Abel Hernandez

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Looking at his goals per minutes played is far more encouraging.

He has scored 36 goals in 6947 minutes of football throughout his career.
That is a goal every 192.97 minutes of football
A goal every 2.14 games.

Similar to Rhodes record, but he is cheaper and his all round game is probably better.
My biggest concern is not his ability to score goals, it is his injury record and whether he will fit in with the dressing room (hopefully can speak English)

Do you have Rhodes' record for goals/minutes played?

 

[Premier_Bound_Tiger]

@bbcburnsy 31s
Looks like the Abel Hernandez deal to Hull City may have got to the work permit stage. #hcafc

 

[Quill]

@bbcburnsy 31s
Looks like the Abel Hernandez deal to Hull City may have got to the work permit stage. #hcafc

Watch him fail.


He shouldn't, he's had enough international appearances.

 

[Premier_Bound_Tiger]

Do you have Rhodes' record for goals/minutes played?

Rhodes has scored 145 in 20,897 minutes
Goal every 144.11 minutes
Goal every 1.6 games

That's very impressive

 

[Cityswall]

@bbcburnsy 31s
Looks like the Abel Hernandez deal to Hull City may have got to the work permit stage. #hcafc

Which should be a formality with him playing at international level.

 

[lewisc29]

Getting very close. How long does it take to get the work permit? Are we looking at late tonight, or more tomorrow?

 

[Amin Arrears]

Watch him fail.


He shouldn't, he's had enough international appearances.

It's recent international appearances its done on, I think he has to have played 50% in the last two years or something like that.

This will all obviously have been checked out before getting him over, no doubt he'll pass.

Problem is these things take time, I'm not sure he'll be eligible by Sunday...

Edit: he has to have played 75% of Uruguas competitive matches. Without checking I've no idea whether he has or not, but with Cavani and Suarez in front of him I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't.

 

[Party Hull!]

Check out his wiki page now, where he is said to be "THE GREATEST STRIKER IN THE WORLD" and "deemed to be better than Shane Long".

I doubt it will be there long.

 

[Premier_Bound_Tiger]

Will we have to wait for international clearance? Remember WBA having to wait a few weeks recently, also took a while for us with Altidore. If so we could be looking at West Ham for his début

 

[Cityswall]

IIRC football in on the fast track list and looking at his international record it should be really rather quick.

 

[Party Hull!]

Not my doing, might I add. It just amused me when I stumbled upon it.

 

[ellewoods]

Rhodes has scored 145 in 20,897 minutes
Goal every 144.11 minutes
Goal every 1.6 games

That's very impressive

Stats like that dont tell the complete story of course. The local striker here has a goal per 154 min of league play and a goal in every 72 min of international play.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Rhodes has scored 145 in 20,897 minutes
Goal every 144.11 minutes
Goal every 1.6 games

That's very impressive

Thank you, even more impressive when you consider he's played far more games than Hernandez.

I have Rhodes down for 153 goals & Hernandez's 36 are only the goals he's scored for Palermo, he's scored 12 more previous to Palermo over 35 games. But I'm sure they're there or there abouts. Rhodes' record is far superior & consistent though.

 

[hullinasia]

One has scored goals against ac milan one has scored against bournmouth you cant compare like for like or rhodes would be playing at real madrid if it was just based on goals per game

 

[TIGERHULL]

It's difficult to compare really. Cavani had a similar goal-scoring record to Hernandez at Palermo and look at him now.

 

[HorshamTiger2]

Slightly different scenario because of age, but he's said that he wants to try out Premier League football before he retires. So why wouldn't I feel the same?


It's the world we live in, if you think that Hernandez has thought "There's only one club I want to play for and that's Hull City" then you're massively mistaken.

Of course he did, that's what everyone thinks (including you)......

 

[eurotiger]

I bet he will be a massive hit, and come this time next year we will be fighting to keep him out the hands of the big boys of the Division

 

[originallambrettaman]

It's difficult to compare really. Cavani had a similar goal-scoring record to Hernandez at Palermo and look at him now.

Cavani
2006–07 7 2
2007–08 33 5
2008–09 35 14
2009–10 34 13
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109 34

Hernandez(ignoring the Serie B season)
2008–09 6 0
2009–10 21 7
2010–11 22 3
2011–12 20 6
2012–13 14 1
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83 17

Their stats are similar, in the same way as Venesa Feltz has similar stats to Angelina Jolie.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Cavani
2006–07 7 2
2007–08 33 5
2008–09 35 14
2009–10 34 13
--------------------
109 34

Hernandez(ignoring the Serie B season)
2008–09 6 0
2009–10 21 7
2010–11 22 3
2011–12 20 6
2012–13 14 1
-------------------
83 17

Their stats are similar, in the same way as Venesa Feltz has similar stats to Angelina Jolie.

That's why I'm not too excited about this signing. Maybe I'm underwhelmed because I was a little overwhelmed at the thought of signing Rhodes.

 

[londontiger]

Cavani
2006–07 7 2
2007–08 33 5
2008–09 35 14
2009–10 34 13
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109 34

Hernandez(ignoring the Serie B season)
2008–09 6 0
2009–10 21 7
2010–11 22 3
2011–12 20 6
2012–13 14 1
-------------------
83 17

Their stats are similar, in the same way as Venesa Feltz has similar stats to Angelina Jolie.

Yeah but with the lights out you'd never know and just climb on