Kylian Mbappe

[Jazzman]

Edinson 'Plays in Ligue 1' Cavani has been streets ahead of Aguero all season..It's not even close.
G.Jesus >= Mbappé >>> Aguero.

So how many games with Mbappe have you watched this season?

 

[kun]

For fuck sake man, just come out and say it. The facts suggests Aguero will not be an upgrade for PSG. He wouldn't. They are different types of strikers and are both close to the top of the pile.

Aguero is better for us and Cavani is better for them. @Metalartin need to Argue Aguero is better is just a blue tinted position.

Aguero is great, and there are other great strikers too. Cavani being one of them. Aguero might be better in a vacuum (arguably), but he is clearly not better for PSG. And Cavani has been a better striker this year for PSG than Aguero has been for City.

So no Aguero is not and should not be an option for PSG.

Agüero would score 40+ if he played in France.

 

[Edwin Edwin]

So how many games with Mbappe have you watched this season?

All his 33 appearances this season.

 

[Jazzman]

All his 33 appearances this season.

Can't fault your sampling space based on which you made your comparison then.

 

[RayCTID]

Similar to Bernardo Silva who is one of those players that if available you blow the transfer budget on but we need other players first.

 

[Jazzman]

Similar to Bernardo Silva who is one of those players that if available you blow the transfer budget on but we need other players first.

That is the situation in a nutshell. We need defenders and midfielders before new attackers.

 

[Easy]

I think sometimes you need to put what Mbappé is doing into context. He's going to score 20 goals at 18 years old.

Aguero was 20 the first time he got over 20 goals in a season.

Messi was 22
Higuain was 20
Suarez was 21
C.Ronaldo was 22
Cavani was 24
Ibrahimovic was 23
Rooney was 21
Aubameyang was 24 (also in France)
Dybala was 22
Falcao - 23
Icardi was 22
Lewandowski was 20
Griezmann was 23
Sanchez was 25
Müller was 24
Benzema was 21
Kane was 22
Diego Costa was 25
Lukaku was 19

If you want to go back a while...

Tevez 21
Fernando Torres 20
Eto'o - 23
Totti - 26
Batistuta - 25
Del Piero - 23
Henry 23
Shearer 22 (and in a longer season)
Van Nistelrooy 23
Raúl 19

Mbappe turned 18 in December remember.


Young players don't get that many goals. They aren't supposed to. Even the very best teenage strikers usually only show little hints of how good they could be, they don't discover the consistency to score 20+ goals a season for 3 or 4 years.

And then, Mbappé isn't just doing this as a teenager, he's doing it in his debut season. That's why we wanted to pay £40m for him last summer and why there's so much of a fuss over him...he's absolutely destroying the achievements of the worlds best strikers when they were his age, and he's doing it from a standing start.

I don't know if we're going to sign him, I'd be really, really sad to see Sergio go, the amount of money it would cost would be insane - but people seem to just not really be getting why his exploits this season are attracting the attention they have been. This is why.

To be honest I'm surprised how much people are undervaluing him in here after the CL games against Monaco, because everyone was fucking terrified of him when he got the ball.

This should be on every page. Very impressive. Just one point. You should probably update the list with ages of these strikers the first time they hit 30 goals in a season because that is a number I could easily see him reaching. Really interested to see how he performs in the League Cup Final this Saturday against PSG and in the CL games against B. Dortmund.

Comparisons to Martial? haha Mbappe right now is 10 times the player Martial will ever be. How anyone can even make those comparisons and say things like its his first season, lets see what he does next year is beyond me. This kid is absolute class and will probably be scoring 30+ goals a season for the next 10 years at least.

Among his many attributes, one of the most important is that he is humble and will keep his head down, work hard and improve. This is the same reason that I believe Sane, Sterling, and Jesus will become greats and will reach their potential and the same reason a player like Pogba never will. You can have all the potential in the wrong but who cares if you're more focused on dance moves, dabbing, and cringe worthy celebrations.

If Mbappe wants to join, you pay the fee, whatever it is. He is going to be a superstar and would join our 3 gems in what would be the most fearsome attack in all of Europe behind MSN (for now).

 

[domalino]

This should be on every page. Very impressive. Just one point. You should probably update the list with ages of these strikers the first time they hit 30 goals in a season because that is a number I could easily see him reaching. Really interested to see how he performs in the League Cup Final this Saturday against PSG and in the CL games against B. Dortmund.

Comparisons to Martial? haha Mbappe right now is 10 times the player Martial will ever be. How anyone can even make those comparisons and say things like its his first season, lets see what he does next year is beyond me. This kid is absolute class and will probably be scoring 30+ goals a season for the next 10 years at least.

Among his many attributes, one of the most important is that he is humble and will keep his head down, work hard and improve. This is the same reason that I believe Sane, Sterling, and Jesus will become greats and will reach their potential and the same reason a player like Pogba never will. You can have all the potential in the wrong but who cares if you're more focused on dance moves, dabbing, and cringe worthy celebrations.

If Mbappe wants to join, you pay the fee, whatever it is. He is going to be a superstar and would join our 3 gems in what would be the most fearsome attack in all of Europe behind MSN (for now).

