Plenty said Benteke wasn't good enough, including 'experts' and people that watched him. Same for Rogers and Duran. Maybe he's the next one, or the next Helenius. The transfer fee is the modern equivalent of the million we spent on Helenius twelve and a half years ago.
Don't remember anybody saying Benteke wasn't good enough although there's always a few loons around plus people who hate tiny ears. He was a one in two game scorer for Genk and his first season with us even better, 23 goals in 39 games. The £10m fee is massive for a young, unproven player from the Brazilian league where in everything I've read he was at the £2m value. Let's hope he turns out to be like Rogers.
My concern, other than it's again more money thrown at a position we desperately need to resolve, is that should we have real interest in Kaio Jorge (or any other Brazilian), it's going to make it very difficult to negotiate with Cruzeiro who will now want a fortune.
