I'm trying to think back, the last quality CF bought was Berbatov?
We used to get CFs the likes of Lineker, Klinsman, Sherringham, isn't that what we all want?
Now we have Richarlison, and Son or Kulusevski as makeshift CFs.
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We used to get CFs the likes of Lineker, Klinsman, Sherringham, isn't that what we all want?
Now we have Richarlison, and Son or Kulusevski as makeshift CFs.
Adebayor?
But yeah slim Pickens
Helped by having the world’s best come through your academy
He looks far too old to be getting involved in the amount of online spats he does!
Will watch it though as he's good on LWOS when on. I didnt realise he was on there so will avoid this thread for spoilers until after watching it.
Spurs also lost those CF very fast...
They seem a strange pair to be interested in.
Ederson is more box to box 8 when I watched and as you say, better on the ball, Onana seems more of a destroyer #6 type that isn’t a great line breaker as a passer.
Onana being 22 vs Ederson 24 plays a role imo. If he shows any signs of developing that passing ability, the age factor would be something imo.
No we didn't.
We pre-emptively replaced Harry Kane with a player half his value and about 1/10th his talent.
If you can't see it, then maybe you're the sort of person who get's scammed by cold callers a lot.
He’s not going to improve much on his passing at 22. He is what he is. Ederson is an all rounder and you could see why Ange would go for him. He’s the same type of player as Gallagher as he does a bit of everything.
I get what Ange said ''you can't replace Kane'' sure but that doesn't mean not getting a quality CF.
Don't ask me who, we've got scouts so someone should have been found. We bought this Veliz kid but I have no idea when he's supposed to be ready to play in the first team, it just seems like a cheap punt to me.
You know why, because no-one knows what the manager wants.
It's just a word that people use and hide behind because they want their own ideals on what the club should be doing placated but everyone has different ideals hence why we have this silly subjective debate.
People talk about Liverpool as if they're the shining example yet ironically there's been so many times where Klopp wasn't backed and they went against his wishes but people want to ignore that because it doesn't suit their argument.
To answer your question though a bad window is not addressing the areas of concern and not at least trying to improve on what needs to be addressed.
OK mate. You think Levy backs all his managers and the reason they all fail to win, call him out, and get the sack is down to, ermm'.. goblins......we get it. You've made your point.
We can do this all day...
I would bite but it's a waste of time trying to debate with people who have the reading comprehension of a 5 year old
I'm sure others will so fill your boots
Probably not the fairest of points here. We’ve not needed a top striker for years as we already had one of the best in the world.
Granted, now we don’t, so it may well be put up or shut up time.
So who does the manager want to show he is being backed? Nobody knows if he even wants a new striker. He’s maybe looked at Rich’s goal involvements last season and thinks he can get a tune out of him. He’s maybe seen how we played in a part of false nine against City and thinks that’s the way forward. He maybe wants a young, busy bastard like Zirkzee. He maybe wants Osimhen. Nobody knows. And nobody on here ever will.
My point still stands - we are paying bigger fees for players than some are making out.
It’s just a shame that guy Ricky hosts… m
So irritating, talks so fast and so much of his ‘schtick’ Is laughing and being like… ‘oh my god haha aren’t we all mental! You’ll have me at it next’ etc
Multitude of reasons for that, namely because we've had Kane for so long so we hadn't had any need to buy a top striker and striker's have genuinely declined massively over time anyway.
City are obviously the outlier but look at our rivals and who they used to line up with up front compared to now.
But we paid £60m to replace a player we sold for £100m
So we're £40m up. So where is the spend?
It was just a tactical signing, getting him in before we sold Kane. There is no doubt here that the club knew Kane would leave, either that summer or the next.
You're right we're not mind readers so we don't know what Ange wants but I can't see him being pissed off if the club gets him a top quality CF from somewhere. And I don't mean just spending £13m on some prospect from Argentina, rather someone who is ready to slot into the first team and score 20+ goals next season.
We've saved money over the years in having Kane from the academy, so when he left it was time to spend again. We need someone of Berbatov's quality. I don't know who but I'm sure they exist.
45m on Johnson
40 million on Maddison
30 odd million on VDV
Your issue is that we didn't spend the entirety of the money we got for Kane on another striker.
We clearly had/have more than just our CF to upgrade and we have invested all over the pitch
Let's see what we are going to spend this summer - we aren't going to be getting huge transfer fees for anyone outgoing.
I know for a fact majority of wolves fans don't mind kilman going if they get the right money. I don't rate him myself I would choose the other center back from Portugal who plays for wolves over him
They want £60m for Eze possibly all up front. That ain’t happening. That’s so unusual. Palace will have to row back from that if we want him.
You’d think that would be a no brainer. But a forward scoring that number of goals (and that level is only reached by 3 or 4 players a season) is probably one who plays exclusively between the posts and doesn’t do much else. Is that the correct player for Ange? Fucked if I know.
My dream striker for this window would be Watkins. Goals and assists aplenty. But would he fit the team properly? Or are we looking at a more fluid front three? Time will tell.