We had what is now the “Serie A midfielder of the year” right under our nose and we deemed him not good enough, instead we now trawl Europe taking punts on various lower level players. It’s all just a bit strange
I like what I see of Sterling already and I also think both he and Diamonde will improve further with better players around them. Hopefully, we get to find out.This for me. He'll be far better with better players around him.
Didn’t hold Sterling back !
Lazy excuse making.
Early days as I just posted I think he would benefit from bulking up a bit£4.5m on the evidence of what we've seen so far doesn't look like good business. Time will tell
Didn't he come through some African football academy that some of there players have went for fortunesSo a £5m project with potential? Great and here’s me thinking we didn’t have much money.
Personally I’m not clamouring for players from abroad at all. I think the lack of a decent Scottish spine to the team is one of our issues.Didn't he come through some African football academy that some of there players have went for fortunes
People want players from abroad before there out our price range then moan there not the finished product
Yes, similar to what I would say.The problem with signing potential is exactly that: it's potential.
Diomande aged 24/25/26 might be a player able to dominate these games. The player we have right now is promising, but today was poor.
Definitely worth persisting with, but needs better around him.
TBF most on here deemed him not good enough.We had what is now the “Serie A midfielder of the year” right under our nose and we deemed him not good enough, instead we now trawl Europe taking punts on various lower level players. It’s all just a bit strange
I think he’s looked bright for the most part, but as I said earlier in the thread, does he look like a match winner?I'm not sure he's worth a £4.5m punt to be honest. That's too much money for us to be taking a punt on right now. If he was coming in for something like £1.5m then that would be a no brainer. Not much we can do now but hope he develops like Calvin Bassey!
I think that’s everybody now.Really not convinced. seems to make too many mistakes. Penalty was a bit dubious, but I didn't see a player on the same level as the Celtics midfield 3
He got more time than most then!He's been here 5 minutes ffs!
He's played not even half a season but is a donkey he was highly rated before we signed him5m for another donkey, we have enough already.
You could argue both were pretty poor in their first 6 months at Celtic too. Given time and support they became decent.Hatate and O’Reily cost nowhere near that and are streets ahead.
Very much this ^^^I think his positional awareness and tactical discipline needs a fair bit of work if he’s to be the success we want him to be
You could argue both were pretty poor in their first 6 months at Celtic too. Given time and support they became decent.
Dio has quality and has shown it. I'm willing to give him time to adapt, playing in Sweden is a bit different to us and he's playing beside lazy players who do nothing to support him.
Tillman was an iq test and there was a very vocal crowd of supporters who failed it, genuinely absurd opinions. Everyone will get things wrong but i'll never understand how supporters could watch Tillman play for us and think he wasn't good enough.I remember posters saying the same about the lad at PSV who has just signed permanently for £15M
If we had more players capable of putting in decent performances against dross we’d have walked the titleIf the question is name a player who’s overrated after a couple decent performances vs dross and not worth spending 4.5 million on then yes Diomande is the answer
I think he's a very decent player and will improve once we put better players beside him.Really not convinced. seems to make too many mistakes. Penalty was a bit dubious, but I didn't see a player on the same level as the Celtics midfield 3
That boy would now be our captain.We had what is now the “Serie A midfielder of the year” right under our nose and we deemed him not good enough, instead we now trawl Europe taking punts on various lower level players. It’s all just a bit strange