Bill 1,788 Posted March 28, 2019 "Reading boss José Gomes revealed the Royals have an option to buy Norwich City striker Nelson Oliveira in the summer." https://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/canaries-nelson-oliveira-reading-fee-agreed-1-5964751 and while we are at it, there's talk of City after a Liverpool and an Orient defender - see in link above Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GenerationA47 747 Posted March 28, 2019 Would be win, win, win... for clubs and player. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KeiranShikari 1,409 Posted March 28, 2019 Is the Nelson thing new news? Thought they had that agreed when he went. Presumed he's gone if they stay up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
East Rider 548 Posted March 28, 2019 Good news. That will be another year we will not have to pay for him to sit in the reserves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
splendidrush 699 Posted March 28, 2019 By the sound of it, the lad from Liverpool needs games, other players are getting ahead of him because he's never going to get regular first Team football at Anfield. Could get a bargain, reminds me of Bruce and Watson back in the day. Two players from the lower reaches or reserve football, given a chance, one went to the World Cup, the other captained Manchester United. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill 1,788 Posted March 28, 2019 Whether these two sign or not in does confirm the direction the club is going ie developing young players rather than buying 'off the shelf' proven players. We have certainly had a fair degree of success with developing non UK players who may not have been heading in the right direction. However the home grown rules will dictate that we cannot continue too much with that latter option, given that it does often seem that one or two on the bench are perhaps only there to ensure we have enough home grown players for each game. Though having seen three of our own youth players step up exceptionally well to the Championship, it is debatable at this stage if we have any in the 'pipeline' who could step up to the PL next season. So any future 'stars' will be looking to play in the Championship at some point when out on loan. So I expect we will have a kind of stepping stone that sees players loaned to Yeovil looking to be able to progress through the leagues with the PL requiring a higher standard of development. But when we can find players like McLean for the relative peanuts we supposedly paid then we won't be solely dependent upon the young 'uns. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
