[Albion] Marseille want Adingra

[Zeberdi]

Not strictly true as the move has to be good for both the player, the club and timing right. Barber has often said this.

This.

No guarantees Adingra will improve if we keep him, no guarantees new signings will work out but if they do, Adingra could be facing long periods on the bench which for a young player is not ideal.

I’d be more than happy to see Adingra stay but if he goes, it won’t be a Caciedo moment for me.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Hopefully.

But he’s 19, not 16. If he were THAT good, and if Arsenal REALLY wanted to keep him, then I can’t believe that he wouldn’t have made any senior appearances at all

I think you make a pretty valid point but ACD has been guaranteed first team football here and I just the get the impression that this has swayed his decision making.

In terms of size and stature, he looks smaller than Lamptey but goodness, those highlight reels of him cutting in on the right wing and planting the ball in the left of the goal time after time are very impressive. As are the times where he shifts the ball onto his right and blasts it in.

We’ve gone from one inverted right winger (mostly injured) last season to three. Hürzeler is a lucky guy. Adingra is better on the left but the likes of Mitoma, Pedro, Osman and Enciso could arguably be as good or better. And if Sarmiento stays, we are astonishingly well catered for on that side. Perhaps we cash in on £30m+ bids?

 

[Justice]

I think you make a pretty valid point but ACD has been guaranteed first team football here and I just the get the impression that this has swayed his decision making.

In terms of size and stature, he looks smaller than Lamptey but goodness, those highlight reels of him cutting in on the right wing and planting the ball in the left of the goal time after time are very impressive. As are the times where he shifts the ball onto his right and blasts it in.

We’ve gone from one inverted right winger (mostly injured) last season to three. Hürzeler is a lucky guy. Adingra is better on the left but the likes of Mitoma, Pedro, Osman and Enciso could arguably be as good or better. And if Sarmiento stays, we are astonishingly well catered for on that side. Perhaps we cash in on £30m+ bids?

ACD has been promised a pathway to the first team or that’s the way I read it. Adingra surely is the player that the new boys need to dislodge not start ahead of him.
Competition for places is something we lost last season the mentality of one in one out needs to stop if we want success.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Haven't read the whole thread, but surely this is a load of old crap.

Marseille won't be able to afford what we'd be prepared to sell him for.

 

[Guinness Boy]

The source for this is not exactly copper bottomed.
And even then it’s along the lines of a pretty vague “Marseille are interested”
Even if both these things are true and even if they actually bid and even if Albion are open to sell - do you think Marseille could actually cough up what we’d be asking for ?

I wouldn’t get too carried away with this one.

On the other hand we do have a lot of wingers !

Yep. On the one hand it’s a poor source and the tweet is very vague indeed, with only the scummy Sun re-reporting it.

On the other hand we now have too many wingers, whereas last season we had too few.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

If Simon is sold for £60m+ to make room for the returning March, a retained Mitoma, all the new wingers and we get to replenish the transfer war chest, I'm surprisingly ambivalent if he moves on. Mind you, I'd also be surprised if Marseille could afford north of £60m!

 

[Justice]

Reading the Osman interview on the club site I would say Adingra is going nowhere the club rate him highly and rightly so.

 

[jcdenton08]

Reading the Osman interview on the club site I would say Adingra is going nowhere the club rate him highly and rightly so.

Definitely agree, but I also don’t doubt there is interest from elsewhere. Both can be true. I think that the issue at hand here is valuation, same with any of our players. Everyone has a price, and I can’t see OM getting anywhere close to what we’d value him at.

Unless the player forces a move (no evidence of this) or Marseilles shatter their transfer record (I don’t see how) then this is a classic non-starter.

 

[Hiheidi]

In a season where we suffered from heavy injuries and the goals dried up from all parties.....
Adingra played the fourth highest number of PL minutes, despite being away for the entirety of AFCON, played in every Europa League game and was our second highest PL goal scorer!

 

[jcdenton08]

In a season where we suffered from heavy injuries and the goals dried up from all parties.....
Adingra played the fourth highest number of PL minutes, despite being away for the entirety of AFCON, and was our second highest PL goal scorer!

He was invaluable in helping us through last season - but in my opinion he was over-exposed with his minutes due to our injury crisis. He certainly would be behind March and Mitoma as a starter. I’d be delighted to get £60-£70m for him, but I doubt anyone will be paying that!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

In other news I want Beyonce and that ain't going to happen either. So bad luck all round really.

Should have put a Ading on it

 

[Surf's Up]

Should have put a Ading on it

Not sure that really worked

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I wondered if it was getting the stages of grief angry phase in silly early. “I didn't rate him anyway” type stuff.

My view that he tailed off last season, was clumsy with the ball and lacked cutting edge decision making remains regardless of whether he stays or goes.

@Justice made a sound point that he was overplayed, which may explain the drop off.

Wouldn’t be adverse to him staying but equally wouldn’t be gutted if he left, looking at the squad we now have

 

[kelvinnewman]

Also shouldn’t underestimate the utility to the team being able to play on both wings, that’s always going to be useful and not really something the other options in the team provide.

 

[The Optimist]

If Simon is sold for £60m+ to make room for the returning March, a retained Mitoma, all the new wingers and we get to replenish the transfer war chest, I'm surprisingly ambivalent if he moves on. Mind you, I'd also be surprised if Marseille could afford north of £60m!

Absolutely no way that anyone would pay anything like £60m for him this summer.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Absolutely no way that anyone would pay anything like £60m for him this summer.

Agree £30-£35m plus add-ins for me, rising to £40m.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Also shouldn’t underestimate the utility to the team being able to play on both wings, that’s always going to be useful and not really something the other options in the team provide.

But he can’t defend, this is so important in the PL, unless you’re Messi or equivalent, you have to work in both directions.

Adingra has lots of room for improvement in this respect.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

My view that he tailed off last season, was clumsy with the ball and lacked cutting edge decision making remains regardless of whether he stays or goes.

@Justice made a sound point that he was overplayed, which may explain the drop off.

Wouldn’t be adverse to him staying but equally wouldn’t be gutted if he left, looking at the squad we now have

Bang on.
He’s a useful sub for me.

 

[Silverhatch]

If Mitoma is looking fit in Japan, that might be the trigger for Chelsea to come in for him, and if Adingra has already gone, we'll be left short again!

Chelsea. Let’s see them give KM an 8-year contract. Wankers.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

In other news I want Beyonce and that ain't going to happen either. So bad luck all round really.

Oh, I dont know about that. Sounds pretty lucky for Beyonce...