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Other clubs transfer thread Summer 2017 ( Barcelona sign Dembele)

Qwiss

Matuidi is ok but he wont change anything for United and he's no better than what they have. Let them waste £60m on him.

Coombs

Matuidi is a rich man's sissoko. Like him ok, actually, but as y'all say, be a great waste of 60 mill for yanited.

Clrnc

That link is so houseboaty

Shady

Chelsea and United in talks with Lewandowski. Allegedly.

goon

Because they supposedly didn't help him win the golden boot? What a prima donna.

Qwiss

Does he think he'll win it at United?

Clrnc

Lol his agent has done it again. Every 2 or 3 years try to create news.

He has just signed a new contract to 2021. No chance of this happening IMO.

Claudius

Matuidi would be a good buy for United. He'd give them the steel they currently completely lack. They can put Pogba in front of him or a bit wide in a 4 1 4 1. I don't pay much attention to what United pay for players. They always have 100m pounds more than any other English club each summer, so they can afford to be as lavish as rappers

Ricky1985

Other than running around a lot I don't really see what steel Matuidi provides?

Ricky1985

[Twitter]

Just in case anyone actually believe Chelsea or United were going to sign Robert Lewandowski.

The rumour started with that tit Guilem Balague - he has got to be the worst "journalist" out there. Genuinely.

lorddulaarsenal

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/former-liverpool-star-urges-van-dijk-to-strike-to-force-anfield-move

Stay classy John Aldridge

Clrnc

Klaus wrote:
I don't get the deal with Pickford. The bloke got bombarded by shots every weekend and had to make a couple prolific saves. How is that a sign of anything else than playing behind a subpar defence? Sunderland still conceded the second most goals in the league.

Just saw this article and thought of your comment.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/10921062/is-new-everton-goalkeeper-jordan-pickford-worth-30m-we-check-the-stats

Basically, they take away the factor of getting bombarded by shots because he has a shit defence or that you get loads of clean sheet because of a good defence. Pretty interesting model, never seen it before.

He is just about behind Courtois in terms of shot stopping performance on a whole this season. De Gea stats is pretty much different class in this category.

Distribution wise, as expected he is the best in the league for long passes.

Shame they didn't have a metric for command of box, will be pretty interesting.

Klaus

Cheers Clrnc, that article is really interesting. Pickford does seem better than I've given him credit for.

est

Clrnc wrote:

Distribution wise, as expected he is the best in the league for long passes.

That's not what I'm getting from that graph.

Just shows that he kicks it long most of the time, while managing an average pass accuracy.

flobaba

Tend to agree with est.

I would like to assume the passes are actually reaching a teammate. Else it's a pointless stat

Clrnc

The article mentioned that he is the best in long passes. The graph shows the average, which means in terms of the entire league keeper's distribution (both short and long) Pickford is only 3rd, because Lloris and Bravo plays a lot of short passes that boost their distribution up while Sunderland don't.

Cech is the 4th best keeper in the league in terms of shot stopping, but amongst the midfield in terms of distribution.

This is the criteria of the distribution graph, which is fair enough.

For distribution, Jackson looks at whether the 'keeper was under pressure to pass, distribution type, speed in playing the ball, number of opponents bypassed and uses a five-point accuracy rating.

goon

I don't get it, doesn't the graph rank him among the lowest in terms of accuracy?

The other graph suggests that Chelsea and United in particular give away a lot of easy chances, I.e. have a more leaky defence. Doesn't really compute.

Gunner89

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/266595-liverpool-fc-complete-signing-of-mohamed-salah

Liverpool sign Salah

Bryant

What's the likelihood LFC get Aubameyang as well?

lorddulaarsenal

Interesting signing. Not sure he'll do that well

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