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He played in the Championship last year and did well by all accounts! Definitely not got the quality to be a part of a squad in the upper echelons of the Prem though!Chong is a league 1 player. He would get exposed in the championship.
I’m not a scout but I genuinely feel that sometimes you can genuinely just see how a player will ever be with the way they simply strike a ball.
Chong can count himself lucky if he has anywhere close to the career Valencia has had. Unplayable for a periodI think the opposition left him a lot of space due to Garnacho causing havoc on the left side, and still he was not able to do anything with it (Antonio Valencia vibes).
Makes Valencia look like peak Figo.I think the opposition left him a lot of space due to Garnacho causing havoc on the left side, and still he was not able to do anything with it (Antonio Valencia vibes).
Chong can count himself lucky if he has anywhere close to the career Valencia has had. Unplayable for a period
Late-years Valencia moved to RB couldn't cross to save his life, despite being left acres of space by opposition. Damn that was one frustrating player, especially considering how good he was for us in the past.Makes Valencia look like peak Figo.
Agree, there was a point in the game where Chong took a random shot which was blocked, and then Eriksen struck it back. The difference in technique between the two strikes was light years.
I actually didnt realise he was that old, he's like the new LingardHe really needs to be moved on. I do wish him well but don’t think he’s going to make it at Utd. He just hasn’t developed as well as we would have hoped.
He’s no longer a youth developing. Hes 22 years old. 23 in a few months. He’s only a few months younger than Darwin Nunez. Not much younger than Mbappe and Haaland.
He may be a late developer but he’s far off where we would have wanted to be at this point. The likes of Garnacho are the ones who should be getting the game time.
where is he? Any developments with Chong at all?
One of the fellas who covers Birmingham claims they're in for him on a permanent deal. Chong doesn't have a future here so it would make sense
I think it's allowed in the Championship but not the Premier League. However, the tweet says we're sending Hannibal there on loan and Chong will move on a permanent deal.I don't understand - How is it possible for us to loan players for the same club ?
Hopefully we get a few million for him, needs to be sold if there is a buyer.
Yes, if we can get 25-30% sell on clause, we may sell him for a nominal fee. But need to make sure he doesn’t take minutes off Hannibal, thoughBirmingham don't have a few million to spend and frankly even if they did he is nowhere near worth that. I would imagine this will be like the deal we did with Dundee United for Levitt, similar situation with the player in the last year of his deal and not a lot of competition for his signature. That was reported at 300k with a nice sell on percentage negotiated so that would probably be the range here too. Could work out in the long run if he does well and if nothing else he was reported as being on 20k a week so that is a million in salary saved just by letting him go.
Any fee was decent for him, he has no future whatsoever here and we weren't offer him another contract/he wouldn't have taken it.1.5m reported fees for him from Birmingham. With one year left on the contract, still think we could have pushed for more. Had high hopes for him
A Chelsea or a Liverpool or a city would have got 15 for him. Next new signing I hope is a proper football director.
I think they played him in a different position. We seemed intent on playing him on the wing, but he seemed to have been used more centrally the few times I watched him play for birmingham. Will be interesting to see how he develops for that.Checked Birmingham forum - guys cannot believe their luck they got Chong from us on a permanent transfer. It’s really a marquee signing for their team - so hopefully he will play a lot and we get add ons and later sell on percentage
For a player who’s not shown a glimpse of being even a Premier League player?No buy back clause?!
We really are mugs.
For Chong really? HahahaNo buy back clause?!
We really are mugs.
