Potential striker signings (who aren't named Højlund)

[RedUnited86]

Santiago Gimenez from Feyernoord?

22 years of age, 23 goals in 45 games last season (including 5 in 9 in the Europa League), Mexican international. Could do a lot worse.

 

[bosnian_red]

If you're talking about a player's success being inflated by penalties, 23 of Toney's 68 goals for Brentford have come from them, and 11 out of 32 in the Premier League. Far more heavily weighted than Vlahovic's 12 from 49 goals for Fiorentina.

Thankfully I don't think we'll go there but signing Toney would be symptomatic of the problems we've had for the last decade. A 28 year old (by the time he's next available) unproven at the very top level with a reliance on penalties to prop up his goalscoring numbers. No chance Brentford sell him cheap either. We need to be far more careful with how we use our resources.

Agree, though to his benefit he has very good hold up play and I have more confidence that he'd succeed here as he's used to prem defences and is more aggressive than Vlahović. But generally yeah unless he's under 45m or so, it wouldn't make sense. Toney is decent, a good squad player, not the main guy for a big club .. Vlahović I think is similar potential, Hojlund has a much higher potential level which is what we have to aim for. We really need a world class attacker.

 

[Bojan Djordjic]

Santiago Gimenez from Feyernoord?

22 years of age, 23 goals in 45 games last season (including 5 in 9 in the Europa League), Mexican international. Could do a lot worse.

Think you have to be really really careful with players in the Dutch league. There's obviously plenty of good players in the Netherlands but fees for Eriedivisie players have gone through the roof lately and there's nowhere near the comfort that you get when signing someone excelling in France, Spain or even Portugal.

 

[croadyman]

Think you have to be really really careful with players in the Dutch league. There's obviously plenty of good players in the Netherlands but fees for Eriedivisie players have gone through the roof lately and there's nowhere near the comfort that you get when signing someone excelling in France, Spain or even Portugal.

True, any idea how much he would cost?