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KaKa

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39 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I love the recognition but I find it weird we tried to sell him. I guess it would've only been with a buyback clause. 

 

If Wissa doesn't get injured it would have been slim pickings for him, as far as game time.

 

That injury has changed things somewhat, and Osula has an opportunity to make the most of that. If he continues to do well, then he can also fill in while Wissa is at AFCON.

 

He's the main one that has a chance to benefit from Wissa getting hurt.

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Abacus

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21 minutes ago, Pablo123 said:

Apparently it was with a buyback clause, but Frankfurt tried to change it to a loan fee with option to buy, with I'm assuming no buyback. 

Glad we told Frankfurt no, then. We'll need him even for 30 mins in a lot of games, and that could be the making of him.

 

Loans with options always confuse me. If say, he went on loan with an option and had a stormer, then presumably we couldn't say no if they activated it. In which case, darn right we say no. I suppose that option (for the selling club) is essentially saying "this is what we reckon he'll be worth in a year but he's not in our long term thinking so you can have him for that".

 

The club didn't agree to it anyway, but if the club wanted a buyback instead it suggests we do suspect he could be in our long term thinking. It's almost the opposite statement - "we'll send him to you to develop but we'll likely want him back if he does what we think he can for a fair price" which is far more of a vote of confidence in the player. Like a loan with an option the other way around, if I'm not rambling too much.

 

He's definitely got something, really like him.

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I'm hoping he can learn a thing or two from Wissa in terms of positioning, finishing etc - could pay off long term.

 

Reading more into this Frankfurt deal, sounds shit for us to be fair. £5M loan fee with an option to buy if he impresses - basically very low risk for them and high reward if he's a success. I can see why we rejected it.

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AyeDubbleYoo

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1 minute ago, Menace said:

I'm hoping he can learn a thing or two from Wissa in terms of positioning, finishing etc - could pay off long term.

 

Reading more into this Frankfurt deal, sounds shit for us to be fair. £5M loan fee with an option to buy if he impresses - basically very low risk for them and high reward if he's a success. I can see why we rejected it.

 

Yeah, the only way we should be selling or loaning him is if we have the option to get him back. Giving power to the buying club would be pointless. 

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AyeDubbleYoo

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20 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

If Wissa doesn't get injured it would have been slim pickings for him, as far as game time.

 

That injury has changed things somewhat, and Osula has an opportunity to make the most of that. If he continues to do well, then he can also fill in while Wissa is at AFCON.

 

He's the main one that has a chance to benefit from Wissa getting hurt.

 

True but I still think there are enough competitions and different profiles of player that he could be used well. 

 

A sale/loan with solid buyback option would've been OK, I guess that's why it didn't happen in the end. 

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Erikse

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12 hours ago, TheHoob said:

Lad at work insisted Isak wasn't a striker for his first 6 months or so, maybe even longer [emoji38]

 

Yeah, heard that too. He was going to end up as a winger.[emoji38] God forbid a striker differs from the stereotype. Woltermade needs to unlearn cute passes and gain 20kg of muscles!

 

 

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12 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Definitely a decent spell where he played more from the left with Wilson through the centre, not 6 months, like. 

 

Isak was playing on the right also at times. Recall first leg of Cup semi against Southampton coming on in that position and making the goal. Think people forget how long it took Isak to claim that centre spot. Even Everton away when we won 1-4(?) and Brentford 1-2 he was playing off Wilson. Around Spurs 6-1 game he started to cement the central spot. 

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12 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Definitely a decent spell where he played more from the left with Wilson through the centre, not 6 months, like. 

 

He only did that because Wilson was in form, so we shoehorned him. He wasn't very effective from the left, like he barely scored a goal or provided an assist, and we as fans grew frustrated about him playing there. Most (if not all) of the goals he scored that season happened when he was a striker. Didn't do anything defensively at all from the left either.

 

 

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