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It’s more to do with the fact that PIF will pay up front and will give him the inflated price he’s looking for imo.

How? Sports Direct is already in KSA

@Yorkie @Ashley17 @reefatoon @SUPERTOONAh okay , no wonder it was all sounding a bit one-sided. Cheers!

Reading through this thread, it’s seems as though it’s not looking particularly promising.

Quick summary for those that can’t watch?

Don’t think I’ve met anyone who uses ‘kid’ as a slight who wasn’t a massive bellend tbh

Bruce’s pe-match excuse lined up right there.

Doubt it was anything dodgy. Just piss-poor scouting imo.

Definitely. Arsenal should have been all over that.

Doucoure seemed to have been pushed further forward, the passing was quicker and Digne appeared to have been in the final third more. Whether you can say these were “tactical changes” or just a change in mindset after going behind; either way Rafa deserves credit for getting them going for the second period of play.

Judging by their forum (I’m sad, I know) they seem to be on board with Rafa now. “He gets the area”, “tactically changing things at half-time to win the game” “staying behind for ages to personally thank the fans” etc. Proving what a class act he his. They don’t deserve him, man.

Same owners as them too iirc. Can only see this going one way.

Weird one. I’d argue we probably don’t need another winger?

20k by all accounts. Sounds like he wants to be on similar money to Wilson and St. Max.

Fair enough. Still out of our league tbh; just think he’d have a lot of bigger clubs lining up for him if he were to go on the cheap.

Kamara? There’s no way he goes for under 30 million and it’s even less likely that he’d settle for Newcastle as his next club. By all accounts he’s very very highly thought of.

I honestly don’t see anything in him that suggests he could push on and become a useful top-half prem player imo . He lacks physicality, speed and the ball-carrying ability etc. to excel in a midfield 2. Those deficiencies aren’t coachable. He’s also pretty poor in a attacking sense, so doesn’t inspire much confidence in a 3 either.

Yup, he’s definitely very underdeveloped tactically but at 21 that’s to be expected, really. Needs to release the ball quicker and bring teammates into the game more to really excel at a top team. For us though, since we usually get the ball back in our own half (seeing as we have no discernible pressing), his ball carrying ability is so important. As we rely on players like Almiron and Murphy who, as soon as they get the ball, just charge up the field and run out of ideas in the final third, his pace and ability to get into the box late will get him a few goals.

Jesus, Everton fans are a miserable bunch, many in their forum tipping themselves for relegation this year

Nah, he’s above average for sure. Very highly rated at one point (now underrated imo) and still 23; he’d be our best cm if he were to join.

Forgot to hit submit an hour ago when I wrote that. Now it looks like I copied Mandoon’s post and gave it the Wikipedia source essay treatment…

Disagree tbh. Not a top 6 player but very tidy and quite underrated in my opinion. Lack of physicality aside, he’s technically pretty good overall. Would be an improvement on what we have, but that’s not really saying much.

Kamara for 12m. He’s supposedly one of the hottest young prospects in Europe ffs.

Completely agree with Mandoon, he’s a sensational footballer who can adeptly play in a number of positions (from a third CM to anywhere behind a striker). He is elite and the kind of player Pep loves. Genuinely can’t think of a better player (in quality or style) that they could have gone for, that would have been significantly cheaper tbh.