Felipe Rodrigues "Morato" da Silva

MaxiRobriguez

MaxiRobriguez

Bob McKinlay
JonnoSnr said:
I think in isolation if you receive circa £17m for Morato you should definitely accept and even offer to drive him to the airport.
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I've never been Morato's biggest fan but £17m is par the course for a backup centre half nowadays.

We landed it really lucky with Milenkovic and Murillo but we also blew £12m+ each on Omobamidele, Carmo and Niakhate.

We'll probably get £15m offers in summer when it'll be easier to replace him, both from a transfer and squad registration POV.
 
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Berkshire Red

Jack Burkitt
MaxiRobriguez said:
I've never been Morato's biggest fan but £17m is par the course for a backup centre half nowadays.

We landed it really lucky with Milenkovic and Murillo but we also blew £12m+ each on Omobamidele, Carmo and Niakhate.

We'll probably get £15m offers in summer when it'll be easier to replace him, both from a transfer and squad registration POV.
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The Carmo transfer looks very dodgy to me.
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
Berkshire Red said:
The Carmo transfer looks very dodgy to me.
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All transfers look dodgy to me these days.
Bang average players commanding >£30 million transfer fees, and many being resold in short order.
With so much money swilling about in the pig trough, much of it will require laundering to clean the filth off.
And multi-club ownership by dubious syndicates based outside of UK jurisdiction is making financial chicanery infinitely more easy.
Oh for the good old days when all fans paid cash at the turnstile... no chance of lying about gate receipts or crowd size in the halcyon days of yore.
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Captain Sinister said:
Oh for the good old days when all fans paid cash at the turnstile... no chance of lying about gate receipts or crowd size in the halcyon days of yore.
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My younger grandkids struggle with the concept that I'd routinely rock-up to the Trent End turnstiles at ten-to-three, hand-over my 1s.6d or whatever it was when I was their age and take my place on the terrace with thousands of others. Simple, joyous times.
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
Otis Redding said:
My younger grandkids struggle with the concept that I'd routinely rock-up to the Trent End turnstiles at ten-to-three, hand-over my 1s.6d or whatever it was when I was their age and take my place on the terrace with thousands of others. Simple, joyous times.
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And like you will have stood, rammed in, with the ground full when the p.a. Announcer gave the attendance as being 9600 🤓
 
Matt

Matt

Stuart Pearce
MaxiRobriguez said:
I've never been Morato's biggest fan but £17m is par the course for a backup centre half nowadays.

We landed it really lucky with Milenkovic and Murillo but we also blew £12m+ each on Omobamidele, Carmo and Niakhate.

We'll probably get £15m offers in summer when it'll be easier to replace him, both from a transfer and squad registration POV.
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24 years old with 50 apps in Primeira Liga and 50ish apps in the prem? I'd be surprised if we're not looking more like 20-25m for the bloke.

He has a rick in him but I'd argue the time he played an extended run of games under Ange, he actually came out with more grace than most from that period.
 
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Far have we travelled

First Team Squad
Master Yates said:
I’m not his biggest fan, but bear in mind that if we had sold him in January our next man up in Europe would be either a green Zach Abbott that has never played a minute of first team football at centre half, or an absolutely shot to bits Willy Boly, who should never play another minute of first team football here.

Or, we use one of our limited squad swaps on a backup defender.

Doesn’t seem wise to me. It’s going to take longer to fix our recruitment and squad registration mistakes from last summer than one window. Sell him in the summer.
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Boly is fine as a sub, but absolutely not as a starter. The one time he played this season ( that I recall) was against Swansea and he was poor. His performances as sub were I think last season and he did a more than decent job. Any future he has here after May will be as a coach rather than as a player as he does seem to read the game well
 
Ste

Ste

Viv Anderson
MaxiRobriguez said:
I've never been Morato's biggest fan but £17m is par the course for a backup centre half nowadays.

We landed it really lucky with Milenkovic and Murillo but we also blew £12m+ each on Omobamidele, Carmo and Niakhate.

We'll probably get £15m offers in summer when it'll be easier to replace him, both from a transfer and squad registration POV.
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What was wrong with Niakhate?
I rated him quite highly then he got injured and we missed him.
 
DizzyBala

DizzyBala

Jack Burkitt
Yeah Niakhate doesn't belong in that group. He was a solid option and to be honest, if he was here now, he'd be the third choice CB, easily. He plays for Lyon and Senegal still.

Morato was fine, bringing him on as a lump to see out a game but yeah shouldn't ever be starting games for us.
 
Matt

Matt

Stuart Pearce
DizzyBala said:
Yeah Niakhate doesn't belong in that group. He was a solid option and to be honest, if he was here now, he'd be the third choice CB, easily. He plays for Lyon and Senegal still.

Morato was fine, bringing him on as a lump to see out a game but yeah shouldn't ever be starting games for us.
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He was terrrrible with his high-pressure decision making. His pace and size generally got him out of trouble, but sadly his 1 on 1 defending just wasn't good enough for the prem. Loved the bloke though.
 
Cureboy

Cureboy

Geoff Thomas
Niakhate was abit of a disappointment to me. I expected him to be really solid, but he had moments where he looked anything but. I really thought Omobamidele was going to kick on and become a first team regular, not sure what happened there.
 
king_congo_red

king_congo_red

Ale Ape
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Templeton

Templeton

Viv Anderson
He is a player that you think always has a mistake in him, but that's also part of the problem now in that people have almost become programmed to see mistakes when there might not actually be one. There was a moment last week against Ferencvaros where he left a header back to Sels a little short and lots of folk jumped on it straight away, completely ignoring that he'd been put into a difficult spot by poor play/mistake by Milenkovic that made the header a lot harder to get any pace onto it, but because the last touch was Morato that was all many saw.
 
Browser79

Browser79

Geoff Thomas
Templeton said:
There was a moment last week against Ferencvaros where he left a header back to Sels a little short and lots of folk jumped on it straight away, completely ignoring that he'd been put into a difficult spot by poor play/mistake by Milenkovic that made the header a lot harder to get any pace onto it, but because the last touch was Morato that was all many saw.
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In that example, wouldn’t you want to see a player with the instincts to understand he’s receiving a ball he won’t be able to head back with any power, and then choose another option?

His decision making seems to me either too poor or too slow for the league. Perhaps easier when the instructions were simply to clear it by all means available to see out a game. But when he goes on from the start to play, I just think he can’t be trusted to make the right decisions. Backs himself far too often, at the wrong times and in the wrong places. If he’s the heir apparent to Murillo I think we’ll be in a bit of a state to be honest.
 
JonnoSnr

JonnoSnr

Grenville Morris
Master Yates said:
I wish he would stop letting long balls bounce. Just put your nut on it man
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He seems to me like he believes he's better on the ball than he is. Hence trying to bring it down, pass through the lines and stand on it like he's scanning around for options to ping it to anyone on the pitch inch-perfect.

If he just concentrated on being a head-it-and-kick-it lump that did the basics he'd probably be alright. After all when he's come on in the past to protect a lead that's generally been his remit and he's looked fine.
 
T

tomw94

Grenville Morris
As useless as ever tonight.

Just a reminder if it wasn’t for this guy being so useless we would have played Champions League football this season. I’ll never forgive him
 
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