pallyparker
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For Celta Vigo...
Jorgen Strand Larsen signs
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Juninho twinkle toes.
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Bit gutted. Reckon this lad has the potential, to be another Haaland.
h_m_boro
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Football whore, went about leaving Groningen the wrong way.
Wasn't impressed with his behaviour......and for £10m too big a gamble for us at this moment in time.
Not ars*d tbh. Guess the bit where Boro were reported as announcing their pursuit of him was finished was actually true........
Ironops
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I know 'F' all about football finances or valuing players but if you rate a player at 9m why would you lose out and not pay 10m? Especially when you have the money to do so.
Gibson is rather known for his stubbornness, I wonder if his nose is still connected to his face today?
Gibson is rather known for his stubbornness, I wonder if his nose is still connected to his face today?
Canyoudigit
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Please please please can we not post every time the lad scores from now on
Colgates_shaving_foam
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Difficult to understand for me too.
For example if I'm buying a house and I really like it then I think it's daft to lose it for the sake of say 5 to 10k.
Some people though will absolutely set a price and not go a penny over.
Steve Gibson's way obviously works better, fiscally speaking, as he is considerably richer than me.
His way is only better if you look at it in isolation. If his signing would've got us promoted but signing someone else for £9m that isn't as good means we don't then he has potentially missed out on significant future revenue. If we get promoted without him then it would've been unnecessary spending for the same outcome but all of that is impossible to know.
I suppose the question should be: would we be better with one £10m player on the pitch or one £3m player on the pitch and two other £3m players on the bench? I'd guess the stats show that having players playing regularly and consistently gets more goals. Rotation only works if they are all good or all bad otherwise you really end up with one of them playing and the others not which could've been achieved with just signing one good one.
Colgates_shaving_foam
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We are definitely going down a more sustainable route, no doubt caused in part because it must have made Gibbo sick to be paying clowns like Assombalonga, Gestede, Braithwaite etc an absolute fortune.
It took Brentford a while to form a promotion winning team by slowly knitting their projects together, maybe it will take us 2 or 3 seasons to do the same.
Ironops
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The problem with that though is most of the expenditure on players is wages, not transfer fees
Andy_W
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To be fair, if we signed the previous versions of Assombalonga or Braithwaite now, then it would have given us a proven poacher to go with Muniz, or a decent no 10 to play behind him. Same with the old version of Rhodes we signed too, he'd have got a lot of goals in this side, especially alongside Muniz. Gestede was a donkey, no getting away from that.
We overplayed a little on Assombalonga, but we had the money to then, not selling him and letting him run his contract down was a bad idea mind. Braithwaite's a good player, we might have overpaid a touch, but sold him too cheaply. Hopefully, we got a loan fee.
If we cut the supply, brought in a poor manager or started playing long ball or whatever it wouldn't work mind.
These were all bad signings because we didn't do our homework. You can spend a lot on a player and them be good value (Haaland, De Bruyne, Van Dijk etc.) and you can spend a lot on a player and them not be. The recruitment team's job is to identify players that would fit the team both in the way they play and the attitude of the player. Players like Pogba cost a fortune and he is talented but his attitude is terrible. Utd must have already known that, he used to be their player, but they bought him anyway. City don't sign players like Pogba, their recruitment team does their job properly. They still pay big money for players but they get good value from their signings.
I don't know enough about Larsen to know whether he is good or bad but I'd hope the recruitment team have learnt their lesson and they've identified him because of his whole package, not just his Youtube highlights. If they believe he is worth £9m then that's because they think he is good enough to either get us into the PL or he will be worth more in the future and we will make a profit. I don't understand how if you believe all that the same wouldn't be true at £10m.
Assombalonga a proven poacher. I think he preferred scrambled
Andy_W
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He gets too much stick for me, he scored a lot/ at a great rate for Forrest, in a muck side, then still scored at a decent rate for us for a couple of years, despite us not creating a great deal and playing a lot of lump ball.
He would have suited a side keeping the ball on the deck, creating chances, he's not the prettiest but gets himself in the right place at the right time a lot.
lostinyorkshire
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and so we should its a football message board and we will be interested to see how he gets on.