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52 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Liverpool in for Barella. 
 

It is making me a little sick that Liverpool are able to sign what would be our number one targets.  

Madness really. We're in the CL, they're in Europa. FFP is such a pisstake.

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The difference for us is the manager, it's not just about signings, it's what he has done with those already here.

 

I know I keep going on about this, but I can't think of one single player Gerrard improved. With the exception of Bailey, Emery improved every single one of them.

 

Under Gerrard, the same players who have been excellent later in the season were absolutely awful. McGInn is a good example of that. 

 

Konsa and Mings were two more - we had an absolute nightmare at home to Leicester (under Emery) and conceded 4. Emery was incandescent with rage, so what happens next with those 2? We only concede 8 goals in the final 15 matches of the season.

 

Try as I might, I can't ever imagine Gerrard making that improvement.

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Impressed with Villa but I expect nothing less with a coach like Emery. There's a reason Emery and Howe play similar football and like similar players. It's also a reason why our management were after him. 

 

I believe that if we wanted Diaby, we would have got him. But risk taking for us right now is a little different than Villa due to FFP. We can't spunk 60m on a RW that plays in the german league if there is a winger in the UK who has very similar stats to him but has been doing it in a harder league! 

 

I'm sure we looked at him and I'm sure we rate him highly but there's risk with any player coming from the german league and we already have Tonali to bed in. Diaby could flop or he could fly... Who knows..he hasn't lit up the French national team yet so perhaps we weren't willing to take the risk on him because we are so tight with FFP. Villa have much more wiggle room on us.

 

Excited to see how he does though but I think Barnes will be out of the blocks faster. 

 

 

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Diaby is clearly a lot more talented than Bailey but I’m not convinced he’ll adjust straight away here. Which wingers have come in, in recent years and shone in the premier league? A lot have been bought by Chelsea and Man U who have struggled. Luis Diaz was amazing from the start to be honest 

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19 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Diaby is clearly a lot more talented than Bailey but I’m not convinced he’ll adjust straight away here. Which wingers have come in, in recent years and shone in the premier league? A lot have been bought by Chelsea and Man U who have struggled. Luis Diaz was amazing from the start to be honest 

 

Get yasel awwa to the Maxi thread for the answer to that one

 

Never mind simply just coming to the Prem and shining, he's apparently become the greatest winger in world football 

 

 

 

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Villa are going to a force to be reckoned with next season. First match could be very uncomfortable. Think 6th should be our own realistic target for next season, so would be sorta happy for Villa to deny one of the breakaway 6 a CL place if it's not to be us.

 

 

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Just seen Forest have some random 30 year old South Korean striker in their squad who's never played for them

 

Absolutely love their barmy transfer dealings

 

 

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