CONFIRMED Benie Traore leaves on Loan

[loyalblade95]

Good luck to the lad

 

[DronnieBlade]

GLTTL.

Don’t understand the animosity.

Nantes option is for us to recoup almost all what we laid out.

What a fucking novelty that would be given the millions spunked in recent years !!

UTB

 

[BigBed]

GLTTL.

Don’t understand the animosity.

Nantes option is for us to recoup almost all what we laid out.

What a fucking novelty that would be given the millions spunked in recent years !!

UTB

We recoup all after the loan fee is paid

Good luck to him though, just not the type of player that suit United, bit to small and definitely not up to speed with the English game, hope he does better in onion country.

 

[FMBlade1]

GLTTL.

Don’t understand the animosity.

Nantes option is for us to recoup almost all what we laid out.

What a fucking novelty that would be given the millions spunked in recent years !!

UTB

That's what I don't understand.

What if he scores 15 goals there and is a huge hit? We just get back what we paid for? Hope there is a sell-on clause.

 

[SUFCinks]

Wasnt a fan of the signing but nothing against the lad. Wish him good luck and hope he does well.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Wish him well
Not really given a chance in a side that was not fit for purpose and had at most 20% possession very difficult to make an impact in that situation. Think he may have done well in the Championship but we will never know

 

[Russ]

GLTTL.

Don’t understand the animosity.

Nantes option is for us to recoup almost all what we laid out.

What a fucking novelty that would be given the millions spunked in recent years !!

UTB

Let’s face it they aren’t going to buy him are they.

I can’t even see the Nantesy boys liking him.

 

[mancunianblade]

Wasnt a fan of the signing but nothing against the lad. Wish him good luck and hope he does well.

What weren't you a fan of?

 

[AWetFlannel]

GLTTL, bizarre that we are seemingly binning him off after only six months. What have we seen in a few months that has convinced us to cut our losses already?

 

[FinBlade]

GLTTL, I wish he does well

 

[MagnifiqueShorehamStreet]

GLTTL, bizarre that we are seemingly binning him off after only six months. What have we seen in a few months that has convinced us to cut our losses already?

Have you not been to the matches he’s played in?

 

[northsomersetblade]

Makes you think, we have signed some crap players in the last few years

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

Makes you think, we have signed some crap players in the last few years

All that money wasted on some absolute bobbar. Utter clown show.

 

[SUFCinks]

What weren't you a fan of?

He didn’t look good enough from his ‘highlights’ reel in a league that’s pretty poor and barely registers in the top 30 in Europe. Not technical or fast enough to overcome his lack of physicality.

The reported fee of 4m i feel was too much of an outlay for him. A lot of that will be performance based add-ons but even still i just thought he looked average.

He will have a reasonable career but I honestly feel league 1 or equivalent is most likely his level.

Be interesting to see how he does at Nantes. Good luck to him.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Reyt nice young man hope everthing works out for him in France.

 

[Harrisblade]

When you’ve got Jebbison, Osula, Oné and Marsh, I’d like to know who concluded “what we need is another one like them, apart from much smaller!”

No. We could probably get some smaller, but ideally we want some much, much better.

 

[brownblade]

seems it's done as they are planning in him playing Friday against Pau in the cup, GLTTL

I forgot he was Nantes manager. My greatest Champ Manager 97/98 game was with Nantes and Gourvennec was a star (local) player. Pointless and uninteresting. But I've said it.

GLTTL (and Benie too).

 

[northsomersetblade]

I think there will be a career for him as a garden gnome, if football doesn’t work out.

 

[8lade]

I haven't seen the details of this so if his form continues for Nantes he'll still be ours (Ie the decision to sign is theirs) I suspect

 

[Greenwich Blade]

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[Booker4]

He looked good in Sweden on the highlights but what concerned me was that he was doing well on the counter with space because in the PL whether it's Luton or man city all teams are so well organised shape wise and there's not much space. Traore just lacked to have the required close control here in his matches where he started. He was one on one a few times with his opposite defender but over hit the ball or gave it away.

On the other hand it was a cheap signing at £4m, that's not much money these days and you can't even get a decent championship player for that these days. He was bought as a development player, quite possibly by the recruitment model rather than by Hecky given Hecky hardly played him too. But because he's young and didn't cost much we should be able to recoup the money for him unless he's dire at Nantes.

 

[mattbianco1]

Why’s everyone saying this was the worst signing ever?

We signed a young prospect, for what would’ve been an unbelievable price if he’d have worked out.
We got him here, we worked with him, we realised it was a gamble that didn’t pay off and seem to have recouped what we paid

 

[wavy-blade]

Go smash it Benie , lovely lad , just not ready for prem , was always struggling because of his stature , who ever signed the lad really could do with some retraining .

 

[Bladey_blade]

I forgot he was Nantes manager. My greatest Champ Manager 97/98 game was with Nantes and Gourvennec was a star (local) player. Pointless and uninteresting. But I've said it.

GLTTL (and Benie too).

Also playing now as Nantes and can tell you Benie wouldn't get a game for me

 

[Harry's Game]

Good Luck to The Lad..

He may one day get the ring all the way to Mordor.

 

[FleaPitBlade]

It was an atrocious bit of business, not necessarily because Benie isn't up to it, but because, with the budget we had, we should have invested the £2-4m (whatever the figures were) in a smaller fee/higher wage Kiefer Moore 'type'.

The sort of striker that may not have shook the world for us, but would have at least been provenly able to compete physically and mentally and follow tactical instruction.

Maybe if we'd done that then then we wouldn't have had to rely on starting the season with a strike force with a combined collection of 3.62 senior goals and then, when McBurnie and Archer came back/in not then have been chucking the same kids off the bench at 70mins to try and drag us out of the mire on at least half a dozen occasions this season.

We'd almost certainly still have been in/around the bottom 3 but maybe the gun wouldn't have been loaded and the barrel not quite so pressed against our noses.

We were never in a position to make the gamble we did with our attacking spend and no amount of loss cutting, book balancing or fee recouping will claw back any of the points we may have got if we'd signed someone remotely capable instead.

 

[BobblesBlade]

Just the other foreigners to go and Wilder achieves his statement of we can do this with British only players.

Long live cloggers with 1% technical ability and tiny amount of composure.

#bladeslife.

 

[The Hobott]

Glttl

 

[CPB]

Not Benie fault really. He was targeted by us and lured in by us playing in the PL. Not to mention he thought he was going to be playing with the likes of N'Diaye.

It's not quite worked out, but then again after signing archer, McAtee and McBurnie being back fit he was going to have more limited minutes.

Good luck to him seemed like a nice lad.
Least we are pretty much recouping what we've paid.

 

[JPSharpy93]

He looked like he thought he won the lottery in his “Signing Day” video!

Seems a nice kid, wish him all the best. A shame we’ve not done our due diligence before splashing out.