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[sir roger]

Doesn't seem much incentive for Carvalho to go now as surely he gets that money in 6 months time rather than Fulham , particularly if he is still going to be playing there anyway.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

16 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Doesn't seem much incentive for Carvalho to go now as surely he gets that money in 6 months time rather than Fulham , particularly if he is still going to be playing there anyway.

Tribunal fee.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

31 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Do they get it if he goes abroad ?

As far as I know, no, it's a domestic FA / football league / PFA type thingy. 

 

If we're after him though, we must know he wants to come here. In which case we'd be after him in the summer too, so from Fulham's point of view the choice is money now or tribunal fee. Both scenarios will likely see them keep the player until the end of the season. 

[VladimirIlyich]

'There is a bit of a misconception that players in Portugal are dainty and technical' ergo not able to handle the physical demands?

[El Dangerous]

8 hours ago, sir roger said:

Doesn't seem much incentive for Carvalho to go now as surely he gets that money in 6 months time rather than Fulham , particularly if he is still going to be playing there anyway.

Well he’ll at least triple his wages which wouldn’t happen in the next 5 months and he and his agent will still make up their end in signing bonuses and fee’s. Shitness or modern football and all that.

[Lario]

2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

'There is a bit of a misconception that players in Portugal are dainty and technical' ergo not able to handle the physical demands?

That fucker is deceptively fast.

I've never clocked him mind. But he just seems to always be that little bit faster than any defender he comes up against!

 

Think Luis Diaz might be our new quickest player. Again, in my head. Never seen numbers.

[TD_LFC]

Carvalho's too lightweight but tearing it up in the Championship, including a cold day in Stoke (yeah wasn't a week night but meh).

[aRdja]

6 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Carvalho's too lightweight but tearing it up in the Championship, including a cold day in Stoke (yeah wasn't a week night but meh).

Carvalho grew up in Balham, so he’s used to they speed and physicality of English football. Luis will need to adjust but it sounds like he’s elite speed so that will help. 

[M_B]

Coutinho wasn't exactly a brick wall and he was ace for us.

[TD_LFC]

56 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Carvalho grew up in Balham, so he’s used to they speed and physicality of English football. Luis will need to adjust but it sounds like he’s elite speed so that will help. 

And from the clips of him (I know!) he has that ability to bounce/spin out of tackles.

 

He'll still need time to adjust but the physicality of the premiership over the championship is being massively overplayed.

[El Dangerous]

Once Klopp takes him in to his warm embrace and gets him on to the stout and liver and onions he’ll be sound.

[aRdja]

18 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

And from the clips of him (I know!) he has that ability to bounce/spin out of tackles.

 

He'll still need time to adjust but the physicality of the premiership over the championship is being massively overplayed.

I agree, if anything I’d say the championship is more physical than the PL.

[Bobby Hundreds]

It's a fee worth the risk.

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, M_B said:

Coutinho wasn't exactly a brick wall and he was ace for us.

At first i thought he was s bit of a lightweight but seemed to get stuck in later on. 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

3 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

Carvalho's too lightweight but tearing it up in the Championship, including a cold day in Stoke (yeah wasn't a week night but meh).

Is he lightweight in the same way as Keita or, dare I say, Henderson is lightweight? Or the same way as Jota or Mane? If it’s the latter I’m not worried at all.

[TD_LFC]

16 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Is he lightweight in the same way as Keita or, dare I say, Henderson is lightweight? Or the same way as Jota or Mane? If it’s the latter I’m not worried at all.

 

The conversation is about Carvalho so doesn't help that it's happening in the Diaz thread.

 

I was responding to worries that he's going to too lightweight, I don't have those concerns personally but given I've not watched that much of him I'm no more qualified than anyone else.

 

My confidence in his ability to cope come from the confidence the club seem to have in him and that he seems to be coping in a league that is probably more physical.

 

 

[El Rojo]

The lightweight thing is a bit of a red herring. Modric, David Silva, Bernardo Silva have all prospered in England despite being eight stone weaklings. Coutinho is a good shout too. 

[3 Stacks]

5 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

The lightweight thing is a bit of a red herring. Modric, David Silva, Bernardo Silva have all prospered in England despite being eight stone weaklings. Coutinho is a good shout too. 

No, no. Those guys were actually huge and jacked under their kit. 

[A_S]

Mentality is just as, if not more, important than physique. By all accounts, he has that in spades. 

[aws]

Not worried about him being too lightweight. But wil he settle? 

[Boss]

He's five foot eleven, without an ounce of fat on him. There's nothing wrong with his physique.

[Nolongerathletic]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

The lightweight thing is a bit of a red herring. Modric, David Silva, Bernardo Silva have all prospered in England despite being eight stone weaklings. Coutinho is a good shout too. 

Have to say Bernardo Silva, of the 3 he has turned out to be the best in this regard, whining little shit, but just enough nastiness in him and what a footballer, really gets stuck in.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Boss said:

He's five foot eleven, without an ounce of fat on him. There's nothing wrong with his physique.

And wait until he gets on our PEDs. He'll be huge!

[joe_fishfish]

Ngolo Kante is like 5 foot 6 and 11 stone, similar dimensions to Minamino, and has been one of the best ball winning midfielders in the league in the last ten years.

[Carvalho Diablo]

2 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

Ngolo Kante is like 5 foot 6 and 11 stone, similar dimensions to Minamino, and has been one of the best ball winning midfielders in the league in the last ten years.

In an arm wrestling contest, Kante would rip young Carvalho's arm from its socket and snap his spine in half.