Now the Fofana stuff is no longer speculation I've moved it to this thread: https://talkingballs.uk/threads/st-etienne-accept-our-offer-for-fofana.40335/
Keep your otter.Burnley have put a £40m price tag on him apparently.
City transfer ruled out as Burnley make decision over Tarkowski
Leicester City and West Ham had both put forward offers for the England centre-back this summer, but it seems he has been priced out of a transfer away from Turf Moorwww.leicestermercury.co.uk
Scoops and swoops baby!
Scoops and swoops.
Loving the fake surprise from everyone that Dortmund aren’t budging on thatWe should just do a Dortmund and say £150 million and then ignore all bids until they come up with £150 million in cash up front.
another out the door ...
I saw enough of him, thanks. I never want to him play again. Absolutely fecking usless. Successive managers have chosen to ignore him. There's probably a reason for that.I don't think he was ever given enough of chance to (possibly) become suited to it.
In which case he's not a good player.I think Silva is a good player, just not suited to the pace of the Premier League.
Plenty of talented players have found the Premier League difficult to adapt to. The failure here, as with so many of our signings the last few years, is the recruitment team. It’s clear to me that whatever it is we have that functions as a scouting network has frequently identified targets who tick certain boxes but have done so with little attention paid to the type of football said targets were playing or the standard of their opposition. This is how we end up with Slimani, Silva, Iborra, Hernandez, Kramarić, Ghezzal, Diabaté etc. All players who have had success to varying degrees in other leagues, but ill-suited to the Premier League for one reason or another.In which case he's not a good player.
ill-suited to the Premier League for one reason or another.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Liverpool | 11 | 28 |
2 | Manchester C | 11 | 23 |
3 | Chelsea | 11 | 19 |
4 | Arsenal | 11 | 19 |
5 | Nottm F | 11 | 19 |
6 | Brighton | 11 | 19 |
7 | Fulham | 11 | 18 |
8 | Newcastle | 11 | 18 |
9 | Aston Villa | 11 | 18 |
10 | Tottenham | 11 | 16 |
11 | Brentford | 11 | 16 |
12 | Bournemouth | 11 | 15 |
13 | Manchester U | 11 | 15 |
14 | West Ham | 11 | 12 |
15 | Leicester | 11 | 10 |
16 | Everton | 11 | 10 |
17 | Ipswich | 11 | 8 |
18 | Palace | 11 | 7 |
19 | Wolves | 11 | 6 |
20 | Southampton | 11 | 4 |