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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by originallambrettaman, May 16, 2018.

  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Why did chelsea sign Giroud? Please explain.
    After morata. After costa. After drogba.
    Do you see a pattern?

    Who does mourinho sign? Lukaku. Who Chelsea wanted.
     
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  2. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    I'm going to enjoy the 6ft 3 mandzukIc play for Croatia today.

    Why they need a 6ft 3 player I'll never know. Surely someone small and nippy would suit them more?
    Same with juventus. Weird innit.
     
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  3. GLP

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    They’re not Messi sized, but they’re also not immobile lumps either. Parkin apart from being athletically challenged had good feet, was physical and had decent technical ability. That ‘sort’ of player would compliment our current two of Dicko and Campbell (excluding Keane as he’s always injured and just not good enough).
     
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  4. Steven Toast

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    Because they've all scored a lot of goals. If they'd scored barely anything, they wouldn't have bothered.

    Manchester City, meanwhile, rely on Sergio Aguero. And they won the league. The point isn't that size isn't a useful asset, it's that it isn't the only thing that makes a good lone striker.

    In a pairing, on the other hand, you only have to look at Jamie Vardy and Shinji Okazaki. One player to hold the ball up, the other to play off the shoulder. That works. I just don't think it does with a lone striker.
     
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  5. Steven Toast

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    Yes, to play with them in the same team, not by themselves. Dicko's energy and work rate would be better utilised alongside somebody else. We'll see I suppose in the upcoming season.
     
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  6. GLP

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    We’ll be playing a lone striker, with Bowen and Milinković providing support from a narrow wing position. At present we haven’t got an attacking solution to provide them with ball in the final third, nor for them to have a crossing option whether that’s an aerial cross or to feet.
     
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  8. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Tell me what teams in the championship have an aguero size forward as their main striker.
     
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  9. originallambrettaman

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  10. Steven Toast

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    Villa have Hogan. Derby have Vydra. Bolton had Clough and LeFondre. Forest used Brereton and Tomlin. Wolves used Bonatini and Afobe, neither of which were big physical strikers.
     
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    I thought that was odd too, how can a player no longer employed by the club have a sell on clause from his old employer? Is this bollocks?
     
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  12. yorkys

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    Is it a case of you can have him for free but we want a sell on??
     
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  13. howdentiger

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    Wouldn't need to terminate his contract, they could do a free transfer
     
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  14. GLP

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    More likely this, free transfer with future sell on.
     
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    Finally, A Small Midget Of A Striker In ( Griezman ) ) Picking Out A Tall 6 Foot Target Man In The Box To Strike Home ( Mandzukic )

    When Did Any One Think , We Might See The Day.. Albeit It Worked..
     
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  16. DJBlackandamberarmy(No4)

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    Bad start
     
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  17. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    Then he hasn’t been released. One way or another, this story isn’t entirely accurate.
     
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  18. GLP

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    Just semantics.
     
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  19. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    Just wrong.
     
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  20. GLP

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    Interpretation maybe. If we sign him for no fee and there’s a sell on, there’s no issue. Not with our current incumbents who’d likely sell for 1/5th of **** all anyway.
     
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