Wilfried Bony

[Ray78]

Say he was to sign on Thursday, would he be available for the Everton game? What date will he be meeting up with the Ivory Coast squad?

More than likely Bony will sign and join up with Kolo and Yaya and jet off to Abu Dhabi. He will not play against Everton.

 

[uwe_returns]

Very underwhelmed by this potential signing.

A decent player for sure. But strategically this signing appears terrible. A lot of money, in January and looks panicky.

Alvaro Negredo or Bony? The beast every time for me.

Diego Costa was signed unopposed by Chelsea for 25 mill. He may have chosen London but did we miss a trick not even trying?

Seriously for 30 million we could do a hell of a lot better and for a "quick fix" there's plenty of cheaper options.

 

[St Ives blue]

I don't see the point in signing Bony.
We need a striker now, not end of Jan when he's back from the African Nations. Apart from which I don't think he's good enough for our first team and not sure he'd be happy sitting on the bench.
I haven't read the rest of this thread, so maybe someone could enlighten me.

Enlightenment comes from within, you're basically in a very dark place

In other words, if you have to ask then there's no hope skippy!!!!!

Bit of a strange reply...

Looks like no one's planning to enlighten you, St. Ives. From the bits I've read, the main thoughts seem to be that he's a late replacement for Negredo, he's better than Dzeko (and will ultimately replace him), and that 25-30 million isn't too much for a proven Prem goalscorer.

FWIW my opinion is that despite quite a bit of success in Europe and the Prem with one striker (mostly when we haven't had two fit, in-form strikers), Pellegrini is still planning to play 4-4-2 more often than not, in which case getting a third striker makes sense (assuming he's realized what a lot of us have - that Jovetic isn't a striker).

Thanks for the enlightenment CaliforniaBlue!

Put like that, and if Bony is considered a long-term solution, then perhaps makes more sense. I just saw it that if we are going to spend big bucks on a striker we really could do with one for the Arsenal and Chelsea games. I'm still not convinced he's good enough, but I guess we will see. The one thing for sure is that I trust Manuel's judgement.

 

[EdinJacko]

Say he was to sign on Thursday, would he be available for the Everton game? What date will he be meeting up with the Ivory Coast squad?

More than likely Bony will sign and join up with Kolo and Yaya and jet off to Abu Dhabi. He will not play against Everton.

Would have been nice to see him in blue, especially with our current striker situation and aguero back the following week, ah well.

 

[St Ives blue]

I don't see the point in signing Bony.
We need a striker now, not end of Jan when he's back from the African Nations. Apart from which I don't think he's good enough for our first team and not sure he'd be happy sitting on the bench.
I haven't read the rest of this thread, so maybe someone could enlighten me.

Enlightenment comes from within, you're basically in a very dark place

In other words, if you have to ask then there's no hope skippy!!!!!

Bit of a strange reply...

Looks like no one's planning to enlighten you, St. Ives. From the bits I've read, the main thoughts seem to be that he's a late replacement for Negredo, he's better than Dzeko (and will ultimately replace him), and that 25-30 million isn't too much for a proven Prem goalscorer.

FWIW my opinion is that despite quite a bit of success in Europe and the Prem with one striker (mostly when we haven't had two fit, in-form strikers), Pellegrini is still planning to play 4-4-2 more often than not, in which case getting a third striker makes sense (assuming he's realized what a lot of us have - that Jovetic isn't a striker).

Thanks for the enlightenment CaliforniaBlue!

Put like that, and if Bony is considered a long-term solution, then perhaps makes more sense. I just saw it that if we are going to spend big bucks on a striker we really could do with one for the Arsenal and Chelsea games. I'm still not convinced he's good enough, but I guess we will see. The one thing for sure is that I trust Manuel's judgement.

 

[raymondkl92]

Dzeko stepped up last season because of Negredo and as soon as Negredo was sold he went back to doing Fuck all before his injury.








That's not right. Dzeko got us over the line last season with his goals in the last few games.

Only got a proper chance in the team when Negredo lost form and that's how he got us over the line.

 

[kippaxblue76]

Good signing who I reckon will get double figures before the end of the season. We now have 3 strikers who all offer something different. The youth teams should be able to provide 1 or 2 back ups as well in the not too distant future.

 

[jimharri]

According to Twitter, the Telegraph says the two clubs are "still some distance apart". SSN saying that there's not much separating the the two clubs. You pays your money....

 

[80s Shorts]

Very underwhelmed by this potential signing.

A decent player for sure. But strategically this signing appears terrible. A lot of money, in January and looks panicky.

Alvaro Negredo or Bony? The beast every time for me.

Diego Costa was signed unopposed by Chelsea for 25 mill. He may have chosen London but did we miss a trick not even trying?

Seriously for 30 million we could do a hell of a lot better and for a "quick fix" there's plenty of cheaper options.

 

[nobody can eat fifty eggs]

Dzeko stepped up last season because of Negredo and as soon as Negredo was sold he went back to doing Fuck all before his injury.








That's not right. Dzeko got us over the line last season with his goals in the last few games.

True, but we have to move up another level now and for me Bony is a better option then Dzeko. If we do sign him I'd like to think that Edin would want to stay and contribute in a positive manner but in the past we all know about his sulks and low confidence.

