Yan Diomande

[ianlfc]

I think it's too late. We blew our load last Sumner on two players who, so far, have added nothing.

How dare you, one of them had 3 attempts on goal the other night 🤣

[Insidious]

Maybe Gakpo don’t see Macca going just need to play to his and the other players strengths and getting those two top quality wide players in does that

Macca turns 28 in December. He's hardly "past it" or anything, but he will have two years left on his deal (correct me if I'm wrong please) once Summer hits and I doubt we will want to hand out a massive contract to him, or let him go on a free.

We need more Home-grown lads and we like to keep the average age down.

I can absolutely foresee us doing something like Wharton or Anderson in, Macca out, while he still has value.

I'm not in the "I'd drive him to the Airport myself" camp or anything daft, but I could see us trying the above.

We will have a finite budget without sales, so one or two of the "right" sales to address key issues could be incredibly useful, provided we make sensible acquisitions.

[Nineteenx]

They get written off early these days 28 is no age

It’s a shame Slot has written the defence off with his changes and played so many out of form that’s a year of their careers he’s wasted

[Insidious]

They get written off early these days 28 is no age

It’s a shame Slot has written the defence off with his changes and played so many out of form that’s a year of their careers he’s wasted

I agree 28 is no age - not personally saying we SHOULD sell Macca or anything, just see how he might be viewed as a way to generate cash if we want to buy 4-6 players when we maybe only have a budget (before sales) for 1-3 given our general desire for modest net spend and for buying players of a future-proofing sort of age profile.

[Nineteenx]

Two top wide forwards would do me

[RedMagic]

Mac Allister is a big part of the reason we leave so much space in-between our defence and midfield. He effectively offers our defence zero protection, never mind that he is slow, ponderous and often unaware of what is going on around him.

We need better, more consistent, and more astute players across the park, but especially in our midfield and defence. Our midfield certainly also isn't being helped by Gravenberch having a poor season to the point where it's possible that last season was an outlier in terms of his performance level. On top of that we're also devoid of quality options. Jones is not good enough or consistent enough, whilst Endo was brought in as a stopgap.

[Nineteenx]

People slagged him off for that just a few games back, the starts scored him 8.5 he’d made almost more tackles and intercepts than the rest of the side put together, and he does that a lot, because he levers thrn off the ball and just nicks it ppl don’t seem to clock it he Jane tracks runners more than Szobo and Grav have been sound but he shouldn’t be covering Grav’s arse anyway we should play a 3 man midfield with Grav at No5

[Daffydd]

Can't see us going for Diomande.

Usually when someone shines in the Bundesliga we hear what an easy league it is.

How does this chap compare to your Semenyos, your Gakpos, your Ngumohas? (sorry Sid!)

[Nineteenx]

Better than all 3 better than Ronaldo and Neco Williams at that age

Pace strength ability vision awareness composure

Great body shape and two great feet, very Benzema land Neco Williams line in body shake and movement and Benzema like in how he move the ball from one foot to another or from instep to take away with his out step

Doesn’t overdo it uses his skill and movement of the ball to get half a yard for a shot cross or pass and makes very good decisions

Uses coordinated movement of feet and body shape to make a defender think he’s going one way to go past them the other like they’re not there

[miller0863]

Well he’s quick and physically strong so that’s a start for his skill set to translate