[Albion] Christian Eriksen

[AmexRuislip]

The perfect player to replace the pace we've missed since Gross left! Good player in his day but has looked very much past it the last few times I've seen him - not helped by playing for that shambles mind you.

With Baleba, Ayari, Hinshelwood, Gomez, O'Riley and Yalcouye already available in centre midfield next season, I've got to say I'd rather we invested the money elsewhere.

Pace & Groß

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Looking for a new club for next season apparently. Would he be a good replacement in the “experienced” role for Milner who surely will retire? Aged 33 but hopefully has another couple of years in him.

Don't need anyone new for that role - Welbeck is 34 now and still contributing to the team on a full time basis.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Of course he's not enjoying the game. He's wound up at a toxic skip fire.

Money isn't everything eh?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

My lasting memory of him at Spurs was courtesy of a friend of mine. He's a Spurs fan who watched him week-in-week-out, and used to FUME about the media constantly getting excited by his free-kick "ability".

"Free-kick for Tottenham here on the edge of the box, perfect range for Eriksen and we know how good he is from this distance"

Now, to be fair, he has scored 8 free-kick goals over his 230 PL appearances, but I found it hilarious how angry he'd get when he'd ping one into the defender's midriff.

Anyway, back on track, it's a "no" for me

It could be worse.... "free-kick to Brighton... Lewis Dunk steps up... "

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I guess it’s also as much about what they provide off the pitch as well as on it.

Well, yes we don't see what's going on.

But we're paying them players wages, to do coaches jobs. We have very decent senior players in the squad and there already appears to be a strong leadership group, some of them formed by relatively young players such as JPVH.

I just think we should be paying players to play

 

[The Optimist]

Well, yes we don't see what's going on.

But we're paying them players wages, to do coaches jobs. We have very decent senior players in the squad and there already appears to be a strong leadership group, some of them formed by relatively young players such as JPVH.

I just think we should be paying players to play

I did suggest it might be cheaper to get coaches to do the same.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I did suggest it might be cheaper to get coaches to do the same.

You did

We could just get a fashion person in for even less cost, solely to advise our young players what they can wear to keep their necks warm in the winter

 

[Albion my Albion]

We could just get a fashion person in for even less cost, solely to advise our young players what they can wear to keep their necks warm in the winter

Posh, married to former (im)famous footballer, Inter Miami owner, fashion designer and covers her neck quite well.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Doesn't bring the 'saged wisdom' profle and look that Llalana and Milner bring. No doubt he has been mismanaged at his current club but think he wouldn't bring enough to the 'Albion Party' to justify signing him.


TNBA


TTF

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Of course he's not enjoying the game. He's wound up at a toxic skip fire.

Yep.
As posted on another thread, Bob and I summed up last night's game as:
"End-to-end shite"

Even little Marcus Rashford already looks like a new man now he's gone,
and he's at Villa, under a manager who is as far from a 'people person' as is inhumanly possible in an actual human.

All that aside....I don't warm to Erikson.
I wouldn't enjoy sharing a beer, or even a train carriage with him
He looks like a bit of a git to me.

 

[Jackthelad]

No. He looks like he could break a hip at any moment. I’d rather we play some of the younger talent we have. He’s be on stupid wages.

 

[Grizz]

Brentford all over it id imagine

They can't stand him round this way. Felt very betrayed, rightly or wrongly, about him upping sticks and going to Man Utd after they'd helped resurrect his career.

 

[dazzer6666]

Doesn’t look much like a leader and wouldn’t get a game anyway.

 

[Not Spanish Dave]

Pace & Groß

And Wieffer, Kadioglu

 

[Stato]

Brentford all over it id imagine

Should never have left them. They and he would have both enjoyed a better couple of years if he'd repaid their faith and not been seduced by the name/money that took him to that dysfunctional cesspool.

 

[WATFORD zero]

The trouble with the 'older head/help the youngsters' type player is that what you see on the pitch doesn't tell half the story. I'm not sure that Milner/Lallana have really done that much for us on the pitch, whilst Steele and Webster are fine examples of this whilst not playing regularly.

I think that Danny, Lewis and Pascal were very rare in being constants on the pitch while doing that 'experienced leadership' thing. If we can get one of those, then brilliant but the balance of the squad isn't totally about what we see every Saturday

 

[Justice]

The trouble with the 'older head/help the youngsters' type player is that what you see on the pitch doesn't tell half the story. I'm not sure that Milner/Lallana have really done that much for us on the pitch, whilst Steele and Webster are fine examples of this whilst not playing regularly.

I think that Danny, Lewis and Pascal were very rare in being constants on the pitch while doing that 'experienced leadership' thing. If we can get one of those, then brilliant but the balance of the squad isn't totally about what we see every Saturday

I noticed most of the subbed players on Friday went over to Milner high fives all round.

 

[junior]

The perfect player to replace the pace we've missed since Gross left! Good player in his day but has looked very much past it the last few times I've seen him - not helped by playing for that shambles mind you.

With Baleba, Ayari, Hinshelwood, Gomez, O'Riley and Yalcouye already available in centre midfield next season, I've got to say I'd rather we invested the money elsewhere.

Not a chance Baleba will be here next season.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I noticed most of the subbed players on Friday went over to Milner high fives all round.

Saw that too.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We need to be looking for the next wonder-kid from El Salvador, not aging has-beens.