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Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)

Disco_Pants93 said:
Arriving free at SM Caen in October 2020, Alexandre Mendy is now awaiting departure. Coveted by many teams during the summer window, the top scorer of the last Ligue 2 season finally opted for the Sunderland project. Determined to join the Black Cats, the former Girondins de Bordeaux striker, however, sees his departure blocked, at a time when the Norman club has moved under the flag of the Mbappé family. Explanations.

Victor Osimhen, Joao Félix, Romelu Lukaku… This summer, the transfer window is still keeping football lovers in suspense with numerous soap operas. Among them, that of Alexandre Mendy, still under contract with SM Caen after showing his desire to join Sunderland. Pending departure for several weeks, the Guinea-Bissau striker (7 caps) - ardently coveted during this summer window (Lecce, Sampdoria, Salernitana recently tried their luck but the player is determined to join the Black Cats) - nevertheless had a clear commitment from its former management but sees, for the moment, its departure blocked

A reality which can be explained in particular by the new page opened by the Norman club, recently passed under the flag of the Mbappé family. Questioned by us, the advisor of the 30-year-old attacker, Yacine Ayad, also wanted to clarify things in this matter. “Currently, Alex is training separately, contrary to what the press wanted to show. He is impeccable in his work and in his investment,” he first told us before going behind the scenes of the summer experienced by his protégé.

“It was Olivier Pickeu (former president of SM Caen, editor's note), at the time of Alex's extension, who made a commitment to us (Alexandre Mendy and his advisor) to let Alex go, whatever the outcome. club sportswoman. I wanted to come back to this point. The word given was that of Olivier Pickeu, who let us understand that Pierre-Antoine Capton (minority shareholder of SM Caen, editor's note) was in the confessions but the truth is quite different. I therefore wanted to clear Pierre-Antoine of any responsibility because he never knew of any of this. He is a man of his word and, today, whether Alex leaves or stays, it was essential for me to reestablish the truth. He made himself available and attentive to Alex and his family. I thank him for that and I am grateful to him.”
And to conclude: “Alex is still determined to join Sunderland, there are around ten days left, we will not give up, our determination is intact. We remain positive and we are counting on the new management to unblock this situation.” As a reminder, the top scorer of the last Ligue 2 season is still training separately and hopes for a happy outcome before the end of the summer transfer window, at a time when Mbaye Niang is cited in Normandy. For its part, Sunderland has revised its offer upwards (amount between 2 and 3 million euros, bonus included) and is also awaiting a sign from the upper echelons of Caen…
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cheeky bassas got him for nowt , he does the bizzo for them then they want to hold him to ransom ? . No wonder he's adamant he's away.
 

Get Into Em said:
Didn't we end up with one of the best defensive records in the league despite playing absolutely dire football, and having relegation form for about 20 games?

Our defensive record, as a matter of actual fact, was up there. Our defence was, and still is, good - especially when they're all fit.
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Yeah it always was despite using hjelde as a left back for a portion of the end of the season and playing Bishop in a game.
 
Get Into Em said:
Didn't we end up with one of the best defensive records in the league despite playing absolutely dire football, and having relegation form for about 20 games?

Our defensive record, as a matter of actual fact, was up there. Our defence was, and still is, good - especially when they're all fit.
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We started with one of the best defensive records and then it dropped off the scale for a while.

We ended the season with a quite average record in terms of goals conceded but that was after both Beale and then Dodds reigned things in a bit and made us less open and probably a touch harder to beat, but with limited attacking threat.

It was obvious to anyone with eyes We were far too open first half of last season.
 
BarnesPark said:
Only 4 teams with fewer wasn’t it? Hardly average.
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I'm not actually sure. It improved as we had no forward movement and were set up not to concede so yeah it was f*cking brilliant wasn't it 😀

The idea here is that under Mowbray we were far too open and probably didn't work hard enough when we lost the ball. We were thus really susceptible to the counter and a couple of passes cutting us apart.

But because we had a canny start to the season it didn't really show we weren't that good defensively, as the season wore on it became very apparent we were easy to play against and quite open and it's one reason why Mowbray was let go and the defensive record slipped a lot during that period.

That was the point I was making. That some had been using the stats from the early on to justify how as a team we were good defensively and the longer that went on the worse we got showing that maybe we weren't actually that good.

What happened after that was Beale had us playing compact with little width on the counter and Dodds was quite negative and there was no forward runs or movement, so yes ultimately the goals for and against dried up (apart from Blackburn and Southamoton games) and the 'against' goals didn't slowed down, but it wasn't balanced.
 
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