Henry Onyekuru

English Football
#61

Sounds promising.

#62

Well. Carrasco and Hazard moved as actual youth players. And Monaco and Lille werenā€™t and arenā€™t exactly clubs of our level. Genk is a bigger club than Eupen. De Bruyne had at least more experience and if Iā€™m not mistaken won the League.

#63

YES!

Finally a prospect striker. Prepared to give Wenger another chance if he has a good summer. Would have still preferred he left though.

#64

Iā€™m talking about the quality.

Mahrez was a Le Havre winger before to join Leicester.

#65

Whilst Leicester was a Championship-club.

Itā€™s not a bad thing to sign Onyekuru, but it just doesnā€™t fit with what we need. Age-wise it isnā€™t a clean fit with the rest of our squad who are at peak age. With three strikers on the books, if this goes through, I find it unlikely Wenger is going to get rid of Giroud or Welbeck to make room for another striker.

#66

He isnā€™t a striker, he plays on the left wing.

ā€¦and doesnā€™t matter if Leicester bought Mahrez when they were on Championship, but if the player had and has the quality to play.

#67

Spurs fan defending us. Scenes!

#68

Of course it matters. From Le Havre to a Championship club is an easier step than to a top 6 Premier League club. Less pressure, more time to get adjusted to the new environment/level etc etc

#69

I donā€™t know how high fees usually are in the League One. But 5 million pounds for a player from the third (!) level does seem like a lot :wink:. But in worked out for them looking back.

#70

Rob Holding passed to be part of a relegation team to won the FA Cup.

#71

It doesnā€™t matter what league you play in if you have the talent.

#72

So if heā€™s the next Hazard heā€™s not what we need? I suppose Wenger made a mistake signing future world player of the year George Weah too. Future world player of the year, fuck that, not enough experience, not what we need. Shouldnā€™t have signed youth players like RVP and Fabregas, not what we needed. We should wait until they move to France and we canā€™t compete with City and United for their transfer fee.

The only issue I have is not signing enough of this type of talent.

The only problem with this signing is he might not get a work permit.

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#73

I think every club, especially those without near unlimited resources need a steady inflow of young cheap forward talent.

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#74

Exciting to have a young, fast forward. Want to bet heā€™ll turn out to be a better signing than whoever Lukaku signs for?

#75

Itā€™s nice but you need to chill with that talk.

#76

He is not what this squad needs right now. Iā€™m not familiar with the surroundings regarding George Weah, but van Persie and Fabregas were added during a time we had a competitive team. We need a player who can add to the first team directly and knowing how peculiar Wenger is with numbers in a squad, I fear we wonā€™t add another forward after making this signing.

#77

Or we just need to make that big investment. Adding Campbell, Sanogo, Malen etc is nice, but it doesnā€™t do anything for us. Especially since the chances of youth players actually making it are very slim.

#78

Its Takuma Asano I feel sorry for.

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#79

what about Sanogo? canā€™t leave him out

#80

Hopefully heā€™s the attacking version of Rob Holding.