Dusan Vlahovic | Signed for Juventus

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Doesn’t exceeding your xG bode well? He’s out scoring what he should be based on the chances created - clinical & efficient. Suggests in a side creating more, he’d score even better? I don’t get it as a reason to be cautious at face value..

Dusan Vlahovic | Signed for Juventus

My biggest fear with Vlahovic is his pace and mobility. And how that would affect the fluidity of our attack. Haaland on the other hand is very quick. We don't need particularly quick, we don't really run in behind teams. Good movement,passing and finishing are the important atributes we will want.

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[AlanBalls]

Doesn’t exceeding your xG bode well? He’s out scoring what he should be based on the chances created - clinical & efficient. Suggests in a side creating more, he’d score even better? I don’t get it as a reason to be cautious at face value..

Three reasons for consistently exceeding xG:

1. Clinical as they come
2. Consistently poor goalkeeping
3. Extended purple patch

Once a striker starts to exceed their xG for longer than a 1-season period, you can comfortably say they’re just clinical. CR37 does it, Messi does it, Haaland does it. Vlahovic is getting there.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Three reasons for consistently exceeding xG:

1. Clinical as they come
2. Consistently poor goalkeeping
3. Extended purple patch

Once a striker starts to exceed their xG for longer than a 1-season period, you can comfortably say they’re just clinical. CR37 does it, Messi does it, Haaland does it. Vlahovic is getting there.

CR7 didn't even hit the same rate Dusan has while he was in Italy. Cant stats earlier than that, gotta assume he smashed the shit out of it a few times in Madrid.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

This is a tweet I really found interesting having seen a lot of overperforming xG shouts against Vlahohic.
The comparison with Belotti makes me a bit nervous because I do watch a little Seria A because of him and the league is dangerously slow.

We have a decent scouting department so if we eventually go for him, we would be fine because of the chances we create.
I worry about what happens after Pep leaves and we don't have an out of this world striker as we had in Aguero who was unperturbed by who the manager is and just creates goals out of nowhere.

Good job football isn't played on spreadsheets.

I'd bet a reasonable sum of money that tweet doesn't age very well

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Good job football isn't played on spreadsheets.

I'd bet a reasonable sum of money that tweet doesn't age very well

Vlahovic certainly has the right attitude that Pep would love.

 

[HolisticJim]

Not going to pretend I watch him every week like others do, I've seen bits, looks decent enough, has attributes we could find useful but doesn't seem special, just very good. Wouldn't be against signing him but If we missed out on vlahovic and he went to chelsea/liverpool/United next season, we might look on from time to time and think he could have been useful here but I doubt we would dwell on it and the next vlahovic will already be earmarked.

Can't say the same for Haaland, he's already special and got so much improvement to make. If he rocked up at another English club we would be envious on a weekly basis even if we're still successful. We can't allow that to happen no matter what. We're comfortably best placed of the English clubs to lure him, arguably best suited of any club, we have to be throwing everything in the hat to get him here.

Then once he's here we work on him daily until we convince him to drop his slimy agent and we don't have any of the standard Raiola bullshit in 2 seasons time.

But unfortunately we would have the standard Raiola bullshit in 2 seasons time.... And every 2 seasons until he left and pulled the same bullshit at another club. Its just not worth the hassle.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

But unfortunately we would have the standard Raiola bullshit in 2 seasons time.... And every 2 seasons until he left and pulled the same bullshit at another club. Its just not worth the hassle.

Raiola only chirps up when his clients want him to do so.

He couldn’t even find Santner a club when we wanted to sell him.

 

[HolisticJim]

Raiola only chirps up when his clients want him to do so.

He couldn’t even find Santner a club when we wanted to sell him.

I don't agree at all. Raiola chirps up when he wants a pay packet. A lot of players are just young guys. What were you like at 20?
They are easily led and he does what is required to get them more money - whispering in their ears and causing trouble for clubs.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I don't agree at all. Raiola chirps up when he wants a pay packet. A lot of players are just young guys. What were you like at 20?
They are easily led and he does what is required to get them more money - whispering in their ears and causing trouble for clubs.

Which players are you referring to?

 

[Agueroooo9320]

Vlahovics over performance in stats is quite similar to Dennis from Watford this season. If Watford would have got 6 penalties this season, and Dennis had taken and scored them all, would we consider him as a worthy Aguero replacement?

Vlahovic is of course, in my opinion, a better player than Dennis. I think he would be a good fit for us, fits the mould of players we usually target, and offers something we are currently missing at a reasonable price. He would be a good signing imo. But lets not pretend he is at Haalands level in ability. Signing Vlahovic could be the missing piece of the puzzle, signing Haaland would be a game changer.

Vlahovics over-performance reminds me of salah in liverpools's successful run because that is what great strikers do