RANKING The BEST And WORST January Transfers So Far! | The Lowdown

[@skysportspremierleague]

Which is the BEST and WORST transfer completed so far this January?

[@danger4809]

Omar Marmoush

[@amine15777]

Best marmouch to city & kvara to psg / worst garnasho to chelsea

[@lfc8149]

Omar Marmoush to Man City. Kvara a close second

[@abiram6269]

Massively inflated fee ? For the form he has been in the last 12 months. What did they expect Frankfurt to demand especially in January ?

[@dasurmel1424]

He had 1 mediocre to good season and an insane first half of 2024/25. He is 25 and relies a lot on counter attacks and speed (Passing is decent tbh). Yeah i think the price is too high for his qualities but City has to pay a Premium in the Winter Transfer Market. Dont see the fit and all strikers that left frankfurt flopped massivly.

[@karl7736]

Yes and the fee has to include the potential for Frankfurt to lose their Champions League spot based upon losing his production.

[@anubis8586]

@@dasurmel1424price is too high is a ridiculous thing to say considering the amounts played for much much much worse players. You have no idea how form or business works if that’s what you think and have never watched Marmoush if you think he’s gonna flop.

[@CB-ms2cq]

£59mil for Marmoush in January. For a guy with one of the best g/a records in football this season. It’s a bargain for that price especially because it’s done in January and every team in the world wanted him.

[@LeominsterFC]

@@dasurmel1424Hojlund 75m in the summer with like 15 career goals scored. Yeah this is MASSIVELY inflated.

[@fredschneideratemybaby8001]

Nice work Robbie, shocking as always

[@khoyrulislam]

😂😂

[@dazred1]

Villa’s summer transfers were always meant to bolster the team for Champions League, not necessarily to improve their starting 11 (aside from Onana).

[@nolanbaysinger8294]

Yes. Also Barkley has been great when he's played.

[@xjacb7223]

Such a disappointing analysis of Villa's signings, now and in summer. All the loan deals from now were due to Villa needing to take in other clubs' players to sell theirs for PSR. The others such as Maatsen, Barkley (who has had quite a few minutes, what was that about? He's scored a few winners too, bargain for £5m), are players who can compete and add to Villa's depth, which is now much greater than last season. Philogene was given plenty of chances and failed to deliver, it sucks and I'm sad it didn't work out, but he was really poor on the right and we have way too many other players on the left for him to start there. Malen too, he's really exciting, both for his own skill and the fact that Bailey will have the competition to motivate him (was crucial last season with Diaby, since he left Bailey has been woeful). Robbie clearly hasn't watched anyone besides Arsenal, he just goes with the common opinion of a player because he doesn't have a clue. You can't even trust him to have good insight on Arsenal players because he's so biased. The other two had good insight, knowledge of stats and things, Robbie is way out of his depth here.

[@akshaykalale8442]

Leave Robbie at home please. At this rate we’re gonna have to sit through Buveys drivel soon enough.

[@nickwoodward819]

So much this. Seems like a nice guy, but is just utterly deluded when it comes to his club

[@TRiXz_2K]

So they love Walker to AC Milan but Marmoush needs time 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NothingP]

Why he wanted to leave ?

[@pedropereira5488]

It’s because he’s English all these Brit’s slobber all over any semi decent English player

[@masterchief1520]

​@@NothingPhe's washed for PL and city.

[@whatwentwrong4599]

Robbie is one of the worst people involved in football. Unless it involves Arsenal half of what he chats about other teams is utter rubbish.

[@RayzaNC]

His opinion on Philogene was cringe. The guy was utterly hopeless for Villa and way out of his depth. And saying we don't need Malen? We're desperate for wingers as we only have one in Bailey who has been dreadful all season.

