Kantareller
Player Valuation: £40m
Modeste would be worth a try out of those, while de Jong has truly been awful outside the Netherlands and the other two aren't getting younger..
Personally I'd pick Benteke.
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Modeste would be worth a try out of those, while de Jong has truly been awful outside the Netherlands and the other two aren't getting younger..
Personally I'd pick Benteke.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
No mate, that was Valencia and Sissoko last year.
StateSideToffee
Player Valuation: £5m
Friend, All I'm after is that we are only looking for a Role Player/Situational player at the striker position. Someone who can hold up play long enough for the other lads to join in, and bang in a few headers against tired CBs.
We are not after a new every match starter. I don't want the club to shell out 40M+ for Benteke because its not good business. Go find someone who is a better fit for the role playing positions.
The reason I've selected so many older Gents is because those are the types of players that are happy contributing in those support roles as their fitness wont allow them to compete for a starting place in every match anymore. They still have it in them for the occasional start and substitute appearances.
With all this stated, Let's find someone that can contribute strongly to the side, and wants to be here, but lets try not to overpay for a lad like Benteke. It's too much money, and he won't be happy with his role at the club.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Disagree, I think we are very much looking for a first choice striker option. May be wrong like.
StateSideToffee
Player Valuation: £5m
If this is the case and we are looking for a first choice, Benteke does not possess the skill sets, and we need to be looking at lads like:
Angel Correa
Andrea Belotti
Luciano Vietto
Arkadiusz Milik
Timo Werner
Nabil Fekir
Personally though, I think Sandro Ramirez is our first choice, and that we should be looking for role players.
If we are going down the target man route there aren't tons that spring to mind as worthy. Can see why Raul Jimenez, Haller, Jorgensen etc. get linked. Still think we missed a trick on Mounie but will soon see if I'm right when the season kicks off.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Thing is how many of them have Premier League experience? While Benteke might not be first choice for many he has scored plenty of goals in this league, that for me counts for something
everton2004
Player Valuation: £35m
If it is a straight choice between Benteke, Giroud or "A.N. Other Striker", my preference would be:
- Giroud
- "A.N. Other"
- "A.N. Other"
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Are people nervous about Benteke because he was at the RS for a year? The bloke is a fair dinkum gun.
everton2004
Player Valuation: £35m
The rs link doesn't come into it for me. It's his tendency to not be arsed half the time which would worry me. When you're paying in excess of £30M for a striker, it's a big risk.
Not for me. Moves like he's carrying an injury.
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II McColl II
Player Valuation: £8m
This is the issue you are judging the skill sets on what you believe is what we need, not what Koeman believes best suits his style and approach to football.
Of that list Milik is the only one who remotely resembles what Koeman likes in a striker and injury aside he's hardly lit up the serie A. As for the rest Correa, Vietto have failed to move an ageing Torres out of a striker role at Atleti and have to play support roles from out wide / off the bench or have been moved on. Fekir similarly isn't a lone striker he works best off of a striker either centrally or again out wide. Werner before this season had accomplished nothing of note and spends most of his time playing alongside a powerful striker who takes the burden of what he doesn't possess physically therefore not ideal for what we need but a good young prospect in a different system.
Belotti is the only one of them good enough to make the move to the prem currently and lead a team.
Benteke is perfectly suited to Koeman's style, he's strong, very good hold up play, far better with his back to goal than Rom, a genuine threat aerially and most importantly brings guaranteed premier league goals. His goals to game ratio compared to Lukaku since 2012 is 42% to Roms 47% which is impressive considering his injury issues and horrid time with that lot which massively reduced the amount of goals he scored due to not suiting them stylistically. Here he wouldn't have that problem, for all purposes he's a better version of Pelle and Koeman worked wonders with him during his time at Southampton and Feyenoord.
Our list of targets that suit Koeman and are well known names is small, in the prem alone only Giroud and Benteke fit the criteria that are good enough and realistic targets, outside the prem it's a complete gamble on players like Willian Jose, Modeste, Dost, Raul Jimenez, Babacar all not really well known names but linked because they fit the style more than a Belotti, Icardi who would be great signings but not to directly fit Koeman.
One name your spot on about is Mario Gomez think had he been 4/5 years younger he would have been absolutely ideal for us and the direction we are heading.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Belotti will cost a fortune. I wanted Milik last year and he started on fire at Napoli before blowing his knee out so I'd swerve now. Fekir would be super but doubt Lyon will sell another key player
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