Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
This Cunha rumour seems to have legs.

All I'll say is my mistrust of signing Brazilian attacking players, with all the baggage they come with, persists. I've not really noticed him, but from what I can see the Jesus parallels are accurate.

I'd prefer any of the other attackers mentioned over him and would really hate if we spent real money to make this deal go through seeing as Villa recruited Maelen from a bigger club for only £20m.
Yeah, it's the waste of money and extra wage bill for an average player that plugs a hole, rather than somebody who will improve the team and prospects. Do we really have nobody at all in the squad or reserves that could step in and do at least what the likes of Jesus does in an average match (which is not much) - that really would be an indictment of squad depth if true. Look at the kid over at Utd, why don't we have a couple of young strikers eager to get out there and give it a go? How much worse could it be than what we have already seen up front?