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Author Topic: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread  (Read 864588 times)

Offline SheffieldVillain

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I e said it a few close seasons in a row now the one player we should get for not loads of cash is Dwight Gayle . Always scored against us for whoever he played for . Reminds me of a Dean Saunders type and runs at pace and covers every blade of grass. Can’t get a decent run in toon starting 11 for some reason

Thoughts  ?

If we were in the Championship, he'd be a good signing, he scores goals for fun.

In the Premier League, not so much - a goal nearly every 5 games.
2019-20 - 4 goals in 20 games
2017-18 - 6 goals in 35 games
2015-16 - 3 goals in 16 games
2014-15 - 5 goals in 25 games
2013-14 - 7 goals in 23 games

Seems to be one of those strikers great in the Championship but not good enough for the step up.

Offline fbriai

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Stickied until the start of the new season (September?).

I think the window extends into October, a few weeks after the new season starts.

I think it closes on the 5th of October.

Offline eamonn

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I e said it a few close seasons in a row now the one player we should get for not loads of cash is Dwight Gayle . Always scored against us for whoever he played for . Reminds me of a Dean Saunders type and runs at pace and covers every blade of grass. Can’t get a decent run in toon starting 11 for some reason

Thoughts  ?

If we were in the Championship, he'd be a good signing, he scores goals for fun.

In the Premier League, not so much - a goal nearly every 5 games.
2019-20 - 4 goals in 20 games
2017-18 - 6 goals in 35 games
2015-16 - 3 goals in 16 games
2014-15 - 5 goals in 25 games
2013-14 - 7 goals in 23 games

Seems to be one of those strikers great in the Championship but not good enough for the step up.

How many of those PL games were as sub rather than starter? He always seems to come on in games. Not that I'd be too keen on signing him now that we've stayed up. Had we gone down, definitely.

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Ineacho, Robinson, Albrighton, Walcott, Demari Gray ...
Is it 2016?
« Last Edit: July 30, 2020, 11:11:45 AM by Mister E »

Offline robleflaneur

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Wait for the outcome of the play off final and bid for Mitrovic or Watkins ,dependent on who doesn't get promoted.Add Benrahma if Brentford lose.

Offline andyh

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Watkins will have the pick of many clubs who will want him.

Offline hilts_coolerking

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Mitrovic isn't PL standard.  He's proven that season after season.

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Ake to Man City for £40m.....

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The Poundland Mings.

Offline Risso

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Well I'd be pleased if we signed Iheanacho.  Seems to have been developing at a decent rate, and despite playing second fiddle to Vardy this year, he still got 10 goals in 26 appearances.  Don't think we can turn our noses up at that to be honest.

Offline itbrvilla

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1000 on: July 30, 2020, 12:07:54 PM »
Well I'd be pleased if we signed Iheanacho.  Seems to have been developing at a decent rate, and despite playing second fiddle to Vardy this year, he still got 10 goals in 26 appearances.  Don't think we can turn our noses up at that to be honest.
19/20: 20 apps, 8 as sub, 5 goals

18/19: 30 apps, 21 as sub, 1 goal

17/80: 21 apps, 14 as sub, 3 goals

Total 71 apps, 43 of them as sub.

Offline sid1964

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1001 on: July 30, 2020, 12:23:57 PM »
Looking at Iheanacho - goal scoring this season and he has scored 5 goals in a good side, that create a fair few chances - Wes has scored the same amount in a crap team - and most on here don't rate Wes at all

For me Iheanacho is not the forward that we need

Offline luke:lamf

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1002 on: July 30, 2020, 12:28:16 PM »
Iheanacho is this generation's Nicklas Bendtner. Massively hyped (but perhaps not so much by himself), but actually bog-standard. Perfectly fine if you're paying £10-15 mil and comparatively limited wages for squad fodder, but as he has come up through Man City and been a "wunderkind" at one point, his selling club will be pushing for an inflated fee and his agent for stupid wages.

For the same return I'd expect from him I'd hope someone would have a poke around Europe and for just a bit of effort grab a bargain.

Offline JJ-AV

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1003 on: July 30, 2020, 12:35:39 PM »
15% of Ihenacho's domestic career goals have come against us.

He's only played against us in two of his five professional seasons (2015/16 and 2019/20)
« Last Edit: July 30, 2020, 12:38:37 PM by JJ-AV »

Offline fbriai

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1004 on: July 30, 2020, 12:42:16 PM »
15% of Ihenacho's domestic career goals have come against us.

He's only played against us in two of his five professional seasons (2015/16 and 2019/20)

Now I'm wondering whether it's worth us signing him just to stop him scoring against us!

 


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