Genuine question - if you deem that Werner is second choice because we are short changing another deal, who is the number 1 target? Not speculative itk but real info?
Bang on. No thought to how to offload that deadwood everyone loves talking about too.
I'm no Levy advocate but the likelihood is that any serious striker targets just aren't gettable this January (and rarely are). So instead we've looked at an option that hopefully fills a void and doesn't cost too much or has us locked into a deal we don't really want to do in the long run.
I hear Chelsea might be needing a new midfielder soon.
Just wait till you hear about Spurs fans trying to belittle scoring 5 in 5 in the premier league as they just have it in their head that they don't like that player so use clearly defined terms in a widely inaccurate manner to downplay the form of our own players. But I can actually directly quote that fan so it's not a made up exaggerated claim of an imagined strawman irrational argument. The mind boggles, I'd have probably just admitted what I had posted was utter nonsense rather than scuttling away but each to their own.
Anyway, announce Werner! The idea of this signing has grown on me, it's even more important with Veliz being out for this spell and I like that Werner will be hungry for football with the Euros in mind. To me he seems like the Son replacement as he is way more effective in wide positions. Werner has also got that awkward German thing going on in press conferences, I didn't admit it when at Chelsea but he's quite a likeable funny guy.
Neither him or Richy finish 100% of their chances(who does?) but getting in the positions is the main thing. And it will help if fans actually support these players rather than waiting for them to slip up so they can bitch and moan
Now we need Hendo to come in on a loan and finally break Scara, plus the CB from the Italian league and it's a dream transfer window.
Kane
Not sure about actually scoring more than they miss but there are some players who hit higher than their xG. We've had two in recent years; Son and Kane. On average given the chances they had they would have been expected to score fewer than they did if they were average finishers, quite significantly in both case.
Such a shame we ended up stuck with VdV, Maddison and Vicario this summer instead of paying 3-5m more and getting our first choice in.
Just wait till you hear about Spurs fans trying to belittle scoring 5 in 5 in the premier league as they just have it in their head that they don't like that player so use clearly defined terms in a widely inaccurate manner to downplay the form of our own players. But I can actually directly quote that fan so it's not a made up exaggerated claim of an imagined strawman irrational argument. The mind boggles, I'd have probably just admitted what I had posted was utter nonsense rather than scuttling away but each to their own.
Anyway, announce Werner! The idea of this signing has grown on me, it's even more important with Veliz being out for this spell and I like that Werner will be hungry for football with the Euros in mind. To me he seems like the Son replacement as he is way more effective in wide positions. Werner has also got that awkward German thing going on in press conferences, I didn't admit it when at Chelsea but he's quite a likeable funny guy.
Neither him or Richy finish 100% of their chances(who does?) but getting in the positions is the main thing. And it will help if fans actually support these players rather than waiting for them to slip up so they can bitch and moan
Now we need Hendo to come in on a loan and finally break Scara, plus the CB from the Italian league and it's a dream transfer window.
This is true. It's also really rare to see that.
And of course, without really knowing it, that has conditioned us. Our expectations of a forward are set by what we have seen (regularly). We need to move on from that and readjust.
Of course, it’s just as easy to list many examples of times when we have gone for a second (or third, or fourth…) choice - or ‘a club signing’ - and it hasn’t worked out.
Id prefer an aG monster
Since Paratici came in (and after he partially left) I really rather like our overtall transfer strategy and I'd definitely argue we've been at least as successful in that regard as we can realistically expect.