we live in a world where Wan Bissaka went for £50m, I don't like it and I think it's crazy but £30m for a striker is the bargain bucket at Blockbuster video.
it's a punt
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we live in a world where Wan Bissaka went for £50m, I don't like it and I think it's crazy but £30m for a striker is the bargain bucket at Blockbuster video.
it's a punt
AWB is one of the best right backs in the Premier League and starts every single league game.
What team in the league have a £30,000,000 back up striker?
Toddington Borehole? That figures.
Are we going back to this.
24 is not young, that's the beginning of players prime years. If he can't shoulder the responsibility of leading a line by now it's unlikely to happen.
Edit: This is why I should catch up before posting since
Cranston
basically said the same thing.- NDombele 6 months ago: we gotta buy him, he's gonna be the best CM soon, we are gonna win the league.- don't make signings: "no ambition, this clubs a joke"
- linked with signing a striker: "nah, don't want him"
- NDombele now: FFS stupid club, why did we buy him, such amount of money
- NDombele 6 months ago: we gotta buy him, he's gonna be the best CM soon, we are gonna win the league.
- NDombele now: FFS stupid club, why did we buy him, such amount of money
Always injured
Levy out!
Kick the ball in the net what's to adjust to.I’m equally excited as when we was linked to big fat vinny and that didn’t turn out to badly either did it
In all seriousness if he signs let’s just try and get behind him and not write him off before he has had a chance to adjust to the league
Come on, Polish lump strikers usually work out very well. Everyone must remember the legendary Grzegorz Rasiak.
Man City.
Just shy off it.
That's simply not true, You can buy proven quality if you are willing to pay for it. Maybe Spurs can't afford that, but that's a separate argument.
You are missing my point, I'm not saying AWB is a poor player, I actually rate him highly. The point is if a quality right back costs £50m its "unlikely" that you can get a top drawer striker for £30m.
You have to question why nobody else seems to be interested, I heard but I can't confirm that they tried to offload him to Villa and were turned down? but I probably saw that on here.
As a club we take too many of these kind of punts and its backfired with Soldado, Janssen.
For me you either spend the extra on proven quality or don't bother.
- don't make signings: "no ambition, this clubs a joke"
- linked with signing a striker: "nah, don't want him"
Strawman argument.
I'm saying buy 1-2 quality players with all the dough rather than 4-5.
And if those 1-2 quality players aren't currently available then save our cash for when they become available.
quality > quantity
To state the obvious Chelsea replaced Salah and De Bruyne with which turned out to be inferior players. Football is not as simple as some think.
I’m not against signing him, not at all. I will just keep my expectations low. We haven’t signed a good striker for at least a decade.
I think Janssen, Soldado and Llorente combined probably didn’t score more than 5 goals from open play in the PL. If Piatek can score 8-10 in the second half of the season I will be very happy.
You can get one and he might turn out as an absolute flop, and you can get 4 with one that turns world class. You never know.