So what? Giroud offers as much as Negredo overall - in practical terms. Maybe a bit less up top but more in other areas of the pitch. My point is Negredo wouldn't improve us significantly. Sure, it would be nice to have a replacement if Giroud gets injured, or play Negredo and stick Giroud on the bench or whatever, but we could also do with a different type of striker that opens up our options when we play certain types of opponents. More pace and the technique to go with it, preferably. No point lamenting the fact we didn't get Negredo, even if we had we'd still only have the one striker of that type as I assume we wouldn't have bought Giroud. A few months back it was Giroud, Giroud, Giroud in the media. Now it's Negredo, Negredo, Negredo. It'll spin around again and then again and so on, it's what the media does.
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He offers one thing which is the most important thing a forward can offer, goals. This alone makes him a better option than Giroud, he also cost 14.6 million which is pocket change these days and thus low risk.
Now sure we can now go out and spend 32 million on Costa, a player less proven than Negredo in reality but that's a lot of money and a big risk. It would be great to sign a player like Henry who scores, goals has pace, technique etc, but these players aren't readily available and when they are cost an absolute bomb and thus you're risking a lot of money on a player.
He's got 8 goals, same as Giroud.
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Think Zim's winning this one tbh.
You're counting goals against Ecuador, Belarus, Georgia and so on? Or three against a side that capitulated after two minutes in the Disney Cup? If we're just using blanket stats then Toure is just as good a striker as the pair of them, only trouble being he's not a striker.
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Well no. Giroud is winning this one because he's striker for the team at the top of the league. That may change of course, but right now how much more impact could Negredo have had in our shirt? You could say he might have turned the tide against Utd and changed that result, for example. Pure speculation. But he could also have put in a shit performance against one of the lesser sides we beat and the gypos lost to.
Plus there's the fact the refs are blatantly cheating for city at home, that will have a bearing on everything.
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