CONFIRMED Reda Khadra

[Tarqs]

Beat me to it Tarqs!

Reznor was a genius, but also a complete mind fuck

 

[Guesty]

Reznor was a genius, but also a complete mind fuck

Rough with the smooth I think, because now he's largely normal and his music has settled to a level of "pretty good".

NIN still smash it up live though.

 

[Tarqs]

Rough with the smooth I think, because now he's largely normal and his music has settled to a level of "pretty good".

NIN still smash it up live though.

For next level, watch happiness in slavery

 

[brownblade]

Khadra hasn’t had one good season, he showed signs of brilliance but was largely frustrating. His stats back this up entirely which is why there isn’t a line or clubs fighting us for his signature. It’s a gamble.
But he’s got tonnes of ability and he’s so young he could be a great player for us. Definitely think more Ndiaye at the start of last season than MGW.
He’s also out of contract next summer, so you can at least halve any figure you were thinking of after those facts which I reckon is £2M absolute tops.

I agree

 

[S40BLADE]

I'm edging so hard RN

 

[Carlton Blade]

I'm edging so hard RN

Foreign
Skillful
Athletic
Flamboyant
Inconsistent
Funny hair
Perfection

 

[Lucky1979]

Are we signing this guy or what? I’m too hot and tired to do the mental gymnastics to do with this transfer anymore

 

[Stevo71]

At last Reda signs

 

[BushBlade]

I don't think it's conclusive, either.

I disagree with the rest of your post, though. I think Bournemouth in the summer of 2018 were in a quite different place than Brighton are in the summer of 2022. Do you think the Brooks of 2017-18 gets in the current Brighton side? I don't.

I think Bournemouth were quite similar to Brighton. In the 2017/8 season they finished 12th and the season before that, 9th, so they were doing quite well. I’m not sure if Brighton would buy the 2017/8 Brooks but I think if they had him on their books, they’d have given him a chance next season.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Khadra's stats last season were almost identical to Brooks's in the season before he got his move to Bournemouth.

That’s interesting, especially given how he seems to be seen by Blackburn fans compared to how excited we got about Brooks. No one has really been in for him, none of the big boys, so maybe we’ve stolen a march on a few. One things for sure is that there are more question marks about this lad than Brooks. Maybe it’s a British bias but let’s hope he comes and has a second season like Brooks had at Bournemouth.

 

[dc_blade]

I think Bournemouth were quite similar to Brighton. In the 2017/8 season they finished 12th and the season before that, 9th, so they were doing quite well. I’m not sure if Brighton would buy the 2017/8 Brooks but I think if they had him on their books, they’d have given him a chance next season.

That’s interesting, especially given how he seems to be seen by Blackburn fans compared to how excited we got about Brooks. No one has really been in for him, none of the big boys, so maybe we’ve stolen a march on a few. One things for sure is that there are more question marks about this lad than Brooks. Maybe it’s a British bias but let’s hope he comes and has a second season like Brooks had at Bournemouth.

Double-teaming you both because I'm lazy and it's the same topic

The most one can say about Khadra at the moment is that he's a promising young player who hasn't yet had his breakthrough season. I think it's too soon to say he's inconsistent and definitely far too soon to say he's guaranteed to tear it up. He could come in and have a season like MGW did for us last year or Brooks did for Bournemouth the year after he left, or he could fail to progress. I don't think he's in a massively different place than Brooks or MGW were before they had their breakthroughs, though.

I'm excited that he seems likely to sign.

 

[derfblade.3]

Now thats close.

 

[Blade56]

Call me Mr Sceptical but I recon His agent will be making every PL club aware he’s about to go and are now waiting to see if we can be used as leverage. If not we are second choice, can’t blame him.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

That’s interesting, especially given how he seems to be seen by Blackburn fans compared to how excited we got about Brooks. No one has really been in for him, none of the big boys, so maybe we’ve stolen a march on a few. One things for sure is that there are more question marks about this lad than Brooks. Maybe it’s a British bias but let’s hope he comes and has a second season like Brooks had at Bournemouth.

