Omar Marmoush
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Direct ones for sure. Excluding England, he's only got 1 goal from a free kick in the last 4 years, but I'd like to think we'd be signing a player for 60m for more than just free kicks this time.
Mac, CJ, Salah, Dom, Harvey, Virj and Grav, all of these names should be ahead of Trent. 1 goal in 4 years, F'me!
If Trent stays and we get this guy, then I hope we get this guy taking free-kicks
Marmoush looks like a potential Jota replacement – if we decide that Diogo is simply too injury-prone to rely on. But he is not a real #9 profile and if that’s what we’re after then Sesko indeed looks like the best bet, even if he’s not a finished article.
Or if Slot wants to take us in a different direction with a Firmino-style false 9, then I think Brighton’s Joao Pedro looks very interesting. My spidey senses are tingling with him:
View: https://youtu.be/PftWRGfAomw?si=rKhA8ApTO9bNB0rg
Or if Slot wants to take us in a different direction with a Firmino-style false 9, then I think Brighton’s Joao Pedro looks very interesting. My spidey senses are tingling with him:
View: https://youtu.be/PftWRGfAomw?si=rKhA8ApTO9bNB0rg
Brighton will ask for crazy money for Pedro.... If Salah stays and we go for Marmoush then I think DJ goes, I really can't see us going for #9 unless someone else goes.
Considering how tight the owners are, if DJ and Salah leave, I think the replacement could be Marmoush and Jonathan Davids (JD). Where the net cost could be close to 0
It’s a myth that Michael Edwards does bargain bin shopping. Not going for the most expensive/overhyped option is one thing, but we will not sign a player in a key position just because they are out of contract or can be had for cheap.
I was going to start a thread yesterday along the likes of PL transfer targets.
He’d be right up there for me
Anyone of Sesko, Gyokeres or Joao Pedro will cost “crazy money,” question is who will be truly worth it. Marmoush will be cheaper, but I don’t see him leading the line in the same way - he could be still worth it for his offensive production and opportunism, but we will need a #9 who can do all the “system player” things as well as score. Particularly after Salah leaves - Mo is currently the closest thing we have to a consistent outlet up front.
Well, is cheap worth it when he's away for 6 weeks every other year?
Also, João Pedro can't be that expensive.
Zero point in talking about replacing mo, as we can't. We're beat off trying to find players that maximises the system slot wants to play. There's going to be a sizeable drop off from the RW position, the only hope is a dramatic increase from the LW and CF. LW so far seems capable of picking up some of the slack.
That's why I don't think any idea of us returning to a Bobby-type in the 9 makes sense, as someone suggested above. Bobby was enabled by the fact he had two goal scorers playing either side.
When Mo goes, we're going to need a top class scorer somewhere in the front three and it's most likely going to be through the middle.
Well, Joao Pedro looks bit more like a natural scorer than Bobby, but he is similar in that he likes to drop deep, engage in physical duels and combine with his strike partners. It’s a pretty rare and valuable profile.
Punktuation
He sure is, he's more of grifter than Firminho.
Yes, his dribbling skills can be quite deceptive.
I have sympathy for them - in years past they almost always played as part of a strike pair; leading the line all by yourself if tough. There is so much they are expected to do nowadays besides scoring.
And you’re right, now is the age of the winger/wing-forward.
Than who?
Oh no...
Why do you say that? This is a Brighton we are talking about, the Benfica of England.
Oh shit, I forgot about Caicedo.
Still, don't think Pedro has reached that level yet.
We'd get him for £40 mill
You awoke the dragon.
Surprised Froggy didn’t pick up on “grifter” too.
Brighton spent £30M on him, their club record fee. No way they let him go for less than 60.
Who else in on your list? Ait Nouri, Joao Gomes, Kerkez, Semenyo, Baleba?
