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Probably mentioned a lot here but selling balogun was so fucking stupid
He wanted to be the main man somewhere and he isn’t good enough to be that here. No one’s at fault.
The fee we got was terrible though.
He’d be the best natural striker in our squad right now. I don’t see how he wouldn’t be starting if we kept him
Tbh I don’t think it’s impossible that he could have had the spot nailed eventually. But does he walk straight into it? Absolutely not. Leading the line for us is really difficult. Finishing is the easy part. Fashioning the chances for yourself, linking the play, stretching defenders by going in behind, leading the press. The physical and technical and demands are so high.
This is a fair point. It’s very hard for young strikers to do the other parts of the game. He’s definitely not walking straight into it but I think he would have usurped Eddie by now
He’s nowhere near good enough for this team. Lamenting the loss of Balogun is silly.
Incorrect actually
Between Nketiah and Balogun, we are going to get between 60 and 70 mil £ for Hale End products
Neither are good enough for where we want to be in 2-3 years. You can say that we should’ve kept Balogun and sold Nketiah for this year, but Nketiah wouldn’t have gotten as much and Balogun would lose value as our backup instead of coming off a 20 npg season
That money will be crucial in going towards a striker that fits the mound what we need. Even if Balogun reaches those levels, we can get him at a 15% discount to market values due to our sell-on clause. More likely tho, that money helps offset the huge money needed for an Oshimen, Ferguson, etc
Balogun is going to be a star, maybe already is. There was zero reason to keep Eddie over him. I agree about the bench issues but I’d rather have him playing right now over Eddie. Eddie could not score 20 goals in ligue 1. People are saying Kai might start at striker soon enough, who knows if we’ll see it, but it won’t surprise me. Balogun would have definitely played quite a bit already had we sold Eddie and kept him. He’s a natural goalscorer, which we need badly. The sell on stuff is nice, but we won’t be getting him back. We should have at least kept him until January