Transfer Rumour Ben Brereton Diaz

[james_v02]

To be honest, looking at his numbers alone - he really only have 1 good season in the Championship. It's a gamble to take him and test him at top flight.

A 17mil valuation is very close to Che Adams valuation (17mil too??)? Would you rather have Che Adams or Ben Brereton Diaz? And then would rather have Che Adams/Ben Brereton Diaz or Rondon?

 

[riddick]

Is this lad any good or is the obsession because he has an exotic name and plays for Chile

I dunno, Ben is pretty common over here in the States.

 

[BrendanGOT]

I dunno, Ben is pretty common over here in the States.

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[leslad]

Why has it taken us an entire week to make a "formal enquiry"?

 

[blueblue]

To be honest, looking at his numbers alone - he really only have 1 good season in the Championship. It's a gamble to take him and test him at top flight.

A 17mil valuation is very close to Che Adams valuation (17mil too??)? Would you rather have Che Adams or Ben Brereton Diaz? And then would rather have Che Adams/Ben Brereton Diaz or Rondon?

Brereton is still only 23, he is years away from his prime and players develop differently.
I think Brereton is a better long term investment than Adams.

 

[Connor]

They want 15m

Dele Alli arrives in Turkey to complete Besiktas move

Everton have responded to their troubled start to the season by launching a formal move for the Blackburn Rovers forward Ben Brereton Díaz.

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Why has it taken us an entire week to make a "formal enquiry"?

Absolute madness. I’m perfectly happy with signing him but they could’ve done this on Tuesday and still had a good shot of getting him in the door for Brentford. Or last Tuesday, or the Tuesday before that.

Starting things just late enough for him to be unavailable for an important match for which we have no decent player in his position is just so typical, like they thrive on doing everything just a little bit wrong.

 

[AussieToffee11]

I like him because he is young and clearly has a way of finding the net.

However, the main reason is that he is relatively similar to DCL. A perfect replacement for when he isn't fit.

Get him in, on a good fee and then go hard on a wide-forward Richarlison type (i.e. Pedro or Terrier).

And then if we lose Gordon, another wide replacement again.

 

[gedefc]

Just hurry up ffs.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Can’t force clubs to pay the English premium if you pretend you’re Chilean. I see your game Ben and I’m here for it

 

[Tony’s Carp]

The Andean Anichebe.

 

[mightymoyes]

Why has it taken us an entire week to make a "formal enquiry"?

cos we want to give brentford 3 points at the weekend

 

[JP5]

It's actually not when you take into consideration every season and not just last year. 22 in 38 was very good, but the year before it was 7 in 40 and in the 40 before that it was just 2.

He's spent his entire senior career in the Championship and overall his average is less than 1 in 4. Of course there's his age and a bad knee injury he had to take into consideration but for me he'd be a big gamble.

He’s just turned 23 at the end of last season.

I’d hardly hold it against a 20-22 year old to not be prolific, especially in the championship. If he was 28 it would be a fair point but freaks like Rooney and Owen aside, most strikers struggle at a young age. Check out people like drogba for instance. At 24 he was playing for Guingamp and had scored 3 goals in 9 starts.

 

[ah11984]

Bit wary of moving for him to be honest. His best work at Blackburn has been inside left rather than as a centre forward. Does he have the skill/guile to play that position in the Premier league, not sure.

 

[LocalNative]

This feels incredibly underwhelming.

Championship strikers are so hit and miss. For every Ollie Watkins and Ivan Toney there’s an Adam Armstrong and Dwight Gale.