 

[cookster]

Very underwhelmed by this potential signing.

A decent player for sure. But strategically this signing appears terrible. A lot of money, in January and looks panicky.

Alvaro Negredo or Bony? The beast every time for me.

Diego Costa was signed unopposed by Chelsea for 25 mill. He may have chosen London but did we miss a trick not even trying?

Seriously for 30 million we could do a hell of a lot better and for a "quick fix" there's plenty of cheaper options.

Costa was 32M and we don't sign players of his profile (horrible little c@nts).

And who's better for 30M

 

[Dribble]

If we sign him ... would you like him to play against Βarca in Spain next to Aguero ?
Liars ! You will pick up the -3 on the midfield- formation and Βοny will be on your bench

Hmm...

Yeah, I spotted that too..... Freudian slip mithinks!!

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Very underwhelmed by this potential signing.

A decent player for sure. But strategically this signing appears terrible. A lot of money, in January and looks panicky.

Alvaro Negredo or Bony? The beast every time for me.

Diego Costa was signed unopposed by Chelsea for 25 mill. He may have chosen London but did we miss a trick not even trying?

Seriously for 30 million we could do a hell of a lot better and for a "quick fix" there's plenty of cheaper options.

Is the right answer. You win a prize.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Not in the slightest bit excited about this, missing a month every season also we seem to be buying from the 2nd tier of world football these days.

2nd tier of world football? Who is in this top tier? Costa, Lewandoski, Sanchez? All are 26.
Since 2008 Bony has an almost identical record to Lewandoski, better than Costa and much better than Sanchez. He wasn't playing in a two team league (for Barcelona or Dortmund) either!
As someone who got quite excited about signing Buster Phillips I'll take Bony, if he's on offer.

If Lewandoski moved to the premier league he'd make Soldado look like an astute signing

 

[beast]

Enlightenment comes from within, you're basically in a very dark place

In other words, if you have to ask then there's no hope skippy!!!!!

Bit of a strange reply...

Looks like no one's planning to enlighten you, St. Ives. From the bits I've read, the main thoughts seem to be that he's a late replacement for Negredo, he's better than Dzeko (and will ultimately replace him), and that 25-30 million isn't too much for a proven Prem goalscorer.

FWIW my opinion is that despite quite a bit of success in Europe and the Prem with one striker (mostly when we haven't had two fit, in-form strikers), Pellegrini is still planning to play 4-4-2 more often than not, in which case getting a third striker makes sense (assuming he's realized what a lot of us have - that Jovetic isn't a striker).

Thanks for the enlightenment CaliforniaBlue!

Put like that, and if Bony is considered a long-term solution, then perhaps makes more sense. I just saw it that if we are going to spend big bucks on a striker we really could do with one for the Arsenal and Chelsea games. I'm still not convinced he's good enough, but I guess we will see. The one thing for sure is that I trust Manuel's judgement.

People seem to think we are panic buying a striker for a few games, does anyone know how long his contract will run, around the 5 year mark I expect. Think long term and it looks like a good move. So much negativity :(
(Not you stives blue. Just tagged on the end of your post, don't know why)

 

[jimharri]

Very underwhelmed by this potential signing.

A decent player for sure. But strategically this signing appears terrible. A lot of money, in January and looks panicky.

Alvaro Negredo or Bony? The beast every time for me.

Diego Costa was signed unopposed by Chelsea for 25 mill. He may have chosen London but did we miss a trick not even trying?

Seriously for 30 million we could do a hell of a lot better and for a "quick fix" there's plenty of cheaper options.

You seem unable to grasp the fact that Negredo was deeply unhappy in Manchester, his family couldn't settle and he doesn't want to play for us any more. And that Valencia are contractually obliged to purchase him at the end of the season. Futile to even consider Negredo as an alternative. Time to move on from him.

 

[Big Dave Watson]

No.

It all hinges on Big Dave Watson

Hahahaha brilliant! Will be interesting though as he's already been on saying we aren't signing anyway!

Not true Mr RIchards. I said we would not be signing any of Reus, Pogba or Barkley (not in this or Any window).

Bony, I am well happy with :-)

 

[PragueBlue]

Very underwhelmed by this potential signing.

A decent player for sure. But strategically this signing appears terrible. A lot of money, in January and looks panicky.

Alvaro Negredo or Bony? The beast every time for me.

Diego Costa was signed unopposed by Chelsea for 25 mill. He may have chosen London but did we miss a trick not even trying?

Seriously for 30 million we could do a hell of a lot better and for a "quick fix" there's plenty of cheaper options.

Costa was 32M and we don't sign players of his profile (horrible little c@nts).

And who's better for 30M

Would rather have Bony than Costa. I think he'll suit us perfectly.

 

[Dribble]

just hope all this bony talk doesn't mean the end of edin. class act.

You're taking the piss right?

 

[Bewar3them00n]

Sorry but not another Sinclair type signing .

I don't remember Sinclair banging in as many goals as Aguero this year, in an inferior side.
No, he's not Aguero, ( that's the point) but he's an upgrade on Dzeko, who doesn't have the physical presence to lead the line, and hold up the ball if needed as consistently as he should be doing.