- Jan 28, 2011
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BEN on barkley again:
The one poch wants
I get why we are in for him - last year of contract, English, potential - but I can't understand why Poch likes him that much. He seems much more like a Levy signing to me. Meaning that he offers a potentially large upside on resale value while not risking a lot.
Ben's ITK makes sense. Poch is smart and learns from mistakes - he's spoken before about buying players used to the Prem league rather than from abroad. His greatest successes as signings have arguably been Toby, Wanyama, Davies and Trippier (although not all met with absolute enthusiasm from fans). Barkley fits this criteria.
Poch may have decided after the experience with Fazio, Stambouli, N'Jie and N'Koudou that buying from abroad is more of a risk.
Seems reasonable.
Levy likes that he's both young and on his last year.
Poch likes that he's got Premier League experience.
And BEN likes the fact that he has 'Bark' in his name, which would make him his third favourite player after Toby Alder-weireld and Moussa Siss-oak-o.
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