Gonzalo Higuain

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Let's hope he has a George Weah effect against Sp*rs !

[coolhead23 1,147]

Wow ... we have no better options in the market!!! Another 30plus joins the gang ... 

So who's next from the stable of Ex Sarri players would we go after now? 

 

[Alabama 1,992]

44 minutes ago, coolhead23 said:

Wow ... we have no better options in the market!!! Another 30plus joins the gang ... 

So who's next from the stable of Ex Sarri players would we go after now? 

 

Elseid Hysaj...

[Rekin 835]

Excellent business, very happy with this signing and the accompanying deal.

If he sucks in the next 6 months (even then I doubt he will be worse than Morata) then we can go all in on an established striker in the summer. If he proves a success then we could keep him for another 12 months and buy a younger striker prospect to act as an understudy. 

Honestly, this is probably the best we could do in a January window. It's all fine and well to point to young strikers as the "obvious" solutions, but success does not always carry over. We might as well have anded up paying a lot of money for Piatek only for him to fail hard. You never know these things in advance, and what we need now is not a prospect but a finished product. 

Paredes, Higuain and Pulisic in the summer is at the very least evidence of the club having ambition.

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[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

1 minute ago, Unionjack said:

 

Am I the only one who is super excited about this lol 

[Antonio8 736]

3 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

 

 

similar to cuadrado's deal with juventus 

[Unionjack 7,531]

1 minute ago, BluesMadLad said:

Am I the only one who is super excited about this lol 

I think MOST of us are thinking it might come off. But you cant help but to have some doubts.

Once hes in our kit I'll be shouting my damned fool head off for him!

[Unionjack 7,531]

1 minute ago, Antonio8 said:

similar to cuadrado's deal with juventus 

I think I was one of the only ones that liked Square!

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Delete.

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

2 hours ago, BluesMadLad said:

Am I the only one who is super excited about this lol 

Couldn't say I'm massively excited. Hopeful more than anything. Still very dubious of sarris style and lack of any sort of plan B but hopefully him getting the short of players he wants will help. We need a striker and he was a good one, coming into the premier League tho at 31 having never played here before makes me wary. Then again Etoo had never played here before at his age and he managed ok. Fingers crossed

[El P. 1,354]

I liked what we did last summer, and I like this too. Board is doing well since Sarri arrived.

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[Special Juan 28,088]

Need to get a move on then.

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8 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

 

Would make some serious headlines if he was to go and score as well  And be a very big feather in Sarris hat too.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

1 hour ago, ulsterchelsea said:

Couldn't say I'm massively excited. Hopeful more than anything. Still very dubious of sarris style and lack of any sort of plan B but hopefully him getting the short of players he wants will help. We need a striker and he was a good one, coming into the premier League tho at 31 having never played here before makes me wary. Then again Etoo had never played here before at his age and he managed ok. Fingers crossed

Sarri can't complain and tbf - contrary to conte - he never does. He got his Jorginho and HIguain, he got the best ball-playing gk in the world with Kepa + he gets to have Hazard,Pedro, Kante and his beloved Alonso to accompany this. What is a bit mindboggling to me  is to see which lengths the board goes to give a modest manager what he wants but refused to do the same for cheque-book managers like Mourinho and to an extent Conte. Maybe it was not even his results but his behaviour that got Conte the sack. Shame would have loved to see a really good manager backed as much as Sarri is backed now. Could have made us CL competitors again.

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20 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Shame would have loved to see a really good manager backed as much as Sarri is backed now. Could have made us CL competitors again.

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19 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Sarri can't complain and tbf - contrary to conte - he never does. He got his Jorginho and HIguain, he got the best ball-playing gk in the world with Kepa + he gets to have Hazard,Pedro, Kante and his beloved Alonso to accompany this. What is a bit mindboggling to me  is to see which lengths the board goes to give a modest manager what he wants but refused to do the same for cheque-book managers like Mourinho and to an extent Conte. Maybe it was not even his results but his behaviour that got Conte the sack. Shame would have loved to see a really good manager backed as much as Sarri is backed now. Could have made us CL competitors again.

Well Conte did have it alright himself, he had Costa who he then fell out with and broke ties with. Sarri was left with Morata/Giroud, neither were anything to do with him. Sarri has started this season with no striker. Jorginho came because of Sarri otherwise City would have had him. I mean, Courtois wanted to leave so we had to find a replacement. It just so happened that Sarri's style relied on having a goalkeeper good with their feet and Kepa was available. If he wasn't, we would have been left with god knows who because Alisson had made his mind up to join Liverpool.