Gemmill 63118 Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Fuck knows who tbrfootball are but this could resolve at least part of our Trafford problem if there's any truth in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 9328 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 The amount of fans on Twitter moaning about Wissa's age because it "limits his resale value" Who gives AF about his resale value!? Tonali, Bruno and Isak all have high resale value but I hope we hold on to them all for the best parts of their careers! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 4188 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 No pleasing some cunts. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12368 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 7 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said: The amount of fans on Twitter moaning about Wissa's age because it "limits his resale value" Who gives AF about his resale value!? Tonali, Bruno and Isak all have high resale value but I hope we hold on to them all for the best parts of their careers! As I said in a pointless debate with one of them last night - signing Wissa is a material improvement on our existing position, and a material improvement on last season when we had Wilson in that role instead. People getting hung up about his age need to give their heads a shake - we've a demanding champions league campaign ahead of us. Him being within our stable will absolutely be advantageous. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 26327 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 9 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said: The amount of fans on Twitter moaning about Wissa's age because it "limits his resale value" Who gives AF about his resale value!? Tonali, Bruno and Isak all have high resale value but I hope we hold on to them all for the best parts of their careers! We have so many moronic supporters on social media, I've stopped reading the comments, they're so cringe. It's about time we bought a player ready for the present day. I'm all for getting in lads with potential for eddie to develop but we're about to start a CL campaign with a squad woefully short of quality in depth. Wissa is five years younger than Callum Wilson and an obvious upgrade. He can slot straight in and we could get four-five seasons of him at his peak. If he's available for £30m or thereabouts, it's a no-brainer. I hope we get him. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1837 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 2 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said: The amount of fans on Twitter moaning about Wissa's age because it "limits his resale value" Who gives AF about his resale value!? Tonali, Bruno and Isak all have high resale value but I hope we hold on to them all for the best parts of their careers! No doubt they're the same people saying just pay the extra £5m or whatever for the last player we were supposed to be low balling for. Seems to me more likely that Wisa will join his old manager at Spurs but to have a regular scorer in the premier league as he is as back up for Isak would be extremely beneficial to us. 29 (virtually) maybe isn't ideal but he should still be able to offer a minimum of 3 good seasons. In only one of the last 9 seasons has he played less than 20 games (playing over 30 in 7 of them) which is much better than Wilson had at the same time in his career. I think we need to realise we can't compete both financially or in terms of global recognition with the likes Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, City or even Man Utd and Spurs so we need to go back to transfer model we used to identify Trippier, Bruno, Botman, Tonali, Isak etc and sign players who aren't at that top level yet but who aren't a million miles off. Especially given that most of the positions we now need to fill are backup to our starting 11 anyway, if we sign players of that quality we'll be in a very good state. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 9890 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 15 hours ago, Renton said: I mean I know fuck all about any of this so leave it to the professionals, but remaining contract length, what the manager wants from the player, and the player's wishes must come into it. Wasn't Longstaff in his last year and honestly was a bench warmer most of last season? £12m now or nothing in a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63118 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 If Spurs beat us to this one, I'll thcweam and thcweam until I'm thick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 15559 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Gemmill said: If Spurs beat us to this one, I'll thcweam and thcweam until I'm thick. The assumption seems to be he'll follow his old manager, for all we know he may think he's a complete cunt. Suspect he'll follow the money though. P.S. There's a fucking obvious tap in for someone in Gemmill's post. Edited July 23 by Toonpack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63118 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 6 minutes ago, Toonpack said: The assumption seems to be he'll follow his old manager, for all we know he may think he's a complete cunt. Suspect he'll follow the money though. P.S. There's a fucking obvious tap in for someone in Gemmill's post. As far as I'm aware they haven't made an approach (yet)? And it's not like Spurs are that light in forward areas, so hopefully it's just people putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 7463 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 39 minutes ago, David Kelly said: No doubt they're the same people saying just pay the extra £5m or whatever for the last player we were supposed to be low balling for. Seems to me more likely that Wisa will join his old manager at Spurs but to have a regular scorer in the premier league as he is as back up for Isak would be extremely beneficial to us. 29 (virtually) maybe isn't ideal but he should still be able to offer a minimum of 3 good seasons. In only one of the last 9 seasons has he played less than 20 games (playing over 30 in 7 of them) which is much better than Wilson had at the same time in his career. I think we need to realise we can't compete both financially or in terms of global recognition with the likes Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, City or even Man Utd and Spurs so we need to go back to transfer model we used to identify Trippier, Bruno, Botman, Tonali, Isak etc and sign players who aren't at that top level yet but who aren't a million miles off. Especially given that most of the positions we now need to fill are backup to our starting 11 anyway, if we sign players of that quality we'll be in a very good state. He's 28. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63118 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 29 in September is what he meant, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2869 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 (edited) 30 million for a reliable proven PL striker in his prime seems pretty good to me. The going rate seems to be in excess of 60 m at the minute and Wissa can take some of the load off Isak right away, plus he might actually be keen to join us. I dont see an issue with buying a player in their prime either, unless he's 29 in Obafemi years. If he plays for 3 or 4 good seasons and we sell him for a Ciggy type fee, that's not a lot of dough imo Edited July 23 by Kitman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 7463 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 20 minutes ago, Gemmill said: 29 in September is what he meant, I think. He's 28, now that is a fact. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1837 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 23 minutes ago, Andrew said: He's 28. 29 in September hence virtually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 16162 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 2 minutes ago, David Kelly said: 29 in September hence virtually. Aye, but spiritually he’s only 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 7463 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 1 minute ago, David Kelly said: 29 in September hence virtually. He's 28 until he becomes 29. That's how it works. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 9890 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 He seems to be a late bloomer and fits what we need. No brainer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1837 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Just now, Andrew said: He's 28 until he becomes 29. That's how it works. I'm fully aware of that and I have no idea why you're wanting to make something of this. If you couldn't work out what I meant when I said he was virtually 29 that's on you I'm afraid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 7463 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Just now, David Kelly said: I'm fully aware of that and I have no idea why you're wanting to make something of this. If you couldn't work out what I meant when I said he was virtually 29 that's on you I'm afraid. Until he's 29 he's 28. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1837 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Just now, Andrew said: Until he's 29 he's 28. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 9890 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 You two need to get a room. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 7463 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Someone'll get it at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 12558 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 17 hours ago, Howmanheyman said: Yes he's a striker not a midfielder but how the fuck do our players go for only pisstake fees compared to everybody else? Longstaff, younger, loads of PL experience plus CL experience ten million, older striker, AWOL in the winter for the African cup, 'we're looking forty mill, guv'? ASM only £25m to Saudi and he was probably in our top three players when he went and only 25 or so? To be fair, Longstaff is 28 in October. And his style of play isn't the kind that tips the scales dramatically one way or the other. He's a solid, hard working, pretty smart (football intelligence-wide) experienced pro. What he isn't is a goal scorer, or the type of midfielder to drive a team forward, or the type of player to consistently create chances, or, or, or. He's never going to go for a big sum, especially when the world and his dog knows that we have to look over our shoulder at the PSR monster all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 22469 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Wilson joined when he was 28? 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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