Barlaser Deal Agreed!

This is a great signing, for a great price, and a lot more like the fee I was expecting, which everyone was shooting me down about :LOL:
I suspect nobody was shooting you down. More like one or maybe two posters who thought we might be paying too much. It is a good fee I agree and a quality asset I believe.
 
Watched the same video and immediately thought of playing all three. More defensive support for Giles, more attacking support for Forss/Jones/whoever
Akpom has been key for us playing as a 10, so I'd hope we'd stick with that for now.

I'd switch to a midfield three if we're ever being overrun in midfield. We could have done with changing to a midfield three at Sunderland, as they sat deep and flooded the midfield to block the supply to our striker.
 
I suspect nobody was shooting you down. More like one or maybe two posters who thought we might be paying too much. It is a good fee I agree and a quality asset I believe.
More than a couple were trying to shoot me down, but they missed, so I suppose you're right. But they where whinging, trying to invent some scenario of why we would get a centre mid who can play for a potential top 3 side, for 500k.

6 month before his contract is up or not end of contract means zero if the player is young and in demand, and if the clubs league position (and league they end up in) could be massively affected, which it likely will be as he's kept them in the league.

1.5m or 3m, still would have been a great buy, glad it's the lower end, great business (y)
 
Akpom has been key for us playing as a 10, so I'd hope we'd stick with that for now.

I'd switch to a midfield three if we're ever being overrun in midfield. We could have done with changing to a midfield three at Sunderland, as they sat deep and flooded the midfield to block the supply to our striker.
Absolutely. Was thinking it'd be McGree to step aside if playing with the three.
 
It's interesting to see how we lineup in midfield I still would have preferred defense anchor midfielder but maybe Carrick thinks differently. We certainly have a lot of ball playing quality with the addition of barlaser and should be right up there with possession stats
 
The fax machine was not so stupid considering in trying to stop the transfer, we were forking out decent money for Big Phil, to be the rock of Premier League defence.
 
maybe we all need to be more careful with the imaginary money we keep throwing around!
If we don't have 1.5m to spend on a 25-year-old starting centre midfielder, then how could we even consider ourselves as one of the biggest clubs in the division, who expects to be in with a promotion shout?
Do you think we're not at that level? I do.

Coupling the above with just selling two players for ~£25m total. Sure, clubs are struggling, but we're probably much better off than most (now anyway), so 1.5m should not exactly be a stretch, not when being heavily linked to £10m+ players only last window (who were arguably less proven, in their respective positions).

1.5m isn't "throwing money around", spending £15m is, there's an order of magnitude difference. It's not like spunking 1.5m on some bloke from the French 3rd division etc.
 
If we don't have 1.5m to spend on a 25-year-old starting centre midfielder, then how could we even consider ourselves as one of the biggest clubs in the division, who expects to be in with a promotion shout?
Do you think we're not at that level? I do.

Coupling the above with just selling two players for ~£25m total. Sure, clubs are struggling, but we're probably much better off than most (now anyway), so 1.5m should not exactly be a stretch, not when being heavily linked to £10m+ players only last window (who were arguably less proven, in their respective positions).

1.5m isn't "throwing money around", spending £15m is, there's an order of magnitude difference. It's not like spunking 1.5m on some bloke from the French 3rd division etc.
I was saying the other day that the £10m we were going to spend on a striker in the summer may well be spent on Gyokeres in the next few days..
 
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