Steven Bergwijn - signed for Al-Ittihad

[Marky mark]

Unless he had a blue & white scarf & singing Jamie vardys having a party I wouldn’t read too much into it 

[Nolucklcfc]

15 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Don't understand why we would bring in him, Ayew and BDCR.

Yep agreed 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

Much more likely he’s joining Fulham I’d say - he’d suit them too.

Edited 24 August 2024 by DJ Barry Hammond

[dooflip]

29 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Don't understand why we would bring in him, Ayew and BDCR.

Because we moved from collecting goalkeepers to collecting defenders, then collecting defensive midfielders and now we are collecting wingers. Eventually we will get to collecting 10s and strikers, just unfortunately not this window.

[Scotch]

I don't understand this "collecting wingers" narrative. We have two. 

BDR maybe was at one point but he's not got the pace or skill to be a winger at this level anymore, backup winger, maybe but that's it. Same goes for Mcateer and like them Buonanotte is better at CAM. 

Ayew is another who could do a job there but the truth of it is Fatawu and Mavididi are the only two natural wingers we have. 

 

That's why I was surprised about the link with the Moroccan lad, I think we need a winger and a striker more. 

[dooflip]

11 minutes ago, Scotch said:

I don't understand this "collecting wingers" narrative. We have two. 

BDR maybe was at one point but he's not got the pace or skill to be a winger at this level anymore, backup winger, maybe but that's it. Same goes for Mcateer and like them Buonanotte is better at CAM. 

Ayew is another who could do a job there but the truth of it is Fatawu and Mavididi are the only two natural wingers we have. 

 

That's why I was surprised about the link with the Moroccan lad, I think we need a winger and a striker more. 

It’s more a collecting average players problem tbh.

 

But Bobby was signed as a winger, and has started both our first 2 games.

….on the wing

 

Ayew played as a winger regularly for palace last season. Look at his goals record, if we signed him as a striker, that’s even more worrying.

 

Kasey is a winger. That’s where he plays.

 

We aren’t just collecting players, we are actively signing players that are bang average at best. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were young with potential to improve, but they’re not. Literally 30+ bang average at best players on big wages. One cost us 8m.

 

We are literally a joke of a club, it’s disgusting.

[Scotch]

27 minutes ago, dooflip said:

It’s more a collecting average players problem tbh.

 

But Bobby was signed as a winger, and has started both our first 2 games.

….on the wing

 

Ayew played as a winger regularly for palace last season. Look at his goals record, if we signed him as a striker, that’s even more worrying.

 

Kasey is a winger. That’s where he plays.

 

We aren’t just collecting players, we are actively signing players that are bang average at best. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were young with potential to improve, but they’re not. Literally 30+ bang average at best players on big wages. One cost us 8m.

 

We are literally a joke of a club, it’s disgusting.

Ayew

 

 

 

BDR

 

 

 

like i said, they can both do a job there but they are both getting on, losing pace and neither are out and out wingers. Both would work far better in central positions whilst covering the wing

 

 

We need pace, especially if we are going to be pinned back and need to counter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[benpicko]

Of course we need a winger who can consistently score 10+ goals a season in a decent league, not sure what half the comments here are on about -- we lack any kind of attacking threat and it's not like we're tripping over ourselves for decent wingers either

[JimJams]

7 hours ago, benpicko said:

Of course we need a winger who can consistently score 10+ goals a season in a decent league

So not Steve Bergwijn then. 

[HoustonFox]

On 24/08/2024 at 17:10, Scotch said:

Ayew

 

 

 

BDR

 

 

 

like i said, they can both do a job there but they are both getting on, losing pace and neither are out and out wingers. Both would work far better in central positions whilst covering the wing

 

 

We need pace, especially if we are going to be pinned back and need to counter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Ayew last season… Palace used him as mainly as winger that season and season before he was predominantly RW

 

He is still crap though. Palace must laughing they doubled their money on him 

[Scotch]

1 hour ago, HoustonFox said:

This is Ayew last season… Palace used him as mainly as winger that season and season before he was predominantly RW

 

He is still crap though. Palace must laughing they doubled their money on him 

Being used as a winger and  being an out and out wingers are two different things. That is my point. We used Perez on the right, doesn't mean he was a winger. We should use Ayew where Perez should have played... in the Okazaki role but only when absolutely necessary. 

[JimJams]

And yet Bergwijn only scored 8 goals (9assts) in 83 appearances for Spurs. A better team than Palace. Near identical stats really.  Around a goal and an assist every 10 games.  If Ayew is shit from a statistical standpoint, so is Bergwijn. But he'll cost about 3-4x as much. Maybe more.

[stu]

 

[benpicko]

Where have we suddenly got the money from? I swear our budget was said to be about £30m total

[-sodapop]

No chance we're signing him now, I'm sure he was an option before Bilal though

[FosseSpark]

We must know we are selling multiple players. Soumare being one at circa £10-£15m. Iversen or Ward for £5m. Cannon for £5m. By the time that's done our net spend will be tolerable for a promoted side ie £30 odd million. 

 

[ronnup]

Definitely need some wingers

[Weller Wing]

5 minutes ago, FosseSpark said:

We must know we are selling multiple players. Soumare being one at circa £10-£15m. Iversen or Ward for £5m. Cannon for £5m. By the time that's done our net spend will be tolerable for a promoted side ie £30 odd million. 

 

You think we'll get £15-20 million for Soumare and Ward?🤣

[Marshall Cockney Fox]

Simply not required. We need an out and out striker. We have ample wide attacking / winger options now. Particularly when / if the Moroccan also joins. 

[Levi Port]

This must be dead, he is not what we need. (Prem experience though…) 

[Babylon]

46 minutes ago, benpicko said:

Where have we suddenly got the money from? I swear our budget was said to be about £30m total

We've had money; PSR means we can't spend it all. A few people on here who have followed all the numbers suggested a budget in excess of £30m. 

[South Shire Fox]

Rather we were spending it on Nelson if we’re prepared to spend that amount

[kingpower]

I can only assume this is as well as an out and out goal scorer and on the basis we can clear a few out first…regardless of the fact he doesn’t exactly seem keen to join (if true)

 

Edited 28 August 2024 by kingpower

[Dahnsouff]

Would rather have Maupay, this guy is cack

[Foxmeister]

9 hours ago, FosseSpark said:

We must know we are selling multiple players. Soumare being one at circa £10-£15m. Iversen or Ward for £5m. Cannon for £5m. By the time that's done our net spend will be tolerable for a promoted side ie £30 odd million. 

 

If we get Ward out on a free it's excellent business. No club is paying £5m and matching his wages.