I think if we are to make the signing of the season it will be a striker or a striker come winger. How much will Reus go for?ĭi Maria, 60 odd mil etc etc. Bale the worlds most expensive, after him it is Ronaldo. Usually the strikers, but lately the striker slash winger is the highly sought.
Forwards earn the big bucks and command the highest prices. Position we know more often than not is linked. Like with Sanchez, well worth every penny and Id even go as far to say a bargain. Monetary value must be linked but it doesn’t mean you cant get him at a good price. Interesting question – what constitutes the signing of the season. Just my tentative speculation and two cents. Lewi’s a pip-dream, honestly cannot see it happening especially with him being their only real striker. Then there’s of course Reus who we supposedly had a deal in place for just before we signed Sanchez. We could have already enquired, just a bit of potential damage control.ĭraxler’s the supposed long-term target we supposedly had a monster bid (over 35mil) rejected in the window we signed Ozil. The Goetze agent comments could have been preparation for all the ‘couldn’t stand competition,’ ‘needed to go to a weaker club’ or whatever if is supposedly unsettled at Bayern.
To me that narrows it down to Draxler, Goetze, Reus and Lewi in terms of players we’d potentially be after. There was also mixed reports that he appeared on a radio show saying it was a forward who’d fetch a fee of over 40mil. There was also his supposed deleted tweet aimed at Reus fans by Muzzi – I am going to come get your player! Then watch you cry!’ Haha there’s a few funny stretches which involve quite a bit of imagination!! One of his supposed close friends walks around with a camera zooming in on rolls royce’s. The Arsenal thread on Reddit is actually a pretty good read sometimes. And there has supposedly been a few reports. Honestly I’ve been trying to dig around for days. It was not just Shilton’s catlike reflexes and athleticism in goal that made him so vital to that Forest team though, but the way he organised the players in front of him and gave them extra confidence.
I still hear England fans call him the best manager we never had.Īnyway, back to keepers, and Clough often spoke about how his signing of Peter Shilton from Stoke in 1977 was perhaps the most important transfer he made. He was not talking about Arsenal and our surprise signing of Petr Cech from Chelsea when he said this, and we would need to have a medium with the ability to contact people from beyond the grave to get his opinion on that, but football has not changed enough in the last 35 years to make what the late great Brian Clough said on the subject of goalkeepers any less relevant to the current situation.Ĭloughie is still hailed as a football genius by the Forest fans and who can blame them when you consider that he took the small club from the midlands from the second division, as was, to the pinnacle of English football and then on to back to back European cup triumphs.