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Noni Madueke

Qwiss

USArsenal Will he justify 50 million?

What does that look like these days? He's probably not going to be first XI even if he does well so it'd be harsh to say "not worth £50m" if he doesn't. Hincapie is in a similar position. If they have a meaningful contribution to a title run then they'll have been worth it. If he can make himself as important as Trossard the last 2 years he'll have done very well.

USArsenal

Qwiss

True, 50 million is just the going rate these days. I agree that if we win something major, then it doesnt matter what he (or your other example of Hincapie) costs, they will be part of the team that wins something, and its worth it. It will be validation of the squad building, and everyone will play a part.

Burnwinter

If he looks decent like that when he plays, the £50m won't matter, we'll scoop a good chunk of it back if we choose. Remembering he's reportedly on lower wages, he looks a deal, and if he does "explode" he looks an absolute bargain.

RocktheCasbah

Grant Xhaka cost £35m nine seasons ago - if you look at it like that...

Qwiss

RocktheCasbah You know whats mad, Leverkusen made money on him. Despite him being 32 now. That's how bad Edu was at selling.

RowJimmy

Focus on transfer fees rather than wages is weird and distorting. Of course for Americans the fact that none of these things are publicly reported is weird.

lorddulaarsenal

RowJimmy if find it even more disturbing that transfers fees and wages aren’t reported net of income from shirt sales.

Sicario2

This guy’s ceiling is massively high. Built like a machine, a bit more finesse and this guy will truly ‘explode’.

flobaba

TambourineMan just don't want us to lose this. Needs pinning.

Segway

Top performance today. Went past his marker whenever he felt like it.

Doc

Good performance, still needs to work on his final ball, probably has more time than he thinks to get it off.

USArsenal

Doc

I think its more that he needs to work on his right foot more. His crosses were too often floated across, which is easier to defend. But otherwise, he absolutely terrorized Forest's LB today. Im sure Saka would have done the same, but its nice to have multiple players who can do that and cause havoc.

Qwiss

Doc there are a few tweaks he can make because he constantly has his man on the back foot which gives him options. He's a bit too prone to slow everything to a stop and then start again. He needs to learn to mix it up and sometimes do things a bit quicker.

FEBravo

The amount of space they were giving him was insane. You could see it really well live. They were double teaming Gyok and leaving Noni 1v1. Saka would have been upset seeing it. Doesn’t have the best final ball but went through almost at will and will just get better. You can see he’s full of confidence too.

MistaT

Just needs some of whatever they gave Vinicius when he up-leveled his finishing

MistaT

Match comp - that's an absurd performance, and his crossing/chance was quite good. Got far more right than wrong.

Qwiss

Those runs on his outside from Gyokeres and Timber were the best chances, that seems to be one of those understanding things. Reckon we'll see it a lot more over the next few weeks.

USArsenal

On a side note... Something else positive is that he is a more than adequate corner taker. He put in at least 3 or 4 really good corners today that created some good chances (and Zubi's goal came from one of his corners).

Just another weapon for Set Piece FC.

Burnwinter

Good to see a few of the haters who moaned for the summer that the opportunity cost of signing Madueke was ruining everything are now barging their way onto the Noni bandwagon after witnessing about one hour of his actual football in our shirt.

JazzG

Good to see him playing this well already, got a chance with Saka being out and fair play to him he is showing what he is about.

Said it in the summer despite all the stick he got he is a really good player and something completely different to what we have in the squad

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