Chema Rodriguez

[BryanRoy]

Even whilst he has been playing they are so convinced in Spain that it is a done deal to Almeria. He can only be homesick but by the looks of things Robinson won't be back anytime soon.

Surely no truth ?

https://as.com/futbol/2020/01/14/segunda/1579013705_088703.amp.html

Although the former Levante has won a place in the eleven of the Nottingham Forest, he will leave for Almeria, being one of the two plants that will land this January.

Chema Rodríguez has done it with the UD Almería. The Albacete will be one of the two plants that will arrive from here at the end of this market to the red and white entity. Chema's name rang weeks ago, but doubts began when he started playing with the Nottingham Forest, where he was not playing a leading role. However, as AS has learned, the agreement with the former Levante, who can also act as a left-hander, is closed in the absence of both clubs announcing it .

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

If there's any truth in it, wonder if it's some sort of link with Almeria we've set up, considering they took Appiah from us for £8m in the summer.

We got Chema in for half a million, selling him on six months down the line for £2.5m say would represent decent business. We'd then have Dawson, Figgy, Worrall and Benalouane as centre backs, Ribeiro coming back as the left back, and £2m more in the kitty than six months prior to pick up another left back.

Not in a rush to see him go, but if there's a buyer willing to fork out significantly more than we paid for him and it's not a key player that we would desperately miss if they left then why not?

 

[BryanRoy]

If there's any truth in it, wonder if it's some sort of link with Almeria we've set up, considering they took Appiah from us for £8m in the summer.

We got Chema in for half a million, selling him on six months down the line for £2.5m say would represent decent business. We'd then have Dawson, Figgy, Worrall and Benalouane as centre backs, Ribeiro coming back as the left back, and £2m more in the kitty than six months prior to pick up another left back.

Not in a rush to see him go, but if there's a buyer willing to fork out significantly more than we paid for him and it's not a key player that we would desperately miss if they left then why not?

Obviously considering if your theory is real then possibly.

I don't think Chema is special but players like him, Yates & even Ameobi do what the manager asks of them for the team and they quietly & efficiently do it. Sabri seems to trust them listening to him in interviews. That is what I like about Chema. Replaceable but a big part of our tight knit unit.

If he goes, he goes. As long as Yuri gets competition then. I was at the thought of lets see Robinson's contract out but it has definitely got to the stage where, when he is on the pitch there is a concern.

 

[MASE]

If he goes, he goes. .

In a nutshell.

We've better options at CB. Done okay keeping the seat warm for Ribeiro, but nowt special. Lets his involvement with opposition players & referees get the better of him sometimes.

Small profit would be nice. Our options are fine without him.

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

If he does go, I think & hope that it'll be very dependent on a LB coming our way

 

[Frank Clark’s Tash]

I thought the point was that he was a left footed cb, something we otherwise lacked?

We'd be mad to let him go without finding a replacement first, regardless of how homesick he may or may not be.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

I thought the point was that he was a left footed cb, something we otherwise lacked?

We'd be mad to let him go without finding a replacement first, regardless of how homesick he may or may not be.

Worrall's been playing left sided CB and been fine. It's not imperative.

 

[Captain Sinister]

Why sign a player in the summer, don't start to play him regularly until December, and then decide to flog him in January?
Unless he is homesick (and if his lady isn't living in Nottingham with him, but is back in Spain I wouldn't blame him for wanting to go home)we shouldn't even be considering any offers for him.

 

[Steve Stone's Mullet]

Why sign a player in the summer, don't start to play him regularly until December, and then decide to flog him in January?
Unless he is homesick (and if his lady isn't living in Nottingham with him, but is back in Spain I wouldn't blame him for wanting to go home)we shouldn't even be considering any offers for him.

He's done reasonably in his few appearances and I think he has something. Sabri seems to trust him, but like you say, if he wants to go back home, I think you let him (provided we're well compensated). You don't want someone kicking around who just doesn't want to be there.

We'd have to find a new LB though IMO.

 

[Master Yates]

I like him, don’t want to see him leave unless we have a better LB coming in first


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[Timothy Pope]

This ‘getting someone in for very little, barely playing them and selling for a tidy profit’ seems to be becoming a habit


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[Statto]

Worrall's been playing left sided CB and been fine. It's not imperative.

I don't understand why a professional footballer can't be two footed. I used to be very left-footed but practised kicking more with my right until it was good enough for passing, crossing, shooting etc.

 

[Steve Stone's Mullet]

I don't understand why a professional footballer can't be two footed. I used to be very left-footed but practised kicking more with my right until it was good enough for passing, crossing, shooting etc.

