Quote Originally Posted by Ragatino View Post
Tbh, I'd keep Mt powder dry fur a few weeks until we can get the Paqueta deal done.

Hes stats embarrass Maddison, he's 1 yrs younger, hasa telepathic relationship with Bruno and doesn't have a history of hip injuries.

£50m for Maddison or Paqueta is not even a conversation.

One is a top EPL Midfielder with aspirations to make the national team the other is one of the first names on the Brazil national team sheet

Cornet smacks of desperation. If its 17m release clause why haven't we done thay deal yet?

Tells me he's a 'last chance saloon signing / Chris Wood-esque.

We have better targets still in play or Cornet would already have been signed.

Nothing against the lad just not the sort of player that top top players are gonna look at NUFC and think WOW I would like to play with him.

Bruno, Botman, Pope, Tripz are all in that top international bracket and other top players will be happy to work along side them

Cornet doesn't inspire that kind of attraction for an Osimhen etc.

Sadly tonight the club are in progress to trigger his release clause and want to see if the player wants to come to NUFC.

I'm not inspired by Cornet at all.
Just done a deeper dive into Maddisons stats and reconsidering my comments.

Last time his hip flaired up was last September. So I'm less concerned about his injury issues.

Also, looking at his heat map on certain sites, he seems to play in ams around what we used to all an old school 'inside right forward'. For Leicester he has played out on the right on multiple occasions & his game ratings are 7.0 or better. 20+ goal contributions last season.

With his inclusions, the ability to swap with Miggy on the right side as miggy presses more centrally and the potential intricate link up play with Bruno & Almiron as they rotate through positions in the transition to the final 3rd it could be very interesting.

I'm hearing Leicester still owe £8mil on the Perez deal. More over, Schmeichel looking like he's heading to France there is interest from Leicester in Dubravka. Both of these factors would mean Maddison would actually cost considerably less than the £50m touted.

Much as I'd like to keep hold of Dubz, he's been a great servant and I still think he has a lot of offer the club if he's unhappy to fight it out in a world cup year or potentially be on the bench behind Pope I'd not hold it against him if he wanted to go.

Food for thought.

Also I don't think this is the end of our interest in Paqueta as Maddison could take the right wing birth with Lucy's making up the central 3 with J7 and Bruno.

Let's see what shakes out through August ahead of the September 1st transfer window deadline day.