Winter Transfer Speculation and Shit.

[Power n Glory]

Suarez had been class for seasons and was great for his previous club as well. This is half a season so it's very early. He's certainly not in Suarez territory yet. It's like saying Ramsey is now in Iniesta territory. I haven't seen enough of him play, but what I've seen, playing style wise, he doesn't look like a great technical player and I haven't seen any goals which would suggest he's a master finisher. No chips, tight angle finishing, lifting it, bending it beyond the keeper.....no long range belters....they've been poacher goals and headers.

The goals remind me of Ade's and Augero doesn't spring to mind at all and it has nothing to do with his stature. He has a great goal record but it's like when Ade banged in 30 and thought he was in Henry territory. Way to premature for that talk and it was just a case of good form and confidence.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

I think the Ade comparison is a little lazy.

I also think Aguero's skill level (or at least content) is very often exaggerated because of some perceived pigeon hole classification that he is small and tricky. He is certainly small, and powerful. In other words he has strength and speed which he uses to exceptional effect. When one marries that to continual/perpetual intelligent movement, you begin to understand how he is a handful. But he doesn't use a huge array of ball skills or tricks in my opinion. His game is often either more subtle than that and way more direct.

In his early career, Aguero was compared to Maradonna a fair amount and I suppose to some extent it is inevitable.... but the real uncanny semblance is between Maradonna and Messi. I suspect if Messi did not exist Aguero's comparisons to Maradonna would have simmered a lot less through his career.


I agree and I cannot get away from the feeling that if Costa was 4 inches smaller, many would perceive him far more favourably.

Excellent post.

[selassie]

Suarez had been class for seasons and was great for his previous club as well. This is half a season so it's very early. He's certainly not in Suarez territory yet. It's like saying Ramsey is now in Iniesta territory. I haven't seen enough of him play, but what I've seen, playing style wise, he doesn't look like a great technical player and I haven't seen any goals which would suggest he's a master finisher. No chips, tight angle finishing, lifting it, bending it beyond the keeper.....no long range belters....they've been poacher goals and headers.

The goals remind me of Ade's and Augero doesn't spring to mind at all and it has nothing to do with his stature. He has a great goal record but it's like when Ade banged in 30 and thought he was in Henry territory. Way to premature for that talk and it was just a case of good form and confidence.

This.

[Özim]

Suarez had been class for seasons and was great for his previous club as well. This is half a season so it's very early. He's certainly not in Suarez territory yet. It's like saying Ramsey is now in Iniesta territory. I haven't seen enough of him play, but what I've seen, playing style wise, he doesn't look like a great technical player and I haven't seen any goals which would suggest he's a master finisher. No chips, tight angle finishing, lifting it, bending it beyond the keeper.....no long range belters....they've been poacher goals and headers.

The goals remind me of Ade's and Augero doesn't spring to mind at all and it has nothing to do with his stature. He has a great goal record but it's like when Ade banged in 30 and thought he was in Henry territory. Way to premature for that talk and it was just a case of good form and confidence.

Totally agree with this.

[GP]

We should put in a bid for Di Maria.

[Marc Overmars]

Pretty much.

[BOBN]

I'd take Adebayor back..

Thats not even controversial.

Hes a level above Giroud/Podolski when in the mood.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

We should put in a bid for Di Maria.

And Costa.

[GP]

Why not?

[The Emirates Gallactico]

RE - Diego Costa

Reading some of the responses regarding his proposed transfer it's amusing to note just what an impact Wenger's dogma about player transfers and valuations has had on our on personal outlook on the matter. I don't think we all would be feeling the same way if we had Mourinho managing us for the past two decades.

He's definitely not a typical Wenger signing, at 25 he's practically in his middle ages now, he hasn't particuarily excelled prior to this season and his all round technical play is questionable which is unusual for a Wenger player. He wouldn't represent good value for money either, being the "flavour of the month" and a striker at that, we would have to pay vastly over the odds and they'd be little if no chance that we could ever recoup any of that later down the line.

But the fact is that we need a striker urgently and he's quite possibly the best we can reasonably expect to buy that could have an immediate impact. Surely if we pay whatever inflated amount we have to and he quickly gets us the goals that propels us to the league, it'll be all worth it, no? The monetary and social gains from winning the league would greatly outweight any negatives of him possibly being shit in a few years or being heavily overpriced.

My opinion, if he's the man, sign him up.