Hopefully he'll be limited to a super sub role this season, and his quick pace may be more useful against tired legs.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Oh obviously, he deserves credit for it. That’s the one ability of his that is genuinely at a high level and makes him playable.
I’m just differentiating Johnson from actual elite finishers with goal threat: Defoe, Kane, Son etc. they score actually difficult chances and consistently overperform their xG. If your main threat is going to be “finishing”, it’s a very bad sign to be a chronic xG underperformer.
Johnson can’t score anything that isn’t at least mildly easy and heavily underperforms xG… in an elite team he would never be a starter.
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You have to believe Man City is letting go of a young talent that Guardiola admires and that Spurs will pay something close to the asking price. It might happen, but I won't be surprised if it doesn't.
That would do it
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I just think once Arse came sniffing round Eze he lost all previously purported interest in us.
I would love it to happen but I've had far too many years of Levy's games to get any great hope up .
Pep has no issue letting players go as soon as they show less than 100% commitment to the team he is coaching.
Levy should buy Mcatee just so that Forest can't have him.
Spite can be a wonderful thing.
If we do get Savinho, Eze is no longer the ideal #10 profile for us. We'd need to prioritise a great passer rather than dribbler.
Go check out his defensive stats. He is one of the top attacking players to contributing to defense.
Its important to consider the role he had in Ange's team. He was the ghost, tasked with shaking off defenders and looking for space to score goals. He wasn't tasked to be part of the build up play - he was the finisher, sneaking in undetected at the back post.
Solanke - he was asked to press the CBs and drag them out of possession. His game was less about scoring goals, and more about opening space. And in this system, Spurs were for a long time last season the top scoring team in the league.
The little we have seen of Frank's spurs thus far suggests that Spurs will drop back behind the ball and let the other team bring the ball into midfield - then press them hard in midfield and get the ball quickly out the wings. It looks like there will be less playing out from the back, and instead long balls will rule the day.
Johnson clearly can't play as a lone striker up top, he'd get beaten up by the CBs. I see him more as a second striker.
Like a spite store
Getting Kudus already somewhat laid that seed anyway.
Don't think Eze's ever been the "ideal" #10 for us............ He is (was?) just a within reach, high quality player. (Rewind 6 weeks ago and most people here were insisting he actually a LWer!)
If the likes of Savio, Kudus & Solanke carried their own goal threat it might be different, but yeh as stands we need creativity.
(Although I suspect Savio bodes well for Dom & BJ...... but we need more strings to our bow than just spamming crosses.)
Eze and savinho could it be
