Irrational.
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James Rodriguez
That's a bit unfair on him, I think. He was playing well for Roma but then went of two have two knee injuries. Wrecked his career.I wanted us to sign Strootman a few years back. He went to Roma instead, thank feck!
Plays at Valencia and scored a cracking goal in the CL recently.More on topic, I was sure Kondogbia was exactly what we needed too, yet it was based purely on hype and a few highlights. He was linked with all the top clubs in summer 2013. Where is he now?
What I remember the most about him was a lot of posters identifying his weak basic technique, passing and decision making. I thought he looked promising, but I think a lot of posters should get credit for their negative attitude towards him before he joined Bayern.Renato Sanches maybe? I don’t know how he’s doing at the moment though, I just recall there being a bit of a meltdown on here when we didn’t sign him.
I was fully on board the Schneiderlin hype train too. Ah, the days of wanking over the 'Schmidfield'.Unfortunately we didn't avoid him, but at the time I thought Morgan Schneiderlin was the midfielder we'd needed for years, and was shitting it that Arsenal would get him as I thought he'd fix their midfield too.
He was ace at Southampton, rock solid from the moment they got promoted, but he was just invisible here. A totally bizarre regression that he never came back from.
Going by the preponderance of McGinn threads, I think Bannan just re-spawned as McGinn.Barry Bannan
I feel your pain.My username
No fabled legendarg wesley snidjer?Every now and then we are linked with a player, sometimes on the basis of little and it causes a real frenzy on the caf. Posters talk with righteousness and certainty that the club are absolutely mad or clueless to not be signing a certain player. Latest efforts seem to be Haaland and Bruno fernandes. Countless times these players have been flops, or clearly not what we needed. And nobody ever mentions just how wrong they were. Same could be said for managers linked with us.
Anyway, since we enjoy giving the club a battering for their rubbish signings, let's turn the mirror on ourselves. I'll add to the list with suggestions that fit the bill
Feast your eyes on what might have happened had random caf guys been in charge of transfers
Redcafes dreadful signings list
Ousmane Dembele
Freddy Adu (vintage feel)
Declan Rice (maybe premature)
Arturo Vidal - when right on the cusp of decline
Jack Wilshere - Phil Jones and luke Shaw injury list multiplied by ten
Tom 'QB' Huddlestone
Jack Rodwell
Timoue Bakayoko
Alvaro Morata
Mario Gotze
Eric Dier
James Mccarthy
Nicolas Otamendi
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/renato-sanches-joins-bayern.417163/What I remember the most about him was a lot of posters identifying his weak basic technique, passing and decision making. I thought he looked promising, but I think a lot of posters should get credit for their negative attitude towards him before he joined Bayern.
To be even more fair the number 1 target for the caf in that position was Fabinho, Matic was lastTo be fair it was instead of Matic, so it would’ve been a better signing.
I wonder if Sneijder counts? I can’t remember at what stage it went into overdrive here.
edit: wasn’t otamendi another one?
I was one of them admittedly. That was because I watched him a lot at Dortmund and he was very poor. That said, we all seem to suffer from extreme recency bias here, case in point is your post because you imply that he's made it off a run of form of about 6 games.Lots of peeps didn't rate Pulisic here before the move to Chelsea.
He certainly was!There was definitely an appetite for him.
I suspect Nicolas pepe will be one too
Freddy Adu was hot sh*t when he was 13, so it's been 17 yearsI was going to ask if the caf even existed when Freddy Adu was a teenager but then I googled him and he's... 30?! How the feck?
People used to batter Carrick on here, you just can’t take this place seriously at times.If Scholes was a Blackburn player in 95 and we bought him, this place would of said he was shite for 4 years, loved him for 2, then said he was shite again till 2008 until the barca crowd said they studied him every day.
If you doubt me just look at the Carrick treads.
Only conclusion I can reach, is that people with an internet connection doesn't necessarily mean football intelligence. SHOCKER