You could definitely argue that Antony was overpriced at £85m.
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You could definitely argue that Antony was overpriced at £85m.
So you didn't bother with the camp then? 😉
Vision, touch, threads ball through tight spaces, perfectly weighted. Can't wait to see him in an LFC shirt.
I mean, I would argue Antony was overpriced at £85k.
Overpriced at half the price for what he gave to United.
I think something like 80% of the biggest transfers in the game have flopped hard. The bigger fees are certainly no indicator of quality, and often a result of desperation/more money than sense/lazy scouting.
He's decent....
Then we also don’t have a single player in the top 10 flops of big money signing as the top 10 is full of them. Huge transfers very rarely work out. Ali and Virgil the exceptions and both were much further along in their development.
Any way we cut this is a massive gamble at that price.
Every transfer is a gamble. But less so when the data nerds are in charge and when we're signing an absolute baller that is plug and play.
That's a little misleading, H... In the very recent past, perhaps, but we did bid that 115m for Caicedio, and it's only a few years since we made VVD and Ali the most expensive signings ever for their respective positions.
True about Caicedo but we didn’t sign him in the end.
Virgin and Alisson is close to 7-8 years ago now.
Yes, it is, but I'd also argue that we didn't need to go out and spend 100m+ in the Jurgen days - We got Fabs and Mo and Sadio and Andy and Ibou, and now more recently Macca and Dom, etc... for bargain money, and it's obviously worked. The fact that we're not chucking endless money about like many of our (inferior) competitors has not stopped us from reestablishing ourselves as one of the planet's elite clubs again, both on and off the pitch.
Despite others claiming that FSG haven't done enough (which I don't always disagree with, by the way), I'm quite happy with how they conduct things, even if we're not always spending like drunken sailors... I'd not swap places with ANY club out there right now, and many have vastly outspent us, just to be looking up at us.
Is he going to be our corner taker?
Macca has been phenomenal at them, so he'll have to earn his chance
*no
…makes me think we should consider Schick for the 9?…they obviously have good understanding together..
Looks like he picks a spot and is quite relaxed about the finish. Kinda the opposite to the donkey who just puts his head down and wellies it as hard as he can five yards high and wide but it didn't matter because he was offside anyway. More of a Gakpo type. Maybe we don't need him cos we've already got a Gakpo.
We've already got Frimpong... he was prominent in those highlights too!
How well he combines with a more traditional number 9 is something which repeatedly stood out in his videos, both Schick and Boniface.
Probs an unpopular opinion but this flabby melt looks like he can thread a ball through the eye of a needle, and I think with Salah, Diaz and Gakpo all causing a nuisance and knowing where the net is we probably don't need to replace the donkey. Not that what I think matters anyway, just that there's only so much space on the pitch. Would love to see what Danns is made of too.
Danns is made of glue
That's me told. Okey dokey. I'm just not feeling the love for the shite strikers on the market. I'd prefer another tricky winger type, even though with Frimpong and Kerkez coming in we've probs got five of the world top twenty already.
Fucking hell Trent is gonna be so full of regret.
Fucking hell Trent is gonna be so full of regret.
Fuck Trent. Prick.
Still needs the striker to stay onside though...
