The January 2025 Transfer Thread

[pr0sl0]

But it was intimated he was particularly strong, so he should win his fair share of those battles if that was the case, no? I think physically he's very average, just that he's tall so it appears he should be more domineering than he's actually capable of being. He doesn't shy away from those battles though so still provides some nuisance value even if he's unable to bully centre halves in that way some big centre forwards do.

As a tall lad myself this rings true to me. In school I was forever being drafted into different sports teams by PE teachers who assumed that just by dint of being so much bigger than my peers that I'd naturally be better than them at football, or rugby, or swimming, or basketball... but nope. Terrible at everything.

Didn't stop them trying something new each year though. In retrospect I was, in the eyes of many of those teachers, basically a pasty white secondary school Adama Traore, just waiting to be sculpted into something not shit.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I guess in his defence he is young a will be getting used to the league. Imagine things were very different in La Liga.

He’s tall, don’t think is overly strong but no reason he won’t ’fill out’ abit. Takes time for some players from abroad to adapt. Some don’t adapt at all.

He's 24 and got plenty of senior football behind him.

I just don't think he's the sort of focal point he's being asked to attempt to provide, he battles and scraps for things but he doesn't look very polished at all with his back to goal. He looks more adept when he tries to run off the shoulder just that he isn't especially quick either so it needs the right pass, usually an early one because his movement is pretty sharp.

His body type and style of play just seem to be a bit at odds with one another, looks like Giroud but attempting to play like Henry.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

24 is still very young to be a physical centre forward.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

24 is still very young to be a physical centre forward.

I think for many it's a case of learning how to overcome the immobility that often comes with being a big unit rather than learning how to put themselves about isn't it? I just don't think he's a particularly physical player, he's just tall.

 

[SSB]

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He’s changed his Instagram to say he plays for them

 

[prawnking]

Ungrateful bottler