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[Albion] So we all know there's a striker incoming - Who ?
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Juan Albion
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And barely made the Norwich team towards the end.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
My other half went to school with a now Scottish sports writer / commentator and still friends he has some info at times.
Sheebo
Well-known member
- Jul 13, 2003
- 29,319
Good stuff. How reliable you reckon? Did they just say we were interested or something more concrete? Seems a bit far fetched as Man U were linked but could be agent talk. He’s done really well at Lyon and still annoyed we didn’t get him last time as would’ve been a great signing I think...
It happens that players are signed while on international duty, i.e. I think Havertz had a quick flight to finalise his Chelsea deal the other day, but its quite unusual as its obviously not very smooth, and probably even more so now in corona-times.
Pukki is essentially an older, slower downgrade version of Maupay.
We need a different option upfront.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Might do. Has been taking a rest after his/her combined total of 691 posts on the Ben White/Deluded threads.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
The thing I believe is we have a relationship with the player as he wanted to sign before unfortunately we didn’t match Celtics valuation. Winstanly tracked Veltman for three seasons so seems believable.
Balder, shitter and temperamentaller.
Scored more than maupay last season (in a far worse team)
Has a very good record at international level
Featured in a few 10 top prem strikers of last season lists.
Scores pens!!
Sorry. He's better (at the moment) than maupay.
- Nov 11, 2009
- 12,276
Maupay and Andone were the same. We went in first time, didn't get....kept our desire known and eventually got them.....if dembele knows we've wanted him a long while, maybe just maybe?
I personally would not swap Maupay for Pukki in a million years.
It’s not impossible... but I’d be extremely surprised if Ashworth and GP sanctioned a move for him. Just doesn’t fit our transfer business model. Whatever your opinions on him he is on decline with little re-sale value.
And that.
Johnny RoastBeef
These aren't the players you're looking for.
- Jan 11, 2016
- 3,471
On Match of the Day Alan Shearer analysed why the goals had dried up, he noticed that Pukki had stopped playing on the shoulder, running in behind and had started dropping deeper coming towards the midfield looking for the ball.
This was probably because he was no longer receiving the through balls. Maybe a lack of quality from Norwich the midfield?
For us he would be an upgrade on Connolly, who also likes to run in behind.
I watched that analysis.
It was about Pukki losing form, I don’t think his teammates were blamed, in fact, they showed a number of situations where had he made the run, he’d have been in great positions.
You get these Strikers who have a good year or two; he is one of them but his time has gone.
He is 30 and was relegated completely out of form to the Championship (where he belongs) where as 20 yr old Connolly finished the season brightly. I’ll take the latter thanks.
Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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Is the Watkins option dead in the water? Haven’t seen confirmation he’s gone to Villa.
blockhseagull
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Scored ONE more than Maupay
Scored over half (6 to be exact) in his first five games
Then scored 5 goals over the next 30 games including a 13 game run with no goals to end the season
I’d have Maupay all day over Pukki