A Sterling, Sané, Jesus, Mbappé forward line, even with only 3/4 playing at any one time would be like someone playing Fifa and buying up all the wonderkids.

 

[richards30]

A Sterling, Sané, Jesus, Mbappé forward line, even with only 3/4 playing at any one time would be like someone playing Fifa and buying up all the wonderkids.

But then if someone gets injured or has a loss of form or confidence.........

 

[Easy]

A Sterling, Sané, Jesus, Mbappé forward line, even with only 3/4 playing at any one time would be like someone playing Fifa and buying up all the wonderkids.

I would expect 3 of the 4 to start. Win-win really. Competition makes everyone better and there is more than enough games to go around.

haha It would be exactly like that. I see very few wonderkids at the level or better than the 3 that we have but Mbappe is certainly one of them, maybe the only one.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Id rather go for tried and trusted forwards now as we have some of the best up and coming! If aguero goes then sanchez also defoe on a free for a season would be a non-brainer for me would count towards english qouta and would garuntee goals as a squad player!!!

 

[Serg10Aguero]

Id rather go for tried and trusted forwards now as we have some of the best up and coming! If aguero goes then sanchez also defoe on a free for a season would be a non-brainer for me would count towards english qouta and would garuntee goals as a squad player!!!

Defoe? No thanks

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Id rather go for tried and trusted forwards now as we have some of the best up and coming! If aguero goes then sanchez also defoe on a free for a season would be a non-brainer for me would count towards english qouta and would garuntee goals as a squad player!!!

Imagine playing defoe against barcelona in the UCL. That's definitely a NONE brainer.

 

[Metalartin]

For fuck sake man, just come out and say it. The facts suggests Aguero will not be an upgrade for PSG. He wouldn't. They are different types of strikers and are both close to the top of the pile.

Aguero is better for us and Cavani is better for them. @Metalartin need to Argue Aguero is better is just a blue tinted position.

Aguero is great, and there are other great strikers too. Cavani being one of them. Aguero might be better in a vacuum (arguably), but he is clearly not better for PSG. And Cavani has been a better striker this year for PSG than Aguero has been for City.

So no Aguero is not and should not be an option for PSG.

Oh please stop your logic is flawed, Cavani would not score at the same rate Aguero has done in the PL it's as simple as that, the teams are much weaker in that league... have you even watched him? I have, the chances we say Aguero should have put away are not sitters more often than not, we just know how good he can be so he is held to a higher standard... that guy regularly misses sitters. Anyone claiming Cavani is on Aguero's level as a striker has no clue what they are talking about, someone tried to claim the stats back up he's better in the champions league I proved why that was bollocks with the cold hard facts, the figures I gave are correct go check and I do believe they have had easier groups and easier knockout phases more often than not.

Now its "oh he's better for them and Aguero's better for us", more rubbish Aguero is better than Cavani, if not why is that anyone's comparing Cavani's purple patch for PSG to a so so season by his own standards for us? Flawed logic!

Even in what has been described as his best season ever he has put in performances like this:


I did say I don't think it is a likely destination for Kun because Cavani is doing the business at the moment(and lets not make out it was always the case ) and it's not like they are short on options upfront by the looks of it but lets stop talking bullshit about the quality of our own players just because people want to justify a big transfer. I want Aguero to stay regardless but some of the garbage here needed addressing.

Back on topic anyway.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

I'm sure i put as a squad player so why would he be playing against Barca? If u need a goal who would u prefer to come off the bench defoe or inenacho??? And don't start saying mbappe or jesus cos players like that won't stand for places on the bench defoe would!!!

 

[Metalartin]

For 90% of those PSG games he was on the wing though wasn't he?

His main position at PSG is still centre forward, every time I've seen them play he's down the centre, di maria and draxler out wide. Just a quick look on skysports showed me their last 3 league games were the same way they set up against their Barca home game as above.

 

[Barcon]

The problem, well one of the problems with signing Defoe is that he wouldn't sign a one year contract with us.
We would have to give him a three year contract like Nolito and then be stuck trying to get rid of him after a year.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

I'm sure i put as a squad player so why would he be playing against Barca? If u need a goal who would u prefer to come off the bench defoe or inenacho??? And don't start saying mbappe or jesus cos players like that won't stand for places on the bench defoe would!!!

when you have injured players, your squad players become your starters for 3-4 weeks. So picture that defoe up against Barcelona scenario and tell me what you think.

 

[Serg10Aguero]

when you have injured players, your squad players become your starters for 3-4 weeks. So picture that defoe up against Barcelona scenario and tell me what you think.

I'd rather play our youth than Defoe

 

[BAB.DAB]

I would expect 3 of the 4 to start. Win-win really. Competition makes everyone better and there is more than enough games to go around.

haha It would be exactly like that. I see very few wonderkids at the level or better than the 3 that we have but Mbappe is certainly one of them, maybe the only one.

Good post totally agree with you
4 into 3 doesn't go but it gives us rotation and different options upfront plus cover for any possible injuries or suspension in a 50+ game season