Collage

His goal record last 4 seasons: 18, 17, 25, 16. There are no guarantees in football but that he will score goals is as close as you'll get.

Austin is much less of a risk though. 15ish goals pretty much guaranteed.

End of the week

He shouldn't be making the decisive passes, his role/style is playing the safe, "easy" passes, and he's able to do that quickly. Fundamental when playing a possession game and when you want to control the tempo of a game.

Banega would be a brilliant, exciting signing but ffs, we need defenders, badly.

Quite hard to think of a player less suited to wear the armband.

Willo looks like he's never seen a football when it approaches him on the deck.

This captain Colback bullshit is worrying.

Colback for me like.

So, all the rumours died when we signed a player eh?

He's quite an elegant, sophisticated player. Wish there was a word for that. Baller? Middle class.

Or THE KING

Janmaat

Wouldn't say that, Austin's goal record is far more impressive, albeit in poorer leagues. He's 4 years younger as well.

My impression is that the low emphasis on defence in the Eredivisie makes it possible for mediocre forwards/strikers to impress and score shitloads of goals. Thus you have to really put in an effort scouting-wise when signing attacking players from the Dutch league.

Guess I'm fucking deluded

Howay man, they're a massive club in their own right. How many players have excelled there and got big transfers? Not like they are some Euopean football's backwater. I'm just saying we should be able to compete with Porto. They're a big club yes, but they're not Real Madrid or Bayern Munich. He's 20, he'll be looking for a stepping stone and the PL is a much better shop window than the Portuguese league. He'll probably play more here too.

Think the one thing that could make him choose Porto is Champions League football.

We should have every chance in the world to compete with Porto, like. Bigger stadium, bigger/better league, better stepping stone/shop window...

Attitude, platitude. You could easily argue that players like Ginola, Robert and Bellamy didn't have "the right attitude" but they were fucking mint for us.

That's a W, not an R.

Signing 4 attacking players for big money while our biggest concern is our abysmal defence. Mental if true (It's not)

Can you find a source for that? Because some say he hasn't, some say he has. Sorry, jumped the gun there. Saw loads of tweets about it but as you say there are people saying the opposite.

Sky Italia says he's agreed terms with us.