[@thetruth4654]

Too be fair, he chats rubbish regardless of the team in question

[@DavieBee1988]

i'm an arsenal fan when he talk about arsenal he talk utter shite as well him and AFTV are embarrassments Your 100% right

[@chibuzougwu5242]

Thinking that marmoush wont start for city is hilarious 😂 That left wing position is his for the next 5 years, doku and savinho can fight over the right

[@HananiNleya-dn1fe]

He will take KDB's number 10 position as a starter, and only move to the wing when the former comes on in place of Doku/Savino

[@CB-ms2cq]

I don’t think he will play on the LW tbh. Will 100% play as a 10 that drops into a second ST

[@thetruth4654]

I think Pep might try to make City more countering focused, a counter attacking system will benefit Haaland aswell City as great as they are aren`t really playing to Haaland`s strengths Haaland is one of the greatest PL goalscorers of all time already and City are maybe using about 15% of Haaland`s ability

[@marvinprudencio7321]

Off topic but I don’t think Robbie can argue now that invincible Arsenal was a better team than 100 point Manchester City seeing how Juventus are so far invincible this season yet they’re in 3rd and playing awful. Getting 100 points out of a possible 114 is more difficult than staying invincible.

[@tatauynnununu4262]

100%

[@EnzoPepsiCola]

​@@tatauynnununu4262the difference is that juve have played 21 games and ALREADY drawn more than the arsenal invincible team did. Arsenal won 26 games in that season whereas AT BEST juve can win 25 if they won the remaining 17 Serie A games. In other words you can't compare them to the invincibles since juve don't score enough

[@tatauynnununu4262]

@@EnzoPepsiCola not what I agreed with I agreed with the part where he said centurions>

[@swiizzthesage2955]

“He’s(Marmoush) just not gonna get that much space” 🤦🏾‍♂️literally yall said the same thing about Erling when he came and he lit the league up

[@VTID71]

Villa - we’re needing depth and options for all competitions moving forward and trying to push for Europe. Nothing strange about our signings; we have our reasons and Emery will always use the players when needed. Diaby was moved on because he wasn’t happy being a bit part player to ‘at the time’ an ‘in form’ Bailey.

[@teekay5090]

Man City playing a 424 with savihlo and doku on the wings with Mamoush and halaand up top with kdb and Foden in the middle of the park would be a deadly attacking line

[@harrywilks55]

The Villa chat was mostly nonsense Philogene has had chances off the bench but never made an impact - only memorable one was defensively against Bayern. It’s shame though - he missed a last minute sitter against United. Maybe if he scores that, it’s a different story Barkley has been a great signing and used super effectively. He’s had plenty of minutes - probably about what he’d have expected, been great cover as a 6, and scored some crucial goals. Although Onana started well and I do see him being a big player for us, you could argue Barkley has had more of an impact - certainly as much as Onana

[@anubis8586]

It’s nowhere near inflated if you factor in everything and know what you’re talking about. Also this money has been spent on much much much worse players and nobody said anything.

[@tspcontent4630]

Why was Haaland on a really long deal “great business for City” but Palmer, Jackson & Caicedo on long deals for Chelsea was silly?

[@Messcudi005]

because haaland did it as the best striker in the world. Use your brain

[@GuitarJammerJohn]

Because Haaland has already proved himself so it’s not outright giving a player a massive contract without knowing if they would actually be worth it. Chelsea gave Palmer ,Jackson and Caceido massive deals before they even knew if they were worth it. in hindsight Palmer looks like he definitely was but we didn’t know at the time and I do think the jury is still out for Jackson and Caicedo even though they have been much better this year.

[@tspcontent4630]

@@GuitarJammerJohn the whole long contract thing was always a stupid criticism. The players chelsea signed are all young & aren’t on huge wages so who cares if they’ve got long contracts, they won’t struggle to sell them on. The only thing a long contract is doing is stopping them leaving on a free or reduced fee because it’s expiring.

[@caseyimiller]

Because their deals were the initial signings yet Haaland was put on a 5 year deal before then extending it 115 months

[@GuitarJammerJohn]

@ How is it stupid they aren’t small wages 150k a week for Caicedo and 100k for Jackson that’s a very big wage to have to pay for 8 years especially if you find out the player isn’t good enough. Look at someone like Mudryk no one will pay anything near what you bought him for he could basically stay for almost the rest of his career if he wanted eating up wages and possibly affecting morale. It’s a dangerous strategy giving unproven players massive contacts because they aren’t all going to be like Palmer.

[@michaelbruce2699]

About Aston Villa: Philogene looked totally lost whenever he played this season. And with Leon Bailey also bombing out, Villa need help with wide players, hence the Malen signing. As for summer recruitment, you didn't mention Maatsen. Barrenechea, Illing Jr + £40m is what they received from Juventus for Luiz. Looking like a good deal for Villa.

