Looked culpable for a few goals and chances for the opposition when I’ve seen him.
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Looked culpable for a few goals and chances for the opposition when I’ve seen him.
Makes a lot of sense this one.
Brexit will have scuppered our plans to keep hoovering up young European talent that we -
1. Keep if they develop well enough, saving us millions by not buying the developed player at £40m or whatever.
2. Sell at a profit having developed them if they aren't QUITE good enough - Ibe, Solanke and Brewster sales brought in an amount of money equivalent to more than the cost of Jota, or the larger half of the combined transfer cost of Mane and Salah.
- and if it doesn't work out, the loss is minimal.
So if we can't get the foreign talent, acquiring British talent (and getting them into the set-up for the 3 years to count as home-grown for those that don't already) makes sense.
Looks like no busy for us again!. guess the owners know what they are doing.. which is to save themselves paying anything out.
Cleaning up the Scots since the 13th century
Too early with some of them - but that is the logic - and it doesn't even need to be a "big" fee.
If you buy someone like Sepp Van den Berg for the £1.3m or so I think we bought him for and his development goes well, you maybe sell him for £10m further down the line, or have him as a fourth-choice centre-back or whatever.
If it doesn't work out, the loss is minimal, versus (picking a player I actually really like here) something like buying Keita for £54m or whatever it was who will never have that value again.
I can think of suso who we sold for 1.3 mill & ki-hoever for 9.8mill up against a fair few from the isles.
In our current ranks trent, jones, kelleher, neco, williams, elliot.
Sterling, rossiter, coady, branagan, smith, kent, sinclair, ince in addition to Brewster, ibe and Solanke.
Looking at our under 23 squad I'm not sure Brexit will have too much of an impact, most it seems are from the UK.
Also not sure it's that wise taking kids from different cultures at younger ages.
Not worked out for naby here yet, tis a pity. But that's just the risk of buying highly rated first team ready players.
Last edited by CCTV; 27th January 2021 at 03:09 AM.
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