Just to get back on Gyokeres. I think part of evaluating a player like him is not so much about his age but his actual impact in the game and his pathway to what he is now.
I think part of the reason he is a late bloomer is because he was bought mostly based on Brighton & Hove Albion data driven scouting model from a lower league. They saw him as high potential for his age and they got him for dirt cheap when he was 20 years old, as a project that could maybe pay out for them (a bit like they did with their other players like Caicedo). Also quite similar on how Chelsea got like 10 brazilians/french prospect last summer based on similar models. IMO a better path for him would have been Austria, Belgium or Eredivisie instead of brighton as he would have been given more chance to play as a starter from a young age instead of being loaned to different clubs every year.
Then they had no direct plan to integrate him into the first team, the plan was to loan him out and hoping he can continue develop on his own.
Loaned player when they are not from top academy or highly touted (at higher cost) can be overlooked because the team that get the player know that he is not the club property so they will most of the time prefer give playing time to their own players and just used loanee as depth player unless they have a buy clause. He got 3 loans back to back in similar fashion in lower leagues but he was only considered a first team player when he was finally purchased by Coventry. Then when he started to be considered a starter he florished. It is now 3 years that he is a starter and every year he seems to get better. That is a very good sign, he has all the attributes you associate with a top striker.
Now the obvious question is can he replicate that at a higher level then english second division and portugal. I personally think if he is purchased by a premier league club he will become quickly their best player just like Bruno Fernandes did with Man United when he also did a similar jump in his career. I see no fatal flaws in his game and if I want to be very nitpicky I would say he is maybe not as quick as the top striker in EPL like Nunez, Haaland and Osimhen (if he joins next summer) but his finishing his clinical.
Clown club
Yeah, honestly, now that he is leaving, they should get all the value they can out of him. I do not get what subbing him in the middle of games achieves.Hilarious.
Same poster says Mbappe is above the club and now that Enrique shows who's the Boss, he's a clown.
Isn't that extortion? Guy is a free agentAs I predicted months ago :
Le PSG va demander 150 millions d’euros pour Mbappé
Alors que son arrivée au Real Madrid cet été semble désormais inéluctable, Kylian Mbappé pourrait bien rapporter une belle somme au PSG. Explications.www.dailymercato.com
Finally out. PSG will get 150M out of Mbappe. He will not get some of his PSG bonus and give part of his Real signing bonus to PSG.
As I predicted months ago :
Le PSG va demander 150 millions d’euros pour Mbappé
Alors que son arrivée au Real Madrid cet été semble désormais inéluctable, Kylian Mbappé pourrait bien rapporter une belle somme au PSG. Explications.www.dailymercato.com
Finally out. PSG will get 150M out of Mbappe. He will not get some of his PSG bonus and give part of his Real signing bonus to PSG.
Important translation. Shame on you, Evilo, for falsely translating."PSG will ask"
That doesn't mean they will get it.
It was their agreement in September, as I suspected. He didn't want to leave on a free and wanted to choose his terms.Isn't that extortion? Guy is a free agent
Shame on you for not reading the article.Important translation. Shame on you, Evilo, for falsely translating.
Read the article"PSG will ask"
That doesn't mean they will get it.
Fair enough, but couldn't Mbappé just tell them to f*** off if he wanted to? Not saying he should or will, be he theoritically could and there is nothing they can do about it, right?It was their agreement in September, as I suspected. He didn't want to leave on a free and wanted to choose his terms.
Shame on you for not reading the article.
Read the article
He absolutely could tell them to go pound sand, but he's scared of the PR campaign if he does. He still wants to be the golden boy in France and knows it'll be easy for them to turn public sentiment against him.Fair enough, but couldn't Mbappé just tell them to f*** off if he wanted to? Not saying he should or will, be he theoritically could and there is nothing they can do about it, right?
He could. But I think it's quite clear from the beginning that he doesn't to leave while PSG get nothing.Fair enough, but couldn't Mbappé just tell them to f*** off if he wanted to? Not saying he should or will, be he theoritically could and there is nothing they can do about it, right?
He's already had bad PR, including last weekend.He absolutely could tell them to go pound sand, but he's scared of the PR campaign if he does. He still wants to be the golden boy in France and knows it'll be easy for them to turn public sentiment against him.
He could. But I think it's quite clear from the beginning that he doesn't to leave while PSG get nothing.
He's already had bad PR, including last weekend.
Guy wants to leave on good terms and I don't think, contrary to what people here have claimed time and time again, that money is his motor. It is not.
HFboards posters can't understand the guy has been about making history. He couldn't do it at PSG, at least in Europe, and now he's moving on which is fair. But he didn't sign with PSG the last two times while ignoring Real for money. He did it because he wanted to get the CL to Paris and beat the PSG goal scoring record.
He only managed one.
Well, then look at the acts if you don't believe the words.
He rejected Real three times even though it's his favourite team (and I called his actions every time before it happenned).
His mom said PSG and Real proposals were equivalent and he still stayed.
Now he's going to forfeit 150M to leave on good terms.
I think it's quite clear.
Per google translate:Shame on you for not reading the article.
Read the article
According to the latest indiscretions from AS, the turmoil around Mbappé's sporting situation should not derail a probable deal around 100 to 150 million euros paid to PSG, the amount of which is linked to the renunciation of his loyalty bonus but also to a payment of part of his signing bonus to Real Madrid .