Confirmed Signing Neal Maupay

[Rooney_Tunes]

How far have we fallen that we are justifying buying Neil Mowpay...

 

[ProZ]

How far have we fallen that we are justifying buying Neil Mowpay...

I think we all know how far we have fallen, almost out of the league.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

How far have we fallen that we are justifying buying Neil Mowpay...

Yes... Embrace it

 

[lancs blue]

Months of scouting, analysing, discussing and we come up with.....a player Brighton are happy to let go....oh well.

 

[Eagle Eye]

How many were sub appearances and how many were where he played through the middle rather than out of the left (which I remember seeing him play a few times). Danny Wellbeck is Brighton’s first choice striker, let that sink in.

Since you asked, he has started 84 of the 111 games he could have started across 3 seasons.

He has played twice on the left in all of that and scored twice. 101 times through the middle with 25 goals.

Danny Wellbeck has 16 goals for England in 42 caps and has won 2 titles, 2 FA cups, 2 League cups and a Champions League. Of course he is a better striker but he has had glass legs for most of his career. He just happens to have had a run since April where he has stayed fit, hence Maupay only starting 1 of the last 11 games he could for Brighton.

 

[Bluestar]

We had one in Lukaku, we just couldn’t retain him (scored 30+ for Inter twice).

Not for us though.

 

[Eggs]

Months of scouting, analysing, discussing and we come up with.....a player Brighton are happy to let go....oh well.

….I’m ok with Maupay if it’s who Thelwell/Lampard want, but I wonder why he wasn’t available 6 weeks ago when we desperately needed a striker.

 

[Zeitgeist]

Months of scouting, analysing, discussing and we come up with.....a player Brighton are happy to let go....oh well.

It's really not as easy as that though is it.

Budget, availablity, chances of the signing being good, do they want to come, the price, wages

Don't change something to suit a narrative

He rejected a contract, Brighton want him to stay

He's a proven premier League goalscorer, only 26.

 

[Split]

Does any club in the world want this talented player except Everton?

 

[Zeitgeist]

….I’m ok with Maupay if it’s who Thelwell/Lampard want, but I wonder why he wasn’t available 6 weeks ago when we desperately needed a striker.

Probably wasn't top of our choices, just how footy works

 

[Bluestar]

We had one in Lukaku, we just couldn’t retain him (scored 30+ for Inter twice).

Also interesting that he was deemed lazy and not good enough.,Some people were happy to see him go.

Staggering!

 

[allen]

"GET A STRIKER IN! ANY STRIKER."

...Maupay linked...

"NOT THAT ONE!"

 

[allen]

Probably wasn't top of our choices, just how footy works

Yep. At some point you have to break off the pursuit of your top targets and move down the list.

The skill is choosing that moment, to give yourselves the maximum chance of landing your top target before events dictate you have to move on.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

….I’m ok with Maupay if it’s who Thelwell/Lampard want, but I wonder why he wasn’t available 6 weeks ago when we desperately needed a striker.

We didn't have the Gordon money six weeks ago.

 

[ToffeeCrisp]

Rondon was full of Chinese food when he signed, I was closer to being a 1 in 2.5 striker and I'm four stone overweight and asthmatic.

Still full of Chinese food, he's a demon for 3 in 1s