Pav!
Bad example. Pav didn't look like a striker, he had no coolness or composure in front of goal. He scored the occasional screamer, but to me his technique always seemed a bit 'put your foot through the ball and hope for the best'.
Soldado looks a lot more savvy with his finishing (not that we'd know)
Biggest mistake we made in the transfer window was not upping our bid and paying the price for Benteke. We could have offered Villa 26.5 million for Benteke and gotten him.
Early times for Soldado but he reminds me a lot of Pav. Clinical finisher but too slow and weak to cut it in this league.
And your point is?
Fixed, but my point still stands
Must leave thread - fuck.
Not worried at all. The only thing I do slightly worry about is he's got to get used to a lot of different combinations of players. You'd imagine lamela will be one of the first names on the team sheet in a month or so and he's barely played with him. Plus we have loads of other talented players who he hasn't played with much that can come in at the drop of a hat. This is why they train and this is why we pay AVB. He'll come good
Again, someone has misread my point. I'm not saying Defoe is "good enough to be our main striker", I'm saying he deserves to start one game based on his form, if he does well he gets another game, if he fails to deliver Soldado comes back in. In my view Soldado would also benefit from playing against Anzhi, where he could get more familiar with his team mates.
No, he hasn't. Your point was that Defoe has scored 'shitloads of goals', which, as far as the EPL is concerned, is manifestly, demonstrably false. He's scored six goals against extremely weak opposition—great! But has it not crossed your mind that, against the deadbeats of Tbilisi and Tromso, and Villa's 'B' team, Soldado might not have done as well or better? Your statement that he 'deserves to start on form' is therefore meaningless. You really haven't seen enough of Defoe since 2004 to have a pretty good idea of what to expect?
Apart from which, if Soldado hasn't exactly set the EPL alight so far, he's hardly been a disaster area either. Again, Berbatov took a good half-season to get acclimatised (it was November before he got his second league goal, remember?), and Suarez a season-and-a-half to really get motoring. It's not an exact science: Papiss Cissé looked the absolute nuts for half a season, and had many on here asking why we didn't sign him; then he turned into Eeyore.
Maybe because Defoe is yet to start a Prem match? So let me ask you a question, do you think Soldado is in better goalscoring form than Defoe? That's all I'm saying my long word using friend.
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