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Yeah, they both have something about them but fir me I like the look pf Aravena more. Some of his movement and finishing reminded me a bit of Aguero and a similar stock build.

 

@fuegoymiedo
A new club joins Bruges from Belgium and AZ Alkmaar from the Netherlands for the services of Alexander Aravena, it is Sunderland from the English Championship, who has already set his sights on the striker of #LosCruzados
Via @Cooperativa

The leadership does not welcome his departure at this time, unless the offer is impossible to refuse due to a large amount of money.

 

UC they have not received a formal offer from the team that is currently playing in the English Championship, but there have been conversations between the player's representation group and the club about the importance of this possibility.

With this panorama, Aravena will have to wait to see if there is a concrete proposal to be able to have his first international experience or he will remain at Universidad Católica for the rest of the season. https://tinyurl.com/25545njd

 

This might be happening...



But they are all quoting the source from radio ADN

El DT de Sunderland da pistas
El entrenador del elenco inglés, Tony Mowbray, en la antesala al estreno de su equipo en el Championship ante Ipswich, se refirió a la búsqueda de su elenco para reforzar la ofensiva y admitió que intentarán fichar a dos delanteros.

 

The ADN spanish report doesn’t say much. They say that there is interest from Sunderland but also other three clubs… so it seems like nothing new. Hope I’m wrong!

 

His Wiki says he plays for Sunderland!

 

I wouldn't take any notice of that, mate. You could edit it and say he plays for Seaham Red Star, if you wanted.

 

My grandad said the same, his favourite player. Wasn’t expecting it myself with how long his deal had left. All of these extensions are for 3 years plus, players must be confident and/or getting assured that we’re going to be pushing for premier league football. Really exciting

 

That last paragraph means we won't get him, imo. SAFC have shown they'll spend if they believe there is value to be had, but this sounds like his current club will only let him go if someone overpays, which we don't do nowadays. On to the next one!

 

Aye, we definitely don’t over pay nowadays. Part of the the negotiation strategy hopefully.

 

Tend to agree with your point, with slim hope that Lihadji's departure might generate the $$ needed to invest in a striker.

Seems a strange decision to buy Seelt for £2 million when we arguably don't need a CB, if we don't have £3-4 mil for the right striker. If Aravena costs any more than that, I can't see us getting him this window at least.

 

If Batth goes then we definitely needed an extra body there.

 

If we’re looking to play with defenders stepping into midfield I think Batth could be away in jan as an out and out defender he is immense but can’t see him fitting that system unfortunately

 

I'd rather he stayed but I can understand the club not offering him a new deal

 

Depends what they class as value. FWIW my gut feeling is he isn’t one of them now but may be if Clarke goes

 

Gut feeling one of them is that Van Hooijdonk

 

I’ve heard from a couple of places that there was an interest but they weren’t sure about the non football stuff

 

Is he a bit of a dick like

 

Yep. Definitely true that, the whole guy rather than just a skills clip.

I'm ancient enough to have been pleased as a youngun when we signed anyone who had made it into the middle of a newspaper column in a second division match report, and who had maybe once featured on Match of The Day.

Then you'd turn up and see some puffing billy with an emerging beer belly trying to run about!

The horror is we more or less went right back to that just a few years ago. Funny how it didn't work.

 

I’ve not got the foggiest, but two people who might know said it