https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1804244789656944922?t=mWVDUQujuqMuGOkKPbA0mg&s=19
Hope it will work out for him.
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1804244789656944922?t=mWVDUQujuqMuGOkKPbA0mg&s=19
Hope it will work out for him.
I disagree of Olise wasn't as injury prone as he is he would've had way more impact.
He is going to bench most of the Bayern wingers. Massive move for him.
He is going to be the signing of the season for Bayern.
I wonder if Reading included a sell on clause?
I am thinking that they did.
We did, 10% - and it's absolutely vital for us too at this point
Apparently we did
Surprised by this move, mainly because Bayern are apparently buying him to replace injury-prone or out-of-form attackers (Leroy Sane, Serge Gnabry, and Kingsley Coman) but Olise is about as injury-prone a player as I've seen in a while. Constantly impresses in one game then its reported he's out for a month with hamstring/groin/calf etc. Good luck to Bayern, hope it works out for both parties
I don’t know how this comment gets so many upvotes. Facts matter little on the internet but you’d think an FPL forum people would validate with data first instead of just upvote.
Olise is going to be better than all of them.
Not surprising given Kompany is the manager and he's signing players from the league he has the most knowlege of.
Also Oliseh was at Man City for some of his youth days.
Olise played in 37/38 games just a season ago. He missed 3 games with an injury in his entire career before having thigh issues and being rushed back in the most recent season.
Absolutely insane to me how half the comments under this post mention how injury prone he is because he had one injury in his career.
Same deal with DCL these past seasons. Got an injury that required surgery but he was misdiagnosed and got it too late after having been rushed back.
Yes really, DCL has been unlucky and at the recieveing end of some stupid decisions to not give him surgery, not injury prone. I was drawing a comparison between Olise's and DCL's situation (which is correct).
You, on the other hand, don't seem to understand what you're talking about.
Yea tbh I thought he was until I checked his record..
Leverkusen or Munich?
Bayer>! Leverkuse!<n
Who the fuck are Bayern Leverkusen?
Another social media fan boy.
Easy mistake to make. Bayern is a place. Hence Bayern Munich.
Bayer is a company. Hence Bayer Leverkusen.
Fortunately, Leverkusen is not in Bayern, otherwise you could have Bayer Bayern Leverkusen!
Bayern is not a place, it is a region.
It means Bavaria
The full name is Bayer Leverkusen, not Bayern lol.
Surely Eze is staying at Palace then right? I can't see Palace selling both of their best players in the same window?
He’s got a clause and it’s not up to necessarily Palade unless they pay him more to up the sell clause as the did last time.
Eze has been now called to the England team though, and getting capped or England rather than Nigerian, might trigger rises in the price in his sell clause.
As for Palace’s prospects selling those two might not necessarily be a harm. They do have move of the central spine of the team in place, and all except Anderson are young enough to increase performance. So if they reinvest well they could very well improve by selling two players for 120 million or so.
If the right offer comes, they may sell.
If Palace sell both Olise and Eze they are surely relegation candidates
Eze should stay. I didn't see him being linked heavily with any club at the moment.
Spurs are in for him. Was chat before that he wants to stay in London.
I would think that Man City is likely to make a move after the Euros, because he's what's missing in their central midfield. DeBruyne is coming to the end at this level in terms of fitness, so they need a successor in place already.
If Arsenal was smart they would move for him, and push Rice back to replace Partey. But Arteta is pretty rigid and he has his favourite type of players.
In what world is Eze a DeBruyne replacement? He would just be Doku2 (but better) surely?
Nope. Eze is not a winger. He is a central attacking midfielder who can break down defences through the midfield with ball at feet or passing - or as a finisher on the end of a pass.
Eze can also go out wide, but that’s not his main value actually. Yes he has same same skin shade as Duku but they are different players.
Eze actually has far more in common with DeBruyne in terms of being able to function as the attacking hub of a team. And City has to replace that already, because DeBruyne is not a 38 game player. Rodri has been sometimes pushed forward to help with the passing the final third but he’s needed further back - Kovscic should be backup not primary there.
So yes Eze to city makes sense even if DeBruyne stays another year.
And indeed City has already previously tried to buy Eze but failed: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-transfer-news-eze-27645178
20:02, 3 SEP 2023
“…. Manchester City failed with a £60million deadline-day bid for Crystal Palace midfielder Eberechi Eze, according to reports….”
Not remotely similar to debruyne. I'm not doubting the need to replace him at all. Paqueta was quite obviously the more obvious replacement before gambing-gate.
Eze was used as left inside forward for Palace, this season. But that’s not Not where he would fit at City. Or where he started. Eze started out as a central attacking midfielder at QPR and played central while Zaha was st Palace. Central midfield is why anyone would pay big money for Eze. Not to put him on the touch line like Doku
He didn’t even operate as a left inside forward for us this season. We played Olise and Eze behind Mateta mostly in the half spaces although Olise would drift further wide.
