Looks like Bale is leaving Madrid.
Cheeky bid?
Looks like Bale is leaving Madrid.
Cheeky bid?
He's 29 and would cost too much, IMO at his age it wouldn't be a good move for us, we really need to be bringing in players in their mid 20s so we can build a team that can be around for a while.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I actually think we need to find a decent CB who can become top class, early to mid 20s would be good. Mustafi isn't much good, Koscielny is a bit part player, Sokratis is decent but soon to be 31, Mavropanos didn't impress last season and Emery wasn't keen to play him, that just leave Holding, I just think we really need to find our own Van Dijk who can lead the defence, without that I don't think we'll see a vast improvement on the defence. Van Dijk has basically raised the level of the defenders around him due to his quality.
It shouldn't take finding the best CB in Europe to improve the crap we've seen though. Neither is our scouting good enough nor our pockets deep enough to pick out the next best CB. We're just going to have to improve on what we have.....and in some cases really shouldn't be hard.
Bale wouldn't happen for a number of reasons, but I'd welcome a player of his ability with open arms.
De Ligt is off to Barca. £65m.
Interesting to see if he and De Jong excel there or become more wasted talent.
Last edited by Marc Overmars; 20-05-2019 at 11:40 AM.
Really like the look of van de Beek - but that’s just a pipe dream.
And with Juve and possibly Barca and Bayern looking for new managers, surely Poch will piss off this summer?
It shouldn't no, but do we just want to be just one of the best losers or do we want to challenge, if we're just interested in top 4 and not interested in winning then yes we can improve the defence with some decent player and settle for that, but if we want to move up a level or two we need to start finding top quality players who can take us there, you're going to need one outstanding CB who can organise the defence to do that.
De Ligt might turn out to be the next Van Dijk and a bargain, he's been touted as the best young CB around.
At 29 though you'd be wasting a lot of our scant resources on an ageing player with no resale value, we've already got issues with not having any players we can sell for large amounts to rebuild the team, this would be another and with little money being put in that's a problem for us.
Wouldn't happen anyway, Bale won't even consider us even if we were interested, at this stage of his career he'll be looking for a club who are ready to win stuff.
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