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Just now, The College Dropout said:

18 months left before what?

 

Wissa is just missing that final finish.  He’s done it before regularly enough. I have faith. 

Has 18 months left on his deal at Brentford. 

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48 minutes ago, Checko said:

He's outperformed his xG every year he's in the premier league, he's a perfectly decent finisher. Just need to give it time for things to average out.

Is that not just a Brentford thing? They would put it on a plate for him. Brentford strikers have always scored a shit tonne

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18 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

I do too. :lol: But it does look like an overpay, even if he does.

 

I predict Wissa will bang them and £55m will feel like decent value.

 

Even if he was averaging a goal a game, it would still be an overpay.

 

We were desperate, the market conditions were very pro-Brentford and they obliged to take our pants down. 

 

I'm still convinced after a couple of seasons of solid goal returns we'll get a decent return from Saudi though.

 

 

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1 hour ago, The College Dropout said:

Reminds me a bit of Cisse tbh. The offsides. Great movement when not offside. Snatching.  
 

So he’s due a crazy purple patch.  

tbf that first chance, he was clearly onside. just a shit finish.

it would have taken VAR 10 minutes but the decision would have been reversed.

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5 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Even if he was averaging a goal a game, it would still be an overpay.

 

We were desperate, the market conditions were very pro-Brentford and they obliged to take our pants down. 

 

I'm still convinced after a couple of seasons of solid goal returns we'll get a decent return from Saudi though.

 

 

 

That’s where I’m at with him. The overpay is a massive shame because it, along with the overpay for Elanga, impacts us in future windows. That’s the point I’m making. 
 

Staveley said we couldn’t afford one slip up in the transfer market. She was right. 

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4 minutes ago, TRC said:

Is that not just a Brentford thing? They would put it on a plate for him. Brentford strikers have always scored a shit tonne

Not sure, I remember him scoring a screamer from outside the box vs us. Plenty of nice finishes in Dennis Wise highlights.

 

xG is basically - when you took a shot, how likely was it that shot would be a goal? If you consistently exceeds your xG it suggests your shooting is better than average. In his case he's been at, or exceeded his xG for the last 4 years (though not a full time player or specialist striker for some of that period tbf).

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5 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Oh. That didn’t matter. We were desperate. 
 

The summer transfer window was a mess. 

Aye it was a mess but surely they could’ve found someone with similar fundamentals for a shit tonne less than the £55m on a 29 year old with 18 months left?

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Just now, Checko said:

Not sure, I remember him scoring a screamer from outside the box vs us. Plenty of nice finishes in Dennis Wise highlights.

 

xG is basically - when you took a shot, how likely was it that shot would be a goal? If you consistently exceeds your xG it suggests your shooting is better than average. In his case he's been at, or exceeded his xG for the last 4 years (though not a full time player or specialist striker for some of that period tbf).

He will have some goals like that yeah but for the most part Brentford have been kings of generating high XG chances 

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16 minutes ago, Minhosa said:

Aye it was a mess but surely they could’ve found someone with similar fundamentals for a shit tonne less than the £55m on a 29 year old with 18 months left?

Did his contract expire next January? 

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7 hours ago, lovejoy said:

Just got back in from the game.

 

I thought he was awful tbh. Looked like he could barely move at times.

 

 

The biggest concern does look mobility with him. He’s coming back from an injury so we need to take our time with him but he doesn’t have age on his side so we’re probably seeing the ghost of future right now 

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9 hours ago, TRC said:

He will have some goals like that yeah but for the most part Brentford have been kings of generating high XG chances 

We also generate high Xg chances. Wilson and Isak had Xg of roughly .7-.58 per game through their time here under Howe (when playing regularly and before the legs failed for Wilson). 
 

Wissa will get chances which is why I’m not majorly concerned. 

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I have mixed feelings on him. He was obviously poor yesterday, no doubting that, but he still got shots away and almost scored that looping header too. I'd take that every day of the week ahead of Woltemade not looking a threat at all in that position. 

 

I think it's clear that he's mainly just a poacher and probably won't offer much in general play, so when he's missing chances he'll look shite. 

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Still quite annoyed at his misses and general play last night.

 

He does that weird thing the rubbish players at 7s do. They like spasm and leap into the ball when it's coming to them and it flies off in a random direction. 

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44 minutes ago, Shadow Puppets said:

Wissa to me seems just a bit meh. No obvious stand out quality.

 

His stand out quality should be his finishing but as we have no idea how to get the ball to him (or any forward) we haven't had the opportunity to see it yet. Hopefully we stick with him vs Wolves as we should have more opportunities than last night

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