| January transfer rumours 12:28 - Dec 14 with 89703 views | Third_Division_South |
Probably time to start this with this
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| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 with 1081 views | 100percent |
| January transfer rumours on 18:52 - Jan 14 by simmo |
Another reminder that Kone is a (still very young) player that's less than 2 years out of non league football. He's playing at his highest level so far and just scored a goal against a PL team within 6 months of his move from League One.
I love Burrell and think his skills are perfect for this league, but Kone has a much higher ceiling and just needs time / patience. |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 21:00 - Jan 14 with 963 views | Northernr |
| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 by 100percent |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |
Thirded. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 21:02 - Jan 14 with 934 views | Match82 |
| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 by 100percent |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |
Reminds me a lot of Sinclair Armstrong. Not in physique or style, but because he has one hard to coach elite attribute (pace and power for Armstrong, ability to find the net Kone) and a lot of the basic stuff is well below par. Intuitively it's easier to coach the below average stuff up to an acceptable level than get someone from "good" to "elite" on a skill, and if you do, you have a £10M+ player.
Doesn't make it a given, Amstrong never got it. Kone we'll see, but I'm hopeful that he will. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 21:25 - Jan 14 with 745 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| January transfer rumours on 18:52 - Jan 14 by simmo |
Another reminder that Kone is a (still very young) player that's less than 2 years out of non league football. He's playing at his highest level so far and just scored a goal against a PL team within 6 months of his move from League One.
I love Burrell and think his skills are perfect for this league, but Kone has a much higher ceiling and just needs time / patience. |
Appreciate all that, but as I said, it's early days and far happier with him. |  |
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| January transfer rumours on 22:37 - Jan 14 with 406 views | DieByYourSide |
| January transfer rumours on 21:02 - Jan 14 by Match82 |
Reminds me a lot of Sinclair Armstrong. Not in physique or style, but because he has one hard to coach elite attribute (pace and power for Armstrong, ability to find the net Kone) and a lot of the basic stuff is well below par. Intuitively it's easier to coach the below average stuff up to an acceptable level than get someone from "good" to "elite" on a skill, and if you do, you have a £10M+ player.
Doesn't make it a given, Amstrong never got it. Kone we'll see, but I'm hopeful that he will. |
As skills go, being able to find the back of the net is far better than being able to burst past people then having no clue what to do next. | |
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| January transfer rumours on 23:30 - Jan 14 with 225 views | 7374Ranger |
| January transfer rumours on 10:05 - Jan 14 by Hunterhoop |
So what you’re both saying is the squad building/management has been somewhat messy, and, because of all the money we have spent, we may need to sell some reliable, “good sort” bench players (starters in the recent past), with years of good service, on long term deals, for relatively little.
Wonderful. That sound strategic…
I refer people back to Nourry’s comments when he extended Field onto this massive deal last May.
He talked about how he’d secured the long term futures of the spine of the side now: JCS, Field, Chair, around which they could build with new, high potential signings, and young players. He then re-signed Dunne a month or two later. He spoke of their commitment to the project.
Now, actually, we need to sell some of them, because the bets placed on the £25m of new signings haven’t yet come off - in that we might not be able to sell any of them this summer, or not sell enough - so actually, some of that spine needs to be shifted too. And if you shift the likes of Field can’t replace with more U24s for risk of the team/squad becoming unbalanced. You do need some experience on the pitch. People who organise and do the donkey work off the ball.
I’m sorry. It’s not strategic. It’s flying by the seat of your pants stuff.
I absolutely get that things change in football and in business.
But just like the game model (all hot and heavy, and public about it, to ditching it, allowing the Head Coach to play his own system, and start referring to it as some broad concept in the ether), this is another major thing on the playing side where we’re completely pivoting from what the CEO/DOF himself said less than a year ago. Why? Because we need it to fund his rampant desire to play Football Manager in real life.
I’m sure people will think I’m being unfair. Perhaps I am. But it feels an awful lot like he’s making up the approach as he goes along. |
Agree with you , it doesn't make sense at all.
The point of having these players is surely to keep the club in a stable position whilst trying to develop and sell the likes of Kone, Burrell, Varane, Dembele, Saito, Kolli, Morgan, Smith and Akindileni.
Selling the experience of the squad for £2-3m (if that) is just ridiculous. | | | |
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