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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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bus-conductor said:
I make it two transfers (first and last moves) and 7 loans. And he’s never scored more than 15 goals and only done that once? He’s only hit double figures three times (11,12,15). And according to transfermarket has only played CF. But if you’ve seen him play elsewhere then fair do’s?

Trying to do this in January is always much harder, the time to do this was last summer when not desperate and the rest of Europe knows it. There were decent young forwards like Dolberg and Embolo that moved for reasonable sums 15-18m.
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His first transfer was a third party using a club to buy him as an investment (apparently that club are notorious for it).

Its 6 loans, Sao Paulo, Gremio, Santos, Real Madrid B (Castilla), Zaragoza and Las Palmas. Whilst at Castilla, he got called up to play for Real Madrid, which is why they show as a 7th team but it wasn't a separate loan.

Transfer market shows him playing RW and Support Striker for Las Palmas, but I've seen him play as basically a AM for Real Sociedad too, so some of the time it shows him as a CF on Transfermarket I think he played deeper and the wide players played more like strikers than wingers.

In regards to goalscoring, he is a deep lying forward like Firminho, who has never scored more than 16 and only hit double figures twice more, despite being settled at clubs and he is the best in the business at playing that role. It must be difficult having to adapt to a new club 6 seasons in a row (due to being owned by an investment company) and at the start, most of his game time was off the bench. Also Jimenez had never scored more than 7 in a season before going to Wolves.

Willian Jose stats for his DLF play are poor this season but look at the 2 season prior, 1.2 key pass average and 24 pass per game average. Firminho's (best in the business at that role) is 1.35 & 34, Kane's is 1 & 18, Embolo's is 0.8 and 11 and Dolberg's is 0.7 and 12.

I meant what young forward that is available now not previously, but anyway, Dolberg had never managed more than 16 in a league that Janssen scored 27 in an Embolo has never scored more than 10.
 
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