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No, that’s not true, or at least as far as I can see. Can’t find anything to show he’s refused to play. Feel free to post a link if you can find it though.

And yet he’s played several different positions. Explain that. Course he’s got a preferred position and most games he’d probably play there, but he’s also filled in when and where needed.

AMN has had a couple of wilderness years so difficult to judge what current form is like but if he’s anything like he was a few years ago then he’s a great signing. Obviously versatile and covers a few positions but he also seems to have quite a varied skill set. Tackles, good range of passes, strong on the ball but the thing I like the most is he can go past players and has a few tricks up his sleeve. Can’t finish for toffee mind but can’t have it all. He’ll be 25 in a few day so still at a good age as well.

Just watched the pitch side video and the celebration for the goal and the way the whole team came up to congratulate him puts a great big smile on your face. Whatever happens in the future, it’s really good watching kids desperate to do well and enjoying moments like scoring their first senior goal.

Hmmm, we've been "offered" the chance to sign AMN? Sounds more like agent and/or Arsenal trying to engineer a move than any real interest.

We always seem to get linked with AMN and I've always thought he was a good player. Seems like his loan move to Roma in January didn't work out - played 8 games in the league plus 4 in other cup competitions. Mitigating that was Mourinho started him initially at fullback and, well, it's Mourinho who isn't always the best at getting performances out of players. Only 24 but reckon whoever gets him could probably get a pretty good deal from Arsenal. Couple of years ago I would have bitten your hand off for him but sounds like he's on a bit of a downward spiral. Still think there's a decent player in there. I've checked to see if Forest were/are interested and, yep, they are. I imagine they'll be desperate to get some new bodies in as they're short on numbers so there will be some competition for his signature..........

I watched two games, not snippets. Just giving my opinion, obviously you don’t have to agree and I’m not a scout. He might be great and if we sign him I hope he is but honestly he didn’t look great, and if he plays like that then I think he’ll struggle. Only watched the two games because I was excited about the link, I was probably more inclined to be generous than most.

That’s a bold statement

Yep, agree with that. The Danish lad at Sturm Graz also looks a decent prospect and more of a powerful player than Ramos. Can see why Atalanta are interested.

Yes, thought that after the first game. He’s sharp around the box and has had a couple of good flicks but don’t see him being a player that will fit in too well with how we play. The assist tonight was lucky.

Dunno mate, I go to the Forest forum to find out about Saints. They can't figure out if Bednarek is better than Stephens though

I always thought the intention was to have a high wage economy? For everyone talking about basic economics and supply and demand etc - we've got pretty much record employment and a high number of vacancies (or at least we did recently). Wages are always going to rise in that situation as firms struggle to recruit and retain staff. Basic economics innit? I guess the government could do something about that by increasing the size of the labour pool - maybe relax working restrictions for foreign workers and creating an environment that is more attractive to them. That might keep wages down.

Not really read much of this part of the thread so may have been covered elsewhere but part of the problem has been sub-inflation pay rises for over a decade. Obviously the high rate at the moment is the rather large straw on the camels back but if wages had kept pace with inflation then I suspect we wouldn't be seeing the same level of strike action. Wage growth is pretty important at a macro level - remember reading that one of the things Obama saw as a problem to the recovery of the economy after the recession was stagnant wages and one of the recommendations was trying to strengthen the hand of unions.

You may be disappointed - from the striker links we've had they all seem to be big lads and one of the things Shields pays particular attention to is the physicality of the player. No coincidence that pretty much all our signings have been on the larger side (except Lavia). Personally I like the idea of having a bit of a presence up front - Pelle added a completely different option for us and doesn't feel like we've ever really replaced that. Depends how we play but we don't really play counter attacking most of the time - we press and condense play to the extent that pace isn't really a deciding factor most of the time because there's not much space to run into. How many times have we utilised Adam Armstrong's pace? Yeah, I know he ain't great but we've never made much of an attempt to utilise his pace. Agree with needing creativity though - ideal world we'll have both a new striker and another number 10/winger.

Bet you would if they bought a Russian club.......

Ah, fuck. That’s sad news, couldn’t have been that old either. One of my childhood heroes and always seemed to come across as a good bloke in interviews. Cracking hairstyle too. RIP

It’s guesswork on what I think will happen not why. I’m basing it on the rumours so far and Ralph saying we were looking at fullbacks. Got any further questions then go ask someone at the club.

How many times has Moussa started 3 consecutive games? Doesn’t feel like it’s happened that often and not recently.

I think we’ll sign Ramos and I think the deal was done a while ago with Benfica insisting on getting the champions league qualifier out the way. Harvey Vale will sign soon as will James Garner. We’ll get a right back on loan too. Going out will be Redmond, Walcott, Romeu, Bednarek. Diallo will go out on loan. We won’t replace Bednarek and half the forum will be very annoyed about this. All just guesswork on my part.

Seem to recall there's a YouTube video kicking around where he looks really good, although most people do on YouTube.

Why is he measuring his mouth in that photo?

In a mans world, maybe. I'd back him to get on up and down the left flank.

They're setting fire to people? That's one way to force a player to move I suppose.........

Yep

Scamacca definitely looks a better player than Ramos did in the hour I watched him but I've only seen clips of Scamacca so maybe not fair to judge on that basis. Plus Scamacca is probably a lot more expensive. In terms of dribbling he didn't do any of that - might be decent but it wasn't on show. He's got good movement and if we have players intelligent enough to pick him out then it could work out because we have far too many moves break down because we get to the edge of the box and then fail to quickly capitalise on it. Someone like Ramos will probably be able to quickly get a shot off (bit like Ings in that respect). He also seems to be good at general awareness of others around him. Benfica played him up front on his own but they had three directly behind him and at least one of those would always be relatively close to Ramos. I don't think he'd be any good if we left him isolated as we've done a lot since we switched to a back 3.