Summer 2021 transfer thread.

[TheHowieLama]

31 minutes ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

If you also cooked,  you'd be like an Everton hating Anthony Bourdin. 

The best kind.

[El Dangerous]

Better than an Everton loving Anthony Bourdain- Trophies Unknown.

[Reckoner]

I love that Traore lad who plays for Villa. Really looks capable of anything. Doubt he’d cost much either. I’ve seen a couple of matches if not three and scanned Wikipedia for 5 seconds so I’ve done my research. 

[Lee909]

7 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Doubt he’d cost much either. 

Villa paid nearly £20 million for him last summer. They'll want treble that

[Trumo]

22 hours ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

If you also cooked,  you'd be like an Everton hating Anthony Bourdin. 

 

13 hours ago, El Dangerous said:

Better than an Everton loving Anthony Bourdain- Trophies Unknown.

 

Nil Reservations Nisi Pot Noodle.

[Reckoner]

5 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Villa paid nearly £20 million for him last summer. They'll want treble that

Really? I had no idea he cost so much but I reckon he’d go for £40 mil considering his age. Which is...er...

25!

[Reckoner]

Fuck sake.

Coincidentally I’m just watching MOTD2 and this happened a few minutes after my post. Sums up my transfer recommendations down the years.

 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

1 hour ago, Reckoner said:

I love that Traore lad who plays for Villa. Really looks capable of anything. Doubt he’d cost much either. I’ve seen a couple of matches if not three and scanned Wikipedia for 5 seconds so I’ve done my research. 

Plenty of skills, but poor decision making and not enough end product from what I’ve seen.

[Reckoner]

5 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Plenty of skills, but poor decision making and not enough end product from what I’ve seen.

Similar to the other Traore at Wolves then? 
 I’d go all in for the wolves one. I really would. Seeing him improve decision making/ crossing under Klopp would be fantastic. 

[aRdja]

4 hours ago, Reckoner said:

Similar to the other Traore at Wolves then? 
 I’d go all in for the wolves one. I really would. Seeing him improve decision making/ crossing under Klopp would be fantastic. 

You’re fast becoming my fav poster ever.

[Barrington Womble]

9 hours ago, Reckoner said:

Similar to the other Traore at Wolves then? 
 I’d go all in for the wolves one. I really would. Seeing him improve decision making/ crossing under Klopp would be fantastic. 

Honestly, I don't think there could be a less klopp footballer. Klopp requires his players to be intelligent to improve them. It's why he's never improved origi. Traore is just a battering ram and performs on instinct only. The moment he needs to start thinking about anything, that explosion that everyone loves today will be gone. 

[Remmie]

There is an older but top quality player who will become free in the summer. His name is Messi and he plays in Spain. Would be a good fit I reckon for a season or 2. 

[joe_fishfish]

FSG wouldn't pay for his right boot.

[sh#t waffle]

8 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

FSG wouldn't pay for his right boot.

Imagine if we got him but he had to play with only one boot on, it would be mad.

[No2]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

Honestly, I don't think there could be a less klopp footballer. Klopp requires his players to be intelligent to improve them. It's why he's never improved origi. Traore is just a battering ram and performs on instinct only. The moment he needs to start thinking about anything, that explosion that everyone loves today will be gone. 

Origi has never come across as anything but highly intelligent to me. What are basing your opinion on here?

[TheHowieLama]

2 hours ago, joe_fishfish said:

FSG wouldn't pay for his right boot.

 

2 hours ago, sh#t waffle said:

Imagine if we got him but he had to play with only one boot on, it would be mad.

 

As long as they paid for the left one he would be ok.

[Barrington Womble]

6 hours ago, No2 said:

Origi has never come across as anything but highly intelligent to me. What are basing your opinion on here?

the fact he plays football like a 3 year old. he doesn't watch the line, he doesn't pay attention to the movements of others, his running off the ball is mundane, his positioning in the box to get in front of his defender is one of the worst i have ever seen in a striker. i would say he is pretty much on the bottom end scale of intelligent footballers. the lad has ability in his feet, but i think he lacks intelligence and either desire or focus, I am never sure which (maybe both). 

[Josef Svejk]

Personally, I think he's lazy. Whether he's intelligent in any sense beyond that is pretty much irrelevant. 

[Harry Squatter]

He's just not arsed. He knows he can play football to a half decent level and get paid for it. The last 2 seasons he's just coasted along on the new contract he signed after Madrid.

 

The club should have been ruthless and sold him then while he had a bit of aura about him being a potentially top player. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Bothered his arse coming on in the CL then hey presto, injury. I agree he is lazy and very rarely even puts a challenge in.

[Manny]

The story about why he picked the ball out the net against Everton after THAT goal in the 96th minute sums him up - he just hadn't been paying attention and thought he'd scored the equaliser rather than the winner. I don't think he's particularly lazy - he (mostly) seems to cover the ground in matches, and I don't think he's particularly thick as he speaks several languages and comes across as smart enough.

 

He's just nonchalant, which is fine for a cult hero, but not for a player we really need to come in and be relied upon.

[YorkshireRed]

8 minutes ago, Manny said:

He's just nonchalant, which is fine for a cult hero,

I read Milner’s book a while back and that’s basically Origi all over. He’s certainly not thick but described as someone who just glides through life without a care in the world. Likeable but frustrating at the same time. 

[Bjornebye]

20 minutes ago, Manny said:

The story about why he picked the ball out the net against Everton after THAT goal in the 96th minute sums him up - he just hadn't been paying attention and thought he'd scored the equaliser rather than the winner. I don't think he's particularly lazy - he (mostly) seems to cover the ground in matches, and I don't think he's particularly thick as he speaks several languages and comes across as smart enough.

 

He's just nonchalant, which is fine for a cult hero, but not for a player we really need to come in and be relied upon.

WHAT

[El Dangerous]

I know there’s an unhealthy interest in branding black players as thick and lazy and you hear it half as much about players who are white but in a football sense he fucking is thick and lazy. I don’t think he’s half as thick on the pitch as he comes across he’s more unorthodox which leads him to having mad unplayable performances but for someone to have his raw talent and basically not get better over a period of time working for the best one on one coach in the world then he’s certainly lacking in some department. Same as Shaqiri who gets a bit more of an easy ride and has other players to take the pressure off him in his position.

[3 Stacks]

Origi isn't actually that talented. Physically, yes. Technically, no. He couldn't have lasted years with Klopp and come up big in the big moments as he did, without having a good work ethic and a certain level of footballing intelligence.