It isn't a signing to get terribly excited about, but Rob Holding is not 'awful'. He's a perfectly serviceable defensive plodder for a lower half PL squad.
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[Albion] Ansu Fati **Signed On Loan 01/09**
- Thread starter El Turi
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Marshy
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For Zero money pretty much, good buy imo for any squad.
Motogull
Todd Warrior
- Sep 16, 2005
- 10,586
A standard Beaky bargain.
AZ Gull
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Seeing as you brought up the U-9s.....
There are a couple of lads in this season's U-9s whose fathers played together as Albion scholars around 20 years ago!
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
- 5,620
Training facilities look great in that video, you can see why its such a tempting place to come.
Change at Barnham
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Ansu knows the score.
#TrustInRDZ
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
- 16,301
I was just about to post that in the 'What's the BIG target?' thread...
Normally I would say 'No chance' but, after last season, who knows?
Nice:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/3676377
A little excerpt to whet the whistle:
he’s the youngest-ever Champions League scorer, the youngest to hit the net for Spain, the youngest-ever to score a brace of goals for Barcelona.
But it’s what he can still do, indeed what he was doing before a clutch of meniscus operations and a debilitating thigh problem, which marks him as truly special.
In those early goals for the Camp Nou club you’ll see, literally, everything. Volleys, headers, left foot, right-foot finishes.
Street-smart dribbling, explosive pace, daring, wit, vision, intelligence - all the elements which make us addicted to football.
https://www.premierleague.com/news/3676377
A little excerpt to whet the whistle:
he’s the youngest-ever Champions League scorer, the youngest to hit the net for Spain, the youngest-ever to score a brace of goals for Barcelona.
But it’s what he can still do, indeed what he was doing before a clutch of meniscus operations and a debilitating thigh problem, which marks him as truly special.
In those early goals for the Camp Nou club you’ll see, literally, everything. Volleys, headers, left foot, right-foot finishes.
Street-smart dribbling, explosive pace, daring, wit, vision, intelligence - all the elements which make us addicted to football.
I've always liked the way in Spanish football they refer to the boss as "el Mister". Lovely turn of phrase
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
- 7,420
Rob Holding has featured so little for Arsenal in the last couple of years that I didn't even know that he wasn't bald anymore.
schmunk
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He'll be calling him Gaffer by the end of the month.
Not anymore. Gavi already broke Fati's record last year and today Lamine Yamal scored against Georgia in his NT debut. He's only 16 years and 57 days old!
Pretty sure Yamal will also become the youngest CL scorer this season.
Machiavelli
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Away from the ghosts: Barça prodigy Ansu Fati starts again at Brighton | Sid Lowe
He became Barcelona’s youngest La Liga goalscorer in 2019 but then came the injuries. Can a loan spell in England get him back to his best?
www.theguardian.com
cjd
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Dare we ask if he is training with us yet...?
It's been very quiet ( unless I have missed it ).
It's been very quiet ( unless I have missed it ).
Away from the ghosts: Barça prodigy Ansu Fati starts again at Brighton | Sid Lowe
He became Barcelona’s youngest La Liga goalscorer in 2019 but then came the injuries. Can a loan spell in England get him back to his best?
Great to get a dose of reality and up to date take on his situation. People still think he’s this 16yo wonder kid which he isn’t. From one perspective this is bad because people will be expecting miracles, but alternatively it seems De Zerbi and Brighton are EXACTLY the medicine Fati needs to reignite his career.
cjd
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Thankyou very much for that.
I think his stats are fairly similar though to when he came on the scene. We just need to try and get as many minutes out of him as we can !!
Fiskmås
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Not sure if it has been mentioned in this thread, but if you have Amazon Prime Video, and absolutely nothing better to do one evening, there’s the Barca mini documentary series “Barcelona: The new era”.
It focuses heavily on the switch from Koeman to Xavi, and I can’t in all honesty say that it’s well made (the unnecessary time jumps are enough to give anyone whiplash).
But young Ansu (or Anssumane, as I’ve now learnt from the series) features plenty and it gives a lot of background about his injury woes, as well as shows that he has some world-class goals in him. Also, he comes across as a genuinely humble and good guy.
So in short, it’s a bit crap, but I’m still happy I watched it, just to have a bit more backstory when he hopefully plays his first minutes on Saturday.
It focuses heavily on the switch from Koeman to Xavi, and I can’t in all honesty say that it’s well made (the unnecessary time jumps are enough to give anyone whiplash).
But young Ansu (or Anssumane, as I’ve now learnt from the series) features plenty and it gives a lot of background about his injury woes, as well as shows that he has some world-class goals in him. Also, he comes across as a genuinely humble and good guy.
So in short, it’s a bit crap, but I’m still happy I watched it, just to have a bit more backstory when he hopefully plays his first minutes on Saturday.
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