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If wages are in line with the fee, then this, all day long.
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This should be true but every indication is that we just don't have the money to spend 30m on a striker plus another 25 for their wages. (which is a reasonable estimate that many of the strikers mentions on here would cost.) For a 4th choice striker/emergency winger I would be OK with Rodriguez (or Ayew). I think anyone better than this level will be a loan. |
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24 in 75 stacks up well in the grand scheme of things
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His Pl record, often playing wider is:
P 97(44) Mins 8807 (98 games) Goals 34 Assists 11 Not far off a goal or an assist every other game based on time played. The question mark has always been his fitness and would you lose him to the treatment table more than the pitch ? 47 starts and 4135 minutes played last season suggests he is fit now. Has scored 15 goals in 1 PL season, the only player we have who can claim that is Benteke. IMO Rodriguez is best suited to a 4-3-3 whereas we will play 4-4-2 but if he is available for £5m there will be quite a few clubs in for him and we should be one of them. |
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We wanted him last year but there were worries over the racism row with Bong at Brighton. Jason Puncheon even vouched for him but I assume we couldn’t make our minds up & he stayed at WBA.
I’d have him or Welbeck. Both players with pedigree who have just had horrible luck with injuries - can also play up top or out wide which is a massive bonus. Pochettino apparently rates Rodriguez massively from his time managing him at Southampton - that’s good enough for me.
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The main point i was making was, with ALL the strikers we have put together (excluding Zaha) have scored less than Half a dozen goals between them in the past Two years is unacceptable, which suggests it is not a squad striker that is our priority but a Main starting striker capable of scoring around 12 goals a season. Off course it is not that simple to just pluck one out especially at an affordable fee, but they are out there either at home or abroad as many many clubs have proved. We have been fortunate to have got away with ourlack of goals for the past few seasons, but if we continue not scoring goals it will spell trouble at some stage with the only alternative being relegation, and the cost of that would be unthinkable. If the Board states there are very limited funds to spend, then it could be the only alternative is to sacrifice one of our stars to raise the money and that for me unfortunately is AWB, hence why i previously suggested if we were to offer Man Utd the player they desperately want at a sensible fee of say £40m plus Dalot, who would be an excellent young replacement for AWB, but also provides the additional funds to bring in a very promising young striker like Maupay for around 18m, but could also help part fund the purchase OR if that was not possible, then funding for a seasons loan fee and wages to bring in a player who proved he can slot in and score goals for us, Batshuayi. The outlay for the Board in funding it would be minimal if anything at all, and in return we would have a replacement for AWB and bringing in TWO Strikers capable of scoring goals, it also allows us (if possible) to sell Benteke to raise further funds and also save a hefty wage, and allow us to have Wickham and Sorloth as the additional squad strikers. |
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When he didn't have time to think, he was an instinctive finisher. When he had time to think was when the problems started. Who can forget the Cabaye penalty saga and the red bull induced first half sending off. Total madness...... |
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He is cheap but his best days are well and truly behind him. He would fall into the category of another non-goalscoring forward on our books.
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Why do you say non-goalscoring? His record doesn't suggest that at all.
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My WBA season ticket holder friend says he is pure class & Premier League standard.
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No thanks.
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Would be a good signing
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Mine says otherwise and I’ve watched a fair bit of WBA in the last 18 months . Now too slow in movement and thought for the prem I think. Would rather keep Ayew than him
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We've spent a lot of money on Sakho, Benteke and Zaha (wages) along with lesser but significant costs of Townsend, Luka, PVA, Tomkins, Kouyate, Schlupp, Reidewald. If costs of these transfers are spread over the duration of the contract its no wonder we have little to spend.
So we need free transfers, loans and cheap deals such as with Sorloth, Meyer, Guaita, Ayew, Batshuiyi. Some will work, others won't. Given we have only a few loan spots and presumably very little to spend on transfers it becomes a question of risk. How risky is Rodriguez? £5 million fee and a 3 year deal only to have him injured for most of it is a significant risk to our ability to strenghen. A fit Rodriguez who is no longer up to PL football is almost as bad as being injured. We can only have a few aging players with injury histories in the squad (Sakho, Tomkins, Souare, Wickham). He's 30 next month and was underwhelming in his last PL season. My view is that any player over 30 with a history of long term injury should be exluded from consideration. I'd rather resign Ayew on loan - younger, cheaper and presumably fits in with the squad. His goals+Assists/minutes for us last season are similar to Rodriguez's last PL season, although he had far fewer opportunities to play so its difficult to compare. |
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I've no idea whether or not he's still much good, but I've always rated him when I've seen him personally. Cheap, versatile, gets goals and would be a better option than Ayew for that amount of money. |
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you wont be saying that when we havent scored for 10 games
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Why do you think Rodriguez would not score?
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I rate JR, good player... can play a few positions as well.
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