knows how to score goals

He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons

He’s as big a crock as Callum Wilson, out of the frying pan and into the fire

comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.

comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
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comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question

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posted 13 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question
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Who's a better finisher than Weghorst?

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
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comment by Striketeam7 - confident for Southgate’s ... (U18109)
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posted 13 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question
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Who's a better finisher than Weghorst?
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Not sure I even agree with that - Weghorst stays fit and bangs them in for the Dutch

comment by Striketeam7 - confident for Southgate’s nearly slaaaags (U18109)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question
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The question is … who’s a striker that can come in as a bench option for £35 million?

Is Ten Hag prioritising Zirkzee because he’s Dutch?

Yes.


Though I suspect the Dutchman would be a better fit for how he wants to play, presumably like Holland 74.

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comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question
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The question is … who’s a striker that can come in as a bench option for £35 million?
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Gimenez - might be slightly more but not far off. Toney at about £40m.

Give Newcastle £80m for Isak and sell Sancho at a considerable loss - loads you could do

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posted 12 minutes ago
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comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question
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The question is … who’s a striker that can come in as a bench option for £35 million?
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Gimenez - might be slightly more but not far off. Toney at about £40m.

Give Newcastle £80m for Isak and sell Sancho at a considerable loss - loads you could do
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I’d much prefer Toney but think he’d be double that price. And Isak would be great but can’t see Newcastle losing him and Bruno GB in the same window

*Bruno G

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posted 1 minute ago
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posted 12 minutes ago
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posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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He has scored 54 Prem goals in 8 seasons - only twice has he managed double figures. He has scored 14 goals in the last 3 seasons.

If he is Uniteds answer then what is the question
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The question is … who’s a striker that can come in as a bench option for £35 million?
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Gimenez - might be slightly more but not far off. Toney at about £40m.

Give Newcastle £80m for Isak and sell Sancho at a considerable loss - loads you could do
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I’d much prefer Toney but think he’d be double that price. And Isak would be great but can’t see Newcastle losing him and Bruno GB in the same window
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To why is running his contract down - lots of reports were (Spurs) sniffing around - so he can’t be that expensive or Levy would have a nose bleed

I can't believe how many people are flirting with the 'Zirkzee is Dutch so he's been hand-picked by ETH and INEOS didn't mean a word of what they said they said about how they'd run sporting operations' logic. It's bordering on SE85's old South America superstition.

Personally, I don't see much merit in buying a 27 year-old striker with a lot of recent injury issues who has never been a high volume goal scorer and doesn't excel at bringing others into the game. PL experience is an asset if the player has proven himself in the PL. In DCL's case, his PL experience tells us more or less what we can expect, which I think is a lower ceiling and a less versatile footballer than what we need.

I can't believe how many people are flirting with the 'Zirkzee is Dutch so he's been hand-picked by ETH and INEOS didn't mean a word of what they said

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I don’t believe a word of him or ineos. But joking aside I’m sure he isn’t an eth Dutch special

Would demand far higher wages, will have virtually no resale value in a few years, scoring recording isn’t that great and most important, he’ll be injured most of the time.

Jim* not him

comment by Baz tard - Ineos your face, proud owner of the 100k comment, fack you Michael Edward’s and your 5m, th (U19119)
posted 54 seconds ago
I can't believe how many people are flirting with the 'Zirkzee is Dutch so he's been hand-picked by ETH and INEOS didn't mean a word of what they said

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I don’t believe a word of him or ineos. But joking aside I’m sure he isn’t an eth Dutch special
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It's fine to be sceptical about INEOS, but they have no reason to lie about how they want to run the club. Moreover, both their appointment of heavyweight sporting execs / recruitment people + the example of Nice are concrete evidence that they believe in an industry-standard model in which the head coach doesn't have extensive authority in choosing players.

Added to that, why if he wants to keep his job, would ETH want to only recruit Dutch players and people he has personally coached in the past? Whether or not he's the right coach for our club, he's obviously not a total fuсking moron.

Also, while EtH has clearly had a big say on transfers, I don’t Zirkzee is necessarily another just because of his nationality. Seems to fit the INEOS profile and EtH is probably happy to move forward with a move.

I think EtH has probably had to go for targets he knows personally because the recruitment at the club was ad that it was often left to him having to choose players. Hopefully that won’t be an issue now.

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 2 minutes ago
Also, while EtH has clearly had a big say on transfers, I don’t Zirkzee is necessarily another just because of his nationality. Seems to fit the INEOS profile and EtH is probably happy to move forward with a move.
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‘Erik, we’ve got a player for you, he’s quick, powerful’
‘Sch..none of that mattersh ish he Dutch?’
‘Yes’
‘Shign him’

comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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If there’s a bench in the treatment room the he’d certainly find a place on that.

One of the biggest things we must get right in the market going forward is paying far more attention to injury records than we have done previously.

comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by _Viva_Vida (U6044)
posted 1 minute ago
He has only scored 14 Premier league goals in the last 3 seasons
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He has a couple of injury laden seasons plus plays for Everton. As a bench option for us i think he’d be decent.
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If there’s a bench in the treatment room the he’d certainly find a place on that.

One of the biggest things we must get right in the market going forward is paying far more attention to injury records than we have done previously.
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I’m operating under the logic that players get injured once they join us but magically ones that who were injury prone before joining us stay injury free.

I'd rather have Weghorst back. The guy makes Martial looks fairly reliable fitness wise.

Massively underwhelmed by all the forwards we are being linked to personally. I'd rather give Wheatley his chance than waste any more money on average to poor players. Wheatley looks a proper player too.

£35m