Carlos Alcaraz

[CB Fry]

10 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

So you’d prefer to have Alcaraz in this team, with McCarthy in goal?

We definitely overpaid on the goalkeeper. Absolutely catastrophic decision - our biggest outlay and we've let in 57 already anyway and minimum three in pretty much every single game. Some spectacular saves when we lose 3-0 anyway? Great.

More investment further up the pitch to actually score more and in the middle of the park to stop more attacks.

It's not about McCarthy but we should have targeted a less expensive keeper.

[Lighthouse]

26 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

We’ve got NINE points. Nobody would have been much of a loss to this team.
Fernandes 1 goal and 2 assists have produced a grand total of 0 points. 
 

Alcaraz has got 1 goal and 1 assist in 1 start for Everton. 

Fernandes is, by a long way, our player of the season. Alcaraz's assist came from a Palace throw in to nobody, which he squared to Beto. The goal was a rebound which fell to him eight yards out. He'll have to do a fair bit more for me to wish we had him in the team instead of MF.

[Lighthouse]

3 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

We definitely overpaid on the goalkeeper. Absolutely catastrophic decision - our biggest outlay and we've let in 57 already anyway and minimum three in pretty much every single game. Some spectacular saves when we lose 3-0 anyway? Great.

More investment further up the pitch to actually score more and in the middle of the park to stop more attacks.

It's not about McCarthy but we should have targeted a less expensive keeper.

I certainly don't disagree that Ramsdale hasn't exactly been amazing but I don't think Alcaraz is what we're missing.

[Gloucester Saint]

8 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

We definitely overpaid on the goalkeeper. Absolutely catastrophic decision - our biggest outlay and we've let in 57 already anyway and minimum three in pretty much every single game. Some spectacular saves when we lose 3-0 anyway? Great.

More investment further up the pitch to actually score more and in the middle of the park to stop more attacks.

It's not about McCarthy but we should have targeted a less expensive keeper.

And to help pay for it, not been sentimental fools and wasted more money on a 2 year extension for McCarthy. Which compounded the original disaster £14m outlay on a League 1 keeper (only just L1 quality as well).

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

Fernandes is, by a long way, our player of the season. Alcaraz's assist came from a Palace throw in to nobody, which he squared to Beto. The goal was a rebound which fell to him eight yards out. He'll have to do a fair bit more for me to wish we had him in the team instead of MF.

Yes, planting the ball in the net from eight yards. That’s not going to impress anyone is it ?

But it is a stark contrast to most of our fuckers yesterday who in the same position would look to take a touch and pass it sideways to someone else in a poorer position to take responsibility of taking a shot.

 

[Lord Duckhunter]

When the Palace throw in fell to his feet, he did this amazing thing. He ran forward and passed it forward to create the goal. Unbelievable, no wonder Lego got rid….

[Miltonaggro]

2 hours ago, Toussaint said:

He’d have played one of them at full back 

Not in front of Manning!

[Barsiem]

I like Alcaraz and really hope he succeeds but the meltdown on here for us selling him is a bit ridiculous....

In the last 18 months Alcaraz has failed to make any sort of mark playing for one of the best squads in the Championship, failed to make any sort of mark playing for a better than average team in Serie A, failed to make any sort of mark playing for a top team in South America, scored and assisted in one game and started well (but only 3 games in) for a mediocre team in the Premier League who are in good form.

Fernandez may not have scored as many but he's been much more consistent, whilst playing in an appalling team, and he's only 20.  I hope they both have long and successful careers, but if I had to pick one player that I think will be the better overall player, it's Fernandez all the way

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Toussaint said:

He’d have played one of them at full back 

We finished the game yesterday with four full backs.

[austsaint]

31 minutes ago, Barsiem said:

I like Alcaraz and really hope he succeeds but the meltdown on here for us selling him is a bit ridiculous....

In the last 18 months Alcaraz has failed to make any sort of mark playing for one of the best squads in the Championship, failed to make any sort of mark playing for a better than average team in Serie A, failed to make any sort of mark playing for a top team in South America, scored and assisted in one game and started well (but only 3 games in) for a mediocre team in the Premier League who are in good form.

Fernandez may not have scored as many but he's been much more consistent, whilst playing in an appalling team, and he's only 20.  I hope they both have long and successful careers, but if I had to pick one player that I think will be the better overall player, it's Fernandez all the way

I don’t think there’s a person on this forum who would disagree with your last paragraph.  

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, austsaint said:

I don’t think there’s a person on this forum who would disagree with your last paragraph.  

Agreed too, our point is that it shouldn’t be an either/or, and in better times we’d have them competing. 

[BarberSaint]

3 hours ago, RedArmy said:

We’ve got NINE points. Nobody would have been much of a loss to this team.
Fernandes 1 goal and 2 assists have produced a grand total of 0 points. 
 

Alcaraz has got 1 goal and 1 assist in 1 start for Everton. 

 

 

Which helped them get 3 points. It was the match-winning goal so in one game he's effectively got them 1/3 of our total points for the season.

[HKsaint]

He is lucky. He has escaped from Southampton. I think this represents most of our players’ feeling right now. 

[Convict Colony]

22 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

He looked poor in the Championship, Juventus didn't rate him and nobody in the PL wanted to buy him in summer. Selling him allowed us to buy Ramsdale and we've got Fernandes in his position, who is a far better player.

Let's not get too excited because a rebound fell to his feet eight yards out against Palace.

Juventus didnt rate the 50m euros cost to make him perm and their director has been tracking him for a few years.

"But according to Calciomercato, Juventus would like to maintain Alcaraz on a permanent basis.

As the source explains, the Bianconeri never intended to activate their buy option within the current terms, but they were willing to instill a high redemption fee to push the deal through as they were desperate to add a new midfielder to the fold.

Therefore, Juve will have to renegotiate new terms with Southampton in the summer in order to keep the young Argentina at Continassa.

The report also details how Juventus Football Director Cristiano Giuntoli had already tried to sign Alcaraz in 2022 while serving as the sporting director of Napoli.

That operation was blocked by club president Aurelio De Laurentiis who wasn’t willing to meet the player’s price."

 

[Lighthouse]

4 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Juventus didnt rate the 50m euros cost to make him perm and their director has been tracking him for a few years.

"But according to Calciomercato, Juventus would like to maintain Alcaraz on a permanent basis.

As the source explains, the Bianconeri never intended to activate their buy option within the current terms, but they were willing to instill a high redemption fee to push the deal through as they were desperate to add a new midfielder to the fold.

Therefore, Juve will have to renegotiate new terms with Southampton in the summer in order to keep the young Argentina at Continassa.

The report also details how Juventus Football Director Cristiano Giuntoli had already tried to sign Alcaraz in 2022 while serving as the sporting director of Napoli.

That operation was blocked by club president Aurelio De Laurentiis who wasn’t willing to meet the player’s price."

 

They could have bought him for much less than €50m. They chose not to.