Lautaro Martinez

[xXKonan]

There's a lesson to be learned here from this.

Quit trying to spend big bucks on young players based off a few good months of form. It's one thing spending around 30-40, but spending over 70+ on someone who only has like 1 full year of European Football under his belt and has not exactly been great during the second half of the season is maddening really.

What is Barto and Abidal afraid of? some team like City or Madrid wanting him? Let them do it. One team beat us to the punch on Jesus and he will likely get sold as Pep doesn't think he's good enough to replace Aguero, and the other spent huge money on Jovic who we decided not to sign and he will likely end up being binned in the Summer as well.

If Martinez is willing to wait a year, good lets see what he does in his second season and hold off on paying such a big fee to get him this summer when it clearly doesn't warrant it yet.

 

[Trafalgar]

Wow just woow ... this guy is on another level of mediocre ...

 

[Horatio]

Wow just woow ... this guy is on another level of mediocre ...

lol made me chuckle. Expected a compliment reading it slowly.

 

[Messi983]

lol made me chuckle. Expected a compliment reading it slowly.

calling him mediocre is kinda complimenting him, lol.

 

[mesiesta]

We can be dodge the bullet, we are lucky that he started to perform like this after lockdown. It could turn worse for us
31 year-old Aubameyang can be a better addition to our squad than Lautaro.

 

[Riordon]

There is a severe lack of great strikers in the world at the moment. So few attackers and so many of these "associative great at building up players". Subpar teams could have strikers like Anelka, Kanoute, Luis Fabiano and top teams wouldn't even look at them. I would love to have someone like Kanoute or Luis Fabiano to lead our line right now. Is this kind of striker not being produced anymore?

 

[Porque]

The RB funnel moved Hee-chan Hwang to Leipzig this coming market. Every time I saw Salzburg he looked their best all-around player. Haaland included. Not the Luis Fabiano/Kanoute/Forlan mold but someone in the Lautaro mold that literally went for less than 10% of the mooted Lautaro fee.

The whole of Sociedad and Ishak himself fell off the wheel after the Covid break. He is in that Kanoute mold and has adapted to the league already, compared to someone like Daka.

 

[ronniecro]

There's a lesson to be learned here from this.

Quit trying to spend big bucks on young players based off a few good months of form. It's one thing spending around 30-40, but spending over 70+ on someone who only has like 1 full year of European Football under his belt and has not exactly been great during the second half of the season is maddening really.

definitely agree with this,i'm annoyed by overhyped youngsters with one good season of football

 

[Riordon]

The RB funnel moved Hee-chan Hwang to Leipzig this coming market. Every time I saw Salzburg he looked their best all-around player. Haaland included. Not the Luis Fabiano/Kanoute/Forlan mold but someone in the Lautaro mold that literally went for less than 10% of the mooted Lautaro fee.

The whole of Sociedad and Ishak himself fell off the wheel after the Covid break. He is in that Kanoute mold and has adapted to the league already, compared to someone like Daka.

I agree about Leipzig, besides Hwang they have a lot of interesting players. But it doesn't seem to be our strategy to move from players from such teams. I have mentioned Daka before as a interesting option. They also have Adeyemi who I believe will be one of the best forwards in the future but he is someone to keep an eye on.

The thing is even if those guys fail it will be a 5x less expensive fail than Lautaro.

 

[serghei]

There's a lesson to be learned here from this.

Quit trying to spend big bucks on young players based off a few good months of form. It's one thing spending around 30-40, but spending over 70+ on someone who only has like 1 full year of European Football under his belt and has not exactly been great during the second half of the season is maddening really.

What is Barto and Abidal afraid of? some team like City or Madrid wanting him? Let them do it. One team beat us to the punch on Jesus and he will likely get sold as Pep doesn't think he's good enough to replace Aguero, and the other spent huge money on Jovic who we decided not to sign and he will likely end up being binned in the Summer as well.

If Martinez is willing to wait a year, good lets see what he does in his second season and hold off on paying such a big fee to get him this summer when it clearly doesn't warrant it yet.

No doubt.

The way things are looking now, the route to build a top team is to use your academy, buy profile-specific players that you don't have in your youth ranks, and only add 2-3 top class players from midfield up (defenders are not worth it).

And of course run the club with smarts and discipline and have a skilled manager that can improve players - those are self explanatory.

 

[serghei]

Trincao, Pedri, these are signings in the right direction. Lautaro for 50m. would also be a great signing.

 

[mc_lovin]

I agree about Leipzig, besides Hwang they have a lot of interesting players. But it doesn't seem to be our strategy to move from players from such teams. I have mentioned Daka before as a interesting option. They also have Adeyemi who I believe will be one of the best forwards in the future but he is someone to keep an eye on.

The thing is even if those guys fail it will be a 5x less expensive fail than Lautaro.

Its one thing to make terrible, expensive transfers, but buying a bunch of low key, fancy names is just as worse. Fastest way to mediocrity.

 

[serghei]

Bayern are doing quite great in the market with their "stingy club" label. They have upped their game in other areas knowing they can't pay galactico prices for every young hyped player.

 

[mc_lovin]

Bayern are doing quite great in the market with their "stingy club" label. They have upped their game in other areas knowing they can't pay galactico prices for every young hyped player.

I dont think you can draw many conclusions from Bayern. They got lucky with a bunch of players (mainly Davies and the circumstances surrounding Sane). We get lucky from time to time as well, but its not a dependable strategy. Other than that they abuse the hell out of their weak league (and I dont talk about the sporting aspect).

And they achieved nothing yet. They rarely overpay (minus Hernandez), but were exactly did they get with that? I wouldnt say they were better than us recently - lets say last 5 years.

 

[Riordon]

Its one thing to make terrible, expensive transfers, but buying a bunch of low key, fancy names is just as worse. Fastest way to mediocrity.

Mane the best winger in the world of football played for RB. Haaland, on his path to becoming world class, aswell. Daka is scoring at a rate almost similar to that of Haaland and linked to several top clubs. We already had a 15m bid on Adeyemi rejected when he was 17 and played for RB B (!). That should tell everything about his talent. I don't see how this is a "bunch of low key, fancy names". But buying players from lesser teams for a good price who are showing quality are the way to go.
This is what Liverpool and Bayern are doing. Alphonso Davies performs as the best LB in the world and Bayern got him for 12m from Canada. Or what about Robertson, Van Dijk, Gnabry, Keita, Matip, Kimmich etc etc. All of these were brought from lesser teams and neither teams are on the way to mediocrity.

On the other hand, us who frequently overpay for "proven" players from top teams are on way to mediocrity. I don't really see the connection.