Dries Mertens

[Atholy 1,293]

Started his topic in October 2011 but it is locked now

Back then he was a steal... now you will pay a good amount of cash for him. Just scored 4 goals in his today game against Torino. That makes 7 goals in 2 games & back to back hattricks in the Serie A.

He's a perfect false 9 and has a very good link up with Eden! Am I the only one that would still go for him?

[Fernando 6,456]

Nah, it looks like Conte is going for James. 

[Atholy 1,293]

Oh yeah he also humiliated Hart with that last goal!! World Class.

Check it our from 5.00min in the highlights!

 

[nyikolajevics 2,576]

9 minutes ago, Atholy said:

Oh yeah he also humiliated Hart with that last goal!! World Class.

 

 

 

I'm not sure if it was intentional
 
Great player though, but I wouldn't go for him, there are better options. He's been playing well since Milik injured but generally I don't think that he is much better than Senor Rodrigez.

[BoyBlue96 990]

Hahahaha Drieske Mertens !!! He was a fan favourite when he was at PSV some years back.
Never expected him to become this good! He's on fire for Napoli!

[Atholy 1,293]

16 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

 

I'm not sure if it was intentional
 
Great player though, but I wouldn't go for him, there are better options. He's been playing well since Milik injured but generally I don't think that he is much better than Senor Rodrigez.

Check this out: one month ago in the WC qualifier against Estonia. I can tell you that it was intentional

 

[Weckerz 3,781]

He needs to add consistency to his game, he has terrific heights and terrible lows. He does have an eye for goal though

[MefiX19 1,092]

I really like him, but isn't he like 29 or something?

[nyikolajevics 2,576]

6 hours ago, Atholy said:

Check this out: one month ago in the WC qualifier against Estonia. I can tell you that it was intentional

 

This one was intentional for sure, but I'm still not sure about the one against Torino.

But whatever, it doesn't make any difference. It was a goal, it counted, no need to explain it.

[the wes 7,212]

8 hours ago, MefiX19 said:

but isn't he like 29 or something?

Yip 

[Hamilton 2,120]

Rumours going Conte wants him, but probably a lot of players will be linked to us coming months..

[the wes 7,212]

3 minutes ago, Hamilton said:

Rumours going Conte wants him, but probably a lot of players will be linked to us coming months..

I seen a few reports linked him to us he's hada fantastic season with Napoli he could make a good back up 

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I've seen him play many times. Nothing special, I'll rather have Mahrez. Way too inconsistent and has too many brainfarts/poor decision making moments. Actually, he's not better than Pedro or Willian, I don't care what his stats say (besides playing as a false 9 or whatever). 

[the wes 7,212]

Dries Mertens admits his agent talked with Chelsea about a move to the Premier League but insists he will not be leaving Napoli

https://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/mertens-confirms-chelsea-interest/73611

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

On 13.5.2017 at 9:43 PM, MrExcalibur100 said:

I've seen him play many times. Nothing special, I'll rather have Mahrez. Way too inconsistent and has too many brainfarts/poor decision making moments. Actually, he's not better than Pedro or Willian, I don't care what his stats say (besides playing as a false 9 or whatever). 

You hear this a lot from him but actually I can't imagine. He has scored 34 goals this season. 34 goals coming from some kind of left wing/hybrid striker position those are CR7 kind of numbers. how can you be inconsistent when you produce this kind of ouptut statistically? The few times I saw him he was immense, I mean balon d'or candidate amazing, scoring out of nowhere and dribbling around like hazard. 

[Leif 6,006]

Each time I've seen him it's been painful, because it's obvious 80% of his career has been wasted by him not being deployed as much of a goal orientated player.

He's learned all the movement and trickery you can learn being a wing player - and taking that up front, and by chance being a very fine finisher, is exciting. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

Chelsea may lose out on signing Belgian hotshot for just £25m

https://theshedender.com/2018/01/tabloid-talk/serie-a-leaders-seek-to-remove-25m-clause-from-ex-chelsea-targets-contract/

[Superblue 6,370]

1 hour ago, Unionjack said:

Chelsea may lose out on signing Belgian hotshot for just £25m

https://theshedender.com/2018/01/tabloid-talk/serie-a-leaders-seek-to-remove-25m-clause-from-ex-chelsea-targets-contract/

If true regarding his release clause, that would be a phenomenal signing for the money and give us two genuinely good strikers to share the burden. If he's available for £25m though I would imagine quite a few teams in for him.

But this is part of the reason why I'd rather us not think short term in this window and buy stop gaps. Barkley is a very good piece of business in my opinion and anyone else who could be purchased at knock down fees (Sanchez?) or represent great value despite in January, but beyond this I'd rather us 'make do' and do our main business in the summer.