Nico Williams just scored this. This is what I want. A second protagonist in attack to balance Saka

    Claudius one more goal and he will equal Gabriel Magalhaes tally this season. Not to shabby for the 100 mil, 375K per week winger.
    Took him till the last week of February to get 2 goals

        HomeSteak
        1) his production isn’t great this season. Good time to buy. The player is ridiculously talented
        2) Martinelli gets unfair grief.

            Claudius 1. His production isn't great. Period. In the league he scores 3 goals per season on average, a goal every 11 games. He is talented, but forget about it. The money they want for him is insane, the money he wants is beyond stupid. But I agree he is talented.

            1. Yes.

              Coombs it isn’t. If you’re not clear what part of the problem you’re trying to solve, you’ll do the wrong thing. If we solve for xG outperformance, the highest in the league is Chris Wood. So say we go get him. But we still have a problem getting the ball into the space I front of penalty box and into penalty box. So this shaep knife will be left unused.

                  • Coombs

                  • Post #147
                  • Edited

                  Claudius my point is that we don't actually have that problem. xG is useless here because it doesn't consider shots not taken.

                      Do we have a throw in coach? I imagine so.

                        The longer we don't have a DoF in place, the less confident I get on us doing what we need to do this summer to take the next step to being an elite squad next year. Hope we get someone in soon and it needs to be someone with experience negotiating big transfers IMO. I like the links today with Andrea Berta, the former sporting director of Atletico Madrid from 2017 - 2024. He had a great mix of value signings and bigger splashes (of course some didn't work out) and would seem to have good experience negotiating with the top clubs/agents. I trust Arteta's talent ID but I believe where we have dropped the ball is in convincing the player/agent/team to make the move. Let Arteta have a big say in who we go after but then get the deal done.

                        I'd sign him and Zubimendi

                        Another good CM to keep an eye on.

                        Hope we go for Kimmich, would be all over that.

                        Zubimendi doesnt really do it for me, bit too bland considering the type of player that occupies left 8 for us.. Going back for Douglas Luiz could be another option.