Summer Transfer Window 2021/2022
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His first full season in the PL was on loan at Swansea. He scored 5 goals in 31 games.
He's a capable striker that will have a more than decent career for himself but your stat, suggesting he was out performing a number of current forwards in his younger years, was a load of nonsense.
As Baz says, no one is saying he is ****, hes just nothing special. Chelsea haven't been robbed here and I don't think they will miss him. I don't think people are going to be talking about him in the same breath as De Bruyne or Salah.
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Rotflmao, like Arsenal had any chance of signing Maddison, you would have got better odds with Messi.
Tammy is a decent striker, top goal scorer at Chelsea last season, only playing half the games as Werner.
Chelsea missed a trick, should have kept Tammy and binned Werner.
Tammy and Lukaku up front would have been something.
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Nah Werner will come good. He just had awful luck last season and was still an effective player for the team. With this years changes to offside I think he will score more as well. There were so many times Werner had the ball in the back of the net only for an offside to rule it out.
Abrahams stats also aren't as impressive as you are making out.
In PL/CL he scored 7, assisted 4 in 27 games.
Werner scored 10, assisted 14 in 47.
Abrahams scoring roughly 1 in 4 and assisting one in 7 and Werner is scoring 1 in 5 and assisting just under 1 in 3.
Werner has always looked like a player a hairs breadth away from being amazing for Chelsea. Abraham has always look OK with the occasional flash of something more.
All opinions obviously. There is a reason Chelsea have just paid £100m for Lukaku. They clearly don't trust either of them to lead the line and win the PL/CL this season.
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This is taken from Chelsea FC
Timo Werner 2020/21 Chelsea stats
Appearances: 52
Starts: 32
Substituted: 22
Unused sub: 6
Minutes played: 4,018
Goals: 12
Assists: 14
Tammy Abraham 2020/21 Chelsea stats
Appearances: 32
Starts: 18
Substituted: 9
Unused sub: 14
Minutes played: 1,650
Goals: 12
Assists: 6
Werner has been terrible for Chelsea, who are you trying to kid about him being close to amazing?
I like Werner and I want him to prove everyone wrong this season, but this is miles away, he was woeful in front of goal all season. It feels like another Torres where his confidence is completely gone and he's got the yips. Very tough to get over. Like you say, Lukaku coming back doesn't bode well for him.
At some point Werner's going to go on a run where he scores 10 goals in 6 matches. Everything up until his finishing is top class and even the poorest finishers will go through spells where they get it right for a period.
He's not an out and out centre forward who you want to lead the line or even be your main goalscorer but as a 2nd striker playing in and around a Lukaku or off the left, he's an excellent option.
He's not an out and out centre forward who you want to lead the line or even be your main goalscorer but as a 2nd striker playing in and around a Lukaku or off the left, he's an excellent option.
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Wasn’t he known as a lethal striker in Germany though? I’m sure I recall him saying he didn’t like or wasn’t expecting the PL to be so physical.
I think he’s a good player as well, I wouldn’t exactly say he runs around like a headless chicken but he reminds me a bit of Firmno or Giroud (later with France) in that they are there to help others flourish but will never score that many goals. Even with the millions of chances Chelsea created last year. I can see Lukaku scoring plenty this season and Werner playing just as much.
I can see Lukaku and Werner actually doing quite well together.
He's always been known for missing lots of chances. He scored his fair share of goals for Leipzig because he gets into the position to score a lot more than most other forwards do.
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Who would have guessed Arsenal would have spent the most this year? Amazingly I don't think any of their signings would get into our first eleven.
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I thought Torres snapped his hamstring and that was the cause of his downturn in form? That he'd lost that first 2-3m burst pace that would provide him the room and swivel on defenders. Although naturally that then probably fed the yips as he was under far more pressure for those flash chances strikers instinctively slot away.
Yeah its quite impressive to have spent the most but improved arguably the least out of the "top 6".
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Arsenal have to spend more just for average players, they definitely aren't the same draw as when Wenger was in charge.
Different times, unfortunately most of the fans are still clinging onto the old glory days. How long has the Arsenal rebuild been going on for now? 15 years+
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Arsenal have signed a second keeper, a player that was on loan anyway so doesn't add to the squad and a massive gamble on a defender that cannot win aerial duals. Those 3 players are 100 million straight away.
Arsenal have to spend more just for average players, they definitely aren't the same draw as when Wenger was in charge.
Different times, unfortunately most of the fans are still clinging onto the old glory days. How long has the Arsenal rebuild been going on for now? 15 years+
Our signings have largely been useless for the last few seasons now. That's the issue, we target the wrong players, spend way too much on them, then can never get rid of them. No one is clinging to the glory days, we know what and where we are but we should still expect better use of the money. We're ploughing loads in and going backwards still, i'm not sure how that's being allowed to happen.