Anyone complaining about not signing zirkzee need a hard long look at themselves. Hes brutal.Hoijland the same. Fortune spent on them after not even a half decent season in Italy.Fantastic result, has very much changed the complexion of our season IMO, it's quite funny looking back that a few were talking up United's window and bemoaning the fact we weren't going in for ready made first teamers like Zirkzee or De Ligt, despite 10 years of false dawns in the transfer window for them and ETH being so clearly, woefully out of his depth. Nice to see Johnson and Solanke amongst the goals again, whatever you think about him as a player I do really feel for Johnson for the fucking dogs abuse he gets off certain sections of our fans, hasn't even put up bad numbers at all in his time here but because his style isn't overly flashy and he makes mistakes (natural for any young player) he gets fucking panned and anything good he does is apparently just circumstantial. It's far too early to say if he's peaked, he could become a monster in his mid-late 20s with the right coaching, his speed and anticipation make him a threat out wide and his composure and finishing only stand to improve over time, look at our very own Son for a perfect example of that, put up strong, not spectacular numbers to begin with and aged like a fine wine into the goal monster he was in his prime for us.
Solanke is defo an upgrade on Richy, you can see it plain as day in the build-up. Think I myself was guilty a bit of worrying about him after he was anonymous vs Woolwich, but being fair to the guy he just came back from injury into a home derby against our biggest rivals, and no one else really pulled up any trees in that game either. Something about our rotten luck with buying strikers since Berbatov AND our rotten luck with big money transfers kind of puts me on edge, but he looks to be finding a rhythm now and hopefully will only go from strength to strength. Iraola employs a high press in much the same way as we aim to do most of the time, so stands to reason he could pick up the system fairly quickly, and though he has only had the one prolific goalscoring season, he stands a good chance of replicating that if we can finally find our strongest XI.