Yes. Benzema is 34. Endrick is a kid who will need development. Perfect to develop under Benzema before he retires.
Do people see him as a striker?
The opening post listed him as "Position: Attack - Centre-Forward" and Transfermarkt says the center is where he mostly plays, but it doesn't make sense based on videos. He is young enough that maybe that changes when he comes to Europe.
Do they want it all at one go because those masks have expiry dates.
We don't need a top striker? You can say things like "spunk 60m with no certainty" yet we have a history at this point of spunking more than that on players that seemed a "certainty" and weren't.
It's not really. It's shortsighted from the club that we basically don't do business in South America for any of these kids (outside of Pellistri) when some of the top prospects in football have come from there. I'd have no problem with Madrid beating us to the signature of a top Brazilian, but when it's widely regarded by all that this kid is the best to come through in years and Madrid is in negotiations with him while we get reports of United "stepping up their scouting of him", it's frustrating. Same shit happened with Caicedo and now he's a 50m player for Brighton when we could have had him for 6m.
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Yeah totally not a striker this boy
Our pressing has been decent the last few games tbf
He’s sensational.
Yeah 21. Although looking back he should have been scooped up long before that, he was destroying teams at Santos as an 18 year old
Is he a top striker? he's only made his mens league debut last month
Every team was desperate to sign him earlier but he wanted to stay with Santos until after the 2014 world cup. In the end, he had outgrown the league so much that he actually left a year earlier than originally planned (2013).
People aren’t wanting us to sign him for immediate impact though. Would be cool to sign him with a view to him moving at 18 and still go out and buy a top striker. By the time he’d be 20/21 we would’ve gotten 5/6 years out of whichever striker we signed in the mean time.
Nothing suggest we have the money for that kind of strategy im afraid
My point is that the reason we have "bigger short term issues" is partly because your attitude is one the club has seemingly adopted as well that we have "bigger fish to fry". You need to be able to do both. RM is able to recruit first team players while also pursuing these top youngsters, and then people wonder how they do it as if it's this magic formula. We are going into this summer and are probably going to pay close to 100m for a striker like Osimhen who's good but has his deficiencies. Paying that amount at any position for a player that's still going to have drawbacks is the position you put yourself in as a club when you refuse to take a shot on wonderkids because they aren't going to immediately slot into the starting XI.Is he a top striker? he's only made his mens league debut last month
I'm not doubting he 'could' have the potential, but he can't even join us for 2 years at best.
We have bigger short term issues than fighting over a 16 year old.
Did we not recently purchase two young forwards with promise with a view to building them into first team material?
Amad is the only real "top prospect" we purchased, and him and Garnacho are wingers anyways (Not to mention I think we've handled Amad's development terribly before this year). But my point was more directed to the recruitment of South America anyways and how historically it doesn't seem like we've bothered with top prospects from there
That's a fair point, article highlighting that point: Article
Yes, he is a 9. But historically the majority of brazilian strikers were more second strikers/wingers, like Ronaldo or Adriano, because those players who operate more in the box or using only muscles to hold the CBs were seen as inferior players.
I do agree with you about the club lagging behind when it comes to exploiting the South American market. South America has a abundance of talent that we should be tapping into. But I believe that might well be about to change and the current influx of South American players in the first team isn't just down to ten Hag's arrival imo but also the arrival of a Argentine head scout that has taken up the role of head of scouting without most fans even realising that he's come in and replaced one of the out-going head scouts. It was reported in The Athletic about the recruitment team persuading ten Hag to sign Casemiro after the Frenkie chase didn't come to fruition, and I believe it was the South American head scout who very likely was the key factor due to his background in South America.
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ideally signing him now would be cheaper. He gets 2 years at a decent club in Brazil before moving here and getting to develop in our youth setup until he progresses enough to warrant a call up. Whether that interests him and his family is another matter like. It won’t happen. He’ll get tapped up by Real or Barca and move to Spain like they always do.
WTF? Palmeiras is massive Club in brazil! Real and Barça are crazy about him.
How have you read my post and then decided I didn’t think Palmeiras were a decent club? I literally said it in the post.
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