Matt Phillips.......


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I expect us to sign "quality".......only because that's what the owner said we would be concentrating on.

That is entirely down to your own subjective definition of quality.

As for naming names, Wilfried Zaha would be a better championship buy than Phillips imo.

Phillips is more of a right sided facsimile of McClean, though. Tall, powerful and pacey. He's more of a goalthreat as well.

I'd be interested in Zaha, mind. Lots of potential if you can teach him to lift his head. From what I've seen, though, Redmond at Birmingham looks to have all of Zaha's pace, most of his ability to beat a man but with the added bonus of gretly improved awareness of his teammates and an eye for a pass.
 
Haha I had that one coming! :lol:

What I meant was, Young was pretty similar to how Phillips is now (pacey, tricky, eye for goal) yet cost 3x as much what we're talking about signing Phillips for. Yet at the same point in their careers, there's not a great deal between them.

Obviously it's what comes next that'll determine how Phillips develops, but I think he's certainly worth a go.

Young was a player with much more finesse than Phillips, mind. Redmond, who I mentioned earlier, is more of an Ashley Young type IMO.
 
Phillips would be a decent signing but I'd have thought if it was going to come off we'd have heard something in the media other than Holloway mentioning they're not interested in selling their best players about 3 /4 weeks ago.
 
Young was a player with much more finesse than Phillips, mind. Redmond, who I mentioned earlier, is more of an Ashley Young type IMO.

Fair point, but guile is something that can be tailored/taught IMO.

Your Redmond shout is a good one, but he's flavour of the month so may cost big bucks.
 
A young lad with potential, but not proven in this league.

Have we not learned from Wickham!!!

What should we have learned from Wickham, like?

He's been here one season, he's 19 for fuck sake.
 
Very close to signing. Not sure of fee, talks are ongoing apparently and deal is nearly done.

Be good acquisition IMO.

Source: Friend of Carlton Fairweather.


I won't belive it until Carlton Banks confirms it.
 
I'm not bothered who we sign but i think the owner of the club want's to be very careful in his choice of words. If he thinks any of the players we are being linked with ie Fletcher, Phillips, Collins, Warnock etc are quality then he needs to study the game a bit more. They are journeymen and Fletcher aside (and only because we have no strikers worthy of the name) are bench warmers.

I hope all these rumours are bullshit because they are very uninspiring.

Don't read so much into links then. If we sign them, then feel free to berate the owner for his choice of words. Until then, treat links as what they are.
 
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