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Everton can do better for £40-50m like. They've got the likes of Baines already who can take a good set-piece. They could easily get a marquee player for that.

 

Now for someone like Leicester, he could possibly be worth that sort of money because he's as good as they could attract and he'd be replacing Mahrez's set-piece ability as well.

 

Sigurdsson has the 4th highest assist rate in Europe, and is the 3rd highest scoring midifielder in the league. I would argue that they definitely can't do better than that. His not exactly mobile, but he's a very good player who produces the goods consistently.

 

Why would you put chances created above actual assists though? That's crackers. He's done more with less.

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I dunno if he's created only 25 from open play compared to 55 from set pieces that suggests he's not particularly the most creative player from open play.

 

Which was pretty obvious anyway and one of the reasons he struggled at Spurs. He's a great set piece taker and scores goals from midfield but bigger clubs will want more consistent creativity from their #10.

 

 

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50M!! Christ on a bike!

 

Great stat about Sigurdsson by the way, the chances from set pieces one. Knocking a dead ball in for Llorente is going to be much easier than trying to hit Rooney (or Jamie Vardy).

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Everton can do better for £40-50m like. They've got the likes of Baines already who can take a good set-piece. They could easily get a marquee player for that.

 

Now for someone like Leicester, he could possibly be worth that sort of money because he's as good as they could attract and he'd be replacing Mahrez's set-piece ability as well.

 

Sigurdsson has the 4th highest assist rate in Europe, and is the 3rd highest scoring midifielder in the league. I would argue that they definitely can't do better than that. His not exactly mobile, but he's a very good player who produces the goods consistently.

 

Why would you put chances created above actual assists though? That's crackers. He's done more with less.

 

Creating chances is more repeatable than getting assists, as assists require the bloke on the other end of the pass to actually score.

 

You really want to be looking at the quality of chances he's been creating to get an accurate reading of how creative he actually is.

 

Handily enough, for anyone who has a spare 10 minutes a really good analyst has just released a blog on that very subject today: https://thepowerofgoals.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/gylfi-on-me-head-son.html

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£50 million for a right back man ... geez. One that got dropped by Spurs at certain points of last season and all. Unreal.

 

The fact that Spurs arguably already have a better RB is mental.

 

We may be getting Pereira in as a replacement, which would be kinda ace.

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Honestly the numbers are meaningless both ways, what matters is WHEN you get those assists, goals and created chances. 2 winning goals is more meaningful than 3 in a game you have already won.

 

Which is why Drogba is so highly regarded, he didn't score loads compared to his peers but he always scored when it mattered.

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Honestly the numbers are meaningless both ways, what matters is WHEN you get those assists, goals and created chances. 2 winning goals is more meaningful than 3 in a game you have already won.

 

Which is why Drogba is so highly regarded, he didn't score loads compared to his peers but he always scored when it mattered.

 

Look at Mole living in advanced game state metrics world.

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£50 million for a right back man ... geez. One that got dropped by Spurs at certain points of last season and all. Unreal.

 

The fact that Spurs arguably already have a better RB is mental.

 

Did Walker get dropped or was he injured? I like Trippier and he is good, but he didn't play that many games last season. He was performing well in a good team, but how he'll do over the course of a whole season is the real question. He does create a whole lot of chances and the amount of assists he has in the low amount of games he played in is very impressive. I think against Watford last season, he created about six clear opportunities that could have been goals.

 

50 Mil is good business for them. Spurs are smart with their money, they'll stretch that out.

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You really want to be looking at the quality of chances he's been creating to get an accurate reading of how creative he actually is.

 

Handily enough, for anyone who has a spare 10 minutes a really good analyst has just released a blog on that very subject today: https://thepowerofgoals.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/gylfi-on-me-head-son.html

 

Great article. It makes him look like Charlie "his corners are worth 10M" Adams.

 

fwiw, I think that a decent chunk of the credit for success at set plays should go to the coaches. Our prolonged blank from using the set penis under Pardew shows that the opposite also applies.

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