Theo has had half a good season what makes you think he's going to be a superstar more than our other young players.
It's not factual it's merely an opinion and you can't seem to get round the fact that Theo still needs to prove himself just like the others.
Sighhhhh
RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner would become the main target for a Milan side coached by Ralf Rangnick, claim reports in Italy.
In DeLigts case I wasn't talking about what they paid for him (which was insane and under everyone's eyes as you put it correctly), but the MV he's valued at as per transfermarkt.de. Kepa for example was valued 20M (which seems okayish) when Chelsea splashed 80M for him (no words here, really).
Theos rapid increase of MV has surely a lot to do with his goals and assists. Those are stats who boost ones MV. That said those numbers are a consequence of Theo playing a much more central role than Bennacer in our attack. He's another winger basically. Bennacer has other stats who speak for him. Stats like balls recovered per game, dribblings made per game, key passes per game, pass accuracy... Stats who are way more important for the role he has to cover in the center of our midfield (being it regista or anchor or whatever you want to put it) than goals and assists. However those are no stats that boost your MV like goals and assists do.
All of that being said: In my eyes both have been equaly important for us this season. Without Theo our offensive would have been indeed dire especially during our 4-3-3 without Ibra but with Suso as your focal point. But without someone like Bennacer who basically was carrying the whole midfield while Kessie was choking big times and leaving all the dirty work to him our team would have continued to look just as awful as under GP who prefered to bench Bennacer.
It isn't that bad. Acting like we are constantly finishing midtable and below. Worst finish is 10th and then 8th. Had worse b2b seasons back in the 90's when we had far better players back then. In fact our last 4 finishes are no different to how they were in the 80's and then look what happened, had the right owner and found the right coach.
The problem we have is we have money people and not football people making the decisions. The business model isnt the wrong one moving forward it's just the execution of how you go about it.
The finished article thing is nonsense, that's what Barca and Real do and more often than not they fail with those type of signings. You need to sign players who are ready to grow into the next level, like Liverpool did with Mane, VVD, Salah. Players aged 23-25, like we did with Van Goaten, Gullit, Sheva etc not 28-30 because they really don't have much more room for development at that age and already on the decline.
RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner would become the main target for a Milan side coached by Ralf Rangnick, claim reports in Italy.
Extreme idea: Serie A all in Rome?
He's great. A bit of a head case but beggars can't be choosers
Basten, Gullit, & Frank were top players of the day when Milan bought them... Papin was the B'd'Or holder when we signed him.
The finished article isnt always 27/28yo... I was thinking of CR at Utd when Real got him.
RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner would become the main target for a Milan side coached by Ralf Rangnick, claim reports in Italy.
Sounds like classic Italian journalism here. Zero substance in that rumor right now.
If Rangnick did join then who is to say he doesn’t bring in a few veteran players as well? He has never been at a club that would be able to attract top talent like he would be at Milan. He’s always had to build from within. Milan would certainly open more doors for him than being at Leipzig, Schalke, etc.
I think Ragnick does not wanna occupy two postions, he wants to be SD. Elliott wants to rebuild every department, so major changes will be at managerial level and how the club operates on sporting level.
It is a long process if he joins, his work will need time and patience to bear fruits. His choice in coach will be an interesting thing to observe.
I can't see why he would come here unless Ralf is like a father figure to him
I read somewhere that he is hesitant to go to Liverpool as he will not be a starter there and is aiming to do the best for his career and development.
Reportedly we are interested in David Silva. Sounds a bit too good to be true considering the youth policy and his wage
He's 34... It's not like he's 28 or 31.
He's 34... It's not like he's 28 or 31.
Also, classic Kojak being the most obnoxious moron in a thread.
Bennacer winning player of the tournament at AFCON is much more impressive than anything Theo had done so far. To deny that is to be so blinkered that you're an idiot.
Market value doesn't say the whole story - and I'll use one example: We signed Ibrahimovic on an extremely favourable 24m deal paid over 3 years. In fact, I even remember people at the time (your ancestors and progenitors I must presume) that said we shouldn't go for the deal because if he's so cheap he must be shit. We then sold Thiago Silva, best CB in the world at the time, for absolute peanuts. Again, he really was worse than Phil Jones etc at the time, right?
No. Market value is an almost meaningless statistic because it gets stretched to high hell and back by utter nonsense that doesn't measure how good a player is.
A player is not better because they play in the PL, because they're French or because they came through the Madrid academy. They can be just as shit and worse than someone who plays in the Moldovan league, is Malian and came through the FC Copenhagen academy.
Kojak as a scout - "Well, they came through the academy of a team I've never heard of, they play in Russia, and they're only worth 6m on a Goal.com article that was written in 2016 - No buy"
Open your eyes and stop being so dense.
He doesn't need to speak for himself. Newspapers can use "those who are close to him" to get insider infos.Zlatan calls them to update them on his weekly changing decision on whether he'll stay or go.
he even gives them percentages sometimes
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