Traore plays on a team that has an even harder time converting chances. Wolves have 50 goals in their last 57 games. Brighton has 60 in their last 57.
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That doesn't show anything about them converting their chances though. Brighton have very publicly had issues with their strikers finishing the chances that they create. That doesn't mean that Lamptey would have a million assists just that many of the chances created at Brighton are wasted.
Watching Traore that is not the case at all with him because he doesn't create chances for guys to flub at Wolves.
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Lamptey is also 21 with plenty of room to develop his game unlike Traore, HG and is actually not a guy that you have to hope can convert to the position.
He also can cross a ball unlike Traore who can't which is a big issue when it comes to playing as a WB.
If the money concerns you fair enough but if we are looking at bringing in someone to play RWB it is pretty clear why Lamptey is a much better option.
I want to be somewhat charitable to Levy over that one and assume he didn't expect Villa to be bought out and immediately have the Grealish transfer veto'd. He had them over a barrel otherwise with nobody else in for him, so haggling was appropriate.
However if he did have an inkling that they were about to come under new management, so to speak, then it's classic penny pinching idiocy.
Mmmkay. In his four seasons at Wolves, Traore has averaged 3.82 shot creating activities per 90 minutes. In his three seasons at Brighton, Lamptey has averaged 2.43 shot creating activities per 90 minutes.
So, by a statistically tracked metric, Traore has created significantly more shots to be "flubbed" than Lamptey.
We should sign Dean Smith for managing to con citeh into paying 100m for a 26 year old who is decent but flatters to deceive and dives constantly. The most overrated player in many a year. Ffs 100m for that? Good luck to pep, he's had a few howlers over the years but a 100m.
You don’t want to be always spending over the odds just because you fall in love with players when there are good alternatives quality scouting would reveal elsewhere.
BUT, if you love a player, especially a young HGP, just fucking pay the asking price.
But that’s the whole thing. We did not love the player, soon to emerge to elite status and perfect for our then-setup. We identified his club and contract situation as a market leverage point and made exploitation of that the centerpiece of that doomed summer. That’s Levyball. The whole operation begins from the wrong premise.
Had he not been on the pitch Wolves don’t win the match. He skinned the defender and whilst his cross didn’t go directly to a Wolves player it was of good enough quality to draw a poor clearance. Because of his pace and power the Wolves midfield knew that all they had to do was knock it over the top for him to run onto. You could tell the Utd defence were worried about him as soon as he came on the pitch. Yes he is raw but he would give us a new dimension
Watching them play tells a different story and I will take watching them over “stats” based on nothing everyday of the week.
LOL
You could say the same thing about every Wolves player using that logic.
The United defense wasn’t in chaos, he didn’t drag anyone out of position. He made a weak crops right to Jones with no Wolves player around him. It was an easy clearance for Jones but because he sucks, and likely due to him not playing much, he made a poor clearance.
There was nothing Traore did to make that a difficult situation for United to deal with.
So what it comes down to is your opinion from likely infrequently watching them over the past four years compared to a clearly tracked statistic about passes from the player that lead his teammate shooting to the ball.
There is literally nothing to interpret, it just counting actions that observably takes place on the field. It's objective versus subjective.
It's like if I came up and pushed you in the street and then you said "why did you push me?" and then I said I didn't, I was watching closer then you were and it didn't happen.
Hitchen too get back from vacay...
What country is Igula from btw?
I'm certain he's not even from Earth. Probably just an experiment to see how much people can take.
Neves and Podence ain't for sale.
Lol it’s starting to have shades of woke-speak isn’t it?
“How dare you use the reactionary anti-labor term ‘striker’, we must use the inclusive term ‘person experiencing shot creating activities’”
Should've gotten Podence while he was at Olympiacos. He tore us a new one when we played them and we decided to buy Bergwijn 2 months later...
Rubbish. You are the last person to lol at anybody mate. He skinned the defender got to the byline and put in a pacey cross. I believe he would do this for fun at Spurs and Harry would love him for it
Got me wondering; traditionally where is the bridge between a scout and a chairman in terms of deciding how much a player's perceived ability is worth to a club....
Things are obivously a lot clearer on that front if you have a DOF in place, but otherwise surely someone should be in the chairman's ear about the ability vs cost dynamic?
It's actions, not activities btw. Usually the two things that happen before the ball goes in the net, which some people need to realise isn't always a direct 'assist'.
I remember someone, I think it was ChatShitHoHo, who was talking a load of shite about Aurier's assists, which included him toe poking the ball 10 yards to Bergwijn who ran 30 yards before smacking one in against United or something.