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Mr Eric Storm said:
i’ve seen him play for Atlanta 2-3 times. He looks fast in that league and a skillful left foot, but he’s all left. Has a fair few passes cut out which will probably increase but will say has a good attitude. Will probably score some goals on the break but will be surprised if teams don’t know how to defend him after 2-3 months.



Interesting to see how he does with hard tacking on heavy winter pitches compared to a lot of placcy here...
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He's played some cold-weather MLS matches. For example, he scored twice in a well-remembered game that was played in a snowstorm in Minnesota a couple years ago. Doubt he'll be seeing much worse than -10C with snow in England. Atlanta itself has a domed stadium, of course, so the home weather there is hard to beat.
 
Ilios said:
- Sold a 23 year old Mitrovic and replaced him with Joselu 5m, and Rondon on loan (who is 30, has half as many goals as Mitrovic, and they don't even own him)
- Signed Jacob Murphy for 14m and he's on loan in the Championship
- Signed Muto for 10m and doesn't pick him
- Signed Gayle for 11m, on loan in the Championship
- Signed Sels for 7m, he played 9 games and left at a 50% loss.
- Signed Grant Hanley for 6m, sold him a year later for 3m
- Signed a 33 year old Daryl Murphy for 4m, played started about 3 games and left for a fraction of that
- Spent 5m on Javi Manquillo :)

To be fair, Dubravka was a really good signing, Schar is pretty decent, as is Fernandez.
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Why the fuck do you know all that about the mags? Obsessed much?
 
IrishMackem88 said:
Paraguay aren't your sterotypical South American national team with attacking flair or guile, I always found Paraguay to be more of a workman like team known for its battling qualities and hard work in comparison to other South American sides. Not exactly a side ideal for attacking players?

As said Newcastle probably did spend over the odds on him, but it will be interesting to see how he fairs out.
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Where as Newcastle are?!
 
As a Mackem exiled in Atlanta and watching Atlanta Utd home games all last year, I can tell you that this lad pretty well won them the MLS. He’s an excellent player. HOWEVER.... the standard is way below Prem and he has acres of space. I think he may struggle with the physical side over there - he’s a bit lightweight. Whilst I would thank him for the memories last year, ovbviously I hope he gets kicked high, fails miserably and decides to return to Atl in the summer !!
 
Ilios said:
He could, but that's not what I said. What I asked was, would you be more likely to be successful buying proven PL players for 20m, than buying obscure players with no international pedigree, (despite his national side being weak) from obscure divisions for 20m. There's a reason why the most successful PL clubs tend to buy from other PL clubs, or from the major European leagues, and they buy players with pedigree or potential. As I said, you don't see many PL teams hoying 25m bids for 25 year olds from Polish league who've got 10 caps for Slovakia. Replace 'Polish league' with MLS and 'Slovakia' with Paraguay, and you see why I think it is a very strange transfer. He has no pedigree, and he's far too old and expensive to be 'one for the future'.

I'm not saying he'll fail, it is just a very odd transfer. As I said earlier, if you looked at his profile - where he's played, his age, his international career etc, it doesn't scream 'PL club record record-shattering transfer', it screams 'tentative loan to Bristol City'.
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The problem with that is that you don’t get proven premier league number 10s for £20m

You keep mentioning Will Hughes who is a completely different type of player.

Yes most clubs would rather sign a proven pl player at the same price as an unproven one but that just isn’t possible unless you are getting someone in final year of contract.
 
Ilios said:
- Sold a 23 year old Mitrovic and replaced him with Joselu 5m, and Rondon on loan (who is 30, has half as many goals as Mitrovic, and they don't even own him)
- Signed Jacob Murphy for 14m and he's on loan in the Championship
- Signed Muto for 10m and doesn't pick him
- Signed Gayle for 11m, on loan in the Championship
- Signed Sels for 7m, he played 9 games and left at a 50% loss.
- Signed Grant Hanley for 6m, sold him a year later for 3m
- Signed a 33 year old Daryl Murphy for 4m, played started about 3 games and left for a fraction of that
- Spent 5m on Javi Manquillo :)

To be fair, Dubravka was a really good signing, Schar is pretty decent, as is Fernandez.


He's started 3 games for Paraguay since July 2017...

And Paraguay have played 8 or 9 games in that time, and he was on the bench for a few of them.
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You missed out 4/5 million for their American RB that we had on loan, can't remember his name and I'm too lazy to find out at this time of the morning. Quick lad, reminds me of a dog chasing a ball.
 
Axerty said:
The problem with that is that you don’t get proven premier league number 10s for £20m

You keep mentioning Will Hughes who is a completely different type of player.

Yes most clubs would rather sign a proven pl player at the same price as an unproven one but that just isn’t possible unless you are getting someone in final year of contract.
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I was simply using the example the other poster gave me. That he would rather sign an obscure, 10-cap, 25 year old Paraguayan from an obscure league than a 'an average player from Watford' for 25m.
 
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