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4 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Would take Phillips over McTominay every day of the week. Played really well for England. Didn’t work out at city but they are the best team in the world. Pressed a shit load under Bielsa. Good player 

 

Different kinds of players though.

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Sempiternal

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Depends where Howe is wanting to play McTominay tbf. Phillips is a better footballer imo, really good athlete as well. Was absolutely quality next to rice for England. I still rate him personally. Pep isn’t a fool and clearly saw something in him

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2 minutes ago, gazza ladra said:

Phillips will cost quite a bit and his salary his quite high. You blow up the wage structure for him? Not convinced.

Fair point, we will have to at some point though. I do think he’s good though, was brilliant in the euros. 

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1 hour ago, KaKa said:

 

He's a classy player, but he's very small. Not the sort of physical profile we've typically looked at in midfield.


Thats a valid point. He's a feisty little guy though. I think we have enough tenacity and strength in the squad. We can afford to have a slightly smaller guy who works hard. What he lacks in size he makes up for everywhere else tbh. Reminds me a bit of a young Modric in his agility and range of passing. Obviously not comparing him to Luka in any other way asides from that and maybe the size criticism. 

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33 minutes ago, gazza ladra said:

Phillips will cost quite a bit and his salary his quite high. You blow up the wage structure for him? Not convinced.


I'd take him in a heartbeat but I doubt he's available or even willing. 

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Gravenberch looks like a clone of Isak except for hes a CM. His appearance and dribbling style look insanely similar to Isak. Wonder if we can get Bayern to agree a fee for him. Looks like a star. I'd be fine with 40m for him.

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7 hours ago, Sufi said:


Thats a valid point. He's a feisty little guy though. I think we have enough tenacity and strength in the squad. We can afford to have a slightly smaller guy who works hard. What he lacks in size he makes up for everywhere else tbh. Reminds me a bit of a young Modric in his agility and range of passing. Obviously not comparing him to Luka in any other way asides from that and maybe the size criticism. 

 

I like him a lot, there's another similarish smaller midfielder that plays for Sassuolo, Maxime Lopez, that I like too.

 

I just think in that deeper midfield role, from most of the links we've seen, it is likely that we are looking for someone with some physical presence in there.

 

I might be wrong though!

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Newcastle and Aston Villa keeping tabs on Swansea youngster Azeem Abdulai with the Scotland Under 21 midfielder's playing style drawing comparisons with Jude Bellingham
 

Abdulai, 20, made his Swansea first-team debut against Oxford in Carabao Cup

 

He received a first international call-up for Scotland Under 21s back in March 

 

Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen are another interested in the midfielder

 

Newcastle United and Aston Villa are among the clubs keeping tabs on Swansea City youngster Azeem Abdulai - whose midfield style is being compared with Jude Bellingham.

 

The Scotland Under 21 international made his first-team debut for the Swans in their Carabao Cup match against Oxford United earlier this season.

 

His performances in the academy ranks were rewarded with outings in the March U21 internationals against Sweden and Wales.

 

Newcastle and Villa have been keeping tabs on 20-year-old Abdulai's progress and Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen are also watching him closely.

 

His stature, playing style and ability to dominate a midfield have drawn comparisons with England and Borussia Dortmund star Bellingham, 19, from some who have watched him in action.

 

Abdulai was born in Glasgow to a Sierra Leonean father and Scottish mother, joining the Jimmy Johnstone Academy at the age of just six.
 

Celtic spotted his talent and signed him into their academy at the age of nine but he was released aged 16 in April 2019.

 

His father Abu was paralysed after breaking his back lifting weights in the gym in 2008 but defied doctors by learning to walk again.

 

Abdulai moved to London by himself aged 16, living in an Airbnb room before he found the AG Football Academy run by agent Godfrey K Torto.

 

After trials at Brentford and AFC Wimbledon, he eventually signed for Premier League club Leicester City after Kolo Toure, a first-team coach under Brendan Rodgers, remembered his talents from Celtic.

 

In the end, Abdulai moved on to Swansea in 2021 and quickly established himself in midfield for the Welsh club's Under 23 side.

 

Russell Martin called him into the Swansea first-team squad for their FA Cup third round tie against Southampton in January 2022 but he didn't get off the bench.

 

However, Abdulai did make his senior debut in Swansea's Carabao Cup tie with Oxford at the Kassam Stadium back in September, a game they lost on penalties after a 2-2 draw.
 

In March, he made his Scotland under-21 debut off the bench in a 3-2 defeat to Sweden at St Mirren Park, and then started the 3-0 loss to Wales a few days later.


 

Abdulai showed potential in those games, and his Swansea U23 games, to attract a string of high profile admirers ahead of the summer.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12124673/Newcastle-Aston-Villa-keeping-tabs-Swansea-youngster-Azeem-Abdulai.html?ico=topics_pagination_desktop

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48 minutes ago, Sufi said:

Gravenberch looks like a clone of Isak except for hes a CM. His appearance and dribbling style look insanely similar to Isak. Wonder if we can get Bayern to agree a fee for him. Looks like a star. I'd be fine with 40m for him.


I think he’d cost between 25-35m - Bayern bought him for circa 16m so it’s a decent profit for them after 1 year 

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Just now, Mikky said:


I think he’d cost between 25-35m - Bayern bought him for circa 16m so it’s a decent profit for them after 1 year 

 

Read his wage demands would eclipse Bruno's. 

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2 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Any source for this? The fume will be epic. 

 

Some local whispers. Obviously the kid has a lot of contacts so things get out. Truth, semi truth and out right lies. I don't know him or his family, some on here do, so it's quite specific, that he signs on his birthday so worth putting out there.

 

 

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Thing is as well, as a toon fan he'll be buzzing were heading to the CL. That the likes of longstaff are playing a massive part in that. In comparison the mood is glum on wearyside for throwing away their best chance to come up and could take 5-10 years before they get that chance again.

 

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1 minute ago, Dokko said:

 

Some local whispers. Obviously the kid has a lot of contacts so things get out. Truth, semi truth and out right lies. I don't know him or his family, some on here do, so it's quite specific, that he signs on his birthday so worth putting out there.

 

 

The morale dilemma for the Mackems will be interesting given they will be due some our blood oil money as compensation :lol:

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Just now, r0cafella said:

The morale dilemma for the Mackems will be interesting given they will be due some our blood oil money as compensation :lol:

 

Pif should just get one of their little side companies to shirt sponsor them. 

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