Apparently Dortmund are looking to loan him, with an obligation to buy at 15m euros. Err...seeing as the price of strikers right now is insane, we should be crawling over broken glass to do that.
Marseille just bought Wahi for a big fee so have allegedly pulled out of both the Nketiah and Moukouko deals
Have you seen much of him? As you say the price seems very low so I guess his fm ability isn’t accurate to real life
A bit. Not enough, but I know he's regarded as a big talent. Quick and direct, like Armstrong plus ability to finish. I think his reputation is more from the youth leagues where he was absurdly prolific.
West Ham are willing to allow Danny Ings to leave on a free transfer to get his wages off their books. The Hammers are desperate to offload Ings, who has scored just three Premier League goals in 37 games since a £25m move from Aston Villa in the summer of 2021. Ings is believed to have rejected a return to old club Southampton early in the window and his salary of around £130,000-a-week is proving a big barrier to his exit. So where will he end up? Or will he just sit out his contract.
Yeah I knew he was very highly regarded a year or so ago when he first broke through. The fact they are happy to let him go so cheaply and there doesn’t seem to be clubs queuing up to take him (and those linked aren’t exactly big clubs) suggests he hasn’t taken to men’s football like people expected. Whether he just needs to be playing regularly or he’s another Freddy Adu type time will tell. Probably worth a punt from our perspective
Yeah, I mean this is it. With the prices of players being mental right now, we’ll need to take a risk, and this one, at that price, seems a reasonable punt.
If the same clubs rumoured to be in for him earlier in the window (think it was Betis and Sevilla) are still interested then we aren’t going to get him anyway, but certainly worth a phone call
His goal record doesn’t necessarily suggest “ability to finish”. Potential maybe. And that’s the FM side as well. Pretty sure he isn’t good enough to be a starting premier league striker in that game but is programmed to get there with the right time and opportunities. But given the fee sounds close to Mara - it’s what you’d expect ?
Sit out I’d expect. I doubt anyone is offering him close to that. He’s not the type to go to Saudi I can’t imagine and they might not want him anyway
He became better than Messi in the version where he first was introduced into the game (players under 16 aren’t allowed in the game). He was given the highest potential possible and is the only player ever to have been given that. Anyway FM research is just done by a load of people who do it for fun rather than professionals so it doesn’t mean much, they tend to get more right than wrong though. He still can be one of the best strikers in the world in the latest version, but not quite Messi level
They have to because they a spending very big. It’s more getting the players to agree. I note we can rarely get new signings to sign on for more than 4 years. Given our track record though that might be a good thing
I thought after Chelsea took the piss with that last season to snake around PSR it was clamped down on, but obviously not because Chelsea are still spending hundreds of millions and still giving out long contracts too. Edit: I don't understand PSR and tbf have made no effort to find out more about it. But I thought the entire long contract thing was to spread the cost of buying a player over the length of that contract? So if that is the case, why would West Ham do that for a player that only cost £15m?
Dortmund fans think he is very good but that they have better options. But then I think they are selling Fullkrug? Moukouko has only had brief spells on the pitch and has often made an impact. Definitely better than empty striker space we currently have.
Because every little helps? Suggests they might be closer to the mark than they’d like since the difference is going to be about £1m. Also explains the long contract for the striker who will in no way be cutting it to the same level and worth the same wages at 35 - if he’s still there. Or if he is then he would be almost unique in terms of West Ham signings
144 goals in 88 games in the youth side suggests he does though. Youngest ever debutant in the Bundesliga, youngest ever goalscorer in the Bundesliga and the youngest German international since 1954. I'd say he's worth a punt if we can.
