Anthony Elanga

[Jaqen]

5 minutes ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

This is a very meh signing for me. Especially for the fee. £55m could get a world class player on the continent. 

 

What world class wingers are available for that price out of interest? 

[Fak]

6 minutes ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

This is a very meh signing for me. Especially for the fee. £55m could get a world class player on the continent. 

 

Watch and learn Jesse son. Eddie is going to make this lad into an absolute superstar. 

[Kid Icarus]

4 minutes ago, Mike said:

 

I see you and appreciate your dedication to your craft.

Thank you Michael 

[Jagten]

1 minute ago, LionOfGosforth said:

 

How is it risky? The lad is literally proven in the PL. If i've learned one thing under Howe, he understands how to take a rough diamond and polish it.

As an average premier league winger 

[The Prophet]

Yay, FBRef.

[bobbydazzla]

7 minutes ago, LionOfGosforth said:

 

It's a common and lazy argument thrown about. If this is referring to a player that has Elanga's qualities plus others, he's not costing 55m at all.

What’s common and lazy is people on this here forum thinking they’re transfer experts who can identify, scout, rate, make a bid, persuade a club to sell, persuade a player to accept and then get the deal done for seemingly any player they think we should sign 

 

 

Edited July 3, 2025 by bobbydazzla

[Nucasol]

38 minutes ago, JT24 said:

Come on Ornstein, give me that agreement reached. 

So close…

[mouldy_uk]

But does he do good xG??

 

[Holloway]

Just get it done, fees are largely forgotten once the action starts. Eddie could take him up levels, it's exciting in that respect 

[Jagten]

1 minute ago, mouldy_uk said:

But does he do good xG??

 

People getting upset at estimating latent expectations will never not be funny

[Theregulars]

Finally. Hopefully it clears the logjam. 

[Unlucky Luque]

He'll be absolutely lethal when we play the NUFC 22/23 brand high-press counter against better teams.

He'll be frustrating as hell when we need to unlock a low block. Hopefully we get someone else in for that.

 

I'm all for it, but he does strike me as a slighlty one-dimensional player for a certain type of game, like Barnes and Willock. 

[bobbydazzla]

6 minutes ago, gdm said:

It was just another way of asking what’s good about him? What’s his strengths? As I’ve said I haven’t read much about him. EH liking him is a given 

 

 

 

He’s rapid, two footed, young, has played in the prem, been successful in the prem, had a great last season in a team that massively overachieved, he‘s successfully moved clubs before so is more likely to adapt to a new environment, he has friends in our squad, he seems like a canny character and plays in a position that we’ve needed to strengthen since 2021

 

 

Edited July 3, 2025 by bobbydazzla

[LionOfGosforth]

5 minutes ago, Jagten said:

As an average premier league winger 

 

Cool. Who would you sign instead for 55m?

[Thumbheed]

Upping our bid by a while £10m tells a far bigger story. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gawalls]

4 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

He scored 14 in 31 the season prior. Including that hat trick against us. 

Just checked- he’s scored (out of 246 premiership games) 87 goals. Safe to say he knows how to score in the premiership.

[54]

19 minutes ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

This is a very meh signing for me. Especially for the fee. £55m could get a world class player on the continent. 

Chelsea just signed Jaime Gittens for £50m basically the exact same as this deal for Elanga. He is hardly World Class, albeit he is a couple of years younger.

 

Last season in the Bundesliga he had 8 goals, 3 Assists in 32 matches, he will be signing from a league it's notoriously difficult for forwards to adapt from (This view may be clouded by Timo Werner).

 

Elanga on the other had 6 goals and 11 Assists in 38 games, and will already be up to speed with the pace and physicality of the Premier League. 

 

I'm not saying Elanga is World Class or anything, but to say £55m gets you World Class talent from the continent is wrong. Liverpool paid £120m for a World Class talent for instance.

[Dokko]

Chelsea have just bid £65m.

[bobbydazzla]

1 minute ago, Dokko said:

Chelsea have just bid £65m.

And a 150 year contract 

[Kid Icarus]

3 minutes ago, Thumbheed said:

Upping our bid by a while £10m tells a far bigger story. 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably mainly just that we missed out on Pedro 

[Fak]

10 minutes ago, Jagten said:

As an average premier league winger 

 

You can take that graph and ram it. Elanga is going to be a belter for us. 

[The Prophet]

 

[STM]

Our strategy all along will have been to low ball, to make our higher bid look better.

 

Going in at 55m would have been a real error.

 

If this happens, I bet Trafford happens quickly off the back of it, confirming my theory that all of these transfers and the fees attached are inter linked because of budget constraints.

 

If we can get those two, that's a decent starting point to attack the rest of the window.

[bobbydazzla]

Stats, stats, stats and more stats. Fucksake man 

 

Is there a stat for seeing whether someone’s an absolute helmet who destroys the dressing room harmony ?

 

Or a stat that shows if someone’s wants to fight every day to improve under an amazing coach like Eddie ?

 

Or a stat that shows if someone’s more interested in sitting on their arse playing PS5 games rather than putting in the extra graft at the gym ?

 

Fucking stats man, they tell a fraction of the story. Stop wanking yourselves daft over stats 

 

 

Edited July 3, 2025 by bobbydazzla

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

55m for Elanga is way too much for a player like him. We'd better pay whatever it takes or will be livid.