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sounds like a ryan taylor to me. Minus the set pieces

For a #10, his 1 in 7 goals per game ratio doesn't instil me with confidence It's even worse in Serie A, admittedly he's be played deeper in a 2 or 3 man midfield, but still. Agreed. He is still young and could well improve a lot, but an immediate impact seems unlikely. Then again... do have have better available options atm?

Praet has good work rate and a pretty good first touch from what I have seen (mostly Anderlecht in CL and EL). Tries ambitious balls but doesn't always succeed. Not the strongest physically, but has good balance and likes to throw in a tackle. A bit similar to Sigurdsson a couple years back maybe?

Still. Three assists from open play last season. Why would you exclude his 10 set piece assists? They're buying him for that and his goal threat, not his assists and goals from open play. Even then he's still a clever player in non-set piece situations, so it's not like he's the free kick version of Dean Whitehead or something. With Lukaku still in the side I would agree it's a good signing, but with Sandro and Rooney? Most of those set-piece assist last season was to Llorente - won't be as easy this season. In open play he had 26 key passes last season. Barkley had 56. Not worth the fee imo.

Still. Three assists from open play last season.

Like Manquillo I think Joselu might shine given proper managing and a style of play that suits him

Mitrovic scored for us in both matches against Spurs two years ago?

Maybe we can buy Daryl Murphy back

I wonder if one of the reasons we always have a hard time shifting players is the insane amout of "he's sh*t", "garbage", "worthless", "I'm gonna hang myself if he starts" etc. being thrown around

Coutinho has become invaluable for them imo as so much goes through him. Salah couldn't fill his role. He is much more of a winger - at least it would take time to play him into that role. Lallana isn't even close to be able to replace Coutinho. I think they will get Van Dijk anyway and Keita will move next summer.

Please buy Coutinho and ruin Liverpool

According to Transfermarkt we have the second largest squad i the PL right now with 32 players and are ranked at 14th considering total market value of our players. All though WBA are ranked below us, they have a higher average market value in their squad - and it says they per now only have 20 registered players in their squad(?). We desperately need to trade in the fillers for some quality And only Spurs have a lower average age

Am I the only one not 100% sold on Lucas Perez? The man is 28 and has one good full season on his resume. Yes, he looked good on occation for Arsenal, but so did Nicklas Bendtner.

This guy has no ambition and has clearly shown he would rather cash in on any given bench than develop as a player. On several occations now. Next

I do that as well Haha I've been doing that for ages! Thought I was the only weirdo though. Rollin' by Limp Bizkit fwiw. Same as this Roland. Pete Postlethwaite's character from The Lost World, for me. Diego Rolan, they hatin' Defendin' and tryna catch him playin' dirty (Hoping he's a Suarez type)

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Want! Tackling machine

This argument is pointless. Some players might thrive in new roles, other don't - there are no "rules".

Slimani has scored over 15 goals one season in his entire carreer and he's 29. Don't understand where all the hype comes from - that one season in Sporting? Where he picked up after top scorer Ricky Van Wolfswinkel?

Untraceable, opinionated ITK s*** should be banned in my book. FAKE NEWS

Really? Why do you say that? Think he'll be slotting into our midfield. Looks a tough, physical DM. He definitely looks like a good player and I must admit I haven't seen many Torino games the last seasons, but the few I've seen he looked like he likes to wander a bit too much. He tends to power forward when there's a given oportunity and likes to hold on to the ball a little too long in some situasions. Not the ideal partner to Shelvey in my book, but do correct me if my impressions are wrong

Don't think I'd be comfortable with Acquah next to Shelvey. Plays with too much risk and likes to set off on long runs

I imagine Acquah would come in as a squad player

Certainly looks like an entertaining player! Good stats too

He had a lot of good matches this season too