Obinna Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 hours ago, Alex said: Why is Colombian keeper Camilo Vargas an option?? If he plays in concacaf he's under consideration. Gil from New England revolution is Spanish and was nominated. Giovinco has been recognized in these awards in the past. Free kick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCrTFC Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Is he injured or is there a clause where he can't play against Paços? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiedPilko Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, CCrTFC said: Is he injured or is there a clause where he can't play against Paços? yep Metro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imoffside Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Back on the bench for today's game vs Lyon king1010 and narduch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowlander Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 It really is difficult to understand why Porto brought him in. If he cannot get off the bench against Tondela … ugh. johnyb, NVsoccer and king1010 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamptern Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 If he is not subbed on with a 4:0 lead, they might only want to use him to kill garbage time when they are down 0:4. king1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king1010 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Better it was a loan with option to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1ckbr0wn Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Europe hasn’t been kind to our boys since the new year Addona, Ruffian, Obinna and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floortom Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 46 minutes ago, lowlander said: It really is difficult to understand why Porto brought him in. If he cannot get off the bench against Tondela … ugh. Why? It wasn’t a big investment at all for Porto. More than worth it to have him as depth as Porto is trying to win the league and move forward in Europa league. none of this is really a surprise to me and I said it before the transfer - look at the mids ahead of him. Porto only really play with two of them at a time. Obviously its going to a big hill to climb johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 39 minutes ago, lamptern said: If he is not subbed on with a 4:0 lead, they might only want to use him to kill garbage time when they are down 0:4. Grujic also remained on the bench. Maybe the manager just never saw the need to switch up the center midfield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 24 minutes ago, N1ckbr0wn said: Europe hasn’t been kind to our boys since the new year Except for Tajon, and Derek. But to me this was expected. It’s that much harder to break into teams mid season, and who are chasing something. I think they’ll weather storm, their clubs will make summer changes and they will be properly integrated into the squad. It’s great moves, bad timing. The Real Marc, N1ckbr0wn, johnyb and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowlander Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 18 minutes ago, Floortom said: Why? It wasn’t a big investment at all for Porto. More than worth it to have him as depth as Porto is trying to win the league and move forward in Europa league. none of this is really a surprise to me and I said it before the transfer - look at the mids ahead of him. Porto only really play with two of them at a time. Obviously its going to a big hill to climb So what was the point of the loan, for both Eustaquio and Porto? I appreciate he needs to earn time but where there is no time to be earned it is not a good move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowlander Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 9 minutes ago, Shway said: It’s great moves, bad timing. I hope this proves to be correct but I am not feeling optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) Along with Eustaquio, the Defensive Midfielders on FC Porto are: Mateus Uribe - Colombia- a 30 year old who played in and started (from what i can tell) every single game for Colombia in this cycle of World cup qualifying. Colombia is seventh on Conmebol but well in position to grab one of the five qualifying spots for Qatar given that their final two games are against Bolivia and Venezuela. Colombia are no strangers in international soccer and producing international quality talent. Marko Grujic - Serbia - Serbia automatically qualified for Qatar while in a group with Portugal. Grujic played most of their WCQ games from what i can tell. If not all. He was on the squad for Serbia at the 2018 WC. Previously loaned out to Liverpool. Compared to Laryea's case at 2nd division Nott Forest, I can understand much better why it would be hard for Eustaquio to find minutes to play on this squad. Whereas, Laryea is totally other story. Laryea's coach wont start him nor even put him on the bench and players in front of him are bunch of nobody's. Edited March 13, 2022 by Free kick Obinna, The Real Marc, Ruffian and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SthMelbRed Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Free kick said: Along with Eustaquio, the Defensive Midfielders on FC Porto are: Mateus Uribe - Colombia- a 30 year old who played in and started (from what i can tell) every single game for Colombia in this cycle of World cup qualifying. Colombia is seventh on Conmebol but well in position to grab one of the five qualifying spots for Qatar given that their final two games are against Bolivia and Venezuela. Colombia are no strangers in international soccer and producing international quality talent. Marko Grujic - Serbia - Serbia automatically qualified for Qatar while in a group with Portugal. Grujic played most of their WCQ games from what i can tell. If not all. He was on the squad for Serbia at the 2018 WC. Previously loaned out to Liverpool. Compared to Laryea's case at 2nd division Nott Forest, I can understand much better why it would be hard