http://www.pagineromaniste.com/dzeko-chelsea-oggi-ce-il-si-sprint-roma-per-aleix-vidal/ This says we want Defrel from Roma. They're unwilling to sell him because Dzeko is on his way out though but if they get another forward in before the window closes who knows? He's on loan with Roma having a buying option on him which is why we have to do a deal with them I guess.
Not happened for him do far in Rome. But it's his old manager from Sassuolo at Roma, so he knows all about the fella. Dzeko leaving already leaves them short up top.
A quicker, more skillful and better finisher than Gray. If we can get him back to his Sassuolo form then he will be a very good acquisition.
10 appearances isn't much to go on though - probably mainly from the bench? Least he will be fit in I guess - none of our strikers have had a real run in the side!
...but the Sassuolo deal with Roma is a loan to buy if targets achieved of €15m. Why don't Roma make a quick buck by excercising option and selling for €16m?
Not a great goalscoring record at 26 ?? Foggia 4/23, Cesena 16/106, Sassuolo 20/62, Roma 0/7. 40 goals in total at the age of 26 ?? I hope the £20m quoted above wasn't serious ! Ok Slimani isn't coming and is 3 years older but he has a far far superior goals per games record.
Plus he was in a front three usually that swapped around alot. So those figures are very good. Noticed that Berardi is having a poor season since this fella left too.
I don’t think he is an improvement on anything we already have after what I witnessed tonight. Gray at least gets in the right areas. I know he hasn’t played much lately due to injury etc. But he just seemed too slow to react to anything that was a sniff of a half chance.
A misfiring striker. Crap signing if it happened. And before folk tell me he's better than what we have got may I point out that Gray has scored in both games he has recently started.
Playing on the wing is his secondary position. The guys a striker. You could tell that being out wide was his secondary position last night as well. I agree that we desperately need cover out wide, but we must surely be able to find someone who’s a natural wide player for the reported fee Defrel would cost.
6 days left. Many of the club's around us are linked with season changing, adrenaline inducing, high profile signings. Time to fire up the Udinese minibus.
It looks like “being backed in the transfer market” just means the Pozzos will load Zeegelaar, Holebas, Janmaat, Capoue and Watson into a van and kick them out of the back doors on the M1.
http://www.insidefutbol.com/2018/05/21/watford-join-race-for-fringe-roma-forward/376201/ I especially like this part of the article “Defrel made 20 appearances for Roma this season, scoring a single goal.” Sounds like he will fit right in with our mob upfront. Edit: just looked up his goal, it was a penalty against the worst team in the Serie A. He nearly missed. In off the post. If we pay anywhere near the €15mil fee Roma want for this 26 year old duffer, this will make the Andre Gray signing look amazing.