I think to an average level, they can probably use their wrong foot still better than 99% of most. But it's different at the level they play at. Even the simple touches and passes they make are way beyond what a lot of average lads can do.

Think how each they take a ball out of the air. When someone on a Sat/Sun does it in local leagues, you hear people say, 'great touch mate'. To these guys, it's an every day thing.

I just think because they're so much better than most at it, it makes us think 'why don't they do it with their wrong foot, I can use mine'.

 

[Francis Benali (on loan)]

I couldn't kick with my left foot. First game I played in an adult league, they stuck me in at left back because that's where they needed a player. I was a centre mid. I lobbed our goalkeeper from outside box with my left foot. Easily the best goal I ever scored with that peg.

 

[Erik]

This ‘getting someone in for very little, barely playing them and selling for a tidy profit’ seems to be becoming a habit

We need to in order to balance out the £32m loss that is Carvalho.




:-*

 

[Statto]

I couldn't kick with my left foot. First game I played in an adult league, they stuck me in at left back because that's where they needed a player. I was a centre mid. I lobbed our goalkeeper from outside box with my left foot. Easily the best goal I ever scored with that peg.

Hehe, I was a natural winger as a kid, short/light and could run all day and make chances, as I was usually the only left footed kid on the team and this was mid-90s I usually ended up having to learn how to play fullback as well.

Best way to kill off a wide attacker's confidence is to knock the shit out of them early, which made the defending side easier, you just turn into what you hate.

(This could be why most strikers end up as defensive managers)

 

[Thomas]

https://www.nottinghampost.com/spor...nottingham-forest-transfer-news-chema-3743677

 

[lard]

https://www.nottinghampost.com/spor...nottingham-forest-transfer-news-chema-3743677

"Speaking on New year's day "
It's the 16th of January now , Alot can change during that time.

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[Era Vulgaris]

"Speaking on New year's day "
It's the 16th of January now , Alot can change during that time.

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Despite knowing the NEP is utter garbage these days, I still sometimes get sucked in by a headline only to realise there’s no actual quote or useful content at all. It’s really infuriating. I get they probably don’t have a huge budget but they’re getting worse.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

Despite knowing the NEP is utter garbage these days, I still sometimes get sucked in by a headline only to realise there’s no actual quote or useful content at all. It’s really infuriating. I get they probably don’t have a huge budget but they’re getting worse.

They've lost readers because their articles are clickbait. They try to overcome this by making all of their articles clickbait.

As much as I support localism, you need to offer something of some quality, and unfortunately the EP Sports journalists offer zero. If it was a dog it would have been put down five years ago, its cruel to get these people to carry on.

 

[Otis Redding]

It's a sad indictment of a local newspaper when it constructs an article based on an interview for a player-profile piece in the matchday programme, and presents it as some sort of exclusive.

If he regards himself as a serious journo, Barry Cooper should be embarrassed to have his name and picture associated with that :facepalm:

No wonder Tails couldn't wait to get away.

 

[congo_red_49]

I'm sure Barry and the NEP do the best hey can with a ever shrinking budget. Unfortunately it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that declining readership leads to less resource, less resource leads to more crap stories, more crap stories reduces the readership further. 'Local' news is dying in the age of the Internet.

 

[valspoodle]

Along with wages going up, entry to football clubs for journalists is going down. Gone are the days of a swift pint and a chat with the manager (apparently, I've no first hand knowledge) in his office for a local journalist.

These days, the bigger clubs, with scads of enforcers blocking the way, are tougher to get into than Fort Knox.

I saw an old film the other day about a journalist who, prior to the war, had happily spent his days writing about the joys of council meetings, local weddings and the church fete. But, on his return from action, chafed at such mundane chores.

I'm sure the journalists on local papers feel the same these days; tight security at clubs and the internet avalanche of dubious information, must be a nightmare they would give anything to escape.

 

[Otis Redding]

I'm sure Barry and the NEP do the best hey can with a ever shrinking budget. Unfortunately it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that declining readership leads to less resource, less resource leads to more crap stories, more crap stories reduces the readership further. 'Local' news is dying in the age of the Internet.

I don't doubt that CR, but a serious journalist would build-up relationships with potential sources of information, gaining confidence and ensuring trust. The modern-day local hack would find such old-school methods as too much like hard work.

 

[Frank Clark’s Tash]

Tight budgets or otherwise, it doesn't cost much to pick up a bloody telephone.

They just seem content to spend half an hour browsing the web (and LTLF in particular) to then rehash whatever rumours they come across and can turn into a click-bait headline.

Lazy doesn't even begin to describe it.