Roberto Soldado

[Magic Lamps 11,449]

Soldado has been a very clever buy for Valencia 2 years ago. He was already great when he was with Getafe. Now he has reached his peak. I think it is neither in our nor in his interest to tear him out of a squad he fits in perfecty. He is 28, won't get any better. also we have Torres, 29, Ba, 28, we should not add anothe rplayer in that age bracket. We are missing one in the 24-27 category.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

No thanks, one of those decent player that will do well for a 4th,5th,6th club like Arsenal, Everton, Spurs. He is not good enough for us, look at Demba Ba. He is actually worse than Gomez, Jovetic, Dzeko.

[IliyaDamyanov 43]

Torres is better than him

[Noni Zaharia 14]

Soldado is the substitute for Torres in the Spain national team, so..... but let`s see, the most important is to score goals.

[El Guaje 4]

 

Torres is better than him

NO need for the ninja. He actually is on better form. But,

Negredo >>>>>

[different level 1,056]

Soldado? I thought we are looking for an uprade of Torres. Why should we buy his back-up in the national team?

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Soldado? I thought we are looking for an uprade of Torres. Why should we buy his back-up in the national team?

We should then sell Azpi and sign Arbeloa while you compare such nonsense...

[different level 1,056]

We should then sell Azpi and sign Arbeloa while you compare such nonsense...

It's not like I am comparing Torres with some young striker with a lot of potential. Soldado is as old as Nando, he's at his peak atm and he won't become much better, especially if he's going to need time to get used to the EPL. It is stupid to compare the situation between those two with the one of Arbeloa and Azpi. The latter is young and has a great future ahead of him, while the former is 30 years old.

[IkE 267]

Soldado?, please don't be fool, I'll rather play with Torres and Benayun on the Starting XI.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

So I put it to you guys out here...

I know it's unrealistic with Levy being a giant asshole when it comes to dealing with Chelsea (or.. lack of,) but if Soldado came on the market for less than £20million.. Would be a worthwhile gamble? I know he's been piss-poor at Tottenham but could that have been a problem of tactics in how they played and how they set up to attack?

A glance as Soldado's stats in Spain and it's not hard to see why Spurs did pay £26million:

2009-10 20 (32)

2010-11 25 (44)

2011-12 27 (51)

2012-13 30 (46)

[sdrcfc 461]

No.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

No.

Okay