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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024

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We have literally scored more goal without Kane, why are folk still arguing that we should have direcly replaced him which was virtually impossible anyway?

This place man smh 😆
 
As if we’d somehow be worse if we had Kane up front in this exact system instead of Richarlison lol. Arguing that Ange’s system is better than having Kane is a false equivalence. Stop blaming Kane for being an amazing player with shit managers around him the past few years.

Ange’s system with Kane would be the ideal.

The guy bagged 4 goals in a preseason game. We’d be flying attack wise with him in the team.
Blame Kane for being an amazing player? WTF are you on about??

What I was responding to was posters who are asking where the Kane replacement is and pointed out that, even though he is gone and we have not replaced him like-for-like, we are actually scoring more. How many more we would score with him is an entirely different story and not the topic of this conversation.

Jeez...
 
24 years old, guaranteed goals you say ...

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Scored 10 league goals in Italy last season... How the hell is that 20 "guaranteed" EPL goals per season??????
 
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We have literally scored more goal without Kane, why are folk still arguing that we should have direcly replaced him which was virtually impossible anyway?

This place man smh 😆

We’ve scored more goals because we’ve manoeuvred from low-risk football to high risk football.

You could lose a star CB and still concede less with system changes. Wouldn’t mean you aren’t losing out on the individual quality or that you wouldn’t benefit from replacing that individual.

I’d be much more interested in looking at how we’re doing xG vs actual goals and how many good situations (created by a system) are wasted by individual profligacy you wouldn’t get from Kane compared to Johnson or Werner.

Son is now our only forward I really have any faith in during a lot of situations and he’s 31. Not ideal.
 
We’ve scored more goals because we’ve manoeuvred from low-risk football to high risk football.

You could lose a star CB and still concede less with system changes. Wouldn’t mean you aren’t losing out on the individual quality or that you wouldn’t benefit from replacing that individual.

I’d be much more interested in looking at how we’re doing xG vs actual goals and how many good situations (created by a system) are wasted by individual profligacy you wouldn’t get from Kane compared to Johnson or Werner.

Son is now our only forward I really have any faith in during a lot of situations and he’s 31. Not ideal.

Indeed so the decision not to replace Kane with an out and out forward was entirely justified then.
 
5 G & 5 A in a half season loan will have been job done on Werner's part.... Anything more would be a bonus..... And even then; that's on the basis that he starts a lot of those games.
That would be 10G + 10A across an entire season. There's only a handful of players that put up such numbers and they don't come cheaper than £60 million.
 
Indeed so the decision not to replace Kane with an out and out forward was entirely justified then.

I think it was justified because a) we’d struggle to attract a top tier one at the time and b) they don’t really exist.

If we get CL football with Ange (looks eminently possible) I’d like to see a forward who moves the needle come in. Doesn’t necessarily have to be a CF but our forward line needs more quality and we need to do some future planning round Son.
 
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