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More a Trader Joes Anichebe.
He's 20
lol, squad player. Hes 20, its going to be a couple of years before he hits form, and if we bring him in its purely for long term development, not as a 1-2 year squad player. Would any other clubs around us sign him? Yes, his parent club already rejected at least one offer from clubs that finished higher than us last season. His game a couple of weeks ago is a great example of what he is right now. Looks like a young Lukaku with pure power and bullies defenders, but a really poor touch when trying to dribble etc. If you can develop that side of his game he has the potential to be as good as Lukaku in a way a smaller/slower player can never be, which is why clubs are interested. Theres no point to bringing him in as a squad player, you purely want to bring him in to see if you can develop him in a couple of years.
The mistake in this thinking for me is that Origi is useless without having Salah and Mane first. We don't need Anichebes or Origis until we've got a lot of class elsewhere.
Yeah that's what i'm getting at really. We have DCL and Richarlison already. If we bring in another striker who is competent enough to be able do a decent job for us for a few years before being sold on for pretty much what we paid it's not such a bad thing. Of course it's even better if he kicks on and becomes a world class talent, but we do seem to get a bit hung up on people being amazing when just having a squad full of decent players who can be trusted to do their job would be a start.
It's a start but not a good one. If you're going to sign nothing but decent players you'll never be more than decent. But that's why this makes sense as young decent players can move up.
Again, this is my point. We need quality to go into the starting eleven. We quite simply aren't going to go out and sign 4 or 5 new players to go straight into the team AND 3 or 4 more top quality players to improve the squad. We need to prioritise. To me, signing high quality players in the positions we don't have any is far more important than signing more high quality players in positions we do. In an ideal world that's a 20 year old who goes on to score 300 goals for us and becomes a global icon, but in the real world, if it's a player who scores 30 goals for us and gets sold at a book profit, it's probably worked out alright. There is a touch of the computer game about the way some people look at it, as if you can just go out and sign all the best prospects in the world and they all develop together making you an unstoppable force 5 years down the line. While that would certainly be brilliant, I just don't see it as very likely.
Watching his play, it honestly looks like he relishes the contact and bullying and looks for it almost more than the rest of the game. Absolutely punishing to defenders, love to see it.
