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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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we do definitely need a lb though, the system kind of falls apart when either porro or udogie aren't fit
Apparently that's about £200 quid an hour if you want it.
Take stats out of it. He’s not very good at anything. We need a striker that can hold it up,bring others into play,give centre backs issues with movement,can finish and ultimately stay fucking fit.
Who cares what his stats are when he’s not fit and had one good spell in 2 years. Keeping him screams mediocrity but then we moan when we are mediocre. Bonkers if anyone thinks this guy will turn into this top striker. Get him sold and use the money for someone who can actually contribute regularly.
I genuinely think I’d stop following football.
Realistically, neither are good enough. Toney is bang fucking average. And wasting 40m+ on him would be one of the stupidest decisions we could make this summer. Spending upwards of 50m on Neto being the other.
I've never once experienced an Ange team thats used a striker to hold the ball up and be used to bring others into play.
They predominantly stay on the last line and press viciously. If it's a low block, they still lay on the last line and use their movement to get on the end of cut backs or the odd chance created by wingers who have committed the full back. Defoe would have been an absolute menace in this set up.
The wingers are the key to Ange ball working, not the striker.
Oh please be BS
A part of me wants to see this happen , it would be fun to see all the creative ways people would defend it and spin it as a great signing
would love to see us at least try and get him. the chances would be slim but you never know.
Alasdair Gold said that Lange works quietly. Leaks are very few and far between so 99% of the links are complete and utter bollocks.
I would rather sign her than Mctominay
would be the biggest deflater ever this!
Need to do it asap and get get him on tour.
It doesn’t matter if that’s the style or not but they have to be able to contribute other than standing in the box for cut backs. When against low blocks we need players and I include the centre forward in that to be able to take the ball in and create something from themselves. We only score the same goal over and over. We need different options,not just a fucking plank of wood doing nothing till the ball comes in the six yard box. We play with ten men with richy and Sonny as the 9. Toney offers so much more and I’m not saying he’s a world beater but he has so many different parts to his game that would give us other options while attacking.
I want Gyokeres but that likely won’t happen.
Any serious team sells him right and upgrades.
And they’ve already bought his replacement.
The striker has to be able to score though. If we don’t buy a striker and muddle through the season with Richy and Son as our 9 options then I guarantee those that don’t want Toney will be the same complaining by December that we aren’t attacking well enough and they’ll be the reason as striker.
Most of the people/bots on my ignore list probably have drills ready for this very eventuality.
Well, it sort of does matter.
If Ange isn't wanting his striker to get involved in build up (like his strikers don't tend to) and instead wants the 8s and the full backs high up instead with the wingers stretching and opening up the play, then it's a pointless debate.
It doesn't matter what you want or think we need.
There's a reason plenty of people thought Kane wouldn't suit Angeball. And he's one of the best in world football at doing exactly what you're describing.
I reckon we'll get David in, personally. Because not only is his hold up play and bringing others into the game an improvement on what we have, he's a much more consistent finisher than Richarlison. He's not the greatest (but again you don't need to be in this system) - It also doesn't really slow down the development of the future strikers we have.