Connor Mahoney (loan) & Josh Da Silva joining Birmingham. Whilst Lukas Nmecha was at the Villa game sitting with Villa reps. Was linked with Blackburn & Swansea.
✍️ BREAKING: #pnefc are delighted to confirm the signing of @ManCity's @England U21 striker Lukas Nmecha on a season-long loan.Full details ➡️https://t.co/ho4TKkA6fm pic.twitter.com/8hJOhlyzE8— Preston North End FC (@pnefc) August 9, 2018
The English lads at Everton are screwed. They’ve signed a load of foreign mediocrity. They’ll likely fail to better Sam’s average points per game either.
Yeah, maybe Everton is the most disappointing, though Fulham and Wolves were also happy to pay vast sum of money for talented, but still unproved foreign players. 30 million pounds for Anguissa? And they say English players are expensive.
yep. in particular the young lads. dowell, davies and kenny are now all bench players. theyve bought a lot of mediocre foreign players instead of trusting the youth that they have.
I bet Roberts is regretting going to City now . Roberts was head and shoulders England's best player when they won the youth world cup a few years ago. And now at 21 it looks like his career is going nowhere
Your talking about the 2014 U17 European Championship. I'm sure he's regretted signing for City for at least a year. The youth World Cup you're talking about was last year. Opinions is one thing, but lack of facts is quite annoying when we've been saying what you've said for years.
Sorry, the European championship. Regardless whether it was the European cup or world cup he was still the player of the tournament which demonstrates his talent and what have you been saying for years that I said?
Everton have signed good players. The young English lads can always go the Championship or even Germany and France. It's not ideal but it's not going to change.
I wouldn't fully agree with that, it definitely looks like a mixed bag to me - which would be an upgrade on what they did last summer I suppose. Signing Richarlison for big money when he plays in Lookman's position was a travesty. That they've now also opportunistically bought Bernard at the last minute who's also a left winger does a good job of demonstrating the lack of proper planning and good squad management at these clubs. They have the cash to splash and when an agent indicates a glamorous/established/whatever name is available they jump on it. Now Lookman, Richarlison and Bernard are all competing for the same role in the team. And Mina was at Barlelona for 6 months, played 6 games and then got sold for a cool €18m profit. People say World Cup signings don't happen any more but he's looking quite a lot like one to me, he might be good but I doubt Everton have seem him play much.
I think Everton will be a cool 7th, which yeah is par for them but they are up against probably 6 of the best 20 teams in Europe. They overspend massively on Richarlison and I hate to think what Bernard's wage is but they are both good players, Bernard is actually a fantastic player imo. The two Barca lads are just not quite good enough for Barca but they are massive upgrades over what Everton did have, Everon put themselves in a real hole last summer and it's going to take themselves years to recover but I hope they do well because they are actually ambitious. You see Newcastle with a great manager and an amazing fan base a team that if they backed their manager could be crashing the top 6 and they've just blown it. I'd much rather be an Everton fan than a Newcastle fan. That's not quite the point you were making I apologise but I do think Everoton will be very good, well that's my opinion and I'll probably be totally wrong but we'll see.
I think Mina is a gamble, he is a danger at set pieces, but as a defender, who knows? Regarding Andre Gomes, he didn't show anything special either, he could be a hit or miss too. Just because the played for Barcelona, it will not make them automatically superstars.
Maddison, Gray, and Chilwell all starting for Leicester tonight. Promising start... Rashford for Man Utd too (and Luke Shaw, if I can sneak him into this thread).
‼️ BREAKING: After missing out on a move to Huddersfield within the final few days of the English transfer window, Patrick Roberts is believed to be a target for #GironaFC.🇫🇷 The winger is also interesting Rennes and Saint Etienne. [talkSPORT] pic.twitter.com/kBgSIPuEcT— GironaUK (@GironaUK) August 10, 2018
Any of those sounds like a worthwhile move. Don't know too much about their prospects for this season but they all did well last time around.
Ever since he was 16-17 we've been raving about how he could be the next big thing for England. We know how special he can still be, but he's lost that momentum of being young and getting solid first team game time. The good news is it looks like he might head to France and get first team action.
Maybe Lookman won’t be going anywhere just yet: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...an-told-marco-silva-stay-everton-fight-place/
Brilliant. I'm sure if he's looking better than Richarlison, Silva will be entirely willing to admit that he spunked £40m on an inconsistent player that he didn't need. Totally see Lookman getting a fair chance, totally.