a-k Posted Friday at 16:07 Share Posted Friday at 16:07 9 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said: I fully agree with your point KentVillan but they are equally wank for everyone. The only point I’m trying to make is Luiz is a very good player but not a great player, especially when the pressure gets turned up it seems. Winning penalty vs Burnley, scored as 5th penalty taker v Lille.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted Friday at 16:40 Share Posted Friday at 16:40 (edited) 32 minutes ago, a-k said: Winning penalty vs Burnley, scored as 5th penalty taker v Lille.... If we’re picking individual games …please now do his performance and penalty v Olympiakos…. Edited Friday at 16:40 by DakotaVilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted Friday at 16:41 Share Posted Friday at 16:41 43 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said: I fully agree with your point KentVillan but they are equally wank for everyone. The only point I’m trying to make is Luiz is a very good player but not a great player, especially when the pressure gets turned up it seems. You’d get on very well with Striker, just not heard anybody else be so critical of him other than you guys. For me he was as important as Martinez and Watkins. Sad day to see him go and we may bring in somebody better but imo that will be an incredibly hard task and we currently have a very big hole in midfield imo. I trust in Emery and co but I’m gutted he’s going. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted Friday at 16:43 Share Posted Friday at 16:43 Please can anyone on this thread that thinks Luiz is so amazing explain one thing to me. Just one thing. As Luiz was available for the bargain basement price that we’ve sold him to Juve for…. Why did no one else come in for him this summer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted Friday at 16:44 Share Posted Friday at 16:44 (edited) He was shite towards the end of the season, and we actually performed better with Tielmans, I don't know why we need to even debate that. HOWEVER, it's still unfair to judge his tenure with based off of that. On the whole he's been a great servant to the club and hit his peak with us in the earlier parts of last season. I still feel people are using sentiment to make him much better than he is though ( Has been for us I should say, as he obviously has all the ability ). It's a shame we can't go into our CL season with him and an even stronger squad but it is what it is I think we'll be fine. Edited Friday at 16:45 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted Friday at 16:48 Share Posted Friday at 16:48 1 minute ago, DakotaVilla said: Please can anyone on this thread that thinks Luiz is so amazing explain one thing to me. Just one thing. As Luiz was available for the bargain basement price that we’ve sold him to Juve for…. Why did no one else come in for him this summer? There are possible factors such as teams not having any cash before the end of June when we needed to sell, plus us perhaps not wanting to sell to Arsenal. We also don't know for sure if no other teams enquired anyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted Friday at 16:52 Share Posted Friday at 16:52 8 minutes ago, nick76 said: You’d get on very well with Striker, just not heard anybody else be so critical of him other than you guys. For me he was as important as Martinez and Watkins. Sad day to see him go and we may bring in somebody better but imo that will be an incredibly hard task and we currently have a very big hole in midfield imo. I trust in Emery and co but I’m gutted he’s going. It's going to be really tough if not impossible to find a 10 goal + 10 assist central midfielder, especially one who sits as deeply as Doug and always fit. Hopefully we can offset that with other players chipping in more and Ollie getting better at penalties. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted Friday at 17:01 Share Posted Friday at 17:01 Miss you already Dougie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvonVillain Posted Friday at 17:15 Share Posted Friday at 17:15 (edited) Brilliant player and professional; even when terribly handled by 'him'. . Hope that there is some truth in wanting to move abroad, as it makes it sting less. Edited Friday at 17:15 by AvonVillain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Posted Friday at 17:54 Share Posted Friday at 17:54 Thanks for 5 or so years Dougie, rarely injured and always worked hard to find his form. Stings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted Friday at 18:23 Share Posted Friday at 18:23 1 hour ago, DakotaVilla said: Please can anyone on this thread that thinks Luiz is so amazing explain one thing to me. Just one thing. As Luiz was available for the bargain basement price that we’ve sold him to Juve for…. Why did no one else come in for him this summer? What makes you think they didn't? We keep our business incredibly quiet and we won't want to strengthen a rival so no need to leak stories of rejected bids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted Friday at 18:24 Share Posted Friday at 18:24 1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said: There are possible factors such as teams not having any cash before the end of June when we needed to sell, plus us perhaps not wanting to sell to Arsenal. We also don't know for sure if no other teams enquired anyway. There areno such possible factors. Not a single large club (they don’t have PSR issues because they’re income is so high) put a bid in for him. And please dont be that naive to think that we don’t know for sure. Every single bid is leaked to the press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted Friday at 18:27 Share Posted Friday at 18:27 1 minute ago, MrBlack said: What makes you think they didn't? We keep our business incredibly quiet and we won't want to strengthen a rival so no need to leak stories of rejected bids. Are you really that naive to think that if man united, spurs, Barcelona, arsenal etc etc had made a bid that no one would know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted Friday at 18:31 Share Posted Friday at 18:31 Just now, DakotaVilla said: Are you really that naive to think that if man united, spurs, Barcelona, arsenal etc etc had made a bid that no one would know? Seriously? You're deluded. There will be hundreds of enquiries every summer that don't get announced. Quite possibly they picked up the phone and we said don't bother, we're not selling to an English club. Maybe his agent said, don't bother, he wants to go to Italy. They might have asked us not to share their enquiry to avoid highlighting their summer demands, or to avoid the embarrassment of losing out to "only" Juventus. There's hundreds of reasons why seemingly no other bids for him have been leaked. Using that as a reason to highlight how shit he is, is a huge reach. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teale's 'tache Posted Friday at 18:33 Share Posted Friday at 18:33 2 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said: Are you really that naive to think that if man united, spurs, Barcelona, arsenal etc etc had made a bid that no one would know? Barcelona were linked briefly, Man City were mentioned, and Arsenals interest has been long standing and well known, but yeah sure, nobody else wanted him and so we just had to sell him to one of the biggest clubs in Europe for £50m, he must be rubbish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted Friday at 18:34 Share Posted Friday at 18:34 9 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said: There areno such possible factors. Not a single large club (they don’t have PSR issues because they’re income is so high) put a bid in for him. And please dont be that naive to think that we don’t know for sure. Every single bid is leaked to the press. How come none of them have made any signings yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted Friday at 18:41 Share Posted Friday at 18:41 7 hours ago, CarryOnVilla said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted Friday at 18:45 Share Posted Friday at 18:45 (edited) Secretly was hoping this was going to fall through. Hopefully the two coming in are good. Edited Friday at 18:45 by Tommo_b 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted Friday at 18:48 Share Posted Friday at 18:48 1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said: It's going to be really tough if not impossible to find a 10 goal + 10 assist central midfielder, especially one who sits as deeply as Doug and always fit. Hopefully we can offset that with other players chipping in more and Ollie getting better at penalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted Friday at 18:50 Share Posted Friday at 18:50 surprised this 3 way isnt announced yet, a bit tight to the 30th june, with only Sat/Sun to go, Mon is July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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