Was talking more about the wages, wouldn’t have been against us offering Lerma a signing in fee of that level to stay on 60k per week. 100k per week for a player of his quality is crazy.Yes, because although high signing on fee. Has to be factored in how much to replace him... so its ok saying crazy SOF, but then means having to walk into market and spend likely way more to find adeqaute replacement.
Overall I agree, Adams, is a better player. According to FM24, very similar attribute wise, but Adams, has better technical attributes/intelleignece... even has better aggresssion!
Lerma is decent, but somewhat limited, as in, lacks in posession, when it comes to top tier DMC's.
We have the better player on our books now, I'd choose Adams every day.
I don’t think he’s a great DM at the top level, he has great physical attributes but his mental attributes such as his concentration, positional awareness and positional discipline were always lacking. Fans love it when a player charges around like a man possessed to chase the ball but the reality is that that isn’t how top tier defensive midfielders operate. They intelligently and diligently cover spaces and know when to hold their position and when not to etc. it’s no coincidence that a Palace side who have historically been very defensively stubborn are now having their worst season defensively for years with Jeff as one of their midfield screens.
He’s one of these rare players that fans love but scouts and bigger clubs would not be interested in, hence why he ended up at another mid tier PL club despite the fact he was available on a free and in his prime. Any scout watching him will have noticed the many deficiencies in his game from a defensive view point. Lewis Cook is a better defensive midfielder but he will never receive the same adulation from fans because he doesn’t charge around like a mad man or bang in the odd screamer, the more tactically astute fans appreciate him though ;-)