Joao Carvalho

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Yep I agree the criticism here is the odd decision for a rebuilding team to invest the majority of its budget in a player that will take time to develop.

The ones that don't need developing won't be coming to Forest.
They go straight to the Premier leagues.

We got lucky with Lolley, Antonio and BA09 over the past few years in signing game changers who didn't need development on the cheap.
We have more failures in that regard than successes.

On the premise of a 4-2-3-1 formation JC was bought to build the team around.
Not to lead it from day 1, he was always going to need a season to adapt and learn.
Now we've got people comparing him to JR and criticizing him for it.
At the same age JR was a struggling winger in a relegated div 2 team and I doubt anywhere close to being as good as JC.

Should we have bought another Majewski for 500k instead?

They will for £13m .

Antonio & Lolley are perfect examples of what's available if we look hard enough, instead of letting agents dictate who to buy.

There's no doubting Carva's class & potential, but last night was a prime example of when he should have turned a game in our favour out of nothing. Shock horror, he didn't.