Andrea Orlandi
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garrilla
Viv Anderson
you just beat me too it
The Star has us in for Swansea's midfielder (left winger, I think) at £750k
He was their best threat when we played and getting him would be awesome.
It is the Star, though. Pinch of salt. Etc
The Star has us in for Swansea's midfielder (left winger, I think) at £750k
He was their best threat when we played and getting him would be awesome.
It is the Star, though. Pinch of salt. Etc
Dorset Red
Viv Anderson
Contract expires at end of season though they have options to extend. Could be that they will cash in?
Eastwood Red
Grenville Morris
thetfordred
Viv Anderson
i'd prefer him over charlie adam . orlandi looks very impressive from what i have seen of him . (not a lot admittedly).
W
winnits
Guest
We need a left winger, though.
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winnits
Guest
Ture we need a left back.
But I don't think any of the above options are good enough on the left wing for where we aspire to be. Tys is a striker - he can be effective on the wing, but more often isn't. Ando has no left foot, Cohen just isn't a winger.
But I don't think any of the above options are good enough on the left wing for where we aspire to be. Tys is a striker - he can be effective on the wing, but more often isn't. Ando has no left foot, Cohen just isn't a winger.
Cooky
Rice 21
Would be a great addition to the squad. Would give us different dimensions down the flanks thats for sure
garrilla
Viv Anderson
Touchy? Are you the stringer that filed that story? 
adam09
Bob McKinlay
marshal99 said:
It's a bigger issue than you're making it out to be. Tyson and Cohen are not wide midfielders, never will be, and don't particular play well in that position anyway. Anderson and McCleary are both right footed.
A dedicated left mid would give us options and balance. If one of Anderson or McCleary suffers a long term injury, and one of them plays and isn't producing, we have no fast wide option left on the bench anymore.
ad said:
Then you should ask why Davies persist in playing a left footed Cohen on the right and right footed Anderson on the left ?
Cohen may not be a winger but he can play down that left hand side comfortably enough , don't need to be a winger because Davies always wants his players to be helping out in defence as well. Why do you think he persists with Garner so long on the right ?
Johnny Bravo
Jack Armstrong
marshal99 said:
When Cohen plays on the left/right we lose balance to the side. He'll do for now but we need a left sided player much more than a central one.
We have no natural left winger at present, Cohen is a central midfielder, Anderson is a right winger and Tyson is a striker by trade.
In central midfield we have Cohen, McKenna, McGugan, Moussi, Majewski, McGoldrick and Thornhill although the latter is leaving. If you want to play by the rules you are with the left wingers then you can include Perch, Garner and Chambers who have all featured in a central midfield role at some point this season.
Left back is priority, then left wing and anything else is a bonus.
Bale left wing, Shorey left back.....would be the most obvious pair.
Orlandi, well, I am sure Billy has put at least 3 left wing and 3 left back names with the acquisition panel, and he will expect 1 of each to be signed on loan or permanent in January.
Probably Billy has added in a couple of Centre Back names as well, along with possible other midfield names, although I expect us to sign at least 1 left sided midfielder and 1 left back as a minimum.
Orlandi, well, I am sure Billy has put at least 3 left wing and 3 left back names with the acquisition panel, and he will expect 1 of each to be signed on loan or permanent in January.
Probably Billy has added in a couple of Centre Back names as well, along with possible other midfield names, although I expect us to sign at least 1 left sided midfielder and 1 left back as a minimum.
DaveRedDog
First Team Squad
I suspect he might be after another striker and possibly getting rid of 1 as welll.
Johnny Bravo
Jack Armstrong
marshal99 said:
It depends though really. If he is the best we can get for that amount of money then this is the kind of season I'd pay it. If we were midtable neither looking up nor down I'd wait until the end of the season and try to pick him up for free but when a few additions to the squad could potentially be the difference between us crossing the line into the top flight or not it's worth the gamble.
marshal99 said:
Depends how you look at it. For arguments sake lets say our two main targets for left wing are Orlandi and Charlie Adam. The rumoured price for Adam was double Orlandi's but he's not twice the player. If we get a good player signed on a long contract and they help us to the Premiership it dosn't really matter what his Swansea contract is.
I don't see us paying that. We haven't in the past. Why would we now?marshal99 said:
andover red
Grenville Morris
marshal99 said:
Many people (inlcuding me) thought £750k was too much for a 31 year old holding midfielder in the summer. We were all wrong.
Billy knows what he's doing.
weasel
Grenville Morris
andover red said:
He does, but better still, he has no say over prices, he simply states which players have the desired attributes to benefit Forest. The board will decide the correct fee for a player who's contract is expiring, although as far as I know McKenna's wasn't so it's not a particularly good comparison.
Hypothetically if Davies was in full charge he might well be prepared to splash the 750k Swansea wanted for him as it's not his money and therefore no skin off his nose, whereas the board won't be held to ransom for any player, and regardless of who manages the club now or in the future we wil be financially sound
Seargant Reddog
First Team Squad
with all talk of Moses for silly money could this one still be a consideration with a cheeky bid ????????