Klaus We won't be signing two average players though, my point is the club clearly don't see Gyokeres as a world class striker who will elevate us. If we were turning down Isak and going for Sesko I'd get it but there is clearly doubt about whether Gyokeres can be a 20+ goal scorer here. I know you don't agree but if he was that guy I'd argue PL clubs would be climbing over each other to get him. He has just turned 27 so realistically has limited re-sale value and isn't going to improve much more either. He is the finished product but clearly there are doubts as to whether he'll be able to hit those heights here. Personally I think he could go to Italy or Spain and do really where, here I am not so sure.
Sesko may only be scoring 13 goals in Germany now but that needs to be taken in context, he was 21 when he finished this season and a lot of the top strikers now weren't putting up those numbers when they were 20/21. The club clearly think he will step up and become a top scorer. If he is going to explode it will happen in the next 2 years. I get the argument that we don't have 2 years but I think we already have more than enough in the squad as it is, we just don't have numbers and if we can get a top quality LW we'll be banging in goals.
Klaus But in those seasons the reason for us not winning the league wasn't down to goals, in 22/23 our defence fell apart and 23/24 it was that Villa game we randomly lost and City matching our monster run in the 2nd half of the season.
