M’Vila


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Second only to Schwarz as the best midfielder we had in the last 20 years.

The two players are a good comparison. Schwarz not a big man but read the game very well. Always around to make a contribution. That's why he played at better clubs than the Frenchman. And, why did the Frenchman disappear? I didn't really rate him based on his contribution, never looked in control of a match, spent too much time chasing the ball and looking lost. I put Clarke, McCann, Rae and Kevin Ball in front of him - these were players who made their presence felt and were always in the game.

But this is wrong, M'Vila was class in the Arsenal, Chelsea and Everton games in the back end of that season. The main man imo.

The game passed him by in shit loads of matches.
 
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Yep. There’s a reason his career history is

2007–2012 Rennes B 34 (0)
2009–2013 Rennes 126 (2)
2013–2018 Rubin Kazan 64 (3)
2014–2015Internazionale (loan) 8 (0)
2015–2016Sunderland (loan) 37 (1)
2018– Saint-Étienne 36 (0)

He’s obviously a good footballer. And we fucked up by trying to be clever


It's easy to look at it with hindsight, but signing M'Vila would have been our biggest financial outlay ever. He wanted top 6 money at the time and while he was brilliant for a season, he had a long history of throwing strops and generally being a nuisance. I'd have loved to have signed him at the time, but it was a massive risk.

As always, the main issue was that we decided to spend a load on a player we obviously hadn't scouted properly and didn't want to be here.
 
It's easy to look at it with hindsight, but signing M'Vila would have been our biggest financial outlay ever. He wanted top 6 money at the time and while he was brilliant for a season, he had a long history of throwing strops and generally being a nuisance. I'd have loved to have signed him at the time, but it was a massive risk.

As always, the main issue was that we decided to spend a load on a player we obviously hadn't scouted properly and didn't want to be here.
We gambled that we could get him for nowt (?) by waiting. And then spent more on a worse replacement
 
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