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Alvaro Morata

est

y va marquer wrote:
Definitely more exciting than Benzema.

Seriously?

Morata may well be a top talent, but signing him would be so underwhelming at the moment, IMO. We need a ready made player, proven at the top level, ready to step in and perform straight away. Benzema will do that, Morata I'm not so sure.

Everyone expects Wenger to turn Balotelli's career around, should we sign him. Not many use the same rationale when talking about Benzema. Personally, I think there's a greater chance of Wenger getting the best out of the latter.

Captain

I agree with wanting someone to replace Giroud, but I watched a bit of him this year and Morata is a world class talent. Has potential to be one of the very best.

y va marquer

I do agree that there's more chance of Wenger rejuvenating Benzema than somehow reforming Bolotelli.
I guess my enthusiasm for Morata is more a reflection of my ambivalence towards Benzema than anything else 🙂

Have we announced the signing yet?

Captain

Thing is, Benzema has nothing to reform or rejuvenate. He is basically playing at the peak of his ability right now.

y va marquer

That's also a possibility.
His best could even be behind him.

Divine

y va marquer wrote:
Have we announced the signing yet?

no.

i still think this won't happen lol. 🙁

est

Captain wrote:
Buy back option? Don't believe it in a million years.

Hard to tell from that translation, but it sounds more like first refusal.

No way we'd accept a buy back clause.

Nela

Does he have pace?

Can someone describe his style?

Captain

lorddulaarsenal

Nela wrote:
Does he have pace?

Can someone describe his style?

He's about similar speed to Torres.

He's fairly similar to how Torres was back in his Atletico days

goon

est wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
Definitely more exciting than Benzema.

We need a ready made player, proven at the top level, ready to step in and perform straight away. Benzema will do that

Not sure he will. He's had more than his fair share of abject seasons to make that statement anything but a certainty. Even this season where he's supposedly been good he's not exactly been star quality.

Benz would be a solid addition but I just don't see him transforming our game, hence the lack of excitement. Morata at least has the unknown quantity factor going for him.

Doc

meh - do not want, need an established striker. doesn't even look that exciting

Gazza M

morata has alot of potential, and is a big guy too. but he'd literally murder sanogo.

Rex

Morata is a class player in the making. We'd need a class winger too though.

Gunner89

y va marquer wrote:
Gunner89 wrote:
I believe if you simply click the link it will show you the source which was the point of placing that URL. It's a spanish media source. Seems to have about 400k followers on twitter.

The link does not work for me so simply clicking doesn't help.
If you think the source is reliable I'll take your word for it.

Unfortunately regarding Spanish media sources I honestly don't know but (don't laugh) 400k twitter followers seems a lot. I post a lot of new threads on the transfer forum and you will rarely see me using caughtoffside, givemefootball, bleacher-report, metro etc. if at all to justify starting new ones.

Gazza M

some good summaries of morata's style here

http://www.thehardtackle.com/2013/alvaro-morata-scouting-the-talented-real-madrid-forward/

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/why-you-need-know-alvaro-morata

dreamlord

Rayman wrote:
Fully expect this to happen, because wenger signs Spanish, British, French or Germans,

This is the second time I've read this illogical statement of yours. You gotta stop talking bullshit as if its fact. Although credit to you, last time you said only Spanish, French and Germans. I suppose 20 posts down the line you'll get there...

Claudius

I like what I have seen from this guy, but it would be such an underwhelming signing. It would need to be paired with a signing of a Di Maria or a Pogba for the fans to feel like we are moving in the right direction.

Irishgunner

Gazza M wrote:
some good summaries of morata's style here

http://www.thehardtackle.com/2013/alvaro-morata-scouting-the-talented-real-madrid-forward/

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/why-you-need-know-alvaro-morata

Cheers! I don't think I've seen him play.

e: He's 6'2" and fast, yes please!

Qwiss

Captain wrote:
I agree with wanting someone to replace Giroud, but I watched a bit of him this year and Morata is a world class talent. Has potential to be one of the very best.

My worry is that Real know this and will only sell him with a buy back clause.

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