[@RayzaNC]

Robbie clearly doesn't watch much of Villa as Philogene has been truly awful, one of the worst Villa players I've ever seen, he's never a Premier League player

[@zackry-c6s]

Marmoush will win many trophies at city just need a dm and rb and dem good so stay humble eh

[@Jay-nc3kn]

right 😂😂😂😂

[@nplusk]

Watch more than 1 PSG game per year and it might not be as confusing as you all think

[@aymaantahaCFC]

Robbie honestly has zero knowledge about football. Barely knows anything about his own club. Just a PR merchant now. Probably under the pockets of the owners. Doesn't let people on AFTV speak the truth no more. Spineless behavior

[@a-dp6bq]

You make awesome videos, but your humility is what steals the show!

[@Random101inter]

Ai npcs

[@BumFluffer1999]

If they actually bin chalobah after taking him back, I think we can officially say Chelsea FC are one of the prime in-real-time examples of business entities in football that are killing the love for the sport, both inside the machine and with the fans.

[@Jaxxx365]

He’s clearly an alvarez replacement who got a lot of game time with Haaland in the team

[@scar101mal]

I wonder if kvrat will be used as a ST, I was thinking with the Liverpool links that it would be Darwin making way for him and bringing a more Jota like striker who can drop in aswell as go in behind and also sometimes play 10. Behind Jota or Diaz like how jotas been used sometimes as the 10.

[@Remag123]

This narrative of him being a “counter attacking” player is the exact same narrative people had when City signed EH9

[@Uyuuuu.]

discovering Robbie has freakishly large hands was the most exciting thing about this video - by far. completely overpowered the dribble coming out of his mouth. what are sky doing?

[@rajaselvaraj761]

Media said same when KDB signed 😂.

[@Aman-fy9kt]

They forget that guardiola played couterattacking system with sane aguero and sterling

[@patricklennon8107]

Can anyone else hear the guy in the read swallow lol hahah

[@marcupopescu8302]

I am excited for Marmoush at City

[@NamesDontMatter1992]

This guy looks like a bald danTDM right? That’s pretty wild to be honest.

[@siwakeman1266]

Can tell if its not arsenal related robbie is a fish out water.

[@godfreybiliki947]

The guy with glasses suggested that kyle walker should have already left for bayern after the treble season. What a joke that statement was. The guylifted the historical 4P and you assume or blindly thought that he would swap a 4P for a transfer move?. What a joke these people are.

[@pubgnewstateja2062]

What if city phylosophy is to me more attacking while suring up defense. 80% of the current midfielders are capable of playing CDM.

[@tbesnd2065]

In theory, Antony has actually been a more valuable player to united than Havertz has for arsenal. Scored an essential goal against Liverpool leading to an FA cup win, knocked Barcelona out in the Europa league and registered decent stats in his first season at the club. Yes he's useless but he's technically been more valuable for united than Havertz has been for arsenal.

[@yurigadafimaholeyistanbul]

You're not wrong lol😂😂

[@Mancity2023b4b]

Fax, laliga is trembling after seeing the G.O.A.T step in the scenes and he will put other Brazilians in his shadow in his first season😊

[@meskahmusic]

such a stpid salty statement... Havertz is the reason we've been in a tite race past two season and not stuck 13th... what about that for value?

[@thom9484]

Advising Dibling to join Leipzig means you've clearly never been in Leipzig, don't know many other places where you'd die sooner of boredom.

[@markjalkut8246]

Honest question, how did it work with you guys calling this show “the lowdown” when nbc sports already had a segment called the “lowedown”

[@nihadnsirov2290]

Why would you care about pronouncing Reis correctly but not Khusanov? And how would you rate Real Betis is much more than Galatasaray? That's baffling.

[@Jay-nc3kn]

including chalobah in this is ridiculous he wasn’t even a signing ffs

[@abishekab21]

I guess these lot have absolutely no clue about Marmoush lol. He is going to play in the Alvarez role. Not on the left

[@DonDadda2196]

Here to see Robbie say arsenal have had the best Jan window because they haven’t increased the wage bill😂

[@adamcarroll3683]

There's no chance city are getting charged with any of the ffp they just spent 150 mill and I can't imagine how much the haaland contract has cost would they do that if they thought they were going to be found guilty

[@vinylhorror]

People in the comments know more about these signings than these 3.

