If we have the ambition to be more than a mid-table side, we need to sign players who have the potential to be top 6 players. I don't think Mitrovic (or Rondon) fit that profile.
Top 6 potential costs, and if we do blow £40m on Gomez - who by all accounts fits that profile - we won't realistically be able to afford another one. So Rondon at £16m make sense to me; a back-up to Gomez who is relatively cheap and someone who we know can do a decent job at this level.
Indeed, but then I'd sooner see us take a punt on a young player with potential. I think with players like Mitrovic and Rondon, we've seen all they are ever going to have.
Of course, either of them could have a Grant Holt season, and bang in 20 once in their lives, but it isn't going to be a regular occurrence, imo.
You reap what you sow, on this occasion I think the club / Admin / PR have clearly understood the frustration and disappointment from the fan base, after he basically got taken back and accepted again in January, second chances and all that.....
Fool me once......
He can go and rot in the China Sunday league for all I care, counting his money......zero ambition from what could and should’ve been a top professional.
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However, now Lukerz has confirmed he is pretty much ours, that’s good enough for me.
Can we now move onto what his squad number will be. I reckon AC’s number 9
https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/july/08-july/marko-arnautovic-departs-west-ham-united-chinese-super-league
Icy write up by the admins.
So, will Maxi take the No9 or No7 :wahoo:
Indeed, but then I'd sooner see us take a punt on a young player with potential. I think with players like Mitrovic and Rondon, we've seen all they are ever going to have.
Of course, either of them could have a Grant Holt season, and bang in 20 once in their lives, but it isn't going to be a regular occurrence, imo.
No need to wish him well, but could at least have thanked him for his contribution. Makes us look a bit petty.
Fool me once......
He can go and rot in the China Sunday league for all I care, counting his money......zero ambition from what could and should’ve been a top professional.
Goodbye and good riddance
We learn and we move on
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I agree with Mrs G that we’ve made ourselves look unnecessarily petty.
For me, the club could have better highlighted Arnie's graceless twonkery by behaving in a contrasting manner.