What shirt number do we reckon he will wear? If Willian goes, I could see him taking the number 10 shirt.

On 25/03/2020 at 13:44, mwblue10 said:

What shirt number do we reckon he will wear? If Willian goes, I could see him taking the number 10 shirt.

If it was one of those Football manager games I would give the 10 to RLC and Pedro's 11 to Ziyech...Maybe even Pulisic can have that not sure!

Ziyech really is an interesting player for the new season. We are probably looking for a new striker but having him we might not need to.

Our front three is not bad. Tammy is the first choice as the most completed striker. He can play as a target, off the wingers or just carry the ball himself. He will improve massively over the future seasons. Giroud is the targetman and can play neat one-two's with wingers setting them to score. He is also a big body and threat from headers. Batshuay can run behind the line and shoot outside of the box. Granted Bats suffers from playing so little and coming on he can't hit a barn door and other things related to bad form.

But Ziyech brings so much more than we have now. He is the only player that can make an accurate and intelligent, timed and weighted pass. Jorginho can do it, Mount, Kovacic and Willian as well but not like Ziyech. He is expetional in timing so he can beat the line with the attacker. This brings the threat from wingers and midfielders as well. Ziyech can find players.

If he doesn't kick in the cross he is a major threat to shoot as well. Defenders will have hard time playing against him.

He can transform our game I really believe that.

10 minutes ago, evissy said:

Ziyech really is an interesting player for the new season. We are probably looking for a new striker but having him we might not need to.

Our front three is not bad. Tammy is the first choice as the most completed striker. He can play as a target, off the wingers or just carry the ball himself. He will improve massively over the future seasons. Giroud is the targetman and can play neat one-two's with wingers setting them to score. He is also a big body and threat from headers. Batshuay can run behind the line and shoot outside of the box. Granted Bats suffers from playing so little and coming on he can't hit a barn door and other things related to bad form.

But Ziyech brings so much more than we have now. He is the only player that can make an accurate and intelligent, timed and weighted pass. Jorginho can do it, Mount, Kovacic and Willian as well but not like Ziyech. He is expetional in timing so he can beat the line with the attacker. This brings the threat from wingers and midfielders as well. Ziyech can find players.

If he doesn't kick in the cross he is a major threat to shoot as well. Defenders will have hard time playing against him.

He can transform our game I really believe that.

I like it I like it. I can’t see Giroud staying and being second choice though. I saw this on Twitter and really liked the look of it. 

I don't see us going that far with signings but who knows. Sancho especially is one I don't see us securing. I like it though.

On 22/04/2020 at 13:03, rtwelch said:

I like it I like it. I can’t see Giroud staying and being second choice though. I saw this on Twitter and really liked the look of it. 

That would do nicely. 

14 hours ago, evissy said:

I don't see us going that far with signings but who knows. Sancho especially is one I don't see us securing. I like it though.

4 signings on top of Ziyech does seem a bit far fetched you’re right. If you take out Sancho and have CHO/Pulisic on the left and Ziyech on the right, and pop Connor Gallagher in to rotate in midfield I think that could work. 

I do wonder where Gabriel Magalhaes is going. If the Everton rumours are true maybe we are looking for more experience there or maybe not looking at all. Telles seems the logical option at LB and up front who knows. I think Jovic deserves a chance at another club. Him, Tammy & Giroud would be a lovely trio to have but surely Giroud would want to move on to a team where he’s first choice. 

I think Rudiger is still a useful player. What about Romagnoli. Could we lure him? Not sure he is the type of CB we want...

Seems that he will join the rest in July but he won't be able to play the remaining PL games of this current "ongoing" season.

 

1 hour ago, rtwelch said:

 

He's really amazing, a type of player that Kante and Jorginho will love, not to mention James or Azpilicueta.

It's actually a bit sad seeing how the team that Ajax built got sold piece by piece, they were really good. Makes me feel grateful that Roman is here and that we can keep our own players leaving, imagine Tammy, Mount, CHO, James all leaving for Bayern, Barcelona, Juventus...

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Edited June 14, 20206 yr by Gol15

11 hours ago, Gol15 said:

He's really amazing, a type of player that Kante and Jorginho will love, not to mention James or Azpilicueta.

It's actually a bit sad seeing how the team that Ajax built got sold piece by piece, they were really good. Makes me feel grateful that Roman is here and that we can keep our own players leaving, imagine Tammy, Mount, CHO, James all leaving for Bayern, Barcelona, Juventus...

Ajax fans will be used to it though its been the business model there for decades, 

13 hours ago, Gol15 said:

 

It's actually a bit sad seeing how the team that Ajax built got sold piece by piece, they were really good. 

Pfah, f**k Ajax 

 

3.9 Key passes per game and 23 big chances created, along with this:

I don't know who will be able to contain our attack next season...

Official goodbye from Ajax.

The wizard is a blue, 2020/07/01

Anyone practicung to pronounce his name should not follow the example of the farewell video. Us Dutch pronounce that last -ch as in loch, whereas it's originally a Moroccan name and should end with -sh. Or so I'm told.

20 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Anyone practicung to pronounce his name should not follow the example of the farewell video. Us Dutch pronounce that last -ch as in loch, whereas it's originally a Moroccan name and should end with -sh. Or so I'm told.

Let’s work through it;

Hakim Ziyech...

Hak Ziy...

Ha Zi...

Ha Z... 

Haz...

Hazard...

I’ll just call him Eden then 

Very interesting player, he looks far too good for that league but how good will he be in the Premier League? Very interesting experiment. 

I wonder if Frank has suddenly decided on Kante sitting with two 8's in preparation for Ziyech's arrival.

1 hour ago, Valerie said:

Anyone practicung to pronounce his name should not follow the example of the farewell video. Us Dutch pronounce that last -ch as in loch, whereas it's originally a Moroccan name and should end with -sh. Or so I'm told.

So ziyech like marrakech, capital of Morocco. Makes sense, but im sure the english commentators will completely butcher it. 

I'm not into super heroes but since we already have Captain America...

 

The wizard

27 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

The wizard

He was Hawkeye a week ago, at least keep up with your own ridiculousness!