I agree with you in regards to the narrow set of options and I certainly wouldn't risk going for Bale. Going young is tricky with Jose as his defensive demands often suck the life out of young wide players but Pulisic would be far and away my choice from those listed, his attitude and workrate are already in line with the demands of Mourinho and he is multi talented.
He's a wide player capable of stretching opposition defences with his pace, movement. He do hug the wing, a very good crosser, a very good dribbler and a very good shooter. What more do you want?
I would much rather we sign Pulic who has a higher ceiling.
Wait, Malcom a good crosser? He plays on the RW and can't use his right foot, he rarely crosses and when he does it's always very delayed as he has to cut back in on his left to cross it most of the time, he's also very erratic in the final 3rd when it comes to seeing the picture, he has potential but is still very raw.
£26m comes from the original article that linked him to us, but there's nothing to say that Bordeaux will sell for that. In fact the same reporter said that Lemar was available for about £55m in the summer, only for a £90m bid from Arsenal being rejected on deadline day. So, if the Malcom transfer does happen, I expect the transfer fee to be higher than £26m
He also thinks simon cowell plays for lyon
Why do people keep getting hung up on what a players House is like? This isn’t FM manager combined with Homes Under the Hammer
I think we discussed this previously on this thread, but what you are highlighting is what concerns me about Malcom.
I'd take that with a pinch of salt to be honest.
Robben, messi, van persie, Lukaku, bale,Ozil, di maria all one footed players, they havent done too bad have they?Does Valencia need competition in the one footed prowess race?
Wait, he doesn't?
He's not a great crosser like De bruyne, Albrighton, Ozil, Sane, Carvajal but he's good.
I think Jose is looking for fullbacks to create the crossing threat, the problem is the delivery from our fullbacks is routinely poor bar Young, but if he waqnts his winger to be making crosses then that's not Malcom's strong suit at all, even if he does attempt it a lot as the stat shows, as he has to cut back into cross like Ashley Young.
Maybe he thinks they can create an auction in the summer.
That's a lot of attempting but what is the success rate of these attempts? I lot of the time he finds it hard to get the ball over as by the time he's cut back on his left the defender is impeding him. Turth is though I don't think we'd be buying him for his crossing, more for his inverted goal threat.
We're signing him to score own goals?
Every poster here wanted Perisic for his crossing too. Going by that post this season, Malcom has a success rate of 27% compared to Perisic's 15% . Crossing is not his strongest suit, but he's definitely a good crosser.
Lol, no, I just mean he cuts in most of the time, an inverted winger rather than a traditional winger.
I find the stat like so many stats, dubious. I don't care for Perisic but his crossing is usually pretty solid, where as every time I've seen Malcom he's struggled with this aspect, I'm not sure how they quntify a successful cross, both percentages are really low though unless they are only coutning crosses that led to a goal as successful.Does come across awfully left footed there. If Mourinho was so hard on Perisic - a typical out and out wideman - I’d have to question the validity a little of us being so interested in another winger who wants to cut back in field.
The tweet says the success rate.
Agree with this. We could have got a better version of Malcom last summer by signing Mahrez, instead we spent the whole window chasing Perisic, a completely different type of player. Either these links are rubbish or Mourinho is extremely unsure/confused about his plan for the team going forwards.
I named my pet rabbit Mal after him when I was a kid
Yeah Matic. Nobody believed that either, it was definitely Fabinho according to the caf. British journos always wrong etc.I just don't see this happening. Do we ever brief the press and actually sign someone?
The tweet says the success rate.
Oh was it Luckhurst that said Matić?
Bollocks. With that sort of logic you never sign a young player. Then everybody complains when City and other clubs give these players a chance (see Dembele etc.)
As exciting as Pulisic is, he's not very good yet, at least the end product is not there yet.
Practically all the main British journos said it.
As is usually the case with player ratings on here, it's based on the players FM star rating.
By every, I mean't every poster that wanted him, wanted him because of his crossing ability.Every is a big stretch mate.
Fair, fair.
He likes width on the left and an inverted winger on the right (Persisted with Mata in this role for a long time) with the RB overlapping. Malcolm makes sense. Comparing him to Perisic is pointless as it's two different requirements by the looks of it.
Last summer, we needed a left winger. But Martial and Rashford's perfomances on the left means a right winger is the priority right now.
Yes, I'll never forget even Bordeaux couldn't believe we signed him!
Signing young players has got nothing to do what I posted.
I'm sure Blanc said a lot of positives things about Obertan at the time.
