[NOT HAPPENING] Alvaro Garcia

Discussion in 'The Transfer List' started by DrewH, Aug 1, 2018.

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  1. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator


    2-1-6-1

    The aeroplane formation.
     
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  2. nornironhorn

    nornironhorn Administrator Staff Member

    Maybe he views Success as a striker

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  3. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Let's hope not. Will be one more excuse for the club if we don't or if we fail to add to our current woeful strike force.
     
  4. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Or they're worried that Peñaranda won't get clearance to play. Adam Levanthal referred to some issue they had to sort out, and some Venezuelan Football Twitter account claimed to have spoken to his agent and that he didn't have a work permit as it stands
     
  5. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Even ignoring Penaranda, who I believe favours a more central role anyway, signing this guy would leave us with Garcia, Deulofeu, Sema, Pereyra and Success for two positions. You also have Hughes who Gracia doesn't mind wasting out wide. Seems strange to go out and sign yet another winger unless A. Someone is leaving, or B. Success/Sema have been deemed to be unlikely to be up to scratch.
     
  6. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Hopefully the latter.
     
  7. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    'No balance' qualifies as a type of balance I guess.
     
  8. Malteser

    Malteser Squad Player

    The amount of influence Gracia is having in our signings this summer is troubling.
     
  9. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    How do you know he's had any?
     
  10. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Well trying to sign his son Alvaro is a dead giveaway for a start.
     
  11. Bahrain Hornet

    Bahrain Hornet Academy Graduate

    Celtic surely!
    Their the best in the Premiership! :D
     
  12. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    Maybe looking at playing delefeou more centrally. Did it at Stoke last year and made some intelligent runs. Penaranda can also play in the middle but it appears the permit is an issue
     
  13. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I expect his first words to Gino after being confirmed in the role were ‘Get me someone from Stevenage! Doesn’t matter who’.
     
  14. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    I hope not, considering he is comfortably our best right winger.

    As for Penaranda, given all the rumblings such as him having his photo taken by Sky and his instagram post, I'm assuming that the club see his papers as pretty much a formality now, but it's just taking a while.
     
  15. WatfordTalk

    WatfordTalk First Team

    No idea if you mean he’s had too much influence, or not enough.
     
  16. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Think it's safe to assume too much, given the volume of previous anti-Gracia posts from Malteser. Be interested to find out how they think this has manifested itself though.
     
  17. WatfordTalk

    WatfordTalk First Team

    Deulofeu
    Foster
    Sema
    Navarro
    Masina
    Wilmot

    None of those scream Gracia, apart from maybe Navarro? Certainly none as obvious as Quique requesting Jurado, for example.
     
  18. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    Think we work to the system whereby head coach says which area of the pitch needs improving and then crosses his fingers.
    Occasionally he may give a name depending on his experience as a manager worldwide but usually the former.
     
  19. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    In the last week I've seen posts lambasting the head coach for not trying to persuade the owners to get players in and posts bemoaning the level of influence he apparently has over transfer policy.

    Poor bloke can't win!
     
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  20. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    That's why no one likes him.
     
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  21. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    its pathetic isn't it. we really do have such a spoilt fanbase.
     
  22. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Scouser?
     
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  23. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    He had us playing some very good football near the end of the season. We just wasn't getting the results done of the performances deserved. I'm looking forward to seeing how we perform after he's had a preseason. A couple of quality additions in suspect areas would give JG a side more than capable of a top 10 finish. It's looking promising.
     
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  24. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    ‘They...’ Pah!

    You’re including me in this without name I fear! In all seriousness, I’m on a self-imposed wedding forum ban...but for what it’s worth, I wouldn’t blame Gracia for the signing...just everything else.
     
  25. wingco

    wingco Reservist

    I would imagine he knows next to nothing about him. More likely his 3 year stint at Granada is how they know about him.

    What signing could you justifiably say Gracia had even a tenuous involvement in? Deulofeu really is the only one, and that transfer doesn't trouble me particularly
     
  26. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

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  27. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

  28. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    I forgot that Reids and co had become forum pariahs.
     
  29. YellowKicks

    YellowKicks Squad Player

    This guy is actually supposedly really, really good. Napoli and Sevilla were sniffing around.
     
  30. YellowKicks

    YellowKicks Squad Player

  31. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin



    you have to watch it on youtube, and it is a few years old but he gets off the ground really well for a small lad.
     
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  32. oxhey67

    oxhey67 Squad Player

    Didn't Napoli lose 0-5 to Liverpool yesterday with Karnezis in goal? That puts us on a level footing with them at least!
     
  33. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    No it doesn't. It says that we have agreed terms with the player but have yet to have a bid accepted by Cadiz.

    Him being left out of their pre-season friendly matches is a good omen that he might be on his way somewhere though.

    There's another article from a few hours ago which suggests that where he might actually be on his way to is Cardiff:

    https://futbolistos.es/alvaro-garcia-fichaje-cerrado-equipo-premier-league/

    I don't know why we would need a left-winger either tbh, it's Pereyra's best position and we also have Sema, Penaranda (likely) and Success able to play there.
     
  34. simpleMASH

    simpleMASH Reservist

    I don’t think we need a winger either. How could we offload the out-of-favour ones in time? (Even with other countries windows remaining open longer than ours).

    Or are we going to have a squad containing 5 wingers who never play, taking up wages?
     
  35. oxhey67

    oxhey67 Squad Player

    I know we set up in a 4-4-2 yesterday and for most of pre-season but maybe the likes of Hughes, Pereyra, Deulofeu, Sema and this lad Garcia are more suited to playing behind a lone forward. So instead of being stuck out wide the three behind the forward drift, swap or rotate with each other (and the forward to some extent) in a fluid attacking formation. Sat behind would be two defensive minded midfielders such as Chalobah, Doucoure, Cleverley and Capoue. Gracia seems to like attacking full-backs and Janmaat, Navarro, Kiko on the right and Holebas, Masina and even Zeegelaar play in this way.

    Five players (Hughes, Pereyra, Deulofeu, Sema and Garcia) to cover three positions then doesn't appear to be too many.
    Nor does the four defensive midfielders covering two places (Chalobah, Doucoure, Cleverley and Capoue).

    That would/could also mean Success and Perenada are thought of as more central strikers along with Deeney, Gray, Okaka(!) and Jakubiak.
     
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