I can’t see us getting an offer for Jota, and my gut feeling is that he never really recovered from his torso injury last year.
I would be tempted to give Jota a good pre-season, and a chance to re discover his fitness.
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Yeah if an offer came in fair enough but we can’t force it. I think there are plenty of players surplus before we start selling the likes of Gakpo mind.
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Yeah that’s the part where I’m not sure anyone would offer. Not the worst result if we keep him around as backup. We’re going to have enough players leave as it is.
The limiting factor being him getting and staying fit
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The biggest issue for Jota regarding his fitness is just that he seems a bit unlucky. This season was a write off because a big lad landed on him, broke his ribs and he ended up with a punctured lung. He seems to have a had a few injuries where he’s got into a physical tussle and come out of it broken.
There might be something in him just dialling back the combative nature of his game, and learning to pick his battles a bit more.
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How is knee bruise worse than knee collateral ligament tear?
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Someone needs to stay, we can’t replace 4-5 forwards this summer.
If we go full guillotine by frustrations we’d be left with who, Salah, Gakpo and Diaz. And even that has it limits with some fans.
Jota shouldn’t be relied upon as a first choice striker for the whole season, but I don’t mind him at all a little longer in backup/rotation.
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If Jota manages to shake off his unfortunate latest injury, I don’t mind him staying for another season. Even with his other injury record
I suppose we’ll have to see in preseason whether he has managed to shake it off because he didn’t seem 100% after returning back from that.
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Still think this is a smokescreen for Ekitike. The Isak news atleast.
On the stats front , not that stats mean everything , Ekitike and Isak look pretty similar.
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It took me one and a half years to recover from a broken rib. It will have taken even longer with a punctured lung as well.
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Isn’t Jacobs a bit of a knob?
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Lads Ben Jacob’s doesn’t know shit. Literally just a blagger.
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Yeah but he’s saying something I want to hear
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It looks like both Nunez and Chiesa are going to be sold to Napoli.
No word yet if Osimhen is coming back on the other end of the deal.
I’ll be glad to get the money back for Chiesa and Nunez regardless. That will fund our next striker, no matter whom we choose.
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German league is a lot easier than the Premier League. I have concerns about Ekitike’s finishing. Isak is banging them in for fun and is Prem proven.
That being said I understand an Isak transfer would be much more difficult, it’s just I see these two as worlds apart right now.
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Who or what is Fasano?
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It’s weird because I bumped into Fasano in the pub earlier and he said he had been taking a lot of acid recently and wasn’t sure what he’d been posting. He’s going into rehab now and won’t be available for a couple of weeks.
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That Alfredo Pedulla fella said as much two or three days ago - he claimed that Napoli wanted both Nunez and Chiesa. Now, this guy’s name comes up only during the summer transfer windows but he’s an actual person, though I have no idea if there’s any reliability in the claims he puts forward every summer transfer window.