maupay has scored some belters, such as his opening day one at Watford, the Burnley volley and the winner against Arsenal. I hope he can recapture his first season form. Sadly, though, he has missed some chances that were far easier than the ones he scored (even Christiano Ronaldo does that), but I think something was obviously not right last season.