Zambo Anguissa permanent transfer

[MikeTheCubed]

Anguissa has many of the attributes necessary to be a brilliant ball-winning midfielder, however the key component that he lacks for this is mentality. What he does have the mentality of is more of a box-to-box midfielder, for which he does have the required ball control skills & engine, but lacks ability in passing & shooting. £15 million is unlikely enough to buy a "complete" central midfielder of Premier League quality, but should be enough to buy a player who can more effectively play a specific role.

[St. Andrews White]

It's € not £ of course, so the fee isn't even £15m.

That sort of money is already a bargain as far as I'm concerned. If they want him, they can pay what was agreed. If not, I think he'd be really valuable to the team - very much the box to box role Reed took up at one point earlier in the season.

Alternatively another team will pay more than €15m - so no discounts please TK and AM

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[toshes mate]

It seems only Anguissa's Agent and Anguissa'a family talks to Anguissa about career decisions, both of whom don't share their advice.

For all we know Anguissa is probably happy to play for Fulham in the second tier, but he has an agent that advises him on career decisions and after listening to the agent's advice, we know Anguissa would prefer to play for Napoli in Serie A than Fulham in the Second Tier.

Anguissa seems like the kind of person that listens to his advisors, whether it is his agent or coach, that isn't a bad thing and doesn't make him disloyal besides we weren't the academy that taught him football.

Mmm, all very well TRF, but Anguissa signed the contract with FFC and not his agent or family.  He is either committed or not and half way isn't good enough for any of us. 

[LC]

Based on what I saw of him last season when we were in the PL, he's worth £25m.

One point worth thinking about is how much cash have we received in loan fees

[copthornemike]

Our experience would suggest he is capable of holding his own in the Italian league but very questionable attitude and mentality in a team which will inevitably struggle at times next season in the Premiership.
Our management team will have greater problems to plan and prioritise for next season over one player's ego.
If Napoli quibble about the price sell to someone else, preferably another Italian team, who will.
Simples!!!!

[HamsterWheel]

Transfermarkt (who usually undervalue players) have him at an all time high of £27m.
I like the lad and hope a year with our current manager will get the best out of him.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/andre-zambo-anguissa/profil/spieler/354361

[perry geyton]

At this point he's just bad karma

Mister sideways can do one as far as I'm concerned

Onwards & Upwards

[rebel]

The best matches he's played for us has been against Man City in the league and cup.

[filham]

Worth thinking about what we would have to pay for a midfielder of similar quality.

[The Rational Fan]

Worth thinking about what we would have to pay for a midfielder of similar quality.

In 2018/19, we demanded relegation clauses in all the contracts which a) limited the pool of players willing to join us and b) saved us from having a massive sell off and ultimately gave us two promotions. I really doubt we can buy a player as good as Anguissa for £15m with a relegation clause of £40,000 per week. Let's not forget, we had to pay £23m for Anguissa because an offer of £21m was rejected.

[mrmicawbers]

Providing he's willing to go i'm assuming we can't stop the transfer?

[blingo]

He's a player who didn't want to play for us in the Championship, for ONE season. Yes he's a box to box player, but with very very few assists and even less goals. TBH I'm not sure he suits Silva's style of play.

I'm sorry but in my view, the second a player says "i'm not playing" for whatever reason, is the second I kick him out of the front door. He has shown us NO loyalty and NO desire to fight for the shirt.

As for the 15m euros, we will collectively lose more on other players that have been here longer and not lived up to the hype. Knock and Cav, Mawson and Kongolo being examples. I know that individually they may not be worth as much, however there has to be at least £50m there plus wages.

I'd sell him for the 15m euros and be gone with him. One player doesn't make a team.

[LC]

He's worth £25m. There's no way we could replace him with €15m. I still think there might be a way back for him at the club- but it should be the managers position.

He looked decent for us in the PL last year.

[Sting of the North]

I have asked before, but can anyone point me to any credible source claiming that Zambo being unwilling to play for us in the Championship? Given how many posters seem convinced that this has actually happened I would assume there is such information readily available...

[love4ffc]

https://theathletic.com/news/anguissa-left-out-of-fulhams-draw-with-middlesbrough-due-to-desire-to-leave/yhUR6ywExKEP/

Silva said he would not keep any player who didn't want to play for Fulham.   

[Skatzoffc]

There's no way Areola or Anderson would play in the championship but I bet most fans would take them back in a heartbeat.

Agreed.
But to compare Areola and Anderson to Zambo is absolute tosh imo

[toshes mate]

"However, it is understood that Silva does not want anyone involved who is not committed to the club's promotion push, and as a result, Anguissa played no part against Middlesbrough."

It is still just words written by a journalist/reporter but no rebuffs from any senior staff at the Club and certainly nothing from the player.  We also do not know what his contract stated when he originally signed, but the evidence suggests as others on this thread have stated that he is not fully committed to the Club.

[PaulJ123]

"However, it is understood that Silva does not want anyone involved who is not committed to the club's promotion push, and as a result, Anguissa played no part against Middlesbrough."

It is still just words written by a journalist/reporter but no rebuffs from any senior staff at the Club and certainly nothing from the player.  We also do not know what his contract stated when he originally signed, but the evidence suggests as others on this thread have stated that he is not fully committed to the Club.

But in all honesty, why would he be? He joined us when we were in the prem and I doubt he grew up wanting to play for Fulham for 10 years.

He wants to play at the highest level and I don't mind that. I think he'd be excellent in the system as the 8 personally and think we should keep him at all costs as we won't replace with better.

[Twig]

He's a player who didn't want to play for us in the Championship, for ONE season. Yes he's a box to box player, but with very very few assists and even less goals. TBH I'm not sure he suits Silva's style of play.

I'm sorry but in my view, the second a player says "i'm not playing" for whatever reason, is the second I kick him out of the front door. He has shown us NO loyalty and NO desire to fight for the shirt.

As for the 15m euros, we will collectively lose more on other players that have been here longer and not lived up to the hype. Knock and Cav, Mawson and Kongolo being examples. I know that individually they may not be worth as much, however there has to be at least £50m there plus wages.

I'd sell him for the 15m euros and be gone with him. One player doesn't make a team.

Agree. There are people arguing that we don't know for certain that he wouldn't play for us in the Champ but that's certainly the message that came through at the time.

As to those who say we couldn't get another player of that quality for 15m, well what have we ever seen him actually deliver for us with all that supposed quality? The sum total of not a lot.  If that's "quality" then I'm not sure I want a similar quality replacement at any price.

[HV71]

100% agree with you Twig . Many on here rate him higher than Reed ( I know he is a different player ) and point to the stats . I prefer my own eyes which see little positive outcome from his efforts ( in a Fulham shirt that is )