30 Apr 2025 07:53:14
Ed001, can I get your opinion on Joao Pedro from Brighton as a target for us please?
I know his goal tally isn't spectacular yet but he is still only young and he is a lot more familiar to the english game than some of the other linked names. He reminds me a lot of Bobby, dropping deep bringing wingers into play and can beat a player with skill instead of pace which is rare trait.
Similar to Cunha as a false 9 who is probably currently better but I think his ceiling is much higher.
Do you know how attainable he would be from Brighton?
30 Apr 2025 08:14:04
Brighton don't enter the chat unless the numbers are ridiculous. My one concern with Cunha is that he walks around for most of the game. How would that sit with other players?
Pedro is a grafter but may cost 40m more.
30 Apr 2025 08:49:58
To be fair we don't know what cunha's ceiling can be in a better team either, he is already frighteningly tenacious and deadly with wolves. Plus he would be close to half the price of Pedro, so really it's a complete no brainer.
We don't yet know what kind of a 9 slot wants though, whether he wants somebody to offer presence in the box to score against low blocks, or somebody to link up play between the lines. Unicorns like isak can do both, which is why he would cost so much. I would guess that whoever we buy up top they do need to offer something in the box given our tendency to spam crosses to nobody when we are facing an immovable low block.
30 Apr 2025 09:57:57
Pedro has a terrible attitude - and absolutely fine footballer (not a nine and not a ten) but he’s a liability which is proven over and over.
Leave the hiring of bad personalities to United.
30 Apr 2025 11:13:09
PatrikBurgher- Elliott, Nunez, Jota and Chiesa = Isak, but can we afford to loose 4 players to get one?
30 Apr 2025 12:01:47
Pedro has got nothing on Cunha imo. Not good enough for a top team.
30 Apr 2025 12:12:22
Osimhen back in the frame at 64m.
Could he be one of the 2 replacements for Nunez/ Jota?
30 Apr 2025 12:30:38
Osimhen is more attainable than isak, although id prefer the latter, and he’s better than sesko so I woudlnt be adverse to taking the punt. Both my mo eh at the end of the day and he’ll be more eff twice than what we currently have.
30 Apr 2025 12:41:10
Osimhen is currently on 200k a week basic wage (not Inc bonuses) and was looking to get closer to 300k on his next contract. There have also been complaints from Napoli coaching staff about his attitude in training though it's hard to know if that due to the stand off between Napoli and osimhen.
I'm also not really convinced by him. He's not very clinical and often needs 5 chances to score 1. He's all pace and no finesse for me. I think whoever signs him will feel short-changed by what they get.
30 Apr 2025 14:31:54
Reports going around that we were actually very close to signing osimhen in January, and that some kind of hitch with payments from Napoli to osimhen halted the deal, causing us to pull the plug on letting nunez go to Saudi arabia. Macca said as much before, so maybe there is some truth to it? I have no idea really.
30 Apr 2025 15:37:01
I posted 2 or 3 months ago when i saw links to him that he is average and i don't rate him what so ever, very slow, very turgid in position, not very skillful, very average finisher and 60%+ of his goals have been penalties. Damn, i sound like viktor right now.
30 Apr 2025 16:26:36
Ed002 (rest his soul) confirmed that Osimhen wanted £400k to go to Chelsea, a team he purportedly supported as a kid, he was happy to throw away a year of his career over that in a farmers league over those obscene demands, then there’s his falling out with coaches which he has a habit of doing. Bloke strikes me as a bit of a dickhead. As for Jaoa Pedro, he seems like half the footballer that Cunha is for double the price, as Tony Bloom does like rinsing buyers when there’s no buyout clause, Pedro is nowhere near good enough for us, 5 goals in open play this season is p. poor for a forward, we’d be binning off one misfiring South American for another.
30 Apr 2025 16:47:32
Reports? Don’t know why anyone believes reports they’re all clickbait.
Reality is nobody, bar maybe the Saudis would pay him 300k a week so his demands will naturally have to come down. And as mentioned previously it’s not my money ?♂️.
30 Apr 2025 16:54:06
Just go and get plain old Liam Delap for 30 million, who has outscored both of our strikers in a relegated team. No brainer. We might even get some free "long throw' training from his dad thrown in.
30 Apr 2025 17:17:21
Of the rumours I’ll say
Isak, Alvarez, Osimhen, Cunha, Delap
In that order. Personally think we should be aiming for the first two if any. I’m not massively sold on the other 3. Good players but we should be aiming for the best if possible.
30 Apr 2025 18:49:19
Is the scouting of a cf the most difficult job in football? Since Suarez and Sturridge (who pushed to bring them in? ), we haven’t signed a successful cf. Bobby was an attacking midfielder; Salah, Gakpo and Mane wingers.
And apart from the Sturridge, Suarez, Torres blitz have we made a successful cf signing since Aldrich? Cisse, Nunez, Benteke, Morientes, Keane, Collymore, Saunders, Carroll all looked great - but less so with us.
Feels to me that banking down on anything but a proven cf rarely works.
30 Apr 2025 19:12:39
It's hard to know what slot wants in his CF, as he's just used the options he's had available. The fact that he's used Jota and Diaz indicates he's looking for someone who perhaps plays a bit deeper, can run at defenders, but also with the pace to keep up with counter attacks, and a keen presser. Of all mentioned targets, Cunha probably fits that description best, but I wouldn't be surprised to see someone not mentioned so far come in.
30 Apr 2025 20:38:49
Well Slot said he wants his nine to score goals. He’s been pretty emphatic.
If you could guarantee Jota was available for 30 PL games he’d take that. He won’t be.
01 May 2025 00:09:28
Isak, way too expensive, simply not going to happen as Newcastle won’t want to sell if they’re in the champions league.
Alvarez, literally on record as saying he’s done with England, also, missus hated it here.
Osimhen, stupid wage demands, bit of a knobhead, his wages will make most suitors walk away. Particularly us.
Cunha, apparently is likely to go to United according to popular rumour.
Delap, buyout clause makes it attractive but apparently Chelsea have been sniffing around for months and he’s keen to join them. That 7 year contract coin is all the rage…
What odds we sell Nunez and don’t replace?
01 May 2025 01:52:37
I too think those reports would be clickbait if macca wasn't on here saying it was going to happen.
Viktor, I would say the odds are zero. Our track record proves that when we want somebody we go and get them, so not sure why you would think otherwise.
01 May 2025 03:26:35
I don't think Isak, Alvarez, or Osimhen would be coming to us. But I say we have a good chance of Cunha or Delap. For all the talk of Cunha preferring to go to United or United in "advance talks" with him and being in the "final stages" of negotiation, things have been very quiet on that front.
01 May 2025 09:59:23
So, you don’t think we’ll sign a Centre Forward then @VV? Watch out for my reminder post in August. You have no idea who the club want or how much they are willing to pay for the player they want.
01 May 2025 12:59:52
FAN FROM MALAWI I THINK ISAK or CUNHA CAN HELP US.
01 May 2025 14:14:40
We will sign a cf but I doubt it will be any named above.
01 May 2025 15:13:28
I think it might be Ekitike.
There is a lot of talk of Cunha to Man U being virtually complete. Apparently he found the battle for PL survival so exciting that he wants to go through it again next season.
01 May 2025 16:15:49
I'll give you even money, Vik.
01 May 2025 19:05:58
What’s odd would you give on Liverpool winning the League this season Viktor?
02 May 2025 08:37:12
Charles De Ketelaere is having a good season! Versatile, often plays CF.