New striker?

[tosh1]

If only you had thought of this sooner, would have saved all the posts on him yesterday :)

Apologies, had I seen it yesterday I would have posted! Which thread was it discussed in?

 

[Josh_D]

I agree but I suppose the player would ask for a bigger signing on fee to cover the agents cost.

I still don’t understand how the agents get such big fees? A 10% fee of similar would make more send but sometime the agents fee is nearly as big as the transfer fee and there can be 3 or 4 agents involved in one transfer

Even if they did, it all makes no difference then. I’m sure the agents negotiate these things. It’s just baffling to me that a club pays someone or people employed by someone else.

 

[mike1923]

I wouldn’t have minded Aubameyang but he’s signing a new deal with Arsenal

 

[MeatHunterrr]

I agree with this. We do score lots of goals but we have so many shots, you could argue that we should score much more. There's plenty of different goal scorers throughout the team but that's due to the number of chances we create. However, as you have mentioned, Aguero is our only natural finisher. If we had a couple more prolific goal scorers; we'd e frightening.

If we had multiple natural finishers like you say, I think we would reach 2014/15 Barca level. I know thats huge statement but we certainly would not be far off.

We could genuinely be looking at a Treble as realistic objective in that case.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Torres, Ake, and Couto, and probably Ait-Nouri, Aouar, perhaps even Almada. An awful lot of investment in young players if you think your manager is about to weigh anchor.

Well to be fair. The DoF model is there to prevent overhauls all the time. So I think its kinda natural that we mostly focus on young players.

Makes no sense to rebuild every time coach changes. City are not going to leave "old" team to Pep's successor, the club will want minimise the disruption and give the best chance of hitting the ground running immediately.

 

[CenturyClub]

I don't get this " should come at a very big price" thing. As long as he is the right player for us and our team, I don't care if we shop at pound land.

Some real top strikers have been found down in the lower leagues and cost thruppence.

Forget the it must cost £100m plus to replace Aguero, just get the right player

I agree with what you are saying, but most of the time the right player is expensive. We want someone at least who is established and is scoring goals on a regular basis.

It would be a huge gamble to buy a player to replace Aguero who is far from the finished article. Kane for me is the finished article and Haaland looks the real deal, both will be very expensive, but also worth it.

 

[HaalandEffect]

 

[Tevez City]

Maybe next summer, unless Inter buy Jesus for 70m

 

[mosssideblue]

I agree with what you are saying, but most of the time the right player is expensive. We want someone at least who is established and is scoring goals on a regular basis.

It would be a huge gamble to buy a player to replace Aguero who is far from the finished article. Kane for me is the finished article and Haaland looks the real deal, both will be very expensive, but also worth it.

It's all well and good naming players who are standout for other teams but, fans often overlook the transferability of such form to us. Kane is banging them in for fun at Spurs but there are no guarantees he would have the same impact here.

Bottom line is that scouting is very complex

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

The Guardian is reporting that United are looking to sell Lingard so maybe we should consider an offer?

At 28 he is coming into his prime, an eye for goal, home grown and reasonably priced - what's not to like?