Nonsense. I too have viewed performances of Thiago recently and have seen nothing about him to suggest he is worth anywhere this kind of fee - a large percentage of fans on the Brugge forum would appear to agree. We should also bear in mind that Giles & co's record on recruitment, with the exception of Mee & Schade, has not been impressive since promotion by any measure - let's just hope they have bucked the trend this time round. Oh, and by the way, Brentford fan here of 55 years and counting - loyal to the core, at the game tomorrow, and couldn't care less if deemed a miserable ****.
I don't know what forum you have been reading, but our fans all love him mate. When he arrived he looked clumsy, couldn't control a ball, didn't read the game very well,...so fans like you immediately wrote him off. He improved in all aspects of the game (minus the finishing). Now, the fans gained some football intelligence and see his incredible value for the team. Yes, I also think you overpaid by a couple million, but we all know that has to do with the way the Nusa-situation was handled. Our ceo recently said that they had to hear the news through Nusa's manager and they were royally pissed off by that, not in the least because of the medical issue leaks that will cost us millions.
That being said, you are still getting a young player with great data and you paid for the potential. If you viewed his performances like you said, and you can't see what I see, I don't know what to tell you.
'Yeah, but he comes from a Mickey Mouse league!' 'nO pLaYer from that LeAgUe iS wOrTh 30 million!!!'
It's about time we start to ask decent money for the players in our league.
When I have the time, I will make a list with players in the PL who played in Belgium recently. You just don't know about them but PL is full of players who played here in the past couple years, must be at least 40+.
And I am not talking about guys like KDB or Courtois, who you could see were special. I am talking about guys like Mitoma, Endo, Bailey, Trossard, Doku... You think they made 50 goals in our farmers league? Think again. Decent players but nothing more.
Look at the top scorers in Bundesliga alone. Three guys in the top 5-10 played in our league a year or two ago (Openda, Undav, Boniface). Unbeaten Leverkusen alone has 4 or 5. But no, all our players are sh*t and there is no talent! Big Igor isn't even in the top ten when it come to raw talent here.
You act like you are playing the Champions League final mate. I watched most of your games since the transfer and I think Igor can certainly handle that level given the time to adjust, simple as that. You can never know how a player will develop. I thought Wesley could make it in the PL until Mee broke his leg, but Igor is physically a lot stronger.
And all the articles posted in this thread are mostly from clickbait sites, and come from old Anderlecht players (like little Thomas Radzinsky). They got green with envy the past ten years because we surpassed them on all levels and keep selling players for 20 million +, while they won no titles, and nearly went bankrupt.
