Apparently we're interested in bringing winger Luis Palma on loan. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...national-attracting-attention-Man-United.html
The article actually says we're more than just interested, but are already in talks. The artcile sounds remarkably specific: "Watford are in talks to sign Aris Thessaloniki winger Luis Palma on an initial loan. Rangers held initial talks but a deal failed to materialise and Watford have now stepped in. They are looking to pay an initial £850,000 loan fee with the deal becoming permanent for £4.5m next year. Palma has been capped six times by his country." Maybe this one is actually genuine? Isn't Simon Jones at The Mail actually randomly sometimes clued up on news with us?
Would be a potentially exciting signing if we did pull it off. We’ve already had a Mahon, now a Palma, so we’d then just need to sign a player called Eivissa to complete our set of Balearic Island capitals!
He seems to be a winger (predmoninantly right footer playing on the left-wing), or even second striker, who has a decent hit with both feet. He certainly seems the kind of profile of player I'd said recently that I'd ilke to see us bring in given our current wing options are lacking in depth and scoring ability (which was reiterated by Martins in the Arsenal friendly). The main reservation would be that although he's doing well at his current club, it's also the same club that Andre Gray managed to do well at last season! Albeit based on the highlights Palma looks a much more gifted player. Here's a highlights vid, and the second vid shows highlights of a game towards the end of last season where he scores a very good goal at the start, and provides an excellent assist to Andre Gray at 3:40 to make it 3-1:
Heavily linked with Rangers earlier. Can you share a radar @reids? I doubt we are buying him as a striker given that Ismael has pretty much always employed a lamppost up front with runners around him.
I dont think we have the money they are asking for, paper talk. Here's a video of him anyway, you get the music you expect
It would be odd if we're buying him as a striker as in most games he plays very much as a winger, and our system only seems to use one striker. He could also maybe work as a 10, though that's a position we already have decent options in if needed. We're supposedly still after a target man type CF and he is very far from that.
Simon Jones is quite possibly the most reliable journalist when it comes to Watford. Also seems like the deal being discussed involves a small loan fee up front and then a fee down the road (perhaps in the event of promotion but the article didn’t go into that level of detail).
If he can create chances that Andre Gray can score then he must have some talent We’ll easily be able to pay the full balance next summer once we’re debt free™️
Looks good from the videos posted. He gets extra marks for controlling the ball with his happy sacks without flinching.
Don't you folks worry. Gino has this in the Palma of his hand. If the surname was only Palmas we could say Luis Palmas goes to Las Palmas.
That xG/shot... That said, his shooting was seriously impressive. Scored a number of direct free kicks and impressive long range goals. I know the theory these days is that finishing ebbs and flows rather than being a skill and it is rare to actually outperform xG over time which wouldn’t bode well for Palma, but his ball striking is v impressive.
That's not really anything new - it would just echo Leventhal's claim that we want a LB, 6, 8 and CF, with the extra addition of someone like this guy.
Slightly disappointing stats there - maybe he's just a highlights player because he makes so many wild attempts before one of them eventually comes off. Also a bit concerning looking at his chart on the right is that he managed zero instances of dribbling in to the penalty box and getting a shot away.
Depends. That was just copying sometthing from a recent article which lots of people on here had already read.
That's your interpretation of it, and guess what - I'm an Athletic subscriber - I read Leventhal's article at the time it was published, too. It doesn't mean that your interpretation of it is automatically correct, though. You have absolutely no idea whether or not Simon Jones was 'just copying something from a recent article', and not necessarily a great deal of reason to suspect it, either, given no nod to said article was made by Jones in the apparent repetition of it whatsoever.
He wouldn't admit to it, if it were the case. But sure, perhaps he wasn't just copying it but had also heard similar. The timing is a bit suspicious though. Perhaps to have made the presentation of Jones' information more interesting it could have been preceded, or framed, by the idea that it could have actually been corroborating what was already claimed by Levanthal.
