Amad Diallo - Atalanta winger

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Well we tried for Dembele. Our incompetence means we couldn't get that part done.
It wasn't really incompetence though, was it? We only wanted a loan with the option to buy due to his issues, Barcelona only wanted to sell him. There's enough to accuse the club of being incompetent about without making every signing that didn't go through "incompetence".
 
€30m+ for an unproven talent? Not even available until January?

The sheer incompetent at this club, my god!
 
YouTube compilation is great. It mainly involves him skinning defenders alive before getting kicked up in the air. Sold!
 
Finally a left footed winger!!

He looked quite comfortable on his right from the clips
 
Remember when majority of us were happy with Dan James signing. Looked like shrewd business from us. Hopefully, Amad is on a different level to our young Welsh lad.
 
Feck it I know nothing about this kid but I’ve seen 30 seconds of a YouTube compilation and I’m sold!

Get him in ASAP a skilful right winger sounds absolutely wonderful to me.
 
Look, we should have signed Sancho. However given the choice between Dembele and Amad Troure + Pellistri I'd go for the latter. Greenwood is exceptional on the right and these two kids seem to be mint. Amad Troure has been liked to Messi by Papu Gomez and he knows his stuff about football. We might have landed a Greenwood V2.0 here.
Greenwood is exceptional on the right? No he isn't, Salah I would class as exceptional.

Greenwood is adequate and a future no.9 star for us. He's learning his trade. Has a lot to learn, like tracking back which is a massive weak point.

We wouldn't be clamouring for a RW if he was 'exceptional'. The way we hype up our players and then just as quick to knock them down.
 
Remember when majority of us were happy with Dan James signing. Looked like shrewd business for us. Hopefully, Amad is on a different level to our young Welsh lad.

Technically he seems to be, if you watch the YT videos...

Quite excited by this.
 
Well we tried for Dembele. Our incompetence means we couldn't get that part done.

‘Incompetence’ in this case being unwilling to sign him permanently? Or do you know more?
 
A lot of money for someone his age. Does this guy become an elite player greater than 25% of the time?
 
That's an enormous fee for someone so unproven. He better be a top talent.

I'm still confused as to why we couldn't meet the Sancho valuation when we're so free depending on general.

But if this is happening then good luck to this kid.

Maybe with each target we have an idea in mind of what range of fees represent an acceptable degree of potential value/risk and are unwilling to go beyond that range? That would seem a fairly logical way of assessing potential purchases and I'd be surprised if some sort of metrics-based assessment like that doesn't take place in a multi-million pound deal.

So in this case this guy might offer better potential value as he's cheaper and (if he turns out well) has the potential to be sold on for more, or (if he flops) can be sold at less of a loss? Whereas with Sancho you'd be buying at the top end, which means less potential profit and greater potential loss?

In other words it's less about the total amount we have to spend and more about whether each individual deal is deemed to be value in and of itself.
 
£30m? That is almost a million per minute of experience. And people think players are cheaper from abroad.

I think its a bit on the high side tbh. However from what I've read this guy is mint ie Greenwood like good.
 
Is there any news these days that Romano doesn't pick up from others on Twitter and then pass off as his own?
That’s called being a journalist: scouring sources, correlating your findings, etc. It seems people have forgot what it means to report the news.
 
Cant accuse us of being short-termist . And also.. we arent skint.

That said.. how the feck have we not signed a right winger for the first team yet? What are we doing?
 
Sounds like he won't even be available until next year due to needing permit,oh this just gets better
 
It wasn't really incompetence though, was it? We only wanted a loan with the option to buy due to his issues, Barcelona only wanted to sell him. There's enough to accuse the club of being incompetent about without making every signing that didn't go through "incompetence".
I'm not talking specifically about the Dembele deal, I'm talking about the signing of a more experienced option. A loan deal for him was always going to be chancy. We haven't made proper contingency plans and that's why we're running around like headless chicken on deadline day desperate to get some deals done.
 
Sancho stuff to one side this is a exciting deal.

Seems to be highly rated and for £25m wont be playing for the reserves.
 
It doesn't seem like he is ready to come in and start anyway but it seems like we left this one late as he'll join in January because of paperwork? Did he just become available last minute? Otherwise it looks like a case where the club left this one too late to complete the deal in time.
 
So between him and Pellistri, a couple of promising prospects for that right wing. Decent business.
 
Quite exciting. Work permit issue otherwise we would have got him now.
 
It doesn't seem like he is ready to come in and start anyway but it seems like we left this one late as he'll join in January because of paperwork? Did he just become available last minute? Otherwise it looks like a case where the club left this one too late to complete the deal in time.
Maybe he was simply third on our list? And we always planned on this if the other two didn’t work out?

Who knows maybe this ends up being a master stroke! Or is that being waaay too positive?
 
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