Eddie is a very good Premier League striker, there’s a reason he’s in the England team. Is he perfect and flawless? No he’s not. Can we upgrade on him? Yes we probably can.
However upgrading on him might be hard, especially within our budget, I know there’s been links to Toney but seeing how we had to do loan with obligation for Raya to be in compliance with FFP I don’t see how we can sign another centre forward who will do a better job than Eddie without somehow raising funds by selling players. Toney would be at least £60m probably more, I don’t think there are many cheaper options that are available and better than what we’re currently getting from Eddie.
Final thing I’ll say is Eddie does not deserve the level of vitriol that some of the fanbase level at him. It’s fine to be critical and want other players instead, but comments about how he doesn’t deserve to play or have #14 or that he’s useless and worthless is just wrong.
You say “upgrading on him might be hard, especially within our budget”. Do you know what our budget is? For years I have heard this kind of talk: “we can’t afford him”, or “we don’t have the money”, but yet no one has a clue how much money the owners are willing to invest in players at any given time in the team’s development. It continues to boggle my mind.
I do know we couldn’t sign Raya on a permanent deal due to FFP, that’s been a well reported fact, and unless KSE wants to break FFP rules then they cannot invest heavily in the team. That’s how it works.
I do know we couldn’t sign Raya on a permanent deal due to FFP
Tbf, we don’t know the ins and outs of this. For example, there is a chance the club wants to spend in January, and signing Raya in the summer might have hurt our January in terms of FFP.
Say the club had £75m to spend before we were hitting the limits of FFP, saving the £30m on Raya now, could give us £75m to spend in January, compared to £45 had we signed Raya in the summer.
Obviously complete speculation, but we as fan have no idea one way or the other. It could be we were in danger of FFP right now, or it could be good planning to ensure we will not be in danger if we spend again
Eddie is a very good Premier League striker, there’s a reason he’s in the England team. Is he perfect and flawless? No he’s not. Can we upgrade on him? Yes we probably can.
However upgrading on him might be hard, especially within our budget, I know there’s been links to Toney but seeing how we had to do loan with obligation for Raya to be in compliance with FFP I don’t see how we can sign another centre forward who will do a better job than Eddie without somehow raising funds by selling players. Toney would be at least £60m probably more, I don’t think there are many cheaper options that are available and better than what we’re currently getting from Eddie.
Final thing I’ll say is Eddie does not deserve the level of vitriol that some of the fanbase level at him. It’s fine to be critical and want other players instead, but comments about how he doesn’t deserve to play or have #14 or that he’s useless and worthless is just wrong.
You say “upgrading on him might be hard, especially within our budget”. Do you know what our budget is? For years I have heard this kind of talk: “we can’t afford him”, or “we don’t have the money”, but yet no one has a clue how much money the owners are willing to invest in players at any given time in the team’s development. It continues to boggle my mind.
I do know we couldn’t sign Raya on a permanent deal due to FFP, that’s been a well reported fact, and unless KSE wants to break FFP rules then they cannot invest heavily in the team. That’s how it works.
Tbf, we don’t know the ins and outs of this. For example, there is a chance the club wants to spend in January, and signing Raya in the summer might have hurt our January in terms of FFP.
Say the club had £75m to spend before we were hitting the limits of FFP, saving the £30m on Raya now, could give us £75m to spend in January, compared to £45 had we signed Raya in the summer.
Obviously complete speculation, but we as fan have no idea one way or the other. It could be we were in danger of FFP right now, or it could be good planning to ensure we will not be in danger if we spend again