Don't think anyone knows how he will turn out. You cant judge a players chances of success at the prem by the championship anymore than you can judge a player from the Belgium 1st division and i heard the same arguments last summer. All we know is Smith has bet the farm on him, and in 12 months time, he'll either be gone or people will be aiming plaudits at him for buying a player no-one else would gamble on.place your bets now....
Quote from: sickbeggar on September 09, 2020, 12:15:14 AMDon't think anyone knows how he will turn out. You cant judge a players chances of success at the prem by the championship anymore than you can judge a player from the Belgium 1st division and i heard the same arguments last summer. All we know is Smith has bet the farm on him, and in 12 months time, he'll either be gone or people will be aiming plaudits at him for buying a player no-one else would gamble on.place your bets now....This is true of almost any signing, I've seen us sign players with experience (at the level we're playing) for big money who flop a lot more often than youngsters with big reputations.I think character and attitude, and how they match the rest of the squad, are far more important than experience because they have a bigger effect on how players settle into the club. Both signings so far fit with the squad as it was at the end of the season.
I thik the video linked earlier is very misleading. It shows him scoring a lot of 'fox in the box' style goals, and that will be welcome, but if you look at how he was playing before last season where he was a winger more often you get a much better understanding of his overall game:
i wish someone had taken Brian Green's advice three or four years ago and bought him then.
Didn't we have this exact argument last year? I thought at the end of the season just gone there was consensus that we erred too far towards potential + inexperience and badly needed a few experienced heads. So far we've spent what £43M+ on two lads with no PL experience whatsoever. Okay, you lose money on older players with no resale value but that's not why you're buying them. You're buying them because the team - particularly the inexperienced lads - needs them. In fact, you really shouldn't be buying one without the other and I fully expect us to bring in a couple before the end of the window.