The Championship average salary is £7k per week. There are plenty of clubs who could afford that and would see Fabio as a worthwhile risk on a free! He'd get a nice signing on fee for him and his Dad too then.
I don't think you are getting my drift. We would need to match what he would get elsewhere and add a bit more, for that premium to him we continue to control him if he does develop as some on here think he will.
In a way you have proved my point. He could improve his value from here, and Wolves will lose out.
Fair enough, you did say pay him a Championship wage
Totally. Couple of posts above saying his resale value is low - he's 21 and starting and assisting in Europa League knockouts against former CL teams, just as he did last year.
If he wasn't already our player what fee are you being quoted for a 20/21 year old striker who's broken through and scored 16 goals and created 6 more last season for Anderlecht or PSV.
I read a Ranger's site earlier that was talking him and they seemed to think Clemente definitely wants him, but we have told them £20m.
I would use my eyes and say that lad ain't a premiership striker. As most of the players who play in those leagues aren't.
It's a shame the club haven't asked you to utilise your superior knowledge.
Not mine. Every coach they have employed.
At the same age Harry Kane was at Millwall, Leicester and Norwich getting hammered by their fans for being rubbish.
Sometimes you have to look at the players limitations and compare it to the style the team wants to play. Currently our fast fluid front three needs speed or strength. Fabio has neither. Fraser has strength but for our system Carlton Morris from Luton would be perfect. Scores and tough as old boots and has a strikers instinct for positions which Fabio really never did
Hate Harry Kane but he has strength and Nous. He buys free kicks and is a clinical finisher . Fabio is miles behind Kane in the finishing stakes even at 21
Lovely goal but you won’t see that kind of defending in the premier league.
If he’s better on the left then we could try him there?
This is the most over-used argument on here.
If you ask Millwall, Norwich or Leicester fans at that time they'd have been saying a lot of the same things you read on here. I'm not suggesting he's Harry kane or going to be anything like him. But to say he's worthless and has no market is ridiculous, last season shows he's a tidy young player, who needs to be playing games.
That isn't the point though is it?
Nearly 22
Yeah the argument isn't because Kane became that good that Fabio will, merely that judging him on what he's doing at 21 - at a very high level - as though that is his peak is very strange.
I know he is still young, and a couple of years ago I was in the give hi time camp. He could still come good, but my view has changed to thinking he won't. I don't think he has the physicality, pace or overriding tactical nous, and imo a premier league striker probably needs at least one of them
To be fair Fabio has scored a similar number of goals by 21 to what Kane did. You seem to be comparing Fabio to the finished article Kane which is grossly unfair.
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