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Tbh is is awkward

Mane last season
23 goals in 3938 minutes. 1 goal every 171 minutes

Nunez this season
15 goals in 2365 minutes. 1 goal every 157 minutes.
What was Manes goal to minute average for you?
You can only compare (fairly accurately) if in the same team in the same league.
 
Diaz and Gakkpo.
Three attacking forwards to replace Mane, unless you tell me they were upgrades on other players who have been benched.

Gakpo is a firmino replacement so that’s a bit awkward.

You realise it’s always a squad game right? You don’t just have 11 players and every player is to replace another? By that logic diaz was a Shaqiri replacement.
 
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Suspect he means Gakpo and Diaz, maybe Jota? No idea, just Diego ramblings innit...

Whatever the trio, at least one was signed well before Mane left
Which is why i never mentioned jota <doh>
Diaz was signed as a replacement for Mane (not really a good one) and when he got a bad injury two more were brought in to back him up.
 
What was Manes goal to minute average for you?
You can only compare (fairly accurately) if in the same team in the same league.

So it’s fair to compare mane’s full lfc record in a settled team having come from a prem team at age of 24 and had 6 years in his prime there.

to Nunez who has come from no prem experience and is in his first season at the club?

To compare. Mane first season 13 goals in 2410 minutes so a goal every 185 minutes… so worse than his last season and still worse than Nunez first season.

next?
 
Gakpo is a firmino replacement so that’s a bit awkward.

You realise it’s always a squad game right? You don’t just have 11 players and every player is to replace another? By that logic diaz was a Shaqiri replacement.
Yes it is a squad game so what did you need most, replacement/upgrade midfielders or three attacking forwards to replace the one who left?
If Gakpo is Firminos replacement do you expect him to sit on the bench for most of the time like Firmino has for the last couple of years.
 
Yes it is a squad game so what did you need most, replacement/upgrade midfielders or three attacking forwards to replace the one who left?
If Gakpo is Firminos replacement do you expect him to sit on the bench for most of the time like Firmino has for the last couple of years.

You mean in the way that gakpo has played the majority of the games this season… because he replaced firmino? <laugh>

Keep digging Diego, you might dig so deep that come out the other end eventually.
 
Anyway, what Nunez and gakpo replacing mane and firmino has to do with arteta spending 600m in 3 years I’m not sure.

Will be huge pressure on him to as a minimum run city all the way to the end this season and put in a challenge in the CL given the investment in the squad.
 
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You mean in the way that gakpo has played the majority of the games this season… because he replaced firmino? <laugh>

Keep digging Diego, you might dig so deep that come out the other end eventually.
Not well up on your lot, how many games did Firmino play last season compared to Gakpo this?