Transfer Rumour Che Adams

[Toffeepot]

Weird take. Haaland or Adams, the only two options.
Guarantee you follow this up with something along the lines of "who would you buy for a couple of Curly Wurly's? No one, that's who."

One season doesn't mean premier league proven yet
I'd swerve Haaland

 

[evertony]

From 2019 to present for Southampton.

125 appearances, and a MASSIVE 27 goals.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Our current striker has 1 goal in around 31 appearances....so that'd be 4 in 124 extrapolated.

Wheres the issue when we have very limited funds?

In addition he's much more suited to Dyche's style. For what its worth I think he'd be solid, committed and enough to give us the goals so that we're not clenching our sphincters for another season.

 

[Davidoff]

Is he strong and capable of holding the ball up with his back to play? Genuine question

Because that's clearly what we lack without dcl

 

[Nymzee]

….no, I’m not aware of that requirement. I presume thats based on Burnley not buying from abroad or the lower leagues.

You need to pay more attention. He uses the term “PL proven” wherever possible.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Just because Maupay is terrible for Dyche's style, doesn't make Adams good for it

Correct, but even just less terrible could help us.

 

[evertony]

No. As mentioned elsewhere, Adams runs around a bit and very occasionally gets on the end of a few bits and pieces. He doesn't have the quality of Dominic Calvert-Lewin in terms of football IQ, hold up and link up play - he isn't fit to lace his boots.

Brighton away is the classic example but the best example is probably the 3-0 loss to Man City at home. The opening 30 minutes of the game Calvert-Lewin was fantastic in terms of first touch, holding up the ball, winning free kicks - getting the team up the pitch etc. He gave the team structure and an actual game plan. To think Adams could replicate this is hilarious. Other than being best the part of half a foot shorter, in lazy terms it would be more accurate to compare Adams with Maupay but with a bit more pace. Maupay also runs around, causes a nuisance of himself, his one touch link up play is quite good but his finishing is woeful and he lacks the physical presence of Calvert-Lewin to be effective and respected on his own upfront by opposing teams' defences.

Iheanacho would have been a better signing as a stop gap. He would have made runs beyond a defence in turn stretching them getting the team up the pitch and he can see/pick a pass which would have been very useful in this team. His stats in terms of goals per game look pedestrian but he has largely been used as a sub behind Aguero and Vardy - two of the Premier League top strikers in the past 5-10 years. His minutes played to goal contributions ratio are very good/excellent. E.g., he had 10 assists over the past two seasons in the premier league compared with 6 assists from Adams playing far less game time in the process. When given a good run in the team and free of injury he scored 12 goals in 25 premier league games at Leicester so the quality is there. Perhaps the front office didn't go for him because of the African Nations but it's short sighted in my opinion.

He doesn't need to be "fit to lace DCL's boots" because DCL isn't fit enough to wear his boots unfortunately.
We have a very limited budget and need a presence upfront.
I recall many mocking Marcus Bent....that turned out well.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Is he strong and capable of holding the ball up with his back to play? Genuine question

Because that's clearly what we lack without dcl

Indeed.
Partially why I’m a bit confused about these shouts that he’s.

 

[badloaf]

Better than nobody until deadline day . Give the lad a chance ! if we cant get anyone else we just have accept it .

We don’t have to accept it. We’re still allowed to complain if, after three transfer windows looking for a striker, we end up with him.

 

[GoldenToffee]

So the club, knowing that we need strikers and that money is going to be in very short supply, once again decided to forfeit the opening fixtures due to having no striker available, then at the end of the window decided to spend whatever they could find down the side of the sofa on an average Championship striker?

At the same time basically wasting a further £12m on Chermiti as he'll have a very limited role to play this season.

We could have just spent the £25m on a quality striker from abroad, but seems the club is desperate to be able to field a Relegated But Premier League Proven XI.

 

[Tin-Tin]

 

[ToffeeTim]

Is he strong and capable of holding the ball up with his back to play? Genuine question

Because that's clearly what we lack without dcl

From what I've seen, hold up play is the strongest part of his game. He occupied our defenders really well when they beat us at Goodison in January (what a shocking match that was btw...). It wasn't anything particularly complicated or flash, but it allowed them to sustain attacks in the second half and push us back.

His finishing is unfortunately pretty average as far as I can see. But no worse than Maupay, and he offers much more in a direct style like Dyche uses.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Weird take. Haaland or Adams, the only two options.
Guarantee you follow this up with something along the lines of "who would you buy for a couple of Curly Wurly's? No one, that's who."

Doesn't matter who we buy, you will find a reason to rubish them, so no, now weird.

 

[Maltese_Falcon]

Not a fan however he hits a ball in a way DCL could only dream of.

 

[Goodisongang]

Ah don't tell me we've bid for this utter dog of a striker.

Everton whole motto of "well he's better than x player" is why we are fighting relegation every year.

Awful awful striker

 

[Nymzee]

It’s refreshing to see just how many people watch football but don’t understand it at all.