Now That's What I Call Transfer Rumours! 7

[gbandit]

I haven’t seen him play anywhere near enough to make a judgement, I imagine most haven’t but at 20 you’d expect him to develop a huge amount and his numbers from the championship as an 18 year old were very good 

[KDT]

He’s definitely better than is being made out on here.

[Elliottman]

So Watford fans booting off , Ashworth / Howe seemingly know everything there is to know about him but N-O residents deeply offended. Wonder who to trust more ? 

 

assuming it’s true of course. 

[gdm]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

Have they ? 

Ekitike scoring most goals in season for someone under 20 or whatever the stat was 

 

Ramos was a 1 in 3 striker last season playing alongside Nunez and has scored 4 this season already. 
 

so I’d say so yeah 

[KaKa]

4 minutes ago, toon25 said:

Forest are seemingly signing Aouar. We're getting bids rejected for João Pedro.

 

Something is wrong here 

 

This place can be such a hoot man. My God!

[The Prophet]

Just now, KDT said:

He’s definitely better than is being made out on here.

 

 

His all round game is great, but he needs to add goals. He's only 20, with the right coaching he could be a decent player.

[Guest reefatoon]

We want signings, we want signings, we want signings, just not him, him, him or him or any if them mentioned, but we want signings now.

[KingArthur]

10 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

...and this.

This graph really doesn't tell much about players. He has scored 1 in 5, and we need a goal scorer, not a player who can link up. Our other forwards (ASM and Almiron) can't score in a brothel.

[Yorkie]

Sounds like the perfect sort of signing really if we're not getting a striker designed to actually usurp Wilson. 

 

Lol at the outofnowhereyness. 

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, gdm said:

Ekitike scoring most goals in season for someone under 20 or whatever the stat was 

 

Ramos was a 1 in 3 striker last season playing alongside Nunez and has scored 4 this season already. 
 

so I’d say so yeah 

Fair enough, wasn’t a loaded question I just didn’t have much knowledge of their stats.

[Scoot]

A quick Google search and it seems everyone speaks very highly of him.

[ponsaelius]

The general opinion of Watford fans seems to be that he's better, with greater potential, than both Sarr and Dennis.

[Ste]

Would be a very good, astute signing. 

[gdm]

3 minutes ago, Ikon said:

Pretty certain lots of people will convince themselves that it’s a very good signing somehow. 

Such a strange thing this. I’m all for positivity but he’s really not proven himself to be anything but average so far. We will have to spend half of the remaining budget on him. Not the forward signing many had in mind. We will have a striker that struggles to stay fit and two strikers that struggle to score goals 

[Pilko]

Thought J.Pedro looked handy whenever I saw him tbh. Young player who can only improve in our setup. Wouldn't be against this at all.

[NEEJ]

To those calling him useless and a waste of money for ~£20m - how many times have you actually watched him play? The strong opinions on relatively obscure players on this place never cease to amaze. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

7 minutes ago, TRC said:

They thought the same about Dennis, rate Sarr at 30m+ their entire team came 19th and scored 34 goals last season. I think they maybe delusional.

Raphina sold to Barcelona for £55m, Phillips sold to Man City for £42m, and Harrison a £33.5m offer from us  (allegedly) rejected, played in a team who finished two places above them (albeit with 15 more points).  The quality of the overall team doesn’t determine the quality of each individual player, not to mention the development potential of young players within them. 

[KDT]

I can’t believe every other team in the league aren’t that arsed that Forest are signing world beaters.

 

 

Edited August 15, 2022 by KDT

[The Prophet]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/08/14/joao-pedro-watford-forward-no-one-talking-yet/?utm_content=football&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1660499714

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, NEEJ said:

To those calling him useless and a waste of money for ~£20m - how many times have you actually watched him play? The strong opinions on relatively obscure players on this place never cease to amaze. 

He’s hardly relatively obscure in fairness, seen quite a lot of Watford the last season or so.

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, Scoot said:

A quick Google search and it seems everyone speaks very highly of him.

 

They probably know a lot more about him than people on here.

[Nine]

8 minutes ago, Ikon said:

Pretty certain lots of people will convince themselves that it’s a very good signing somehow. 

Could easily say the same for it being a bad signing though 

[The Prophet]

Don't a lot of people say that the reaction of the opposing fans is the litmus test?

[HaydnNUFC]

3 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Sounds like the perfect sort of signing really if we're not getting a striker designed to actually usurp Wilson. 

 

Lol at the outofnowhereyness. 

 

Nah Yorkie mate, he's shit. Bang average and no better than Wood. We should instead go for these players I've just watched compilations on YouTube of and had a glance at their FBRef stats that we're almost certainly not in for instead.

[KaKa]

1 minute ago, reefatoon said:

We want signings, we want signings, we want signings, just not him, him, him or him or any if them mentioned, but we want signings now.

 

I can't even be irritated by it anymore, it's just so pathetic

 

The kid has already been deemed to be Chris Wood mark 2. I mean ... I can't believe it

 

By all the metrics @The Prophet has been posting, as well as the ones from that great Athletic article on him, he's right up there in potential with all the young strikers we've been looking at, but here we go ... can't score and is no good because he didn't do so for Watford, and is now no better than Chris Wood.