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Clever signing! Let's hope he can bag a few for us!
Does his fee mean we don't get the 4.5m from Swansea so he is essentially circa 20m or do we still get the Siggy money?
Think he will. Gives us options. Great hold up play; great heading ability, which will bear fruit at set pieces with oppo having to deal with Llorente, Kane (if they play at same time), Toby, Verts, Sanchez, Dier. Llorente is a clinical finisher, good with both feet and has a great scoring chance/conversion record in the PL.Clever signing! Let's hope he can bag a few for us!
and hopefully janssen can learn a lot from him!Think he will. Gives us options. Great hold up play; great heading ability, which will bear fruit at set pieces with oppo having to deal with Llorente, Kane (if they play at same time), Toby, Verts, Sanchez, Dier. Llorente is a clinical finisher, good with both feet and has a great scoring chance/conversion record in the PL.
Also, like Kane, doesn't let his head drop if he misses a few. I agree with others who say that, in some games, a partnership with Kane will see Kane get more space to do what he does.
Actually, think Kane will too.and hopefully janssen can learn a lot from him!
I thought the same thing re Janssen. Guess it's his own personal decision, but his game time's going to be even more limited now. We'd have more flexibility with 2 CFs and a more mobile creative AM/AF in the squad. I know that's hard to get, but we're on overload right now with our 3 CFs, among which Kane is the most mobile.TBH, I thought with him coming, Janssen's will be better off leaving somewhere on loan..But since Janssen wanna stay, that makes the entire situation in some way very positive. Never hurts to have 3 CFs in a squad with so many games to play!! This season is really about giving us flexibility I guess.
Welcome Fernando! Love him already for choosing us over chelscum!
My only worry is whether he'll be able to chase down the opposition throughout 90 mins. I suspect he'll play mainly against deep sitting defenses and stick to the box play
Similar to how real Madrid play withWith Dele out for the first 3 CL games, I wonder if we'll see something like this. Having Kane play off Llorente would be interesting to see and with Fernando's CL experience we can get off to a good start.
----------------------Hugo-------------------------
-------Sanchez --- Toby --- Verts---------
----Aurier------------------------------Davies---
------- Vic ------ Moose-----
---- Kane ------ Eriksen---
------------------- Llorente ---------------------
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----------------------Hugo-------------------------
-------Sanchez --- Toby --- Verts---------
-----Aurier------------------------------Davies---
- ---- Vic ------ Moose-----
----------------Eriksen-----------------
----------------Kane --- Llorente --------------
No official word but he broke his arm about a fortnight after Son IIRC, and like Son had it operated on. I would imagine he is pretty close to being fit.So do we actually have official word on his injury? Has he trained at all with Swansea, and is it likely he could be available at all this month?
“It’s good to have Fernando back involved. We will see how quickly we can get him fit to play, but he will not be ready for United.
“Because of the nature of the injury to the arm, he lost a lot of upper-body bulk.
"He managed as well as possible to maintain his cardio fitness, but he is going to have to rebuild that upper-body strength which he wasn’t able to work on while the arm was fractured.”