Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
It's obvious Zohore is the fallback plan B for this transfer.
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[Football] Raphael Dwamena RIP
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I reckon we might still be in for him to replace Hemed... time will tell.
Hughton said tonight the hearing will take place later this week. https://audioboom.com/posts/6230293-albion-manager-chris-hughton-barnet-gave-us-a-good-test
I'd suggest reading between the lines Hughton is slightly tempering expectations on this one. Quite an interesting interview actually talking about the transfer window.
fosters headband
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I really hope I am wrong here but listening to Chris this has more of a sound of a panic signing, when he was asked how long has he been on his radar he waffled without answering, then went on to say all the targets the recruitment team had been watching have doubled in price this summer. He then added we have a good recruitment team here without saying how long they had watched him.
Please let this player be the the special striker we all want, but I am a little anxious now after hearing that interview.
Please let this player be the the special striker we all want, but I am a little anxious now after hearing that interview.
Peter Grummit
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It's definitely the biggest gamble of the window for us. The boy has raw talent but a limited track record. I'm desperately trying not to, but my mind keeps clicking back to Elvis Manu.
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With you on this. Not convinced at all about this one. Wasting money
Icy Gull
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A gamble maybe but we are going to be down early in the New Year if we end up with the current strike force
Yes. A March relegation beckons without a decent forward signing.
If Dwamena works then mid-table beckoning na as we look steady everywhere else.
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I suspect the striker we've not signed yet (the one Barber was talking about on BT sport at the Citeh game) is not a 'gamble' and has Premier League experience. We're probably just going to have to wait a week or so for that player. In the meantime, Raphael is a very exciting prospect if we can get him over the line.
Ease your mind by rewatching Elvis' YouTube highlights. He never really looked like a good prospect.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Elvis was a panic, panic, panic rushed signing when Calleri didn't happen.
( Akpom was a similar rushed one when another loan fell through at the last minute ).
There is a pattern.
Dwamena doesn't seem like this at all.
I'd be more worried by any signing done on deadline day that we haven't heard mention of before. ( Say, for example, someone like Jovetic falls through and we get a random loan instead next Thursday ).
fosters headband
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Sorry that didn't help for me, the reason being is, all Elvis's skills and goals were in front of packed stadium and not in empty stadiums or parks as the one used for Raphael.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbYvecB_F4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9j6TGsGG8
Just somehow it gives me an uneasy feeling about the standard football each has been playing.
Chris Hughton in honest reserved outlook shocker!
I hate to do this but in the exact same situation Poyet's reaction would have been very different.
I didn't hear waffle, CH was asked how long has Raphael been on his radar, he basically said not as long as he has been on the recruitment teams radar, which I assume is how it should be.
Captain Sensible
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Try this:
[video]https://streamable.com/s/j07lw/gmhxp[/video]
2nd goal in a 2-0 win 4 weeks ago between FC Zürich and rivals Grasshoppers, packed 25k stadium.
Also shown both goals he scored here [video]https://mobile2.tagesanzeiger.ch/articles/59749674ab5c377011000001[/video] in the match report.
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fosters headband
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So how long was that?
Only if we had been watching him six months ago we could have got him for 250k like FC Zurich
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Surrey_Albion
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Don't won't to worry you but
http://m.calciomercato.com/en/news/inter-striker-spurns-brighton-newcastle-advances-38974
Interesting I don't think Manu ever got much of chance the few times he came on as sub he was full of running with an unconventional view of the off side rule he just never fitted and then went away on loan where he could have rebuilt his confidence but cocked that up after which no wanted him.
This new lad looks very raw in this video his first touch appears is similar to CMS and like CMS before his injury looks quick and it's this that seems to get him out of trouble not sure he will have this amount of time on the ball at this level, having said that he's big strong knows where the goal is a fair to good prospect one that the clubs of Man United, Cheslsea or Man City would put straight into there development squads where as we I fear view him as the prodigal son coming to lead us to the promise land I would not put my money on that being the immediate outcome
It's an own goal.
He didn't know, so he didn't answer.
Perhaps he should have initially been asked, or as a follow up, 'how long has he been on the clubs radar'.
Just guesswork but I read that conversation as - players a, b, c & d are now too expensive.
Winstanley turned the page over in his note pad and said 'what about this fella?
I doubt he was scouted as a primary target, they are now all too expensive, but the recruitment team were aware of him.
They've had 4 or 5 league games to watch him as a main target and have pulled the trigger on the deal.
Sadly £10-12m isn't a gamble for a Premier League centre forward, it's barely above bargain basement taking age and contract etc into consideration.
I doubt the team at the top of the Championship is buying him for 250k, just like a Premier League team isn't buying him for £3m.
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Oh.