80-100 ahhahahaa mate you are so far off it it's unreal.
That vlahovic from fiorentina is being touted at 58m, he's younger and scored a lot more than DCL has over the last couple of years.
I know who I'd rather have if I was a "top" club
English clubs pay a premium for English players. And DCL is under a long contract, so we don't need to accept lowball bids for him once Tosun, Delph, Sigurdsson & the like fall off the payroll in the summer.
There's no reason to sell DCL for £60m this summer. Zero.
Ferdinand, Yeboah, Henry, Yakubu, Cantona, Shearer, Van Persie, Cole, Yorke, Bergkamp, Wright...
...theres been a lot of top class centre forwards in the premier league.
Now we have:
City: False 9
Chelsea: Lukaku not doing great
United: Ronaldo close to retirement
RS: Firminho probably replaced
Vardy: Close to retirement
Kane: On his last legs
Times have changed and centre forwards who can score 15-20 goals in a mid-table team are highly prized assets.
Were in an era where 'wide forwards' seem to be the focal point of goals.
DCL (and Vlahovic) are fairly unique players thesedays and while one has done well for Fiorentina and has 18months on his contract...the other has premier league experience and is English.
£80mil+
Go and have a proper look at him, he could be a perfect replacement for Richarlison if he does go at some point.
Tbh Ive been thinking similar but I could see him playing centre forward which was his position in Brazil.
I would really love it if we added more 'quality' Brazilian players.
Signing another right back this month would be absolutely crazy. That would give us 4 senior players who are out and out right backs, plus Holgate and Godfrey who can cover there. If Patterson wasn't able to come in and play this season then he shouldn't have been signed, we can't be wasting time and money getting in two right backs in January in the middle of a relegation battle.
I was thinking of an Nkounkou type signing or someone like Ramsay at Aberdeen for £3-5mil.
Disagree about Patterson (and Mykolenko) needing to play (well) this season. Both signed in Jan window, young and need time to adapt...i think they'll do fine for the rest of the season and kick on after preseason.
If we play Coleman (or Kenny) then its suicide. Likewise playing Holgate/Godfrey at full back for any length of time hampers us.
If we had signed Patterson and Ramsay at the same time id have been pretty chuffed.
A young player on a small fee makes sense to me.
The worry would be has this come from pereira? So would it more likely be under his recommendation.
We were linked to him when he was in Beijing...think it was summer 2020.