C'mon, he's unstoppable right now against the footballing giant Georgia!
He might make it, he might not. No matter the case, what he’s doing right now at 18 isn’t «mediocer» by any stretch of the imagination
Schjeldrup was brilliant in the second half against Latvia - maybe our best player after the break.
Didn't you spend £90m on a left winger pretty recently?I admired what he said about the failed Chelsea move. It sounds like he has a career plan and that offer from Chelsea wasn't going to let him deviate from that. I do think Chelsea will go back in for him next summer. It's just going to cost more. I'd probably turn us down again if I was him
£62M but yeah.
Really unbalanced team. Haaland and Odegaard are the top stars all the rest of the players are below average besides the odd promising youngster here and there.
I bet Norway still has a bigger talent pool than Northern Ireland. Norway FA probably as incompetent as Portuguese FA is my guess.
That and we’re clearly weak mentally. The way we fell apart towards the end against Georgia made me go "oh no, not again", and I’m pretty sure the team and coaching staff were bricking it too.
Very low football erritaj.
1. We are serial bottlers. I could list 10-15 moments in the last 20 years where we messed up in inventive ways at the last minute.
Sounds like us with Fernando Santos. We were able to surpass the difficult moments due to the brilliance of the players. You see how awful Santos actually is by his Poland NT job.
- We don't have GK/defence.
Solid summary, that. And that’s just our most recent campaigns.
Christ that's a misture of bad luck and incompetence. Sounds like Sporting.
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How can he be valued at €4m if bids of €30m have been rejected?
Think they're just referring to the outdated transfermarkt value.
Well, I'd qualify that a little. There are several other players who are on a more than adequate international level, in addition to Haaland and Ødegaard (f.e. Aursnes, Sørloth, Berge). The trouble is more that the whole back four + goalkeeper is well below adequate international level. Since we're (relatively speaking) loaded with talent in midfield and the attack, it's not really an option to play a style built around defensive solidity. But playing a more ambitious style is too much for our defence, who's more of a liability than our attack is an advantage. Hence, we generally lose tight games, and often fail to win games that ought not to be close. That's all it takes.
A valuation is arbitrary / subjective / a guess. . .
You can sign him to replace Mudryk
Is Ajer not considered to be decent (haven't seen him since his Celtic days)?
I guess we might do that in 12 months after we pawn Mudryk off on you or Arsenal for £52M.
You won't catch us buying any washed up Chelsea players!
Yes, but he's played almost nothing over the past year or so due to injuries, and he hasn't been uniformly good for the NT. We might have the makings of a decent central pairing with him and Leo Østigård, eventually. Still need a keeper and better full backs though.
