Trickykid
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Nonsense. We need a striker to stand in for Suarez once in a while and to come off the bench as an actual legitimate scoring threat.
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Nonsense. We need a striker to stand in for Suarez once in a while and to come off the bench as an actual legitimate scoring threat.
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xavi_the_Boss
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The price is to high.
Professor Chaos
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Are these the arguments? Being cheap and good goalscorer in Austrain(!) league? We need someone like Gameiro on the bench.
No we don't
For a backup, that's an overkill if you ask me,
you don't need a 15 goals per season to score in small games when you are resting one of the MSN. you just don't.
it's only a few games per season where we may rest MSN. unless you will start benching either of MSN 15 games a season, MSN will be unhappy, RIP team harmony
By the way, whoever that 15-20 a season striker will probably turn to a 7 goal per season due to extensive bench time,benchwarming, hence further waste of money
they aren't goalscorers? who said?
were they ever deployed as goalscorers and failed? i don't think so.
they have played as creative wingers and thrived.
and may be this may also help Messi get relived of creative duties and score a few himself
if we buy a forward,
then it should be as a potential MSN replacement (a futuristic signing)
but we really don't need a forward
A CM yes we need, a forward, No Thanks
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Flavia
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Gameiro would cost 40m. Way too much for 29 year old. If he was cheaper, surely, but he isn't. For the games Soriano would play, he'd be enough cover.
@gasgas, stop double posting. If you remembered you had someting else to say, just edit your post. You do that a lot.
Professor Chaos
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That's why I said we need someone LIKE HIM, not Gameiro himself. Soriano is not good enough to play at Barca level even as a backup. He plays in Austrian league and Europa League which is dominated by Sevilla. It speaks for itself about level of those competitions.
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Flavia
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I don't get it. Gameiro plays for Sevilla. And there aren't many players like him in the market, or that want to come to Barça to sit on the bench. To play against lliga minions, Soriano would be enough. And wouldn't block the signing of a younger and better forward in the near future.
Suarez will play most games anyway. He just needs someone to give him rest in such games. I'd surely would prefer Soriano to signing Lucas Perez, and getting Gabriel Jesus afterwards.
Luftstalag14
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There is not much we can do though. We don't have money to buy a top level forward, and even if we did no top level forward in their prime wants to join us as a backup for MSN.
Sure the Austrian league is a few tiers down but Soriano is still prolific and hasn't lost his striker instinct and he is old and will be cheap, plus he is willing to return to sit on the bench.
What other options do we have?
Sure the Austrian league is a few tiers down but Soriano is still prolific and hasn't lost his striker instinct and he is old and will be cheap, plus he is willing to return to sit on the bench.
What other options do we have?
It just hit me. Why aren't we in for Carlos Bacca? Obviously wants to leave Milan for a club that plays CL and the Italians are only asking 20-30 million. A far better player than Gameiro, fits the 'Suárez-profile' and won't cost us 40M. I'm all on the 'Gabriel Jesus-train', but Bacca would be a very decent option.
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Flavia
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Robert said some players approached don't want to come to Barça because of MSN. It won't be that easy to find one who wants, and who is good.
With 3 games in a week MSN as a trio should only start 2 of those which would mean at least 1 start a week for a 4th forward.
how often do we have two let alone three games a week?
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