Saladin
Active member
Guys, relax. This signing is not to be compared to usual summer or even january transfers - it is in its utmost literal sense a 'last resort' buy.
Compare the transfer to the conditions under which it belongs. The player we can get has to be from either La Liga or the Segunda. He can only play in the remaining 14 league games (this season) and is bought as a temporary 'quickfix' for a sinking ship; when at sea, you cannot repair a carsized hole by welding and fortifying, you need a quick solution that might or might not work, but you have to compare the outcome of this transfer based on its extremely limited conditions.
Braithwaite scored against both Barca and Real Madrid in the same week for relegation-battling Leganes. That's pretty decent. He works a lot defensively, has pace and can bag a goal or two if we are lucky; that's it! That's our best case scenario. 2 goals from maybe 4-7 games from him.
Even Prince, who was shite, was a winter transfer/loan. Huge difference.
And yes, Abidal is hugely incompetent and the fact that Dortmund got Haaland for 20 mil. euros is laughably infuriating, but that does not dilute the fact that Braithwaite is brought in as a quick-fix for a sinking ship. His market value is realistically around 10-13 mil euros, so we have in a sense spent 5-8 mil euros for his services throughout the season. That's peanuts compared to the ultimate pair of sandals that is Coutinho and Dembélé (flip-flops).
Compare the transfer to the conditions under which it belongs. The player we can get has to be from either La Liga or the Segunda. He can only play in the remaining 14 league games (this season) and is bought as a temporary 'quickfix' for a sinking ship; when at sea, you cannot repair a carsized hole by welding and fortifying, you need a quick solution that might or might not work, but you have to compare the outcome of this transfer based on its extremely limited conditions.
Braithwaite scored against both Barca and Real Madrid in the same week for relegation-battling Leganes. That's pretty decent. He works a lot defensively, has pace and can bag a goal or two if we are lucky; that's it! That's our best case scenario. 2 goals from maybe 4-7 games from him.
Even Prince, who was shite, was a winter transfer/loan. Huge difference.
And yes, Abidal is hugely incompetent and the fact that Dortmund got Haaland for 20 mil. euros is laughably infuriating, but that does not dilute the fact that Braithwaite is brought in as a quick-fix for a sinking ship. His market value is realistically around 10-13 mil euros, so we have in a sense spent 5-8 mil euros for his services throughout the season. That's peanuts compared to the ultimate pair of sandals that is Coutinho and Dembélé (flip-flops).
