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[Albion] James McAtee - Bid rejected
- Thread starter Bakero
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They’re either good enough or not. You can say the same about Lamptey …
saafend_seagull
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Perfect fit if plays left back and is a midfielder.
£8m is peanuts since if he plays a full season and does okay he’s worth at least £25m.
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£8m is peanuts since if he plays a full season and does okay he’s worth at least £25m.
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So, TBH, do we, at academy level anyway.
McAtee in - the likes of Weir, Jenks and Leonard get pushed back, and maybe leave. We signed a young right back two or three years ago - forget his name* - then we signed Lamptey and he headed for the hills, knowing his chances here had more or less vanished (maybe he's been long-term injured, so out of contention, but I don't think so).
Edit: Remembered it now - * Romaric Yapi !
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- Jul 10, 2003
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It's unfortunate for the youngsters, but it is what will happen more if we want to progress. I suspect that a really young prospect coming all the way through to the first team will still be relatively rare, because of the huge changes in progress over very short periods that seem to be so common at that age. Hence the constant requirement to re-assess, and a lot of players 'bouncing' around the academies.
Look at Solly, Palace
, Eastbourne and Lewes before he became one of our youngsters, probably pushing out others who had been here longer.
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,383
The other day on a man utd game, the commentator mentioned that it is the 4,000 and something consecutive game that Utd have started with at least 1 player from the youth team, stretches back to 1930 something. I know Utd are a massive club but that is remarkable. Would be interesting what our record is.
Badger Boy
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- Jan 28, 2016
- 3,658
It's excellent experience for the lad. It was never going to be a one year loan away and then return straight to our first team in the Premier League. He knows where he is at the moment, what he needs to do and that next season he'll be in a different club on loan. I would argue that this season is slightly less important for him than next year will be. This season he needs to learn how other clubs train and prepare, see senior professionals going about their business and lives and grow as a player.
If he's the real deal, he'll come back wanting to spend his whole career with us in the Premier League and he'll work as hard as he can to get there. I imagine that a year on loan at Rochdale, with no disrespect to a fine Football League club, did Bobby Sanchez and Haydon Roberts no harm.
2 years later 
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I’ve been really impressed with this lad.
It wouldn’t surprise me if went in hard for him in the summer. Having seen 10 Albion goals go against him in the last few weeks, perhaps he can see why we’re brilliant and it’ll be time for him to leave the baddies and join the good guys.
An understudy for March? Perhaps.
Agreed, he was definitely a bright spark for them. Some classy touches.
Wouldn’t surprise me if we signed KDH from Leicester and he went there as his replacement
He looked a cut above the rest of their players today, not that we allowed the chance to make much happen. Think he'd do well in our team.
Wasn't it he who had that brilliant strike in the FA cup match up there? Nutmegged Dunk and smashed the underside of the bar from 25+ yards.
Does look a decent player
US Seagull
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He was definitely the player I noticed most on their side. But maybe that's because he was the only one that seemed to do anything other than just trying to kick the shit out of our players?
B-right-on
Living the dream
He had that lovely bring down and control of a crossfield pass which was shown on MOTD2 at the end. Very Mitoma-esque.
Nicks
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He was the only player on their side who might get into our side.
When they did have the 11 men for those 12 minutes he looked the most likely to cause us some damage, (until Colgate snatched the crown from him in the physical sense )
When they did have the 11 men for those 12 minutes he looked the most likely to cause us some damage, (until Colgate snatched the crown from him in the physical sense )
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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Yes, he is the only player in their team who looks like a PL footballer. He will be one next season. I just wonder though, if Man City, stung by Palmer's success at Chelsea, will decide they want to hang on to this one.He was the only player on their side who might get into our side.
When they did have the 11 men for those 12 minutes he looked the most likely to cause us some damage, (until Colgate snatched the crown from him in the physical sense )
My guess is that they will keep MacAtee and play him occasionally.
In terms of us signing him, my guess is that now his profile is higher, his fee would be higher, the algorithm's will say he no longer offers value as a signing. I think next season will see Facu and Enciso fight it out for the central deep lying forward position, with Moran the one being blooded in for the longer term.
Machiavelli
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It'll be a very low IMHO given that we've just signed Minteh. We need to prioritise elsewhere -- DCM, CB and R(W)B especially.