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Marc Guehi

I would be happy with this signing now IF:

1. We don't consider him to be the SPINE CB signing We desperately need and will sign that CB in the summer.

2. We sell Badiashile, Fofana, Disasi, Tosin and Veiga.

3. Guehi competes for a starting spot with that top CB signing alongside Colwill, Acheampong and one of Anselmino/Chalobah/Gilchrist being the 5th choice.

 
If we're panic buying our old youngsters back to cover temporary absences can we also get Hudson-Odoi back to cover Mudryk?

Oh and don't buy Murillo for f**k's sake

 
axman2526 said:
I would be happy with this signing now IF:

1. We don't consider him to be the SPINE CB signing We desperately need and will sign that CB in the summer.

2. We sell Badiashile, Fofana, Disasi, Tosin and Veiga.

3. Guehi competes for a starting spot with that top CB signing alongside Colwill, Acheampong and one of Anselmino/Chalobah/Gilchrist being the 5th choice.
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I imagine we would sign him to play alongside Colwill, I doubt we'd look to sign another CB if he came.

Also, what's wrong with Veiga?! Happy for the Monaco legion of doom to go though.

 
timetowaste said:
I imagine we would sign him to play alongside Colwill, I doubt we'd look to sign another CB if he came.

Also, what's wrong with Veiga?! Happy for the Monaco legion of doom to go though.
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Most likely aye, but I don't think he is good enough to be the spine piece of our defence.

Veiga is looking more like a turn a profit signing, and Maresca does not seem to rate him.

 
axman2526 said:
I would be happy with this signing now IF:

1. We don't consider him to be the SPINE CB signing We desperately need and will sign that CB in the summer.

2. We sell Badiashile, Fofana, Disasi, Tosin and Veiga.

3. Guehi competes for a starting spot with that top CB signing alongside Colwill, Acheampong and one of Anselmino/Chalobah/Gilchrist being the 5th choice.
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There isn't an elite defender mentioned in any of your post here Ax.

We are chasing a CL spot and we will be hoping to compete for the CWC, simply because of the PSR benefits of the prize money. This weekend we played a 21 year old kid, learning his trade, at CB as the senior and mentor to Acheampong. I like both of these lads but they desperately need a true mentor to work alongside and learn from.

Much as i like Colwill, my biggest issue is with his aggie attitude at times. There is aggression and putting your chest out, and there is immaturity and losing the plot. Colwill has the potential to be an elite defender and he probably would be with a Van Dijk alongside, chewing his arse out if he is not up to standard.

Tosin, Didasi, Badiashile, leaders, mentors? C'mon.

Marc Guehi, leader, mentor, elite? Please.

Where is this clubs ambition?

 
WhiteWall said:
There isn't an elite defender mentioned in any of your post here Ax.

We are chasing a CL spot and we will be hoping to compete for the CWC, simply because of the PSR benefits of the prize money. This weekend we played a 21 year old kid, learning his trade, at CB as the senior and mentor to Acheampong. I like both of these lads but they desperately need a true mentor to work alongside and learn from.

Much as i like Colwill, my biggest issue is with his aggie attitude at times. There is aggression and putting your chest out, and there is immaturity and losing the plot. Colwill has the potential to be an elite defender and he probably would be with a Van Dijk alongside, chewing his arse out if he is not up to standard.

Tosin, Didasi, Badiashile, leaders, mentors? C'mon.

Marc Guehi, leader, mentor, elite? Please.

Where is this clubs ambition?
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Aye as I don't know who to suggest as the elite defender to be signed. 

However with our scouting network I don't see why the club cannot find one who would come here.

 
WhiteWall said:
There isn't an elite defender mentioned in any of your post here Ax.

We are chasing a CL spot and we will be hoping to compete for the CWC, simply because of the PSR benefits of the prize money. This weekend we played a 21 year old kid, learning his trade, at CB as the senior and mentor to Acheampong. I like both of these lads but they desperately need a true mentor to work alongside and learn from.

Much as i like Colwill, my biggest issue is with his aggie attitude at times. There is aggression and putting your chest out, and there is immaturity and losing the plot. Colwill has the potential to be an elite defender and he probably would be with a Van Dijk alongside, chewing his arse out if he is not up to standard.

Tosin, Didasi, Badiashile, leaders, mentors? C'mon.

Marc Guehi, leader, mentor, elite? Please.

Where is this clubs ambition?
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Realistically though who are the top centre backs in the world right now? Let alone ones that we could get? Genuinely this generation of players 23-33 are mostly bang average. 

 
timetowaste said:
Realistically though who are the top centre backs in the world right now? Let alone ones that we could get? Genuinely this generation of players 23-33 are mostly bang average. 
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Spot on. Although I would feel that at least we were trying to make a fist of it if we were trying to prise Dias out of Man City. Araujo at Barcelona, Tah, Tapsoba. Just feel that Guehi adds nothing to us at all, just another average defender.

 
Josh can take a sigh of relief, Palace will want £65-£70m+, Newcastle tried £60m and failed, he doesn’t have long left on the contract but Palace won’t back down.

 
What would be the point of signing of signing him and blocking Josh’s pathway? Doesn’t make sense. Particularly when Josh looked good vs Palace. 

 
WhiteWall said:
Spot on. Although I would feel that at least we were trying to make a fist of it if we were trying to prise Dias out of Man City. Araujo at Barcelona, Tah, Tapsoba. Just feel that Guehi adds nothing to us at all, just another average defender.
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Tah and Araujo (Barca version) might be realistic targets, seeing as Tau is available as a free in the summer, and Barcelona, as is their habit, have severe financial problems and probably need to sell someone (Kounde, Raphinha might still interest us as well).

Knowing us though, we'll go for the other (22 year old) Araujo (Tomas) at Benfica and leave Juve a free run at the prime Araujo (Ronald) !

 
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JM7 said:
But we’ve already got James, Gusto.
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True, but James is not reliably fit to play though, plus I think Josh looks much better than Gusto currently, even though he has only had a handful of minutes.

 
The Athletic are reporting that there has been contact and, if we are willing to wave the 20% sell on clause, then Palace would be open to offers starting at 40mill

 
Guehi  is a decent player who fits the way we play. We are already a team who struggles with size and physicality though, so if we sign a starting CB I’d prefer one who alleviates some of those issues - and Guehi isn’t it

 
AndyDowsleftflank said:
Guehi  is a decent player who fits the way we play. We are already a team who struggles with size and physicality though, so if we sign a starting CB I’d prefer one who alleviates some of those issues - and Guehi isn’t it
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Yeah is a shame we did not pick up the 2 CBS Forest have before they got them. Good pairing, strong.

 
Any news yet? Given our lack of any recognised centre-forward, I'm praying the kid is OK and is fit to play. The moment he ran, jumped and challenged for a cross into the box, my heart leapt for joy. And again when he charged across the pitch and smashed the Wet Spam defender off the ball. A huge improvement on our usual converted left winger cum centre-forward.

 
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