Wonderwall wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:twosips wrote:I see no reason against signing a Barkley or someone. But i don't think we should be signing both Barkley and Sterling. One or the other imo as we don't need to sign two young attacking players for big bucks when we've got so much potential coming through.
I actually think Lopes has it in him to do a lot of the stuff Barkley does. Having said that he can do anything Sterling can too imo... he has to be someone we look to integrate cos he's definitely got 'it'.
I'd rather Barkley than Sterling for what its worth.
If a lot of those kids do come through, we will be a bit small up top as a squad & may need neither Barkley nor Sterling but actually a new Negredo & Yaya.
Cole is about 6' isnt he?
He is, but he's not a traditional cf type player. He's better running with the ball rather than fighting for it.
Re Barkley, the whole of the football industry seems to think he is going to become some kind of Yaya Toure kind of player. Whether that's down to what the experts who study him have said, or whether it's just the tv types I don't know. Right now, I'd trust Yaya more without the ball, than I would Barkley, & I'd imagine he gets off about 100% more passes than Barkley does during a game.
One question re Barkley; has anyone ever seen him play, like we do ? I mean the short, quick passing which Silva, Nasri, Yaya do routinely in tight spaces. Do we know Barkley can actually do it ? Be a bit of a fucker if we signed him & found out the ball bounced off him when we go up to our 'A' game.
Our kids can do it.