You mean players who start up front for England in major championships?
Yeah, don't want too many of those
Wilfried Zaha
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You mean players who start up front for England in major championships?
Yeah, don't want too many of those
Or maybe it's because we already have two young proven wingers who are full England internationals and it's an area where we don't need to add a player.
But that's OK...if it makes you happy to feel you got one over on us, crack on.
So...is he any good?
Plus Gervinho scored today...he'll come back and beast through defences....probably.
He just said four days ago that he was interested in him.
Your chief scout has been a regular at Crystal Palace matches.
Then Walcott signed.
You sent your chief scout regularly to QPR matches to get Theo(who's used as a striker) signed?
We don't need wingers.
Face it KM, he was on a WUM, he drove the price up by 9m, the wily old bugger!
Left back and a striker your main priority I guess?
i just don't understand why clubs have to continually (chief modifier) pursue signing imports, when there is fantastic talent available domestically (see exhibit A: Wilfried Zaha)? that's my point. i understand and support the 'bottom up' revamp. SGP and grassroots changes are paramount to England's success a decade from now.
there's also a discernible difference between "British" and "English", but don't let me get in the way of how you perceive the world.
quite refreshing to see a team with a HG core top of the table relying on youthful English imports. same goes for Liverpool, and to a degree Arsenal. no complaints here.
to each their own though. some prefer the Chelsea model and their history of homegrown youth and promotion. i prefer the opposite.
...and Spain, the greatest footballing nation ever? i have massive respect for what they've achieved, but Brazil (or even Germany) might object. i certainly would!
I mean this Spanish era being the most talent rich of all time. You can't argue with their achievements anyway.
We have loads of English players. I would prefer to see us signing some more exceptional foreign talents, in attacking positions specifically.
Most people just want a balance though. I'm sure we'd all love to have an all English XI but we'd be midtable, play shite football with no flair whatsoever and never win anything, which we don't want.
We also don't want to be like old Arsenal or Chelsea and not having any English players.
If Zaha's good enough I'll welcome him here, but I wouldn't want us to play/sign English players just because they're English when they're not good enough. I have only seen youtube videos of Zaha though so I can't comment at all on his ability and whether he's good enough but he does have a bit of flair as you say which is very nice/rare for an English player.
I'm not sure building a side that consists mainly of British talent in an era when Jordan Henderson is considered a promising prospect and is signed at more than £16m is actually a good idea to be fair. He'd cost €1m if he were Spanish and I'm not sure anyone would buy him at that price, same for whoever has signed for Stoke/Liverpool/whoever invested in British players for £5m+ in the past couple of years. I genuinely don't see any English player other than Oxlade-Chamberlain sold in the last few years that I wouldn't mind at United.
I have nothing against Zaha, I've never even seen him play, but all-English philosophy right now isn't a step in the right direction.
I have nothing against Zaha, I've never even seen him play, but all-English philosophy right now isn't a step in the right direction.
A British core is the aim. Wenger tried to get both Jones and Smalling. I'm sure he's always looking for similar players.
Smalling is excellent but I'm still not sure what to make out of Jones. He could be great, he could be average.
Sir Alex' record of signing British players is pretty good tbh. Not worried about that. And he gets the best out of them too.
Really? I think that Jone is a fantastic prospect. I think actually think that he is an elite level centre back prospect. I just hope that he gets chance to make that position his own.
Can't be arsed reading back through the thread. Is this lad any good? Will he get his place in the team next year if we sign him?
How many times has he actually started a game in the CB position for you since joining?
So Zaha...
Left winger or Right winger?
Left winger or Right winger?
Not many. One this season and he was bloody good.
Not too many, that's why I'm worried. He doesn't seem to have a fixed position and I feel he's too good to be used as a utility man. He'd be starting in central defence for most PL sides.
Where have You been, when he made United players look like an absolute twat, in front of SAF at Old Trafford ?
... and that was one year ago.He's improving and Young Championship Player of 2012 award belongs to him.
Drogba wanted to convince him to join Ivory Coast team, that weasel...
I keep thinking of Adel Taarabt and how he looked absolutely brilliant in the Championship - by all accounts more exciting than Zaha. Based on reports, I have seen Zaha play about two times.
Then again, the mental side of things has always been Taarabt's problem why Zaha could be a nice positive surprise if he's got the right attitude.
Then again, the mental side of things has always been Taarabt's problem why Zaha could be a nice positive surprise if he's got the right attitude.
I think that Zaha's attitude might be what has swung it for SAF. He is full of confidence and seems to want to be big time. I actually think that Taraabt lacks in genuine confidence a little, he certainly seems to lack in motivation at times too.
Where have You been, when he made United players look like an absolute twat, in front of SAF at Old Trafford ?
He's improving and Young Championship Player of 2012 award belongs to him.
Drogba wanted to convince him to join Ivory Coast team, that weasel...
That is not how I and quite a few other posters on here remember his game against us.
He has won the Football League Young Player of the month award once in his career. I think that this year he will have some competition from Tom Ince and Will Hughes for the outright Championship award. Tom Ince has actually won the outright Championship player of the month award this year, that includes the senior players too.
Comfy on either I believe. Naturally right footed but can use his left.
Rather we went for the likes of isco, but lets wait and see I guess. Never heard of him until the transfer rumours broke through
Nick Powell came from even lower league and SAF seems happy with him... and Zaha was dancing like Ronaldo in a colours of Sporting Lisboa against United. Didn't felt smallest pressure against big club.
People are afraid he's going to be a flop... Well, no risk, no game, no win. If all the news are true, we're signing a real potential.
Get that Taarabt out of Your head. It's bad for You.
Bullshit. He had a decent game, nothing more, nothing less.
Taraabt had top talent, but his mental and Physical attributes are not there. Saha seems to a very good physical specimen too and also has better attitude and confidence.
Still Taraabt has done decently in Prem, particularly when he's arsed like against Chelski.
As for a young player like him, it's never a decent game. He made an impression, wheter You like it or not.
Good memories. I don't even remember him against us - let alone how well he played.
He was really Palace's only memorable player. He was taking on our defenders and hitting skills. He did pretty well considering the respective teams.
I actually thought during that game 'this guy doesn't know what he is doing'. Nonetheless, that you have no recollection of him, tells you exactly how he played.
My Palace supporting mate keeps referring to him as Wilf. For me the name Wilf just conjures up images of a 90 year old geriatric!
I agree, he definitely seems to have made an impression to the point where we decided to keep track of his progress, as I'm sure we do with quite a few players who show potential against us. He showed glimpses of raw skill and pace but this epic performance you're going on about simply did not happen.
Use his real first name then Dazet.
He wasn't epic against us, but he was better than to be not memorable either. Those saying he wasn't memorable are labouring the point a but i think. He played well, was their main danger and showed raw natural ability and potential.
I'm excited when we sign young English/British players. It's part of our philosophy to have a core of young British taken in our squad, and long may it continue.
I'm excited when we sign young English/British players. It's part of our philosophy to have a core of young British taken in our squad, and long may it continue.
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