Blackburn fans are pretty indifferent to it all and Brighton don't seem to think he can make the grade there so perhaps we are all over-rating him.
Their biggest criticisms are that he drifts out of games and doesn't understand what to do and / or doesn't work on hard enough when out of possession.

However, he showed a lot in the two games against us. Enough to think that, if the numbers make sense, it's a gamble worth taking on a 21 year old that's played so little first team football.

 

[ThatJa]

Blackburn fans are pretty indifferent to it all and Brighton don't seem to think he can make the grade there so perhaps we are all over-rating him.
Their biggest criticisms are that he drifts out of games and doesn't understand what to do and / or doesn't work on hard enough when out of possession.

However, he showed a lot in the two games against us. Enough to think that, if the numbers make sense, it's a gamble worth taking on a 21 year old that's played so little first team football.

Blackburn don't have the money. I think most Blackburn fans would love him back, they're in a similar situation with him as we are with MGW. We'd all have him back, we just don't have the financials.

 

[SufcBilly]

Call me Mr Sceptical but I recon His agent will be making every PL club aware he’s about to go and are now waiting to see if we can be used as leverage. If not we are second choice, can’t blame him.

Nobody in premier league is gonna be interested in him I don’t think personally

 

[Carlton Blade]

Nobody in premier league is gonna be interested in him I don’t think personally

Like I said yesterday. No way are there 80 better wide players in the country than Khadra. He’s got rare ability

 

[SufcBilly]

Like I said yesterday. No way are there 80 better wide players in the country than Khadra. He’s got rare ability

Well stop fucking saying it then, never know who’s watching

 

[S15Blade]

He seems a good player and I hope we bring him in but I do feel he's being overhyped here a bit too.

Certainly doesn't come in as an immediate starter I wouldn't have thought

 

[Carlton Blade]

Well stop fucking saying it then, never know who’s watching

I’ve stopped. Soz ard

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Blackburn don't have the money. I think most Blackburn fans would love him back, they're in a similar situation with him as we are with MGW. We'd all have him back, we just don't have the financials.

He's got nothing like the universal adulation that MGW has here. I've seen very few that have said they'd "love" him back etc.
On balance their comments seem just about favourable.

I don't think he comes in and starts over Ndiaye and Berge initially, but would be a great game changing option off the bench if we're chasing something.

 

[TomTheBlade1889]

He's the type of player to get you out your seat in awe with a piece of skill and then start effing and blinding moments later cause he's missed a sitter from 5 yards out

 

[SE1Blade]

He's the type of player to get you out your seat in awe with a piece of skill and then start effing and blinding moments later cause he's missed a sitter from 5 yards out

Didsy replacement then

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Didsy replacement then

McGoldrick was a supremely intelligent and hard working footballer who had no problem chasing back for the team, or receiving the ball well into his own half to progress us up the field.

 

['Doc' Pace my hero]

It is very dangerous to pursue a player with such vigour and intensity just because your own team couldn’t handle his trickery,is it possible that he was very effective because we defended poorly.He wouldn’t be the first player bought because he played well against us,but never really lived up to expectations……i hope he isn’t the new Paul Devlin !!

 

[Wards]

i hope he isn’t the new Paul Devlin

Can't agree there, other than acting the pillock to get a move away I though Devlin was a good player for us.

 

[Guesty]

Can't agree there, other than acting the pillock to get a move away I though Devlin was a good player for us.

Aye, he was terrific until those last couple of months. On his day he was unplayable, like in that crazy 4-4 draw against, of all teams, Birmingham.

 

[William Large]

It is very dangerous to pursue a player with such vigour and intensity just because your own team couldn’t handle his trickery,is it possible that he was very effective because we defended poorly.He wouldn’t be the first player bought because he played well against us,but never really lived up to expectations……i hope he isn’t the new Paul Devlin !!

Are we pursuing him with vigour and intensity though really? I haven’t seen anything - other than the usual nonsense spouted on here to suggest that.

 

[JohnDenver]

 

['Doc' Pace my hero]

We were desperately poor at Blackburn,i think i could have run us ragged and i’m 71 with bloody arthritis.I think our expectations are unrealistic.