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GreeksBearingGifts

GreeksBearingGifts

Stuart Pearce
Col Steve Austin said:
Other than Murillo, they all have issues - age, propensity for injury, lack of pace, likely to drop a clanger or just not good enough.
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That's an exaggeration. Boly is a fine CB, doing a proper job in the Premier. Felipe and Niakhaté were your best CBs last season, Worrall is your captain, McKenna may not be of a Premier standard but always gives everything he has, Omobamidele is one for the future.

I would gladly get Felipe off your hands in a heartbeat. He is precisely what we need in the moment (we have three young, dynamic but relatively inexperienced and prone to error CBs, who need quality and experience next to them).
 
Thomas

Thomas

Martel Maxwell Enjoyer
GreeksBearingGifts said:
That's an exaggeration. Boly is a fine CB, doing a proper job in the Premier. Felipe and Niakhaté were your best CBs last season, Worrall is your captain, McKenna may not be of a Premier standard but always gives everything he has, Omobamidele is one for the future.

I would gladly get Felipe off your hands in a heartbeat. He is precisely what we need in the moment (we have three young, dynamic but relatively inexperienced and prone to error CBs, who need quality and experience next to them).
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Man the probability of Felipe playing this season looks like the same as the flipping leftback we sent yall.

Niakhate Murillo Boly (Felipe would be here by I have no idea what’s up with him) are the capable starters.

That leaves us Worrall and McKenna and young Irish lad. Worrall is club captain, probably won’t ever leave and McKenna is most likely leaving as he’s surplus + not good enough for where we want to be unfortunately.

Irish lad is for the future.


Honestly typing this out made me realize you might be right LOL.


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Rubics

Rubics

Bin VAR!
Good planning by the club again if he’s who we’ve identified and is available for 6/7m. Gives him half a season to settle and maybe allows the Norwich lad to go on loan.
id give boly one more year, but it looks like fellipe and McKenna won’t be here next year.
GBG - possible options are felippe or McKenna that if fit would help you out
PS - please feel free to kick the shit out of West Ham on Thursday, especially Bowen and ward prows!
 
Monkman

Monkman

Grenville Morris
Yeah I said it on page 1. Obviously if he's a big improvement then great, but there are other areas of the pitch that need cover more urgently (left back, winger, striker) and there are only so many squad places (Nino is 26).
 
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marshal99

John Robertson
with the way cooper plays, the team will have only 1 winger, 1 striker. i am not convinced by cho even when fit so we might need another winger option, send origi back so we can sign one more striker ?
 
Col Steve Austin

Col Steve Austin

Viv Anderson
GreeksBearingGifts said:
That's an exaggeration. Boly is a fine CB, doing a proper job in the Premier. Felipe and Niakhaté were your best CBs last season, Worrall is your captain, McKenna may not be of a Premier standard but always gives everything he has, Omobamidele is one for the future.

I would gladly get Felipe off your hands in a heartbeat. He is precisely what we need in the moment (we have three young, dynamic but relatively inexperienced and prone to error CBs, who need quality and experience next to them).
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Felipe is pretty much done, certainly won't be here next season.

Boly is solid but is slow and must be upgraded if we're going to progress and play with a back four against top teams.

Moussa has a rick in him, is injury prone and is left footed, which isn't ideal for the right CB position.

Wozza will only ever be a bit-part player.

Omobamidele, as you say, isn't ready yet.

Nino will be cracking business.

Edit: if next season we have a group of 5 of Murillo, Nino, Moussa, Omob and Wozza, that will be a good group.
 
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marshal99

John Robertson
GreeksBearingGifts said:
That's an exaggeration. Boly is a fine CB, doing a proper job in the Premier. Felipe and Niakhaté were your best CBs last season, Worrall is your captain, McKenna may not be of a Premier standard but always gives everything he has, Omobamidele is one for the future.

I would gladly get Felipe off your hands in a heartbeat. He is precisely what we need in the moment (we have three young, dynamic but relatively inexperienced and prone to error CBs, who need quality and experience next to them).
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what happened to that towering senegal defender you used to have ?
 
