Álvaro Negredo Sánchez

[Sleeping_Easy]

Did Atletico not just get a fortune for Falcao, if we get him in as I have said since the list was leaked I think he could do a very good job for us, I hope he looks as strong here as he is for Sevilla. I also cant believe how many people are complaining without giving him a chance he is a top striker for a decent amount of money I personally don't think we were ripped of or did we ripped of Sevilla. They seem to be a reasonable team wonder if they would sell us Moreno?!lol

Which list is this

 

[CityForever45]

Still think dzeko will go if Negredo is signed. I think we could end up with Aguero Negredo Guidetti and lamela who could play striker or out wide

This. Negredo is clearly Dzeko replacement

 

[Citizenhill]

Maybe we could be looking at Jovetic if he's replacing Dzeko? He's not seemingly going to anyone anymore, dunno just a suggestion, I can't see why we wouldn't address another striking position before we replaced Dzeko, unless we're now playing one up top.

 

[kun]

Maybe we could be looking at Jovetic if he's replacing Dzeko? He's not seemingly going to anyone anymore, dunno just a suggestion, I can't see why we wouldn't address another striking position before we replaced Dzeko, unless we're now playing one up top.

Aguero, Negredo, Jovetic, Guidetti

I like

 

[Jumanji]

Still think dzeko will go if Negredo is signed. I think we could end up with Aguero Negredo Guidetti and lamela who could play striker or out wide

This. Negredo is clearly Dzeko replacement

I don't think Dzeko is going anywhere this year, but of course you never know.

More likely, Edin and Álvaro will battle it out for a spot next to Kun in most games.

 

[ElanJo]

Watched him in a game and thought he was average ... but he scored a hat trick lol

Reminded me of Dzeko. Slow/cumbersome and not that great on the ball but a good finisher, tho he seemed stronger than Edin and had a better workrate.

Would prefer to sign a more nimble forward tbh

 

[NQCitizen]

Still think dzeko will go if Negredo is signed. I think we could end up with Aguero Negredo Guidetti and lamela who could play striker or out wide

This. Negredo is clearly Dzeko replacement

That's a strike force of an injury prone player and three players who have never played a minute of premiership football, two of which are inexperienced youngsters.

 

[jonmcity]

Watched him in a game and thought he was average ... but he scored a hat trick lol

Reminded me of Dzeko. Slow/cumbersome and not that great on the ball but a good finisher, tho he seemed stronger than Edin and had a better workrate.

Would prefer to sign a more nimble forward tbh

The hat trick will do for me.

 

[skandreas]

For those who do not know much about him, this is a video with goals from the previous season. One can tell that he is a very good finisher, he loves a chip aswell, which is a nice bonus.

<a class="postlink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tji2_DkWV4s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tji2_DkWV4s</a>

 

[keemcfc]

Question is, does he improve our team from last year, is he better than tevez?

It was disappointing to lose tevez, but obviously we need to trim the wage bill so in the end he had to go, not really sure about this guy yet, seems to be a bit like dzecko in style, big strong goal poacher with no pace, i can't really work out how pellers is gonna set the team up yet, think he might do okay on his own up front playing in a similar role to how Fred plays for brazil, don't see him working well with kun tho as I think his attributes are to similar to dzecko who as we saw last season cannot play with kun.

Assuming we do get him we'll have

Aguero, quick, tricky, good movement, iffy finishing
Guidetti, strong target man, unknown quantity
Dzecko, immobile target man with confidence issues
Negredo, strong, target man, looks a good finisher, slow, unproven in the prem

hope that if we do sign this guy dzecko will be on his way, replaced by a quicker more mobile player to balance our strikers.

He isn't better than Tevez, he isn't replacing Tevez I don't think who I would hardly class as a striker for us since he came back off holiday. Been playing a lot deeper, as a CF almost.

Just because he has similar attributes on paper it doesn't mean that he can't play with Aguero. To be fair you could also argue a new manager could coach Dzeko and Aguero into a very potent partnership. Mancini struggled to do this because he also had to shoe horn Balotelli and Tevez into the team to keep some kind of squad harmony!
Txiki is working his way through removing that problem as much as possible, create a squad that is streamlined and "battle ready" for each situation.

I don't think Dzeko will be sold until Lewandowski leaves Dortmund, there doesn't seem to be any other club out there interested.

Four out and out strikers in Aguero, Dzeko, Negredo and Guidetti is fine.
I wonder if Navas is perhaps going to be used as you say as a mobile striker if really necessary.

Navas is possible, only seen him getting chalk on his boots for Spain tho, maybe nasri could be pushed further forward as he has an eye for goal and could link well with kun?

Yaya could play as a striker if we're that desperate :)