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Jarrell's Quansong
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It’s being eaten by Robbie Fowler at Dreamies “dinner” party.
Every player has his price. I think Quansah's promising, but - subject to the need to have replacement plans/players in place - it's a good deal.
Gold star for the thread title BTW.
Gold star for the thread title BTW.
If it helps us pay for Wirtz? Or half of a striker? Tradeoff but worth it.
Sustained. 😉
It's a shame for the lad, I had really high hopes for him.
That year where he had to play loads (season before last? My memory is shocking...) I thought he came in and did a really good job. At first I was nervy as hell having a young and inexperienced kid at CB, but he played with a confidence and composure beyond his years.
In fact, I remember thinking that our CB concerns could be over - in Jarrell we had a (potential) amalgam of the others - obviously not there yet, but encouraging signs that he'd been watching and learning; recovery pace of Gomez, could carry the ball a bit like Matip, stayed calm and had an eye for a pass a bit like Virg, wasn't aerially dominant like Ibou but that could come with age.
He clearly wasn't the finished article, but I had high hopes he could kick on. Then obviously had that stinker, got hooked and never seemed to be quite the same player again...
That year where he had to play loads (season before last? My memory is shocking...) I thought he came in and did a really good job. At first I was nervy as hell having a young and inexperienced kid at CB, but he played with a confidence and composure beyond his years.
In fact, I remember thinking that our CB concerns could be over - in Jarrell we had a (potential) amalgam of the others - obviously not there yet, but encouraging signs that he'd been watching and learning; recovery pace of Gomez, could carry the ball a bit like Matip, stayed calm and had an eye for a pass a bit like Virg, wasn't aerially dominant like Ibou but that could come with age.
He clearly wasn't the finished article, but I had high hopes he could kick on. Then obviously had that stinker, got hooked and never seemed to be quite the same player again...
I'm pretty sure that Quansah was part of the 'negotiation' for Wirtz.
You're having him for this fee, but we want Quansah etc.
It's a good deal all around. He won't get enough playing time with us. We get a decent fee. Leverkusen get a decent defender with potential and will eventually sell him to an English side for 50m+ which helps soften the blow of losing Frimpong and Wirtz
See he really does have only fans
Good move all round I think.
Getting £30m for Quansah and paying £40+m for Guehi sounds like good business to me. If it happens.
Getting £30m for Quansah and paying £40+m for Guehi sounds like good business to me. If it happens.
Weird that Slot improved a lot of players but neither Quansah or Elliott really pushed on.
Quansah had pace and good mentality but always looked a bit lightweight and his biggest issue was distribution - teams would happily let him have the ball and just mark Virgil.
If we had a weakness last season it was not having a squad Slot really trusted but he's sorting it out big time. We need a proper team-building preseason to get over the churn though.
Quansah had pace and good mentality but always looked a bit lightweight and his biggest issue was distribution - teams would happily let him have the ball and just mark Virgil.
If we had a weakness last season it was not having a squad Slot really trusted but he's sorting it out big time. We need a proper team-building preseason to get over the churn though.
I feel for the guy. This season was a nightmare for him, a mistake in almost every game. There was a game near the end of the season when he was playing pretty well, then for no reason at all he conceded a pen. I think it was against Chelsea.
£35m is very good money for someone shot of all confidence and might not ever recover. Wish him the best.
£35m is very good money for someone shot of all confidence and might not ever recover. Wish him the best.
It sounds too good to be true. I think the reason we’re considering buying Guehi is because the club knows we’re losing Konate or Gomez or both.
Coke or cake?
You better hope coke.
Cake is fucking dangerous man. This one girl, she took cake, and she puked up her own pelvis bone
My cousin was getting ordained to be a priest about forty years ago and he was with a group of young priests on the scotch in the pub where the ordination was being celebrated, and my dad turned to me and said fucking hell lad that's a cake and arse party if I've ever seen one. I have never known exactly what he meant as I was too scared to ask and I never heard it again, but it stuck with me.
Something about picturing you and your Da in a shithole, smoky boozer, looking over at that gaggle of priests and him sneering that into his glass just made me laugh as hard as I have in ages...
I don't think we're losing either this Summer. I can see Guehi being a straight swap for Quansah which in turn strengthens the squad.
I also don't think we'd allow Quansah to go unless we'd already have his replacement confirmed and all agreed.
I can't help but feel this is a bit of a coaching failure for Slot. Quansah looked like such a better player under Klopp, but part of that was the managerial confidence extended. Feels like Slot can't or won't coach from a certain level up. Quansah didn't make those errors under Klopp. He looked like a Rolls Royce of a player. Under Slot, he looked more like a Kia-Suburu.
BUT, Guhi seems to be an upgrade. Surely this also means Konate is staying - we can't lose two of them.
BUT, Guhi seems to be an upgrade. Surely this also means Konate is staying - we can't lose two of them.
He's staying this year anyway.
There's no question that slot just doesn't seem to think it's worth the effort to develop some of the talents that klopp seemed to really rate. It could be he just rates other talents, but a young tall brick shit house build technically capable CB with lots of caps for his age didn't make the cut. Or at least he just didn't think he'd get the games to see.
Guehi might be a better player, but Quansah has a much higher ceiling.
It's fine if what he's looking for talent is different, but we have to be very careful. Klopp was a magnet for youth talent. If slot doesn't show that he will feature youth, or have patience to develop them, then we won't be attractive.
Yeah, another f-up that one.
Well, I find it really very self-explanatory.
It might be less a matter of Slot not rating him, more a matter of having to raise funds by selling one or two players we might otherwise have kept.
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