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    The Video Assistant Referee (VAR)

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    25 minutes ago, luckyeddie said:

    Yeah, this is baffling, they know it was handball, but not sure whether it was inside or outside the box. Did they give a free kick or just played on?

    I believe a goal kick? The ball went out and ref stopped for the check. VAR can't give a FK for that type of incident though

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    The Video Assistant Referee (VAR)

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    5 hours ago, bobzy said:

    I don’t mind that one so much. I think it should be handball, but he sort of stumbles whilst low and his hand would naturally move there.

    The appeal Forest had against Bournemouth was far worse IMO. Arm outstretched behind the defender, ball crossed in from a decent distance away - not handball.

    Who knows what is and what isn’t anymore. 

    that wasn't given because there was not "clear and obvious" evidence that the arm was inside the box. 

    Jhon Durán

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    Posted · Edited by Villaphan04

    15 hours ago, VillaChris said:

    Bournemouth had Justin Kluivert on the bench today, he's better than Duran.

    Beto scored a couple for Everton recently and previously hit double figures in Serie A.

    Richarlison not been great for Spurs at all but he's on a nice scoring run currently, dosen't make their team when Maddison is fit again.

    West Ham had Ings on the bench. Turned out a waste of money for them but ultimately his goals to game ratio was good last season but made sense to cash in to claw back some FFP.

    Newcastle don't start Wilson and Isak that often so one of them is usually on the bench.
     

    Welbeck is a decent enough sub striker for Brighton, great header the other night.

    Kaladzjic has scored a couple for Wolves off the bench, would've started way more for them but for the ACL on his debut.

    So yes there are plenty of backup strikers in the league better than Jhon Duran. 

    Duran has potential but this debate feels exactly the same as when everyone was bigging up Kienan Davis and why bother signing anyone better to put some pressure on  Ollie or at least give us a decent option off the bench in games we aren't winning.

    Kuivert isn't really an out and out striker though, he's more similar to Zaniolo. Beto has almost 4x the minutes Duran has and still less goals (I know Serie A / background but someone like Scamacca still only managed 3 PL goals). Richarlison, yeah I'd expect that since he cost 60m and is Spurs best out and out striker.  

    I think the issue is we aren't going to get a good "back-up" striker while Watkins is always going to be 1st choice. And TBH I'd take Durán over all of those who you mentioned except Richarlison (Not including Isak as he would start over Wilson, but Wilson would be too expensive to be on our bench)

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    Jhon Durán

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    10 hours ago, vreitti said:

    No, but an improvement on Duran shouldn't be that hard to find.

    I'd be pretty surprised if we signed another striker in Jan and how many PL teams have backup strikers who are better than Duran? Not many I'd say

    January Transfer Window 2024

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    On 22/12/2023 at 10:09, sharkyvilla said:

    Without wishing to start a Januzaj thing, do we have room for more loans in the squad?  I wouldn't mind Werner either as I think he's the kind of player Emery can fix.

    believe we can only register 2 loan players at a time... 

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