Ismail Bennacer – AFCON 2019 player of the tournament

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    the specialone
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    Ok.Am I the only one on here who feels not resigning this guy is down there with the most stupidest mistakes this club has ever made.

    He’s just been named AFCON player of the tournament,a competetion consisting of players like mahrez,mane,koulibaly contless other good ones.
    I could understand why he left because he was not getting enough playing time but now we have a buyback clause to match any accepted bid by another club.Basically,if we want we could get him for around 15m euros.An absolute bargain in today’s market,but it seems AC milan are in for him and he’s going there.

    Midfield is the most important area of the pitch.It dictates the tempo of the game.It helps you dominate games.It is the trasnstion between attack and defense.

    But right now,our midfield is shit.Espescially considered to that of our rivals.It consists of Torreira,Xhaka and Guendozi.Just a few years ago we had Cazorla,ramsey and wilshere!!i’m telling you if we don’t sign atleast two good midfielders it will be useless what we do elsewhere.No amount of wingers and defenders will help if we don’t have a good midfield.
    Even if we get ceballos.It’s nowhere near enough.You’ve basically let your best midfielder go in his prime and replacing him with a guy on loan.Laughable.
    We should re-sign bennacer.For goodness sake being names Player of AFCON is no joke.I’d even want el nenny to go and sign an idrissa gueye or Docoure.

    Please re-sign bennacer.I’m telling you if we neglect this position then it will be the same cycle over again.i don’t care about wingers and defenders.Our priority should be central midfield.

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    Could be a good shout I heard it mentioned earlier in the Window. He was a million miles off the first team when he left and no idea how he has been since then. I would not get carried away with good tournament signings as this is often a mistake but how much worse can he be than what we have and for 15 million it could be a steel. Saying all that is he better than what we have, is he going to take us to the next level or will he be more of what we already have which is average to good!

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    the specialone
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    stev – He was a million miles off because we had players like cazorla,ramsey and wilshere then.Today,if we can afford to start a Guendozi then why not bennacer.Bennacer,who we bought as a youngster has more credibility than all of our youth products put together.And while I do agree that international stage can be decieving at times(not too often),you can’t be named AFCON player of the tournament and not be a good player.Getting that kind at 15m is certainly a bargain.

    Apart from that,I also wanted to place emphasis that we should shift full focus on our central midfield.Emery keeps saying that we’re still conceding chances and he dosen’t like it(rightly so).but when you have a good midfield they’d be able to dictate the tempo of the game,and limit the opposition from entering the final third with some good pressing when we don’t have the ball.

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    He might not want to re-sign. Most of those players that left in those years did so with a feeling of resentment that they were good enough bit not given the chance. Its foolish to think that some of these players who we NEVER gave a chance to, who went and proved themselves elsewhere would come back to us. I would not.

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    Maxy – Pogba went back to United.Players would come back to us,atleast youngsters.As to my knowledge there is a buyback clause with Bennacer which we didn’t activate.All i’m saying is you can’t ignore an AFCON player of the tournament available at a cheap price at a time our midfield is light.I defeinitely think along with ceballos we need another central midfielder.

    #1769029

    Madmaxsdaddy
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    Fair point TSO, I didn’t realise there was a buyback clause. I do think it’s rare but I suppose it depends on the opportunity. I wonder how attractive we are at the moment?

    #1769113
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    No matter what a player says,i think if we’re able to attract players it’s because we can afford to give them high wages,and the city is more preferrable than others.

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