That’s inside forward.
I’d always envision an inside forward starting out wider and drifting in as the play develops (similar to Salah’s positioning). Eze starts out in the half space.
Inside forward is the old 8 and 10 positions in classic football. Twin attacking midfielders. Wingers outside of them.
Glasner plays Eze and oliseh that way but more conservative system, so either wing backs doing dual duty or even ordinary full backs overlapping from a back 4.
He has a release clause which is publicly known about so it's not in their hands.
Have you seen what happened to Brighton? It's bound to happen.
Don't remind me lmao, I can't believe I thought we were going to do what Villa's doing rn
Had you been able to hang onto Caicedo/MacAllister and not had your changing room look like a battlefield medical tent I think you would have been up there.
What happened to the ~150mil from those deals btw? Joao Pedro and Baleba are the only two expensive signings I remember which accounts for like 40% of that.
Now you know why DeZerbi got out of there: he asked the same question you did.
Our owner pocketed the profit lmao, he sees this club as an investment
The owners are running a good business where they actually make money. Look up Tony Bloom.
I'm familiar with him and his history. Checked it myself and saw that there was a further 35mil spent between Verbruggen and Igor, so Brighton only really "made" 60mil last summer while presumably increasing the wage bill.
If the price is right everybody is for sale i guess.
Yeah good point
i was looking forward to having him in my team :(
He would have got injured all the time anyways
But ... But.... But I read the other day that his heart is set for United. What is going on????
I read his heart was set on playing in the Champions League.
What is going on????
A young player came to his senses, most likely.
Sometimes your brain tells your heart to shut the fuck up.
Palace back to their usual 14th.
Glasner is a great manager and they have ample time to sign a replacement. I still think it's going to be top half even if Eze goes as well.
Pretty sure they'll be able to bounce back with their already stacked attack and the reportedly €70m to buy his replacement.
Still a huge loss. But if Palace play like at the end of this season, with a good signing I can see them end up 6-10th.
Palace is not "stacked" in attack. They've got very little depth, but two players who are world class at breaking down opposing defences, that they spaced out well to balance their threat across the field.
With one of those gone (Oliseh), opponents will be more able to set up to contain Eze as a lone threat. Franca is promising but not anywhere at the same level. Ayew is a solid veteran but no world beater. Munoz from full back is great on the end of a pass but he is not capable of being the primary creator on the right,
Basically Eze alone as a creator would be similar situation of frustration that Zaha faced being triple-teamed by opponents. Won't be much joy.
Any money from Oliseh, they will need to immediate invest that into more attacking players that are ready to deliver high productivity right away.
Edouard, Ayew, Mateta, Eze and a 30-40m replacement on the wing looks like a pretty solid attack to me.
Smart move with how injury prone he is imo
How is he injury prone? He had a hamstring injury last season. Played 37 the season before and 26 in his debut Premier League season. Before that he played 44 in the championship.
He’s had 4 injuries in 5 years. Hardly injury prone. Cristiano Ronaldo missed more with multiple injuries at the start of his career, I don’t recall people calling him injury prone.
Owned him several times in the last 2 seasons, very sad to see him leave PL but glad he got a big move. Amazing player
It's a big move for him, and I am happy that he is making the switch.
Forget hes not English so seems a good move for him
"Not English" seems harsh
Was implying that young English talent typically stay in the country and move to a top 6 team instead of going abroad and learning new culture and language etc
Olise is young English talent though?
Nigerian dad; Algerian-French mommoamoma
You're right... Nigerian dad and Algerian mum... not him. He was born in England, raised in England, lived his whole life in England. He's definitely English, just multicultural as you can be more than one nationality/ethnicity.
Are Raheem Sterling, Graeme Le Saux or Matt Le Tissier not English to you? For all intents and purposes Olise is probably more English than Owen Hargreaves.
English born and lived there through his life so far, parents are Nigerian and French-Algerian according to Wikipedia. Played for the French u21 team but no senior team call up yet.
Not quite the senior team but be is playing for France at the Olympics
No such thing as either an English citizen or an English passport.
This guy will still go down as an fpl legend for anyone who free hitted in gw34 and used him and Mateta
It was a no-brainer. Anyone who saw their game vs Man Utd, didn't own him, and still didn't buy him, I'd have to wonder what they were thinking. With the ball at his feet, it looked like he could pretty much get anywhere that he wanted to on the field, his choice really and no one could stop him. He had clearly stepped up to another level in his understanding of the game and how to use his skill set.
I'm proud of him . I have a strange feeling for FPL players as if they're related to me. Whenever they make a big career move or get called up to their national team I'm very happy for them.
Hot take but Eze was always better anyway.