GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Would simply love him to hit a purple patch and score 12 between now and the new year.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £60m
He'll be banging them in soon enough but feels like he needs a bit more time. Betto can hopefulltake some of the pressure of him.
Goodisongang
Player Valuation: £20m
More time? Hasn't be been fit for about 3 months?
Just seen him on TV advertising some grooming shizzle, he should be at home resting on the night before a game FFS
Bigduke1234
Player Valuation: £10m
How long is left on his contract? Think we’re a much better team with him in it.
Runub
Player Valuation: £50m
June 2025 and yes we are much better with him in the team
There are few certainties in life.
Death
Taxes
And dave’s hatred for Patterson and love for Martinez
Goodisongang
Player Valuation: £20m
we are like, but opposed to who? maupay? rondon? gray? tosun? niasse?
i don't mind him, he's a decent premier league striker when fit but nothing more, massively overrated by some on here.
Bigduke1234
Player Valuation: £10m
True, but we ain’t signing Griezmann any time soon. What we can’t do is let him leave for free.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £35m
Exactly this.
The kid needs to show his appreciation for us helping him through his perma-crocked last few years and sign a new contract on the same terms in the summer, or we need to move him on for money to someone (don't know who).
If he could finish we'd get £100m for him.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
It's not that he can't finish. It's that he scores in bunches, then has his finishing touch vanish for a while.
He causes enough problems and opens enough space for others to justify the selection even when he's off, in much the same way that Southgate would select Sterling under those conditions, but it does also mean that we need goal contributions from the wings, midfield and set pieces.
When we get those, we do well. When we don't, we struggle. We concede like a top half side and score like a bottom half one, which is why we would be midtable without the deduction. United has been luckier (whether by design or not), which is why they're in the European places.
That's kind of how that one goes when a side is goal-challenged but keeps goals out. Anything from fifth to fifteenth is sustainable, depending on how the goals and concessions distribute, and how well other sides translate their own into wins.
Does he just choose not to then?
No, it really is that he can't finish. I think that goal a couple weeks ago was that first he scored outside the box. He's really really good at just about everything to be a top class striker except being even average at finishing. Give him Ollie Watkins finishing ability and he'd be a top 5 striker, even higher maybe. Dom really is poor at finishing.
