Im just fluster as this feels like bargain shopping. I hope im wrong and he comes in and proves me wrong and scores 15+ goals between now and the end of the year.
I just can't see how this guy is what we planned on and this is there answer to messing up the summer window, which is not the way you make decision.
You dont make a decision based on what you dont want (not getting a striker in the this window) you make a decision based on what you do want.
If this is what we really want then hell lets go for it. It just does not seem like it.
Its a punt, nothing more nothing less, he scores goals, granted in the Turkish league, but hes also got some goals at CL level, could go anyway and we wont know till we get him, hopefully he wont need a settling in period, but he may do.
Our options arent great, sure we can offer good dough to some players in certain leagues, but as I said the other day, the majority of a gamble, thats why Koeman wanted Giroud, hes not a gamble, but thats our only option, we get somebody at the wrong age or we take a punt and get somebody in that MIGHT do a job.
I cant stress what a piffling amount of dough 20m is in this day and age and how hard it is for a club like ours to "attract" proven quality players, its a very hard window to do business in, I can see us punting Sandro and Niasse in the next 2 windows, so this fella certainly wont be our only option for the next amount of years.
I of course have some major concerns, not least and people can accuse me of racism if they wish, but these Turkish fellas are moody buggers, hes got quite a terrible goal scoring record bar the last year or 2, so yeah, major concerns, but we need a number 9 and the fella seems like a decent chap, lets see how it goes innit. If nothing else at least the fella from Iceland will have somebody to hit!