What are your realistic expectations for a successful season for GB? I'd say 25 starts and somewhere around 10-15 goals with 7-10 assists would be great. If he got 20 goals, I'd be over the moon
Not too hung up on the numbers per se. As long as he finds good form and is able to drag up the rest of the squad to his level then it'll be successful. Just having him on the pitch will draw special attention to him from the opposition, and it may help Kane gain more freedom as we have 2 genuine world class dangers on the pitch. Saying that I think he'll get 20+ goals.
What are your realistic expectations for a successful season for GB? I'd say 25 starts and somewhere around 10-15 goals with 7-10 assists would be great. If he got 20 goals, I'd be over the moon
These are the numbers from last season all competitions (credit @carpediem991 for his excellent thread)
Total (Combined - Name - Goals - Assists)
30 - Heung-Min Son - 18 - 12
26 - Harry Kane - 24 - 2
14 - Dele Alli - 8 - 6
12 - Lucas Moura - 7 - 5
10 - Serge Aurier - 2 - 8
8 - Erik Lamela - 4 - 4
6 - Christian Eriksen - 3 - 3
6 - Tanguy Ndombele - 2 - 4
5 - Giovani Lo Celso - 2 - 3
4 - Toby Alderweireld - 2 - 2
4 - Moussa Sissoko - 2 - 2
4 - Steven Bergwijn - 3 - 1
3 - Jan Vertonghen - 2 - 1
2 - Eric Dier - 0 - 2
2 - Ryan Sessegnon - 1 - 1
1 - Danny Rose - 0 - 1
1 - Ben Davies - 0 - 1
Basically, anything above 15 combined goals and assists would put him above everyone except Son and Kane if we replicated last season.
Moura, whose spot he will likely take, got 12 combined G+A last season so anything above that is a direct improvement to the team.
Worth noting than Davies and Rose got a combined 2 assists/0 goals last season so Regulion is also an improvement there. He got 3 goals/5 assists on his own last year.
It's amazing the things people will find to moan aboutoh god... wtf does it matter?!
Some of you can be cool and pragmatic about announcing whenever the club feels like it, but for anyone in the PR or journalistic industry can allude to, there is no bigger news value and media traction garnered if the hype of Bale is not followed up with a final announcement after 2 days of media frenzy on his return, especially when that broke on so quickly and materialised.
Striking while the iron is hot is an opportunistic move for media practitioners that can almost guarantee huge returns. The stars have finally aligned again after 7 years, but there is no riding on that wave and instead allowing the interest to cool slightly, the club has fucked it up quite abit TBH in this PR manoevre.
And really, this isn't about fans being spoilt brats or throwing toys out the pram whatsoever. It is really an expectation most would expect the club to be doing if the business-running aspect is being held to such high standard in so many shapes and forms of the club operation.
Some of you can be cool and pragmatic about announcing whenever the club feels like it, but for anyone in the PR or journalistic industry can allude to, there is no bigger news value and media traction garnered if the hype of Bale is not followed up with a final announcement after 2 days of media frenzy on his return, especially when that broke on so quickly and materialised.
Striking while the iron is hot is an opportunistic move for media practitioners that can almost guarantee huge returns. The stars have finally aligned again after 7 years, but there is no riding on that wave and instead allowing the interest to cool slightly, the club has fucked it up quite abit TBH in this PR manoevre.
And really, this isn't about fans being spoilt brats or throwing toys out the pram whatsoever. It is really an expectation most would expect the club to be doing if the business-running aspect is being held to such high standard in so many shapes and forms of the club operation.
Some of you can be cool and pragmatic about announcing whenever the club feels like it, but for anyone in the PR or journalistic industry can allude to, there is no bigger news value and media traction garnered if the hype of Bale is not followed up with a final announcement after 2 days of media frenzy on his return, especially when that broke on so quickly and materialised.
Striking while the iron is hot is an opportunistic move for media practitioners that can almost guarantee huge returns. The stars have finally aligned again after 7 years, but there is no riding on that wave and instead allowing the interest to cool slightly, the club has fucked it up quite abit TBH in this PR manoevre.
And really, this isn't about fans being spoilt brats or throwing toys out the pram whatsoever. It is really an expectation most would expect the club to be doing if the business-running aspect is being held to such high standard in so many shapes and forms of the club operation.
Piece of pissCan we make 500 pages? That’s the real question!!
Dunno, that guess seems under par to me.Crazy that there’s been 10,000 posts in the last couple of weeks on this thread, and only 9,000 of them were golf jokes