Bit unfair - the fact remains his GS record for the past few Seasons has been outrageous. It's a weaker league sure - but you can only score where you play. People keep bringing up Nunes but what about... Ronaldo, Deco, Fernandes, Ruben Dias, Carvalho, Jota, Nani, Bernardo Silva etc.. Loads of players have come from Portugal and been successful in the EPL. Even ****ing Merino scored goals for us as a CF. Gyokeres scored as many goals last Season as Barry has in his whole career. He's 6'3 built like a tank and he's quick. Obviously good enough to keep Isak out on the left for his National team as well.
He's a risk - it's true he's never done it at the top domestic level, but on balance a risk worth taking. He might be great. Keep in mind the Portuguese league outside the top 4 clubs is truly awful. The standard is no better than League One.
If he can score 50% of what he does at Sporting that's still 30 Goals a Season. (all comps he hit 63 and 11 assist last term) 6 + 1 assist in 8 UCL games. Plus 10 in 7 for Sweden. Ive got a feeling he could do an Ian Wright for us.
You could be right. But CL scoring was a lot of penalties and Sweden he was scoring mainly against smaller teams - a load against Azerbaijan. If he can get 20 in the PL that would be a good season for him.
£55m is great business for Gyokeres Spurs paid that for Kudus We'll have to see how it all pans out of course, but he is what we've been crying out for in this team So far this has been a really good window. Kepa Norgaard Zubemendi Madueke Gyokeres Mosquera looks like he's coming in and if we can get Eze, and possibly Rodrygo or another LWF then this will be a great window
Potentially a great window. We've brought in 6 new players a couple of times over the last 5 years and it does take time for a squad to gel. I suppose the upside is most of the players we're bringing in are likely backups to provide depth.
This is where we fell off over the last 2/3 seasons, lack of depth When our starting XI were all fit, we could beat anybody. But injuries and fatigue have cost us because the margins between winning and coming 2nd are so small We also badly missed a striker last season, and had to make Merino work up front.
