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I give goals against Italian defenders a higher weighting than french ones.

Yeah well remembered he does I remember reading that as well.

As YouTube vids go his was the best I'd seen for a while interms of him doing everything we needed from a striker and it had good music too.

While we are waiting on further news of strikers i found this good blog on Beto and his journey to Udinese, just google translate it. Seems like a nice guy except for being a chelsea fan cos of Eto. https://www.cronachedispogliatoio.it/beto-intervista-cronache/

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Posted this on other thread on sat - this guy does a good breakdown on him

Official on Racing twitter

Got a central midfielder now that will go forward first and try and score goals.

A bit more details from the argie press https://www.ole.com.ar/futbol-primera/racing-alcaraz-premier-venta-oferta_0_w1B0LsI0VR.html

He's going to have a shock to the system coming from the argie summer to european winter.

He's an 8 according to what I read - he sits ontop of the diamond (something Jones likes playing) and drifts into the box late. See him being the link up man with the forwards and JWP and Lavia behind.

Good thread on how alcaraz plays for Racing - last tweet of thread summarised below 'In summary, he’s a big talent. He’s potentially a 10-15 goal a season midfielder, he’s clearly a European level player. Teams like Wolverhampton, PSV, Atlético, Inter, Arsenal, Tottenham & Sevilla have shown interest in him. His release clause is 25m€, he’s a potential bargain

Even the Racing directors seem confident of doing a deal - https://www.ole.com.ar/racing/alcaraz-premier-southampton-oferta_0_1MFLMqykcb.html From the side led by Víctor Blanco they are negotiating to try to get a little more money (the player's exit clause is 25 million euros) but, according to what they told Olé , there is optimism that the pass can crystallize. The talks and the tug of war continue and we will have to see if it closes in the next few hours.

When has YouTube ever failed us 🤣

Time being wasted Chez for players we need asap, its not a money critique, let's cut out our normal foreplay and get stuck in.

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Going for the right order now

Come on saints let's not fuck about. This was from the journo with good links at Racing. If they want 15m euros just offer 13m and 2 in bonuses, why do we always go in with a piss take offer, has it ever worked.

I liked the cut of Sarmiento, he was decent I thought. To be honest if there is 1 nation in south America I'm confident of recruiting from that fits the EPL it's Argentina, the country where they have to graduate shit house school before they can get on the pitch.

When it's good its us when its bad it's they 🤣

Just going to bump this so I can try and get the right order

Someone needs him to define what high tempo means ? Long balls can be high tempo, passing through the lines can be high tempo etc Recycling between defenders and midfield definitely isn't. I'm not bothered about possession ever since Leicester won the league with terrible possession stats.

Yeah I sort of got the sense as soon as the first long ball went the defender was like oh fuck I shouldn't of done that. Definitely played better out of the back today but so far this season our back 4 or 5 isn't my worry, it's just everything else.

Come on bro you know the saintsweb research team has already shared what a Croatian groupie looks like. I can only assume you've gone to the school of thought where you learn what's the difference between a dog and a fox ? 8 pints