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It'd take well over £100 million to get Isak now. Missed a trick not getting him from Sociadad before the Geordies.
And let me tell you that if we signed him and the first time he was out injured there would be uproar on here from me and others about signing a VERY injury prone player - you cant just look at his goals and disregard his injury record, and especially when your back ups are havertz and jesus
It'd take well over £100 million to get Isak now. Missed a trick not getting him from Sociadad before the Geordies.
And let me tell you that if we signed him and the first time he was out injured there would be uproar on here from me and others about signing a VERY injury prone player - you cant just look at his goals and disregard his injury record, and especially when your back ups are havertz and jesus
Really good player. Shame he is injury prone. Should still have bought him.
Last edited by Limerick Gooner on Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Using hindsight, Martinez is the obvious one. Don’t agree with keeping either Torreira or Guendouzi. Truly desperate stuff to think they are the answer. Even if they are the three we were keeping though, it’s not exactly game changing stuff is it? It’s not Chelsea selling Salah and De Bruyne.
Arteta built a squad from not a lot. We recouped basically nothing from that squad once you do deals to get rid of Pepe, Auba and Ozil and loads of other pay off deals. We were an effing shit show. A literal United clone. Look at them now. Look at us. We’ve got more transfers right than wrong. We have made mistakes. We’ve cocked up last Summer’s window. But I don’t see the need to ironically throw the baby out with the bath water and get rid of Arteta.
Now you’re misrepresenting and moving goalposts.
The question wasn’t “who was the answer?” in global terms, it was which members of the squad should we have kept, particularly in relation to those we’ve replaced them with. The three midfielders I’ve listed were, in my opinion, better than our current centre mids, excluding Rice.
Of course they aren’t Salah or De Bruyne, but you’re straw manning and misrepresenting, because I in no way suggested they were, but you know what? Neither are fucking Partey, Metino, Vieira, or Jorginho. I’d take the three I listed over those duds any day.
Guendouzi and Torreira simply aren’t better than what we have now. What are they up to now anyway?
Your opinion. As far as I’m concerned, all three of Guendouzi, ESR and Torreira are a mile in front our current centre mids, excluding Rice. Tbh, you could stick me in there and I wouldn’t give the ball to the opposition any more than Partey does. I could also be as immobile as Jorginho.
Augie had already answered this above and I fully agree with his assessment of Guendouzi. I was a fan of his when he played in a struggling team for us. Jettisoned for personality reasons , not talent reasons.
Extremely volatile, even after we got shot of him. But he was very young, he's only mid 20's now and seems to have settled down. A strong manager would have been able to harness that French passion. Instead we have brought in a seemingly unending train of weak, ineffective, pedestrian midfielders. Much like Arteta was as a player.
Rice was the only decent one, and we paid way too much for him. Compared to the others, he looks like Viera.
I always liked Guendouzi... As said a bit hot headed, but that is part of who he is. The few times I have seen him since he is a very decent midfielder and would take him over Merino, (Car Park) Partey and Jorginho any day. A more patient manager would have thrown him in the reserves till he'd calmed down... instead of sending him out on loan knowing full well he was never going to take him back.
