Use this thread for general daily football discussion.
This thread can also be used to discuss Transfer rumours and to post Tier 4 sources.
As this may fill up please sort by new to try and avoid constantly repeating the same question.
Join our Discord for live discussion and don’t forget to follow us on twitter.
Havertz isn’t it. Vieira isn’t it.
That left 8 is a black hole for us at the moment and we could’ve fixed it over summer but arguably made it worse.
Rice is it: he’s already raised the level there.
The problem is that with Thomas injured, we need him at the 6, which raises the same question again: Havertz isn’t adapting as quickly as we need in midfield, and Vieira, despite his output, isn’t able to compete in enough situations.
Vieira is a player that can actually produce G/A.
Produces nothing else though
How do you know how well a transfer is or isn’t researched?
What he’s suggesting is that no-one knew Havertz would be available this summer, and when he became available, as a target of opportunity, we moved quickly on him. That’s why he said ‘not long researched’, as opposed to merely ‘not well’.
Compare that with Rice, e.g. who we’d been courting for about a year before we signed him, and where there were essentially no questions beyond ‘Can we save a bit or cash or break up the fee a bit more’, and ‘Exactly how fast will he hit the ground running?’
It’s an inference, but it’s not an unreasonable one.
You got it.