Marcos Alonso

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Sidewinder2 said:
indeed. If we had spent big money on him (the money they wanted) the same people slagging off the club would have been apoplectic
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And imagine if we'd sold him to Chelsea... there'd be cries from everyone that we aren't ambitious enough and we haven't replaced him.
 
Valencia walked past him a few times today. Remember Ibrahimovic missing a big chance early on where Valencia easily got past him
 
Nelson! said:
At the start of pre-season after his loan spell Fiorentina wanted a few million for him. We did our usual trick of refusing to pay up for proven quality and after a few weeks training they decided they wanted to keep him. We then spent half that amount on PVA who is a about one tenth the left back Alonso is. Realistically we should have bought both of them given Alonso can also play on the left of a back three.

Another great example of our fantastic recruitment at work. Oh, and Poyet was desperate for him to come back...but no, it's all down to the managers apparently.

Then Bain comes out with "We need to sign young players and sell them on"....well, we'd have got about 24m for this one if it hadn't been scuppered by upper management, is that the sort of thing he's suggesting?

This f***ing club. If they let the managers do their job and were willing to spend based on quality not some bizarre idea of value which is clearly broken then we might not be in this mess.
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Which is exactly why the Mags managed to sell on their players that got them relegated last season on a huge profit.
 
He was never for sale. Fiorentina changed their manager whilst he was on loan here and the new one wanted to see him play in pre season before deciding whether to sell or not. He played well and they decided to keep him.
 
It doesn't matter that he did well at Fiorentina and has had a canny game for Chelsea. It would be a different kettle of fish here.

With few passing options going forward and poor support from our wide players, he'd be left exposed too often and our fans would then write him off as shite.
 
safc78 said:
He's improved since he left us mind.

He was very slow and kept getting beat by the right winger. We conceded loads of goals through crosses down his side
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Of course he has, albeit not by as much as his former detractors would now have us believe. From not good enough for us to being selected for Chelsea over the time period is some journey. I take it you didn't spot his potential? ;)
 
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