Alexis Claude Maurice in L’Équipe: “I want to join Gladbach. They are a club that focus on young players, there is a good structure, they are playing in the Europa League. I like their project & it suits me.”

Yep. Meh, who wants a league 2 player anyway ? Lock this up.

Nobody knows what we stand for.

Fuck him, and fuck our transfer dealings as usual.

What are we doing

I thought this kid was a priority. This might be a long, long summer

Raul and Vinai, stop swivelling on your chairs and load up StatDNA ffs

Did you guys actually want him? This one never made any sense to me.

Muppet season in full swing

ohboy!!! wrote:

What are we doing

I thought this kid was a priority. This might be a long, long summer

We won't be signing anyone until the new kit deal starts from 01 July.

jones wrote:

Muppet season in full swing

And the agents don’t even know which muppet to deal with

goon wrote:

Did you guys actually want him? This one never made any sense to me.

I agree. Unless he was better than he looked in the videos around of him, and by better, I mean a truly elite talent, I couldn't fathom why the club would talk so much about academy and then bang nearly £20m on a player like Claude-Maurice that plays in a position where 3 or 4 of said academy talent play.

On top of that, Gabrile Martinelli plays there, and he is signed and done. The Brazilian is a punt at £6m, albeit, he's very highly rated by their nationa team, Claude-Maurice would have been one too many and much too expensive.

Could the club be potentially looking at him as a backup striker? After all, if we are going to continue playing 2 up front, we will get killed if one of Laca / Auba is injured. Not sure if that's his proposed utility.

Robin Bairner [Goal]: 'Lorient's Alexis Claude-Maurice wants to move to Borussia Monchengladbach, who have offered €8m. Problem: there's been a €15m bid from a Premier League side (reportedly West Ham), but the player does not want to go to England at this point.'

So you can get him for 8 mil? Or 15? Not the 20 they wanted for us? Or was just the press making up stuff?

I really think his agent was name dropping us to push the price up.

HomeSteak wrote:

Or was just the press making up stuff?

this is always my default assumption

People believed because it was the reliable Lorient guy who first brought up the Guendouzi story that says we are interested.

We probably are but not a priority I reckon.

If we were/are seriously in for him, then it's extremely unlikely he picks Gladbach over us.

Surely Gladbach won't pay 20m or whatever the ridiculous amount that we were expecting to was?

if i valued my career i would. because 2 years of playing actual football (and not riding the bench) in the bundesliga would be helpful in getting to the top.

Ricky1985 wrote:

If we were/are seriously in for him, then it's extremely unlikely he picks Gladbach over us.

Especially when he sees the progress Guendouzi had last year. 

But then again many level headed young players prefer starting week in week out in a stepping stone club rather than on the bench in a bigger club