Amine Giouri

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In terms of striker options, think he deserves his own thread.

Still only 22, has had great success at youth level, overcome adversity from a big injury at Lyon when breaking throuugh, showed mental strength to then leave Lyon not getting games when back to then establish himself at Nice.

Good pace, fantastic technique, creative and aware of what is around him, good finisher and a transfer fee of probably around £40-45m which is cheaper than other big strikers we are being linked with.

Only negatives are he has been out on the left or drifts there for Nice as one of two strikers....but he was very much a striker in his youth days, so feel he can adapt back to playing there. Strength or aerial presence in the box also maybe not the best.

He does remind me a little of Benzema without the strength or arial ability and also with his playing and drifting out wide, with his technique, not two footed but there is an ideal Greenwood replacement for me.

Sadly not seen any links of him to us, have seen a fair few recently with Liverpool (please no) and Arsenal too.

Forgetting the unlikely purchases of Haaland or expensive one of Kane. All the other names I am seeing like Isaak, Nunez, Osimhen for example, personally in terms of the rebuild we need, the potential prices of these options, the way we may look to play and the ability ceiling....he would be my choice, to be fair I have followed him for years though and not seen so much of the other strikers bar Isaak
 
He looks quality but more of a 2 striker type. If we go back towards wingbacks/wide mids, 3 CBs and 2 up front which was Ralph's first choice then he's a candidate because in that system the strikers will split to play from wide at times and he'd be perfect for the left striker role.
 
This is him, right? Unreal assist:

And he’s the one who did a rainbow against Neymar in the corner flag and Neymar got pissed off? Seems like a baller.
 
No links, so another pointless thread? There's other threads you can list targets in. Why bloat the forum with new threads every time someone likes a player?
 
No links, so another pointless thread? There's other threads you can list targets in. Why bloat the forum with new threads every time someone likes a player?

Why is thinking a player that is hugely talented and would be a great signing for us and at a reasonable fee a pointless thread?

So we should only post threads on players we get linke dwith in the press then, 90% of which we were never even interested in, many just click bait.

How many signings that we have made over the last few years were we linked with before the summer window? I dont remember Varane, VDB, Amad, Cavani, Bissaka, Fred, James, Dalot, Bailly, Martial for example being linked with the press before sumemr windows opened?

If you think its bloating things or pointless, move on to the next thread. Seems narrow minded to me, personally thnk a lot of threads are bloated with people mentioning the same names again and again for a couple of weeks as the perfect sigining....purely because we have been linked in press that hardly get it right, personalyl would rather see new names, there are hundreds of players out there that woudl improve us
 
He looks quality but more of a 2 striker type. If we go back towards wingbacks/wide mids, 3 CBs and 2 up front which was Ralph's first choice then he's a candidate because in that system the strikers will split to play from wide at times and he'd be perfect for the left striker role.

Yes he does at Nice, obviously a fair while ago, but he really caught my attention at an international youth tournament, then breakign through at Lyon, he wasnt like that then. He is a lot bigger than he appears on video and I think he can go back to that player.
 
Not sure we would be the right next move for him but would expect him to leave this summer or next at the latest but he should probably prioratise somewhere he will play most weeks to aid his development / transition to a new league
 
I really like him as a player but he doesn't score enough to warrant a starting role as a striker in a big club.
But I'd love to see Arsenal go for him if we can also get a proven PL striker.