An Away Move

This might be better than my effort on the song thread marrying El Khannouss with Erasure’s Oh L’ Amour

To the melody of Erasure’s Oh L’ Amour Al Khannouss Broke Genk’s heart Now we’re watching you Mon amour What’s a fan in love Supposed to do? I passed it to you You were looking for me Always running for you You scored per-fect-ah-ly. AL KHANNOUS!!!

I’m beginning to think our club has become a barrier to Alves development. Especially now this Moroccan lad is coming in. We need a new Director of Football. On one hand they give him/the fans the message he’s around the first team and valued. With the other they buy players who keep him out the team and it’s very debatable whether they offer more. The actions are not joined up.

It’s not silly to give him a chance so we can see what he can do. A 16 year old played in the European Cup Final. If he was here everyone would just assume he should go out on loan.

I think he could easily get crocked on loan a couple of leagues down. He’d be more protected in The Prem.

Totally agree.

I truly believe the lad is ready to be thrown in at Premier League level. The loan thing is just really lazy thinking. He needs to be given a chance. He’s got more to offer going forward than some of the players we’ve signed.

It’s so ****ing obvious!

Alves has played well in the short amount of time he’s been on.

There’s no method here.

Imagine what he could do if his final ball and shot was not so goddam awful the majority of the time.

Faes wanting a move away and announcing it now that we’re back in The Prem is not a good sign IMO. Can’t imagine him doing this under Maresca.

I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on his ability and readiness. His final ball and shooting is also superior to Fatawu’s in terms of consistency and I will die on that hill.

I feel really bad for Alves. Rodgers was definitely going to give him a run in the Prem before the horror injury and Maresca was very impressed with him and would have played him aside from some new niggles. Look at how he was made to feel integrated in and around the first team in that period. Now a new manager comes in and fills areas Alves can play in with two experienced but slow pros (do they offer more going forward?) and a loan signing with the lad from Brighton - who admittedly looks mustard. I truly think Alves would be looked after better by staying here with our medical team and by being given some first team football from the bench. Instead I fear he’ll go out on loan in a more physical league and on worse playing surfaces and have less good fitness regimes. It doesn’t bode well. All this without going into the financial idiocy of not taking a chance on our top talent coming out of Seagrave. It makes no sense to me at all. Other clubs integrate youth when there is far less talent.

Fatawu’s last touch is more liability than an asset: Discuss.

Disappointed Alves isn’t on the bench.

It’s up to the player at the end of the day. A short campaign in Europe with a Bundesliga club or the biggest league in the world.

Smash and grab by us. Winks curler from distance in the 92nd minute.

I don’t understand this point of view. Zaha has been an excellent player over many years. One we’d have been lucky to have. Just hope he’s still got it.

It’s a shame Chelsea came in for Enzo and that he went. I truly think we could have stayed up with his system and the buy in from the senior players. It already seems we now lack both a system and the buy in.

At least our expectations won’t be too high for the season!

FFS! Who’s going to get sacked first? Enzo or Cooper?

I’ll be really annoyed if this signing means Alves goes out on loan. Hopefully they’ll be room for the two of them in the first team squad though. I know many think Alves would be better off going out on loan but I strongly believe he’ll be better off staying with. My gut is that the club agree. They seem to have made a real effort to make him feel included and have slowly started to shine a light on him in the media recently.

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Agree!