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[Albion] New experiences for Caicedo
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Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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That is actually pretty damn scary! It actually is the poisoned chalice isn’t it … and it’s absolutely delightful.!
NorthstandRacoon
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Amazing highlest reel.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
That is horrendous. He looks scared
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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I didn’t want to bounce the Colwill thread but I do just wonder if we will go in for him again January or next Summer. He also seems to be getting a bit of the poison there doesn’t he… England call up won’t help that though.
Chelsea do seem to have the opposite of the midas touch.
I think I heard/read something in an interview somewhere that teams in Italy were wary of buying players from sassuolo when RDZ was in charged because he is so precise in drilling players in to his way of playing that they struggled in other teams even though they look world beaters playing for Sassuolo.
I can’t remember where it was, it could have even been written on here.
So it might take some time to undo the RDZ affect, by that time though Chelsea fans will have already written him off.
NorthstandRacoon
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Hope so, he will see how shit it is and surely want to leave.
Quebec Seagull
Vive le football... LIBRE!
Surely it can't be all that difficult for a top-level professional to revert from an elegant, free-flowing, progressive style of play to a dull, plodding, tactically simplistic one?
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No idea, but I’m not a football coach, I just watch it.
Not Andy Naylor
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I would be willing to test that theory.
oldboyroy
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Wow! Watching that clip and he looks a completely different player. He'll come good once he's got his fitness back. Or maybe not!
Loadicus Trux
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- Jan 12, 2012
- 197
I have to admit, I'm just as guilty.
I would love to think one or two are thinking, "What have I done?" GP must've done, surely.
jeremy fisher
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- Sep 20, 2014
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Not good for the club though if that happens. Our model is based on buying young, promising players, coaching them, selling them on for huge prices, and then reinvesting the returns. We need Caicedo to be a huge success so that in a year or two we can get another £100m for Mitoma, Enciso and Ferguson.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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I doubt it, as much as a fan of GP that I was when he was here, he overestimated his worth, and is now jobless but considerably richer.
If he’d wanted an easy life he’d have stayed here, his words not mine.
Anyway we are now in a much better place, even with the sales. Remember GP wanted to give us a history lesson whilst RDZ wants us to MAKE history
Horses Arse
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I disagree, other clubs will look and think "that's Chelsea for you, what did anyone expect"
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
The flip side of that is that if Concedo wasn't sold, Mitoma, Ferguson et al also weren't sold, then we would definitely be pushing for champions league spots or even higher.
Neville's Breakfast
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But we wouldn’t have Fati coming in or Pedro, Gilmour etc etc. People were saying similar about keeping players when we sold Bissouma and Cucurella. If we hadn’t then Caicedo and Estupinan wouldn’t have happened. Football teams evolve.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Yes that is also true!
The problem is not with us, though, but with Chelsea and what they do to players once they have bought them. I don’t see how that will affect the price we get in a year or two for Mitoma, Enciso and Ferguson. I just hope we do not sell them to Chelsea, for the sake of the players themselves. And because I have grown to loathe Chelsea over the last year; they are parasites.