OneMoSalah 9,089 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 3 minutes ago, Thor said: They’re all saying he is talented and only second choice because they have their best striker in the last 30 years. We already have a talented CF who is young. In fact we already have numerous talented young players. This criteria for recruiting for the squad set by these sporting directors is absolutely ridiculous and will never bear real success. Clubs recruit these sort of players to develop and sell on for profit, usually to bigger clubs. You don’t build a 25 man squad which is between 70-75% of these kind of players. At this point we need some actual proven quality and not talented could be quality. Apparently Boehly wants to copy Real Madrid (the newest laugh at Todd’s expense) by signing all these talented players. Difference is Madrid only sign 2/3 of them every couple of years. We’ve signed about 10-15 of them. In 2.5 years. Strike, Blue Armour and bigbluewillie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,942 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 They are very complimentary of Duran at Herosandvillians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whats happening 1,660 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 in the end this just means jackson will still be our first striker and we are bringing in a young talented player as a back-up who will have enough time to show that he can become our main striker. reasonable idea, only problem is 50m is a bit much. but i bet (hope) its with a lot of incentives and clauses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 19,251 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 11 minutes ago, Vesper said: wingers under 30yo who are remotely available Rafael Leão Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Luis Díaz Michael Olise Nico Williams Leroy Sané Pedro Neto Kingsley Coman Takefusa Kubo Sávio Diogo Jota Jarrod Bowen Johan Bakayoko Bryan Mbeumo Serge Gnabry Federico Chiesa Nicolás González Jadon Sancho Amine Adli Yéremy Pino Ferran Torres Désiré Doué Samuel Lino Viktor Tsygankov Pepê Yoane Wissa Malcom Chris Führich Jamie Bynoe-Gittens Karim Adeyemi Matías Soulé Rodrigo Riquelme David Neres Amine Gouiri Ansu Fati Edon Zhegrova Galeno Nathan Tella Francisco Conceição Kevin Schade Martin Terrier Crysencio Summerville Ander Barrenetxea Brajan Gruda Marcus Edwards Ismaïla Sarr Ernest Nuamah Yankuba Minteh Riccardo Orsolini Antonio Nusa Kvara would be incredible but De Laurentiis would probably quote us £100m for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,125 Posted June 11, 2024 Share Posted June 11, 2024 49 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said: I guess I will need to pay attention to Columbia in Copa now. We've already got a brilliant Colombian striker at the club. 🙁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 19 minutes ago, Pizy said: Kvara would be incredible but De Laurentiis would probably quote us £100m for him. So what. We have bought mudryk, fofana, Caicedo, Enzo for close to that figure. Why not spend 100m on a player that would actually improve us. All the money these braindead owners spent could have got us the best squad in the world not a ‘project’ which apparently is the shortened American English form of ‘we have no idea what we’re doing’. imagine you had 200k to buy two or more nice reliable, comfortable cars, say one for fun, one to meet clients. You might buy a Porsche 911 and an merc s class or maybe you prefer a z4 and an a8 whatever. Clownlake would manage to splash 200k on a fiat multipla with a broken gear shift, a non street licensed hummer after 5 crashes and an illegaly imported post-sanctions Lada (you know cos they like its data) and tell you these pieces of trash have superb potential, will last longer and are cheaper to maintain than established brands. The mere persistent determination to get as little value as possible for the most obscene amounts of money spendable would make you think Clownlake just have a rather exotic financial domination fetish or are simply sworn to destroy this club. But what is more probable is that due to their success in yank sports they really have the hubris to think that they are some sports biz geniuses who are following a great contrarian strategy that will make them look like absolute masterminds in a few years. Spoiler alert: they are just stupid and will look like even greater fools then. But this club will suffer from the debt and all these average players they have dumped upon us for decades. robsblubot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,817 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 I don’t think there is many 100 mil players out there I trust to be actually worth that much. No out and out surefire things imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork 1,794 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 (edited) Sometime the best move is not doing anything, why not bring back David Fofana as backup and save yourself 40m and go out get better striker than Duran next summer. What sets Duran apart from Fofana btw? Edited June 12, 2024 by Clockwork Alex, bluesman2610 and Blue Armour 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,761 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 1 hour ago, Clockwork said: Sometime the best move is not doing anything, why not bring back David Fofana as backup and save yourself 40m and go out get better striker than Duran next summer. What sets Duran apart from Fofana btw? Been doing this since 2022 - sign backups or cheap strikers. Its time to go for a top striker even in a thin market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,761 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 How reliable is Guillo Arango? He's the one peddling the £42 million figure. He says it is "close to" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,761 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 In January, Matt Law quoted a deal at £18million. Can't imagine has value has more than doubled https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/01/24/Chelsea-transfer-news-jhon-duran-aston-villa-striker/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,407 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 50 millions for a reserve from Villa who will lead the attack together with Michael Jackson who is not even a striker at the head of which will be a championship manager what a clowns this club is finished . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,730 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 The sporting directors and people at the top have simply lost the plot. Jackson isn't the man, Duran isn't and won't be the man and another season where we have not addressed the massive gaping hole that has been clear for fucking ages. I honestly am speechless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,636 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 They love spending money but a good chunk of it goes on complete garbage. There is no way they can be such imbeciles, they must be doing it on purpose otherwise I don't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,817 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 If Duran is a Shields pick, all for it. I saw the dross posted here when Cole got signed lol. Fernando and mkh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyikolajevics 2,829 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 I have only seen Duran a couple of times, seems talented. 8 goals in ~1100 minutes are not bad either for a 20 years old. But.. AV signed him for 15 million last year and he was substitute for Watkins. How did we end up offering 40-50 million for him? How his value got three times as much? bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,761 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 3 minutes ago, nyikolajevics said: I have only seen Duran a couple of times, seems talented. 8 goals in ~1100 minutes are not bad either for a 20 years old. But.. AV signed him for 15 million last year and he was substitute for Watkins. How did we end up offering 40-50 million for him? How his value got three times as much? The value has not been quoted by anyone reliable yet. nyikolajevics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulvhedin 526 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 Can people throwing insults around about Duran signing can at least wait till it's confirmed? Why so many people here are believe every rumor that is posted around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,475 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 bigbluewillie and bluesman2610 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,730 Posted June 12, 2024 Share Posted June 12, 2024 Negotiations are on going for Duran, Duran wants the move and terms of contract are already been discussed. It's happening this bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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