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3,000 mins is 34 games; €40m-€50m, okay. Ha, he scored against Qatar. Have we signed up on the back of his World Cup performances? He was sold for €2m last season, and Leverkusen bought him back for €8m just 25 days ago. My thing is, if he was a player we were actively scouting, Strasbourg could have bought him for €10m at the point. To bid €40m-€50m 3 weeks later is nuts!

I am not turning my nose at the Austrian league, some very good players have come out of the league. Haaland, Szoboszlai, Karim Adeyemi and Patson Daka all played there, and had remarkable success. What the first 3 got right was they move to a “Tier 2” league, the Bundesliga and spent a couple of seasons, before moving to bigger clubs. Daka is an interesting one, literally tore the Austrian league to shreds. At 20, he scored 24 league goals and 6 assists in 31 games. At 21, he scored 27 league goals and 4 assists in 28 games. What he got wrong, was not moving to a Bundesliga, Portuguese, Ligue 1 or La Liga before signing for Leicester for big money. The step up was to high, and he flopped badly.

I am not buying the narrative he automatically becomes our 2nd best LW. Gitten (who I don’t rate) has played on a higher level. Quenda is also more experienced, can operate on the LW, and was signed for £42m. There is also the Pedro Neto situation if he isn’t sold. He comes at best as the 3rd-4th choice LW.

If we didn’t get involved, he would have been bought by Milan/Atalanta for €20m + bonuses for €30m. He would have gone there, played constantly and honed is game. In a year’s time he could have been bought for the €50m we are stupidly throwing around now, as a more refined player. The move has too many red flags, and there is no clear pathway to a first team role. It’s the Blue Co way, and we have seen this too many times.
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  1. I imagine the Bayer transfer is a buy back, that isn't something Strasbourg could have bought him for 25 days ago.
  2. We don't even know if we are buying him, let alone the fee, let's not consider ourselves with if we are bidding 40-50m EUR.
  3. Transfers fail. Players do not just succeed just because someone makes a step by step transition up and up.
  4. Quenda is a right winger who can play on the left (with barely more experience and nothing at international level). Neto is a right winger who can stink it out on the left. Gittens has played at a higher level but is not better to my eye, he succeeds in a counter attacking team where he is in a league that has space because of his pace. He will never succeed for us.
  5. The idea we let him go to another team and buy him in a year if he's good enough for just 50m is insane. If he's as good as i think he could be for us this season, then he will be 90m in a year. And you'll get a tonne of people asking why we let him be sold to Arsenal for 90m when we could have grabbed him for 35m a year earlier.
 
Dont care about fees, never will. He's played closer to 3000 mins of senior football when you count the national team, he scored at the world cup. He was one of the best players in the Austrian league last year.

This guy for me automatically becomes our 2nd best left sided attacker. And you think that won't get minutes? The guy is also 19 in September, he doesn't need to be playing every minute, I don't know where that thinking has come from but it's clear the issues that is having on players who do play senior football week in week out in their teens.

I look at him and I see a player who if we didn't sign him, he would go to a club for 35m and then in 2 years we would be lamenting why we didn't buy him then when his price is 100m+.
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Isnt that the blue co way in signing young players who we believe will be £100 players in the future. Isnt that the same reason we ended up with Mudryk, Madueke, Gittens and all the other potential signings?

Not seen enough of him but there’s nothing to say he won’t be the same as the young players we’ve already got. I like the look of Mika Godts but I don’t think we need to buy anymore maybes.

 
From what I read this is a player that Alonso brought through from the youth team and promoted him into the sniors. He then went to Salzburg and tore it up, so I thought Leverkusen exercised a buy back and Alonso is trying to get him for us.

If the money is right I'm all for it as there is the context of Alonso seeing the lad first hand, not some data driven AI search.
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He never did. Kerim only played one preseason friendly game v a German league 4 side. He left Leverkusen because the title winning team got gutted, and they signed a bunch of younger players.

Alonso had zero influence in his development or potential signing.

 
I liked the look of him at the world cup, looks tricky, fairly two footed, likes a long shot, and he's quite tall for a winger, which I personally quite like.

If he's coming in as a backup on the left for Rogers then I'll be happy with that. I think he seems a closer to fit to the style of winger we seem to think Xabi wants than Gittens/Garnacho are.

Obviously this is all very glass-half-full thinking, but if you can't be optimistic in summer when can you?

 
He never did. Kerim only played one preseason friendly game v a German league 4 side. He left Leverkusen because the title winning team got gutted, and they signed a bunch of younger players.

Alonso had zero influence in his development or potential signing.
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He never did. Kerim only played one preseason friendly game v a German league 4 side. He left Leverkusen because the title winning team got gutted, and they signed a bunch of younger players.

Alonso had zero influence in his development or potential signing.
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That's odd. When I searched the Gemini app said that he recognised his talent when Alonso was first team coach and Alajbegovic was I the U17s. He was then fast tracked into the U19s. When Alonso went to Real Madrid apparently personally reached out to him to outline a personal pitch and development plan with the intent for him to eventually join Real Madrid.

 
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He prefers tattoo talk, doesn't he?
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In fairness Tattoo made a hell of a lot from his talents. It might be just tattoo talk but as you can see "hey boss, da plane, da plane" can get you a long way.

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I'd have no problem with getting Welbeck in, he's more reliable than any backup we've got for Joao Pedro at the moment.

 
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Alonso likely picked up on the lack of leadership and character within the squad. Add Fofana being the most unserious footballer on the face of the planet.
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Yeah, of course this should have been done a while ago but I'll give the board credit for adjusting our transfer strategy to allow for more experience. Felt like they'd never veer away from their ridiculous ideas of just packing the squad with kids.

 
Alonso likely picked up on the lack of leadership and character within the squad. Add Fofana being the most unserious footballer on the face of the planet.
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Have to wonder how long it takes for Fofana to be boomed out.

 
Wonder how much Brighton will ask for? 20mill?
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That is the big problem, they will rinse us. You can also expect a bump on Wellbeck’s £60k/w wages.

Just seems like we are being run by amateurs, and we have 6 SDs. Apparently we are holding out for £25m for Guiu, and £65m for Jackson. Like who is paying those prices? Last season was the market for CFs, there is no demand this summer.

 
That is the big problem, they will rinse us. You can also expect a bump on Wellbeck’s £60k/w wages.

Just seems like we are being run by amateurs, and we have 6 SDs. Apparently we are holding out for £25m for Guiu, and £65m for Jackson. Like who is paying those prices? Last season was the market for CFs, there is no demand this summer.
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That is the big problem, they will rinse us. You can also expect a bump on Wellbeck’s £60k/w wages.

Just seems like we are being run by amateurs, and we have 6 SDs. Apparently we are holding out for £25m for Guiu, and £65m for Jackson. Like who is paying those prices? Last season was the market for CFs, there is no demand this summer.
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Saudi would lol

 
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