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Maxime Gonalons
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 ex hibitionist  Hastings 25 Jul 18 3.47pm |
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Another classy midfielder for a reasonable price?
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ex-Lyon, seven caps for France, good pedigree, reasonable price, could be too good to be true or could be a snip - I haven't got a clue but Matteo and a few others might be able to throw a bit of light on this - all these smoke signals coming from viable midfielders does seem a hopeful sign
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| silvertop Portishead 25 Jul 18 4.34pm |
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...and another outstanding name.
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| Mr_Flow London 25 Jul 18 5.12pm |
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Official bid made according to this:
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| YT Oxford 25 Jul 18 5.29pm |
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Wasn’t he a character in ‘Viz’, who had to push them around in a wheelbarrow?
Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 25 Jul 18 5.57pm |
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Originally posted by YT
Wasn’t he a character in ‘Viz’, who had to push them around in a wheelbarrow?
are you referring to the player or the tweeter - Signor Mangiante?
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| YT Oxford 25 Jul 18 6.31pm |
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Good question 
Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)
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| DANGERCLOSE London 25 Jul 18 6.42pm |
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| Robk 25 Jul 18 6.53pm |
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Top player... to get him for that price... amazing... fingers crossed!
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 25 Jul 18 6.56pm |
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Originally posted by Robk
Top player... to get him for that price... amazing... fingers crossed!
not to mention testicles
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| Bangell Oxford 25 Jul 18 7.05pm |
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Let's hope Roma have Gonalon with our offer
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EagleinSF  San Fransisco 25 Jul 18 7.21pm |
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And we have the balls to make this happen.
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| Booted Eagle Bristol 25 Jul 18 7.24pm |
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Originally posted by Robk
Top player... to get him for that price... amazing... fingers crossed!
Then we need to grab this with both hands.
“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
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| Jimenez SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 25 Jul 18 8.49pm |
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Surprised he wasn't mentioned on Matteo's thread the other day?
Pro USA & Israel
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| Mstrobez 25 Jul 18 8.55pm |
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It's 8 million so we're clearly on a budget and clearly don't want to invest the little we have on young players.
If that's the case, then fine, this is about where we're at with the quality of players available. However this idea that he's a "top player" is bizarre.
He's a poor man's Luka.
We're the Arthur over ere!
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| slubglurge welling 25 Jul 18 9.22pm |
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He's also a Roma reserve
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| Goldfiinger Just down the road 25 Jul 18 9.44pm |
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Was captain of Lyon. Can never have enough leaders in a team.
Can also play Center half which might come in handy as Dann isn’t back yet.
Doubt he’ll be as creative as Cabaye but we have plenty going forward so really might be decent to have two holding mids. Plus if Luka did get an injury IMO we’re in trouble as none of our understudies are a patch on him.
Could be a sound buy.
Getting a feeling we won’t be buying a forward this window and will work with the ones we have:
Wilf, Benteke, Wickham, Sørloth and Kaikai
Although could still imagine we might go for Antonio as cover / options on the wing.
Although can we afford both if we’re really not trying to spend this window.
Maybe Antonio is a back up should RLC not be available for another loan stint... who the heck knows!
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| mattteo 25 Jul 18 11.07pm |
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10 million bid for this giy? He's got some of the slowest legs I've ever seen.
And he's pushing 30. I don't know what the people in charge of transfers are thinking. That he can replace Cabaye? He's more like a destroyer, not a creator like Cabaye. I thought he'd be going to a lowly French team, like Sochaux or Lorient, for free from Roma, not be the subject of a Premier League bid of 10 million!! Roma must be extatic receiving such a bid for an unwanted player!
Got them eliminated from the Champions League last year with his mistake and he hardly got playing time. Nor did he do much with it. Overrated in Lyon too, there were other players making him look good.
Edited by mattteo (25 Jul 2018 11.10pm)
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| Aray South London 25 Jul 18 11.16pm |
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Originally posted by mattteo
10 million bid for this giy? He's got some of the slowest legs I've ever seen.
And he's pushing 30. I don't know what the people in charge of transfers are thinking. That he can replace Cabaye? He's more like a destroyer, not a creator like Cabaye. I thought he'd be going to a lowly French team, like Sochaux or Lorient, for free from Roma, not be the subject of a Premier League bid of 10 million!! Roma must be extatic receiving such a bid for an unwanted player!
Got them eliminated from the Champions League last year with his mistake and he hardly got playing time. Nor did he do much with it. Overrated in Lyon too, there were other players making him look good.
Edited by mattteo (25 Jul 2018 11.10pm)
But rather than bite our hand off they leaked our bid, I assume because they think it’s either not enough or they can flush out other suckers. Never seen or head of him but if he’s a defensive midfielder then it doesn’t make sense
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coulsdoneagle  London 25 Jul 18 11.18pm |
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Tancredi Palimeri a reliable Italian journo has said this is ‘very likely to happen’
Gonalons is a solid CDm with bags of experience. Not as good as De Rossi, so it’s no surprise Roma would be willing to make a profit on him and let him go, but he could certainly do well enough for us. He has a few caps for France over the years so clearly has some quality.
He can play in defence as well and we need cover. At this point in time we need to bring in some players our squad is desperately short. This wouldn’t be my first pick, but it’s not a bad buy either.
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| YT Oxford 25 Jul 18 11.37pm |
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It’s 10m euros, which is about 8.9m quid. Not sure how that rates in a world that’s gone mad, where Tom Ince has gone to Stoke for £12m, didn’t I read somewhere?
Edited by YT (25 Jul 2018 11.37pm)
Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)
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