for Eustaquio to find minutes to play on this squad. Whereas, Laryea is totally other story. Laryea's coach wont start him nor even put him on the bench and players in front of him are bunch of nobody's. I watched Grujic a lot during the 4-5 years that he was on the books at Liverpool. Grujic is a physical specimen, but Staq is a better, smarter player, overall. I think Staq will overtake Grujic at some point in the coming weeks/months. Free kick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corazon Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 (edited) I noticed that TransferMarkt updated their Liga Nos valuations last week so I went to take a look to see if anything had changed for Eustaquio. He has remained at a valuation of $5 Million. For comparison - Uribe is valued at $16 Million, Grujic is valued at $12 Million & Vitinha at $24 Million. It's TransferMarkt so take it with a grian of salt. Some of those seem overvalued and I think we can all agree that Eustaquio should be higher than $5 million but just shows how deep that Central Midfield is. Edited March 14, 2022 by Corazon johnyb, Obinna and Free kick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 6 hours ago, Corazon said: I noticed that TransferMarkt updated their Liga Nos valuations last week so I went to take a look to see if anything had changed for Eustaquio. He has remained at a valuation of $5 Million. For comparison - Uribe is valued at $16 Million, Grujic is valued at $12 Million & Vitinha at $24 Million. It's TransferMarkt so take it with a grian of salt. Some of those seem overvalued and I think we can all agree that Eustaquio should be higher than $5 million but just shows how deep that Central Midfield is. Good post. Thanks for sharing those other values. Yes it's transfermarkt and we may disagree with it, but the fact remains he's there on loan as the 4th midfield option. We have to accept that. Furthermore, he's a defensive midfielder and Porto play in a 2 man set up. Vitinha is a 10 and Uribe is an 8. Gurjic and Eustaquio are 6s, right? Porto play in a league where they dominate the ball (I assume). Eustaquio is good enough for Porto, that's a given. However, he's going to have to be patient and then he's going to have to take his chance when it eventually comes. johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corazon Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 6 minutes ago, Obinna said: Good post. Thanks for sharing those other values. Yes it's transfermarkt and we may disagree with it, but the fact remains he's there on loan as the 4th midfield option. We have to accept that. Furthermore, he's a defensive midfielder and Porto play in a 2 man set up. Vitinha is a 10 and Uribe is an 8. Gurjic and Eustaquio are 6s, right? Porto play in a league where they dominate the ball (I assume). Eustaquio is good enough for Porto, that's a given. However, he's going to have to be patient and then he's going to have to take his chance when it eventually comes. I suspect Vitinha will be one of the players sold this summer. I remember hearing Wolves were interested in bringing him back to the club. I've also seen that Man U, Atletico & Leicester are all monitoring him as well. Edit: Just came across the UK Sun article below: Man Utd one of six clubs to send scouts to watch Porto win and see 'monstrous exhibition' from 'genius' midfielder (thesun.co.uk) The 6 clubs that watched his Man of the Match performance last week vs Pacos included Man U, Leicester, Atletico, Valladolid, Tenerife, Brugge & Freiburg. Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonDias Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 On 1/18/2022 at 12:03 PM, JasonDias said: Porto's interest in Eustaquio will likely be based on money. If they project his stock will continue to rise and they can buy him low now, then they will make him a focal point in next year's team. Likely flipping him in the January window of 2023 if he has a stellar WC. As I mentioned earlier in January, I honestly believe he was brought in at a low cost to Porto with the intent to flip him next January. He isn't going to start this season. Never was Porto's intention. Let's make another prediction, come summer, he switches agents as all the international players do at the 3 big clubs in Portugal, receives an automatic new (albeit inflated) valuation through a buyout clause, replaces either Grujic or Uribe on the S11 as one (if not both) will be sold, has a stellar 1st half and WC and then sold to a desperate Roma/Sevilla team trying to maintain a Champs/Europa spot in January 2023. Just a thought. costarg, Xavier., johnyb and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costarg Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 10 hours ago, JasonDias said: As I mentioned earlier in January, I honestly believe he was brought in at a low cost to Porto with the intent to flip him next January. He isn't going to start this season. Never was Porto's intention. Let's make another prediction, come summer, he switches agents as all the international players do at the 3 big clubs in Portugal, receives an automatic new (albeit inflated) valuation through a buyout clause, replaces either Grujic or Uribe on the S11 as one (if not both) will be sold, has a stellar 1st half and WC and then sold to a desperate Roma/Sevilla team trying to maintain a Champs/Europa spot in January 2023. Just a thought. Love it, pretty accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Starting in Europa League v Lyon Floortom, NVsoccer, sebdeserio and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, narduch said: Starting in Europa League v Lyon Awesome. costarg and johnyb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scullion44 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Nice, will be watching that game for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Should add its on DAZN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imoffside Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 hat trick incoming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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