Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £8m
He's the modern day Emile Heskey?
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Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
There’s very few strikers who are good enough to completely change the way a team plays. Only the very top bracket ones can act as both play makers and consistent goal scorers.
If you dropped prime Messi Suarez Aguero into some of the recent Everton teams then yes, they’d undoubtedly help the build up and goalscoring. Put a striker like Lewandowski into some of the recent Everton teams however and I’m not sure we’d make that many chances for him.
If we get to a position where we’re making chances galore and Maupay is passing them up then fine we can talk about whether he’s a proven prem scorer or not, but recently we’ve not even been making that many chances. Anyone other than some of the best strikers of all time are going to struggle upfront for us until we start having more of the ball and creating more.
If you dropped prime Messi Suarez Aguero into some of the recent Everton teams then yes, they’d undoubtedly help the build up and goalscoring. Put a striker like Lewandowski into some of the recent Everton teams however and I’m not sure we’d make that many chances for him.
If we get to a position where we’re making chances galore and Maupay is passing them up then fine we can talk about whether he’s a proven prem scorer or not, but recently we’ve not even been making that many chances. Anyone other than some of the best strikers of all time are going to struggle upfront for us until we start having more of the ball and creating more.
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Deco
Player Valuation: £40m
For every Onana (high fee, high risk, high reward) signing, we also need to make clear, tangible improvements to the squad.
Newcastle are a perfect example of this recently - apart from Guimaraes, and Isak this week, they’ve made pretty boring signings really. Trippier? Decent player. Targett? Decent player. Neither of them get close to the top 6 teams but their progress is clear as day.
I see the importance of putting our resources in players that have a lot of upside, but for every Isak for £70m you need a Targett for £10m.
It’s the middle signings I think we should avoid such as Tosun for £20m, Bolasie for £25m, Gylfi £45m.
Maupay, just turned 26, for £14m and £70/80k a week for 10 goals a season (especially when he’s not just a poacher, he’s a menace and would instantly be one of our best players), is exactly the right move to allow us to buy the likes of Onana.
We’re not the only team who bid for him either, and Thelwell has shown that any player who doesn’t make the cut will be moved on at speed. It’s low risk, medium reward. Sensible.
Newcastle are a perfect example of this recently - apart from Guimaraes, and Isak this week, they’ve made pretty boring signings really. Trippier? Decent player. Targett? Decent player. Neither of them get close to the top 6 teams but their progress is clear as day.
I see the importance of putting our resources in players that have a lot of upside, but for every Isak for £70m you need a Targett for £10m.
It’s the middle signings I think we should avoid such as Tosun for £20m, Bolasie for £25m, Gylfi £45m.
Maupay, just turned 26, for £14m and £70/80k a week for 10 goals a season (especially when he’s not just a poacher, he’s a menace and would instantly be one of our best players), is exactly the right move to allow us to buy the likes of Onana.
We’re not the only team who bid for him either, and Thelwell has shown that any player who doesn’t make the cut will be moved on at speed. It’s low risk, medium reward. Sensible.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
Maupay plays as a support striker, we're going to have to change the way we play to accommodate him. This signing makes no sense at all. A striker who rarely scores and who plays in a front two is supposed to be the catalyst for change in a team that creates few chances and plays one up front? I don't get it.
Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £8m
He's likely to get a few reds too, short fuse...
Richarlison was arguably a support striker coming in off the left.
Because he wasn’t a 9 and he wasn’t a winger.
I’m not comparing the 2 players like for like, but I don’t think we have to completely change the way we play to accommodate him.
The Binman
Player Valuation: £8m
He’s a striker who does score albeit not lots, but what can we get that’s better, available and for similar money….!?
Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £8m
Dave dawson
Player Valuation: £1m
Maybe but it doesn't change what we are seeing on the pitch and none of us want to go through another season like the last one.Think he was referring to the bold text you used Dave...
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
He didn't play in a front 2, and last season he was our centre forward most of the time because we had no actual strikers. A bit like now, really.
GoSoccerToffees
Player Valuation: £750k
We play a system where Gordon and Gray play off the sides of our CF as support strikers. That's where Maupay will play. Consider him our Richarlison replacement, he has a very similar goal return and impact over the last 3 years for Brighton. Broja or Brereton Diaz will be the cover for DCL.
luuk_deventer
Player Valuation: £8m
22 in his last two seasons at twice relegated Norwich, yes.
Compared to 26 year old Neal Maupay who has scored 16 goals for midtable Brighton in his last two seasons.
I know who would be cheaper too.
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