GreeksBearingGifts

GreeksBearingGifts

Stuart Pearce
marshal99 said:
what happened to that towering senegal defender you used to have ?
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We had two of them, Pape Abou Cissé and Ousseynou Ba. On their day, they both seemed the best CBs in Europe; far too often, however, they were prone to the silliest of mistakes. We waited, for years, but the days full of mistakes continued to outnumber their good days. They both play in Turkey now, Cissé on a permanent deal, Ba on loan. Similar both in stature, talent and athleticism and in his propensity for mistakes is new recruit Jackson Porozo from Ecuador. Porozo (23), Retsos (25) and Ndoj (20) are all very dynamic and enthusiastic CBs who could use (and become better by) a calm, tactically competent partner in defence like Felipe. The one brought in for that role, Argentinian Nicolás Freire, is an injury-prone flop.
 
Omar Devone Little

Omar Devone Little

Mr Realistic
Monkman said:
Only slight concern is that his profile leans more Scarpa than Danilo/Murillo in terms of age. If he's good enough for the PL then why is he still in the Brazilian league at 26?
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I said this about Scarpa and got pelters and look how that went. Obviously there will be the odd exception but generally players playing in South America (or anywhere outside of Europe's top 6/7 leagues to be honest) in their mid-20s fall into two camps as they either went to a top European league and failed then came back or they were never good enough to be scouted in the first place.
 
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Red Dog in a Forest

Viv Anderson
Cafu moved to Europe when he was 25. Plus, defenders generally peak later.

Generally though, it is late.

I think the crypto scam derailed Scarpa. He was looking decent until that…and the mini-collapse we had, when everyone was injured (last season).
 
BryanRoy22

BryanRoy22

Ian Bowyer
12 of Brazil's 23 man squad in the 2002 World Cup were Brazilian based players. The last time Brazil won the World Cup.

Throughout history, Brazil's most successful teams usually contained a lot of Brazilian based players. There were 11 in 1994 for example. All 23 in 1970 were Brazilian based.

4 years later at the 2006 World Cup, Brazil had just 1 Brazilian based player in their squad.

Probably going off on a tangent here, but I would say the Brazilian national team needs more fighters in their squad who are not European based. Brazil has a lot of poverty and the players who are still playing there perhaps appreciate more than those who are wearing silk pyjamas and eating Uber eats for breakfast every day in Italy, Spain or England.

I would only see a genuinely good player who is still playing in Brazil and staying loyal to their club and country as a positive thing.
 
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Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
BryanRoy22 said:
12 of Brazil's 23 man squad in the 2002 World Cup were Brazilian based players. The last time Brazil won the World Cup.

Throughout history, Brazil's most successful teams usually contained a lot of Brazilian based players. There were 11 in 1994 for example. All 23 in 1970 were Brazilian based.

4 years later at the 2006 World Cup, Brazil had just 1 Brazilian based player in their squad.

Probably going off on a tangent here, but I would say the Brazilian national team needs more fighters in their squad who are not European based. Brazil has a lot of poverty and the players who are still playing there perhaps appreciate more than those who are wearing silk pyjamas and eating Uber eats for breakfast every day in Italy, Spain or England.

I would only see a genuinely good player who is still playing in Brazil and staying loyal to their club and country as a positive thing.
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And to add to that, perhaps the finest Brazil side in history - 1982 - didn’t actually win anything!
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Fluminense have confirmed he's leaving in January and it's report that there's an agreement in place with Forest
 
Thomas

Thomas

Martel Maxwell Enjoyer
Notcher said:
Fluminense have confirmed he's leaving in January and it's report that there's an agreement in place with Forest
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Huh, interesting. I wonder if this is an actual signing for us and not a sketchy Oly signing. Looks good on the ball.


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Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
Monkman said:
I thought he looked pretty lively yesterday. Hopefully he can have a run in the side.
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I agree whole heartedly.
However, the way he plays is blood and guts and hard as nails.
I hope he can avoid poblems recurring, but every game is fingers crossed when he plays.
We need him bigly for January!
 
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