Rod Currie
Vital Football Legend
Accordin to Yorkshire live we're bein linked with Antonee Robinson a American left sided defender at Wigan.UTMPB
Accordin to Yorkshire live we're bein linked with Antonee Robinson a American left sided defender at Wigan.UTMPB
Correct and well done spotting today's deliberate mistake Sir Eff.UTMPBNo we aren't, they are merely suggesting we should sign him, not that we want to. If it's true that he can be bought for £1.5m if they lose their appeal this week, then we should definitely consider it. He almost signed for AC Milan for £10m in January.
I can see very little in the way of news about Guirassy. This is the latest - a move to Rennes seems to have hit the buffers over the fee. Amiens apparently want £18m.
https://le11amienois.fr/nicolas-holveck-rennes-serhou-guirassy-etait-la-priorite-mais/
Again, if we're willing to spend the money we apparently are, we should be in for him at anything around £15m.
We can't trust McBurnie to be the main, line leading centre forward next season.
In Guirassy we'd be getting someone who can do that and also offer pace and trickery.
Is he sufficiently hungry? Not peckish, full on munchies!!!
Doesn't seem overly driven by money.
He'll be able to go to West Brom and play regularly straightaway.
If we went for him I'd like to think we'd help Wigan out a bit more, because £1.5m is robbery, and they've already been horribly f*cked over. They also helped us up by beating Leeds. Maybe we could give them some loanees but we're currently light of candidates.
I see S2 are convincing themselves about Watkins with the odd 'I don't see any other option' type comment thrown in.
But it's not like we're only looking in the UK now, as was the case with McBurnie last summer. I'd like us to stay as British as possible but we can't be forcing it with more spends on players like McBurnie.
So most are wanting Watkins based on ignorance, not UK necessity. The "Anyone who had a half decent game this evening" thread on the Rumour Mill is a great piss take - bravo, LondonBlade89!
In hindsight I'd have rather had Watkins for £12m last summer instead of Robinson. And that he's available for only £6m more after the season he's had appears reasonable. But it's still a big spend, and it's a big risk. He's scored those goals in the most creative attacking force in the league. It'd be a very different story for him here. And he's not the type who creates his own chances too often.
We'll sign him though won't we....... and if we do I hope my reservations aren't justified.
I think Watkins does create lots of chances for himself,
He, or somebody like him is exactly what we need, we have enough players who can have a ball rolled across the area put on a plate for them and still miss.
We need a player that pick the ball up on halfway and only have one thing in his mind, attack, and score goals.
Ollie Watkins please. Good looking lad too.
Here are all of his pre-lockdown goals for Brentford:
I think you must have him confused with someone else...