Leeds United thread 2020/21

PannickAtTheDisco said:
Well Rodrigo is a better player, but hasn't exactly been a renowned goalscorer. He might be one of those like Michu who has a redhot introduction and that is enough.

I tend to go for the view that if a striker comes up from the Championship you have to divide his Championship goals by about a third to get his predicted PL output, and maybe halve it if he's already played in the Prem before.

So Pukki had 29 in the championship, 11 in the Prem, about right.
Abraham went from 25 to 15, so about 60% but he's a Chelsea prodigy and had other Championship loans and went straight into a top 4 team all season which Championship promoted sides don't do.
Maupay went from 25 to 10 and quite a lot of the others like McBurnie, Rodriguez and Adams have come in and done less.

so for me, Mitrovic and Watkins if he goes to Villa, you're looking 26 goals in the Championship so 10-12 in the Prem, Mitrovic got 11 last time in the Prem so about right. Bamford only got 16 last season so you're looking 6-8 which wouldn't be unreasonable, so really they need another 15-20 goals from somewhere. You can see why they were after Cavani.
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A nice analysis of the goal amounts, never really thought of it like that before, seems quite a reasonable guide.
 
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bluealf said:
A nice analysis o the goal amounts, never really thought of it like that before, seems quite a reasonable guide.
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It's just a hunch I developed a while back, mainly looking at things like Fantasy Football haha. Gone are the days where Kevin Phillips can come up and score more goals than they did in the First Division. I guess it's still possible but the trend seems to be to knock half to two-thirds off.
 
Will be interesting to see how Rodrigo does, namely how many goals he is able to score in the Prem. Bielsa really has the ability to get the best out of players, so will be interesting to see if he is able to improve him.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
It's just a hunch I developed a while back, mainly looking at things like Fantasy Football haha. Gone are the days where Kevin Phillips can come up and score more goals than they did in the First Division. I guess it's still possible but the trend seems to be to knock half to two-thirds off.
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Didn’t The Goat drop from around 30 in Division One to about ten in the Premier League under KK?
 
The Leeds service crew are primed and ready for the challenges of the premier league .....
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Well since moving up to Pickering those pesky Leeds fans are getting giddy, bless them. Tears 2 year back now they're going to smash the prem , bless them.
Now I hate the rags but these lads make me seem mild in comparison, bless them.
Fair play non have gone all Danny Mills hinting they're signing Messi ;-)
 
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