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You & I both know who (singular) on here will talk about Kudus like he's Ronaldinho if he joins and gets say 6-8 goals and 4-5 assists across all comps.
It's just kind of the worst part of the age/experience/provenness/potential/price/wages spectrum.
Finish 17th with 22 losses, claim you're after the PL & CL...hire Frank as head coach, extend Ben & Roddy, sign Takai, make Tel & Kudus your superstar signings.
He was at Bayern already at 17, he never really played at Rennes.
If you look at Johnson's defensive stats against Bowen's, again they are very comparable. 101 tackles, 19 interceptions, 21 clearances. Bowen has fewer tackles, less than 0.5 per 90 minutes, whilst his interceptions and blocks are much of a muchness with BJ. There's a perception that he does more off the ball, when in fact he actually doesn't.
I don't disagree. What I'm getting at here is that he is perceived as "elite," and worth forking out £80M plus for, when he's not shown anything more to his game to warrant that, particularly when we already have a winger, playing in a hugely dysfunctional team, that matched/bettered him in many aspects of his game, not just goals scored.
Irony of it is, is that he really didn’t want to join them. They were the last option as all the other big clubs passed him up…. Us included
He's just a top player. Wouldn't be surprised to see him at Liverpool next season when Salah goes.
Close comparisons.
The league table and goals conceded column don't seem to agree with your take, my man.
Lovely chap who couldn't hit a barn door with a tractor.Just looked at the original Soldado thread for a laugh.
All the excitement and people praying we'd sign him juxtaposed with the last page "I think he's actually one of our worst ever strikers"
Another one like Eze and Olise, that we “monitored” for years and done nothing about. We could’ve signed the 3 of them for peanuts.
Maybe cause he's Belgian.
