justsomebloke
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It's obvious he played the long game with us
what a commitment though.
It's obvious he played the long game with us
I watched the video and you said he isn’t capable of playing for the top teams like Liverpool and City - but could see him playing at Chelsea or Athletico.
What does that mean? Is Chelsea not a top team and could he play for us?
As we are seeing with Nunez playing for City and Liverpool is very tough for rugged strikers whose technical game isn’t quite top notch - I anticipate that Haaland could face a similar issue but he came from Dortmund where he would have probably ironed out that issue.
Toney isn’t someone whose going to be mobile enough to press, or participate fast enough to be a spearhead for Klopp or Pep. A lot of their football is played on floor, pass back and eye of the needle stuff.
Chelsea with their wing back system, Toney can in theory stay more centrally but even then you could argue they look more fluid with a Havertz and Toney would be a plan B there.
Atletico play a direct brand of football, they’re used to having quite physical forwards and with a partner next to him, Toney can act more as orthodox 9.
United - it’s a weird one because ETH is in many ways similar to Klopp and Pep but there’s a greater emphasis on crossing from the wingers themselves and he doesn’t like his teams to fanny around as much in possession which is why he’s been able to incorporate big target man strikers like Haller and do it well. So Toney could potentially work in his set up. It’s why I think Nunez would have done better here than at Liverpool. Having Bruno behind a proper striker makes more sense.
Thanks - do you have any idea about what striker we should target? There seems to be not much available.
Oh, so nobody that would be difficult to sign thenMy preference would be Son Heung-Min or Joao Felix and play them as false 9s.
Oh, so nobody that would be difficult to sign then
The price was pretty good this window as well wasnt it? It will be a lot more next Summer.
This window 30m is practically free for a quality English striker playing as well as he is.
Apparently it went up to 40 to 45 later in the window? Football Insider said Bentford had set the valuation at 30 at the start of the window with Brighton and Newcastle the primary interested parties. Probably went up when they saw what players were going for in the window, so you are right.Didn't they say 50m?
Hope we are in. Am a huge Toney fan . People keep arguing about his goal scoring records from last year but he is now proving the doubters wrong on that aspect too.
There's no way we will get Toney for 30m, 50m or even 70m - when we paid 80m for Maguire 2 years ago and and Antony 100m 5 days ago. Clubs now that we pay what ever it takes if we are desperate and because there is not many strikers out there available we will probably need to pay at least as much as we did for Maguire if we want him. I'm not discussing the point if he is the right man for Man United or if we need him (that we need a striker is obvious), just saying that whoever we go for, we will need to spend big money again.
Surprised Chelsea and Liverpool didn’t go for him. He’d probably be better suited to scousers than Nunez.
When he was mentioned in the summer by a few people it got shot down, presumably because he's not very fashionable. Amazing how a few games changes things. He was pretty good last season so its odd.
The thing to keep in mind is he's not going to be a bargain. Brentford have no reason whatsoever to sell their best player for cheap as a now established club. I think it would cost a serious amount of dough and would have to be our main target for the summer. Maybe he's worth it.
Does anyone know his contract situation? How many years left?