22 Jun 2016 17:55:12
Im personally getting bored of hearing that we are linked with a different player every day only to find that half the time it ends up being complete rubbish i'm pretty happy with what we have and already have coming in i don't see we don't keep markovic rather than buy mane n just carry on as we are signing 10 new players 4 silly money if wer going to spend big do it on 1 player who has quality an helps us move 4ward.

1.) 22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 18:15:52
Markovic is 22 years old and couldn't get a goal in Turkey.

He is not good enough for the Premier League. People need to let go of That one and admit that yet again Ed002 was correct. He should've stayed in Portugal for a few more years, and he wasn't worth a third of what we paid. Hence why Chelsea walked away!

We got stung. I'd rather give Kent and Ojo more chances than bring Lazar back to run into people again.

2.) 22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 18:55:21
Markovic played 14 games in the league
And a total of 830 minutes
10 starts and 4 sub appearances
And average of just under 60 minutes a game inbetween injuries.

3.) 22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 19:53:00
Ahhh so what your saying is he has now added being injury prone to his already glittering CV. I'm sold!

C'mon mate. Ojo had a similar amount of game time in half a season on loan at Wolves and got 3 goals a 4 assists despite being three years younger, playing in a worse team, and playing in a far more competitive league.

Markovic just isn't good enough. He isn't a bad player, but he is not a ready for Premier League football. Spending half a season on crutches will not have changed that.

4.) 22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 20:32:13
I agree I too would rather see ojo get game time but I just thought it was right that the goalless season was put into a bit of context for anyone reading through as it would be quite easy for anyone to think he played 30 or so games consistently which would really put Marko in a bad light for any fan reading especially as you tend to be quite fair and talk more sense than most on here. if markovic stays and gets another chance it wouldn't bother me but he would certainly be competing with ojo therefore if he does it wouldn't be fair if fans on the site were on his back immediately thinking he had a, much worse season in Turkey than he did.

5.) 22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 21:12:51
That's fair enough Starling. Just for the record I think Markovic is a talented young lad, but after a season wasted being played at right back by Brenda, and a season wasted in Turkey on an treatment table, I just don't see him being a step up from the player we signed 24 months ago, who wasn't good enough then either.

He needs a good couple of seasons playing regularly. We can't offer him that.