[@Uncle.everything]

Come on doughy every keeper plays like prime buffon vs us Liverpool 😂😂

[@marcupopescu8302]

Kyle Walker is a red black AC Milan player rossonero

[@josephhall5136]

City have bought a 1 season wonder in the Egyptian.

[@jrb614]

Haaland still will go Madrid the contract just means City get full control over the price

[@RansfordAsare122]

Buying salay for less than 50mil and then man city bought Omar for 63mil let de what He brings. I know is just 6 months for him but we see next season. Let sweet if he can beat the king salah

[@sneakytacos773]

Luis Enrique will manage Man City one day

[@jakefigueiredo8905]

De Bruyne was a January signing

[@MotherHen2012]

Robbie failed Claude.

[@JBlackAfrica]

PLEASE DON'T HAVE ROBBIE ON HERE EVER AGAIN. LET'S GET SERIOUS

[@shahzadmanc]

Omer needs time 😮 what a rubbish. Are they talking about football?

[@James-qv1dr]

Really well spoken from Robbie. He's often labelled negatively based on some of the old AFTV videos, but these days he's one of the more reasonable football personalities

[@jiahaogoh2822]

Robbie doesnt watch any football outside of arsenal. His opinion of arsenal is delusional as well. We dont claim him over here

[@Mancity_177]

City cooking

[@jamiemcalister4600]

Kinsky was horrible? Don't know about that..he got caught once on the ball..not many times and yes he should have saved trossard effort but his distribution is actually good even in that game by the numbers. Slightly over confident yes😂 Also Tottenham should have bought more experience???..kinsky doesn't have to be registered and is clearly one for the future think logically we have 5 keepers on the books currently Robbie has 0 football knowledge

[@josephhall5136]

Robbie is so lost on podcasts like this. His ball knowledge is minimal in comparison to these other lads.

[@bestfullyy]

woated selection of pundits

[@JohanAndreasson-tj6bk]

Needs time category… Well it is a new team, place and envirement so that is obvious for everyone.. fits everyone.. lol. Calling Chalobah for a new signing… how is it even possible.. lol. Sometimes the perspective is if it is a great signing for the player, sometimes if it is great for the team.. lol. Very poor video all and all together.

[@omnivore6691]

i saw robbie and im good on watching, probably one of the least objective insightful ball knowledge of people talking about the game. if your going to talk about these kind of topics at least get someone who has wider knowledge like lyes, abz or mina

[@wkpad1]

Arsenal need to reach out to their pockets and get Victor Osiehman, if they want to be the champions

[@Matty-z4h]

Shame on you Sky sport. Never forget what happened with Claude because of this guy. Shame. On. You.

[@darcy5754]

These football hippies are so jarring

[@rastagaming2116]

Why do you have these muppets talking football sky?? 😂

[@Matty-z4h]

Lets be real, Robbies ball knowledge doesnt exist, he make up his opinions as he goes, the guy is absolute clueless outside Arsenal and even in his own fanbase he is one with the lowest understanding of football. PLEASE stop allowing people on because they got a famous name. Its just pathetic

[@iputyouinmyoveni5541]

>>>>Big up the Don button

[@diegotolentinooo]

I turn it off immediately once I see Robbie. Good guy with a good heart but he talks absolute rubbish when it comes to football

[@CityPulseSky]

Massively Inflated Fee it's £60M , Havertz cost more

[@mattheendpod2659]

For a fact, Robbie is an editorial appointment for views. No place on the most cerebral cast. At all. Possibly too cerebral, hence…

[@charlieplatt3178]

this walking carpet chats mad things

[@jairoeliza3116]

Robbie keep dreaming

[@rowan5109]

Pls get Dougie off he’s hopeless

[@JollyRedGiant]

Do Arsenal fans actually like this guy? He’s awful.

[@-VForValhalla-]

I am a simple man. I see AFTV, I hit dislike. - Arsenal fan

[@BobsunDugnutt]

Embarrassing nonsense.

[@Notscr7-Official]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@slashthe2nd]

How many more of these videos are we going to keep getting🙄😴

[@kallumnufc50]

What transfers

[@avonbarksdale990]

Batty man show

[@sgtty69]

Can He do it on a cold night?

[@AR-xt8jj]

Why have you got Robbie from Aftv on here he has no ball knowledge