TrentVilla Posted March 10, 2013 Moderator Share Posted March 10, 2013 Will be the best striker in Europe in a few years That's along the lines of a sgc quote... He is good and could become better with hard work, but i really doubt he'll be the best striker in the world Er being pedantic he didn't say he would be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Will be the best striker in Europe in a few years That's along the lines of a sgc quote... He is good and could become better with hard work, but i really doubt he'll be the best striker in the world The ability and physique are both there for him to equal Drogba in effectiveness to be fair. That'd have him as one of the best in the world in his role since there aren't many of that type of player knocking around right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 These type of players mature late as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockStockVilla Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) If you just look at his progression as the season has gone on as well, his finishing has gotten miles better. When he is the finished article, I pray we never have to face a team with him in it! Unless it's Champions League, of course... Edited March 10, 2013 by LockStockVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 If we stay up, I am hoping we can keep him for another season. I don't think he is good enough to start for any of the top clubs yet so he would likely be used as a sub. He is better off playing here than sitting somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 If we stay up, I am hoping we can keep him for another season. I don't think he is good enough to start for any of the top clubs yet so he would likely be used as a sub. He is better off playing here than sitting somewhere else. Hopefully that's his line of thinking too. Or at the very least, we sell him to one of the top clubs and get to take him back on loan for the season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 If we stay up, I am hoping we can keep him for another season. I don't think he is good enough to start for any of the top clubs yet so he would likely be used as a sub. He is better off playing here than sitting somewhere else. Im hoping that as well because he has another season like this, in a better team he could be a 20 goal a season man and therefore £30 million plus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Bear Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Its World Cup year too. He will want to be playing every week. He can get his big move after the tournament. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Will be the best striker in Europe in a few years That's along the lines of a sgc quote... He is good and could become better with hard work, but i really doubt he'll be the best striker in the world He's a foreign Harewood at best. That's my attempt at an SGC-esque quote... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Going back to when he came to us, just how highly was he rated in Europe? Lambert has to take huge credit for Benteke, I hope he has a list of other targets of similar unknown quality as he's in theory made back nearly all the money he spent in one player's valuation. Picking Sylla from obscurity shows he or someone he knows must have a massive dossier on European players that can be bought on the cheap. That's why we need to keep Lambert, and if we stay up and if in the summer the wage ratio gets closer to the 60% mark (with the increase in TV money and shifting some more of the shite it shouldn't be far off?) then I think we should be steadily moving back on the upward curve. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevangrealish Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I find it amazing that he is literally smashing the premier league in a very below-average villa side this season. As for his winning headers per cent... Unbelievable Bentekkerz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SikhInTrinity Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Wenger knew of him, and was very surprised in his words that he'd moved to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PieFacE Posted March 11, 2013 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2013 Wenger seems to know everyone but just decides not to sign them, maybe he should sign some good players instead of the players he has been signing, we'd all be surprised then. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I heard Real Madrid uncrumpled the £28m offer fax, wiped off the bits of cucumber and loaded it into the fax machine. Florentino Perez currently has his finger hovering over the send button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I will have no problem with him going to Real Madrid for £28m, as long as we can replace him with similar if not better quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Will be the best striker in Europe in a few years That's along the lines of a sgc quote... He is good and could become better with hard work, but i really doubt he'll be the best striker in the world Good job I didnt type "World" then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 As a Belgium international, I would imagine that he hadn't gone unnoticed by quite a few clubs, but we were the only club to take the gamble this season, some may have been monitoring his development at genk for another yr.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevangrealish Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 No chance we'll get 28m for him... we're struggling to stay in the prem... We will have to debate for 20m or so. However if we go down then i worry it could be like 14m :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMushroom Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 If we stay up, I am hoping we can keep him for another season. I don't think he is good enough to start for any of the top clubs yet so he would likely be used as a sub. He is better off playing here than sitting somewhere else. It would need us showing a little more ambition. Im not so sure he ants to be playing in a struggling team again next year. If we do show that ambition, im convinced he will stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Wenger knew of him, and was very surprised in his words that he'd moved to us. If Wenger knew of him he would have signed him instead of Giroud or even Gervinho. Wenger is becoming a parody same way he knew of Cabaye and didnt sign him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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