coulsonblue said:
Mayor West said:
You don't think one of the best strikers in the world is worth more than £20m? Are you sure?
OB1 said:
Hilarious.
I'm sure Napoli are asking too much but the idea that Cavani is worth less than we paid for James Milner or Dzeko or...
We overpaid for Milner at £24m. There is an "English tax" due to home grown rules. Milner in truth is worth no more than half that. He is a workhorse with very little technical ability.
Dzeko was also overpriced at £28m or whatever it was around that.
Cavani isn't as good as Aguero or Tevez in my opinion. And he certainly isn't cheaper than retaining either or both of them. Why waste all that money?
I concede that Cavani is better than Dzeko but please don't detract from the main point I was trying to make. That signing another striker for top dollar won't solve our problems.
Glad someone here is posting sense. If we buy Cavani within one season the following will happen,
1) Aguero won't be happy not being the main man
2) Cavani won't be happy not being the main man
It's got Dzeko written all over it. Even playing Tevez with Aguero like we're forced so often to do isn't a good idea, they're both strikers, and one of them really should be a world class ACM.
4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, whatever we end up playing, the man at the centre of it all should be Aguero. If Aguero is off to Madrid in a season then fair doos, bring in Cavani. But if he isn't, signing more top class strikers won't mean we score a load more goals.
Silva and Nasri. That is the extent of our attacking midfield if you (wisely) omit Sinclair. If you can name me a single european elite team with only two ACMs I'll show you a god damned liar.
We've built a criminally one dimensional team. The solution is not in replacing our out of favour dedicated centre forward (who will go to a team playing to his strengths and start banging them in again), with another even more expensive dedicated centre forward.