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7 hours ago, OTF said:

 

Not sure you want to be digging up too much history on predictions @sammynb :lol:

 

Hey K @OTF, I know you've got a soft spot for the CC mackems and it was good to see them win their treble this season but I stand by what I said, lets just update it to 3 season of an anomaly! 😉 

 

9 hours ago, The Fish said:

Nope, I just don't write off 19yr old kids when there are mitigating circumstances to his lack of impact.

 

I dunno if he'll make it, in all likelihood he won't, so few actually do, but his time at Hearts was disrupted by a managerial change, as was his time at Vollendam. Who knows how much those changes stymied his progress? 

 

Who is writing him off? I always questioned whether he was good enough to make the move up in level.

Unlike others, I have seen Kuol play lots and besides a bit of pace, especially in comparison to the slow A-League footballers, he doesn't have a lot to his game, nothing to justify the hype by "those in the know!"

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Alright! I will admit it since no one else is prepared to.

 

I predicted that Sammy would be met with warm applause and universal adulation for his early prediction that a teenage prospect signed for peanuts wouldn't make it.

 

I'm ashamed of the lot of you, honestly. Expected more. I guess those pesky "in the knows" already knew that a person frantically patting themselves on the back has all the congratulations they deserve.

 

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12 hours ago, sammynb said:

 

Hey K @OTF, I know you've got a soft spot for the CC mackems and it was good to see them win their treble this season but I stand by what I said, lets just update it to 3 season of an anomaly! 😉 

 

 

Who is writing him off? I always questioned whether he was good enough to make the move up in level.

Unlike others, I have seen Kuol play lots and besides a bit of pace, especially in comparison to the slow A-League footballers, he doesn't have a lot to his game, nothing to justify the hype by "those in the know!"

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5 hours ago, toonotl said:

Alright! I will admit it since no one else is prepared to.

 

I predicted that Sammy would be met with warm applause and universal adulation for his early prediction that a teenage prospect signed for peanuts wouldn't make it.

 

I'm ashamed of the lot of you, honestly. Expected more. I guess those pesky "in the knows" already knew that a person frantically patting themselves on the back has all the congratulations they deserve.

 

 

What a GUY (sorry ciaoman), awwwwwwwww schucks, thanks.

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1 hour ago, LongTimeAdmirer said:

Too early to call Kuol off, hes only 19. Ivan Toney and Watkins were playing league 2 football at age 22 for comparison 

 

spot on. not every young prospect does a rooney or a lamine yamal

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9 hours ago, LongTimeAdmirer said:

Too early to call Kuol off, hes only 19. Ivan Toney and Watkins were playing league 2 football at age 22 for comparison 

I genuinely hope I'm wrong.

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Onana (the Everton one) off to Villa for £50m. 

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7 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

They've just sold Douglas Luiz for a similar price. I assume they can spread Onana's cost over 5 years and bank Luiz's in a oner.

 

PSR is fucked 


They signed Maatsen from Chelsea too for about 35m. Not sure how much Barkley cost (if anything). 

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Fair play to Villa tbh as they're doing some wise business.  Yes, they have lost Luiz, but sounds like they're getting shut of Diaby too.

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Your man Bland who made the tweet about the players being bewildered by Mandy and Mehrdad leaving has said that a contract is agreed in principle for Thiaw. But given his other tweet I'm not sure how to take him. If these are our targets, as in Thiaw and Elanga, then I anticipate people being underwhelmed, but I honestly think they'd be very clever signings. 

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Thiaw is a 22 year old RCB who plays for Germany and Milan. Sounds like a Botman type signing and likely Schar's long term successor. Not sure what's not to like.

 

Elanga got 5 goals and 9 assists in a bang average Forest team least season. If we were signing him from a foreign team I reckon most fans would be more excited. He knows the league, is only 22, and knows how to play with Isak at international level. 
 

 

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5 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Thiaw is a 22 year old RCB who plays for Germany and Milan. Sounds like a Botman type signing and likely Schar's long term successor. Not sure what's not to like.

 

Elanga got 5 goals and 9 assists in a bang average Forest team least season. If we were signing him from a foreign team I reckon most fans would be more excited. He knows the league, is only 22, and knows how to play with Isak at international level. 
 

 

 

Yeah I obviously agree with your assessment, but, and I know the internet isn't really reality, I've seen plenty turning their nose up at the mere mention of Elanga, and I'm sure there's plenty who'd rather we go for someone a bit more exciting than Thiaw such as Antonio Silva. As I said I'd be more than happy with both if it means we can spread the funds about a bit and get a decent forward as well. It would be insane to try for someone like a Bowen for example and basically blow our whole budget on one player. Bowen is a pretty extreme example, but you get what I mean. Even if we could spend what we wanted I'd still rather we largely tried to sign players just before they become internationally well known elite players. 

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