Randal Kolo Muani | signed for PSG

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Asked a couple of times in this thread why people were so hot on him given his underlying numbers were so poor and never really got a convincing answer. A year later, still not sure what he's supposed to actually do to be worth €95m.
 
sullydnl said:
Asked a couple of times in this thread why people were so hot on him given his underlying numbers were so poor and never really got a convincing answer. A year later, still not sure what he's supposed to actually do to be worth €95m.
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He had a stellar season at Frankfurt but it seems like Frankfurt produce this kind of a previously unknown striker with an excellent season every year now.
 
Red Star One said:
He had a stellar season at Frankfurt but it seems like Frankfurt produce this kind of a previously unknown striker with an excellent season every year now.
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Oh yes...
Omar Marmoush currently is the Bundesliga's topscorer and Hugo Ekitike (who finally arrived in the winter after long being rumoured to be part of the Kolo Muani transfer as we can read here) is hugely promising as well.
Kolo Muani was such a case.
Andre Silva scored better than Haaland in Haaland's first full BL season.
Luka Jovic got sold for 65 million or something like that to Real Madrid.

While a club like Chelsea is a striker graveyard, Frankfurt truly is the opposite and allows strikers to shine.
 
Red Star One said:
I mean, it was between him and Hojlund. Both extremely overpriced and not looking like future world beaters. It was a terrible summer to buy a forward and the prices were so inflated - in 24/25 it was only Julian Alvarez that went for over 70m!
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Given Hojlund is four years younger, cost around €20m less and scored at the same rate as Muani last season in a tougher league, I'd say we made the right choice between those two at least if not in general.
 
sullydnl said:
Asked a couple of times in this thread why people were so hot on him given his underlying numbers were so poor and never really got a convincing answer. A year later, still not sure what he's supposed to actually do to be worth €95m.
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He was great for Frankfurt and looked like an immensely talented and technically gifted player. However, the fee PSG paid for him was always far too high. No idea what got into them.
 
I don't blame psg too much really. You are fighting for scraps in the transfer market for decent forwards and Muani does have alot of decent attributes.
 
Red Star One said:
He had a stellar season at Frankfurt but it seems like Frankfurt produce this kind of a previously unknown striker with an excellent season every year now.
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Probably more likely to end up on loan at Palace with the Glasner connection.
 
sullydnl said:
Given Hojlund is four years younger, cost around €20m less and scored at the same rate as Muani last season in a tougher league, I'd say we made the right choice between those two at least if not in general.
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I don't know if I'd call that the same rate. Muani has a scorer every 124mins, Hojlund every 171mins. Neither stat is stellar and what you'd want to see for that amount of money, I'd say, but I'd agree with you that Rasmus probably still has more development in him than Muani does.
 
stefan92 said:
Oh yes...
Omar Marmoush currently is the Bundesliga's topscorer and Hugo Ekitike (who finally arrived in the winter after long being rumoured to be part of the Kolo Muani transfer as we can read here) is hugely promising as well.
Kolo Muani was such a case.
Andre Silva scored better than Haaland in Haaland's first full BL season.
Luka Jovic got sold for 65 million or something like that to Real Madrid.

While a club like Chelsea is a striker graveyard, Frankfurt truly is the opposite and allows strikers to shine.
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Haller-Jovic-Rebic was a brilliant front 3 in 2018-19, weren't far off winning the Europa league that season as only lost to Chelsea on penalties. Won the German cup instead at least.

Rebic never really hit the heights at AC Milan in the years after
 
G3079 said:
I don't know if I'd call that the same rate. Muani has a scorer every 124mins, Hojlund every 171mins. Neither stat is stellar and what you'd want to see for that amount of money, I'd say, but I'd agree with you that Rasmus probably still has more development in him than Muani does.
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Fbref have them on 0.43 vs 0.42 non-penalty goals per 90 in their respective leagues last season. I'd describe that as the same rate.

And then there's the Champions League, where Hojlund scored 0.93 goals per 90 to Muani's 0.19, having played just 15min more.

These are tiny sample sizes of games but, even ignoring how much younger Hojlund is, I'd say he fared better in season one. And for less money.
 
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Red Star One said:
Went for 95m euros last summer, only 6 league goals in his debut season, started this year quite slow too and there are rumours Luis Enrique will try to get rid of him. Another quite terrible transfer for PSG, seems like he'll be available for 50-60m in the summer, maybe even in January.
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Unless there are current transfer links to United, do not bump transfer threads and especially not for general discussion. If you want to talk about the player take it to the FF
 
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