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Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:00 am
by Cods
Cozzie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:57 am
Aye, hear he puts his Heart and Sole into his performances.
Mackerel difference to the squid, with his leadership qualities.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:00 am
by john e
This is a great plaice...
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:01 am
by brap2
Zeeeero chance
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:03 am
by Cozzie
Cods wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:00 am
Mackerel difference to the squid, with his leadership qualities.
I just hope signing him doesn't end up being a Turtle Disaster.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:07 am
by Cods
Cozzie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:03 am
I just hope signing him doesn't end up being a Turtle Disaster.
Herring he can also link well with the strikers, Barrycuda played him in nicely had we signed him last week.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:09 am
by Bob Sacamano
Paqueta is one of the more outlandish shouts I’ve heard.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:16 am
by The Doc
Cods wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:07 am
Herring he can also link well with the strikers, Barrycuda played him in nicely had we signed him last week.
Off the scales that one.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:17 am
by The Doc
The Doc wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:16 am
Off the scales that one.
Was this any good? Let minnow.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:17 am
by Cods
Brownie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:00 am
Back to transfer rumours. Lad on another site reckons it’s Paqueta we’re enquiring for - from a West Ham source
Would be fully Cichlid!
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:19 am
by Cods
The Doc wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:17 am
Was this any good? Let minnow.
Hmmm, I'll Mullet over.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:25 am
by AjaxAndy
brap2 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:41 am
So like...he's a 'midfielder' in that he is technically listed as a midfield player, who takes one of your middle spots.
But he doesn't do *anything* a midfielder should be able to do. Pass, win the ball, carry the ball, progress from one end to the other, provide an option when getting pressed - even compared to our own midfielders who are already slugs!
What you get is a midfield that is suddenly even worse on the ball, is even worse when getting pressed, even worse at getting the ball to Grealish, even worse at defending, even worse at pressing, even worse at covering breaks....
But 6 times a year he stands up tall at the back post and scores a header.
It's not just that he's bad at being a midfielder, he's NOT a midfielder, and the opportunity cost of losing a midfielder to play someone who will challenge for headers and occasionally poke one home is something you have to balance.
If he was an okay midfielder who scored 10 goals a year then I'd bite your hand off, but he's a bad midfielder (now his legs have gone) who scored 10 last year playing every game as a forward.
Have his legs gone? He's only 30.
Doesn't score that many headers, gets lots with his feet.
Scored more than 6 goals in each of the last 2 seasons so why would he suddenly only score that playing for us?
No one's saying he's the final piece in the puzzle, just a handy option for probably relatively low cost that keeps Tim out of the starting line up.
Everyone knows we need an athletic 23 year old Gaz Baz regen instead, but we don't have £40m to buy one this window. We need bodies though, especially in CM so sometimes you've got to eat your cheese sandwich because you haven't got the cash for a dominos pizza.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:31 am
by The Doc
He'll add physicality and goals, but we're desperate for a player with the ability to dominate possession and build play, haven't had that for yonks.
Edit: *I'm desperate.
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:58 am
by Bluebridge
Brownie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:00 am
Back to transfer rumours. Lad on another site reckons it’s Paqueta we’re enquiring for - from a West Ham source
Tartar source?
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 11:05 am
by Trowel
Fingers crossed
Re: The Rebuild
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 11:08 am
by sam of the south
Oh, substantial offer