Gonzalo Higuain

[nedley]

The Daily Star said last night that Real Madrid were lining up a proposal for Tottenham Hotspur which would see Luka Modric returning to the Premier League club . The deal sounded financially good for Spurs, with £30m being added to the Croatian but it just didn't sound wholly realistic.
Even if Tottenham wanted Modric back, and after last summer they may not, it's still hard to imagine that he'd be happy to return with his tail between his legs. Modric hasn't had a good season in Spain and has been roundly declared a flop but he'll be determined to prove that wrong and certainly wouldn't want to go back to Spurs as something of a failure.
In Spain there's another Tottenham story brewing. Today's copy of Sport newspaper has a feature on Gonzalo Higuain in which they claim he wants to go to London this summer. His long term girlfriend has a new job with the BBC which is in the city and is expecting the couple's first child, Sport say they have decided to set up home in the English capital and that he wants to find a team there this summer. They go as far as to claim he's been looking at property and visited the city two weeks ago. It sounds like it has more to it than most transfer rumours, given the job and relationship connection.
They discount Chelsea because everyone in Spain assumes the Falcao deal to be already done, and they say that Arsenal wouldn't pay the transfer fee, but they reckon that a deal could be sorted out with Daniel Levy and inevitably name Gareth Bale. If Spurs are to lose the Welshman then getting Higuain as part of the deal doesn't sound such a bad idea. The club need a top class striker and Higuain has shown he can justify that tag, but has suffered with the rotation at Real Madrid. Despite seeming like he's been around forever, he's still only 25 and so has much of his career ahead of him.
This sounds like an interesting rumour with some decent foundations, certainly worth keeping an eye on.

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/...ottenham-is-likeliest-destination-for-higuain

Would be Mega.

Him or Lewandowski would make us title challengers.

 

[moomin]

hed be massive for us
he'll probably go to chelsea though

 

[kitchen]

The Daily Star said last night that Real Madrid were lining up a proposal for Tottenham Hotspur which would see Luka Modric returning to the Premier League club . The deal sounded financially good for Spurs, with £30m being added to the Croatian but it just didn't sound wholly realistic.
Even if Tottenham wanted Modric back, and after last summer they may not, it's still hard to imagine that he'd be happy to return with his tail between his legs. Modric hasn't had a good season in Spain and has been roundly declared a flop but he'll be determined to prove that wrong and certainly wouldn't want to go back to Spurs as something of a failure.
In Spain there's another Tottenham story brewing. Today's copy of Sport newspaper has a feature on Gonzalo Higuain in which they claim he wants to go to London this summer. His long term girlfriend has a new job with the BBC which is in the city and is expecting the couple's first child, Sport say they have decided to set up home in the English capital and that he wants to find a team there this summer. They go as far as to claim he's been looking at property and visited the city two weeks ago. It sounds like it has more to it than most transfer rumours, given the job and relationship connection.
They discount Chelsea because everyone in Spain assumes the Falcao deal to be already done, and they say that Arsenal wouldn't pay the transfer fee, but they reckon that a deal could be sorted out with Daniel Levy and inevitably name Gareth Bale. If Spurs are to lose the Welshman then getting Higuain as part of the deal doesn't sound such a bad idea. The club need a top class striker and Higuain has shown he can justify that tag, but has suffered with the rotation at Real Madrid. Despite seeming like he's been around forever, he's still only 25 and so has much of his career ahead of him.
This sounds like an interesting rumour with some decent foundations, certainly worth keeping an eye on.

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/...ottenham-is-likeliest-destination-for-higuain

Would be Mega.

Him or Lewandowski would make us title challengers.

Maybe.

But only if we keep Bale too...

If we lose Bale and get either of those two we'd still not be good enough to challenge IMO.

 

[nightgoat]

Sport newspaper obviously missed the BBC moving to Salford...

 

[absolute bobbins]

Sport newspaper obviously missed the BBC moving to Salford...

BBC still have a big presence in London, just depends on what she does

 

[Snarfalicious]

If we got a player of the caliber of Higuain he'd easily put up 20+ goals in a season. I'm just not quite sure we could afford the wages unless we gave him a signing on fee to knock em down.

 

[Snarfalicious]

I think for Real it'll come down to one or the other between Higuain and Benzema.

I'd actually argue that I think Benzema is more of the type of striker AVB would covet as he has a little more intelligence about his game than Higuain who is a little more direct as a striker.

 

[voxy28]

If Higuain comes without Bale going, I think it would be a great deal.

Bale has flourish under AVB and I hope just base on this relation, Bale will continue with AVB to achieve something more than 4th place.

 

[Barry Mead]

I think if we can hold on to Bale, who is now looking a more than decent bet to be a regular 20 plus a season goal scorer then a player like Higuain would be the kind of perfect fit. A mobile striker who can link well but will also take the responsibility to be in the box and get on the end of the crosses and passes delivered in for the main striker. This would ensure Bale retained the freedom in his role while being a player who could interchange roles with a player like Higuain when he was pulling defenders away

There's been quite a bit of speculation about Higuain moving through a lot of his time at Real and I'm pretty sure one striker will leave and be replaced there in summer. I think if we had a half a chance we should really go for it as I think a player like him would be like finding one of those big bits of a jigsaw that all of a sudden if not finishing the entire picture all of a sudden makes everything pretty clear and brings it together

Yeah I'd be very very happy seeing Gonzalo lining up alongside Gareth, be like a modern version of the old Spurs G men Greavsie and Gillie and I used to love watching those two

 

[RichieS]

I think for Real it'll come down to one or the other between Higuain and Benzema.

I'd actually argue that I think Benzema is more of the type of striker AVB would covet as he has a little more intelligence about his game than Higuain who is a little more direct as a striker.

On the contrary, I think AVB prefers his striker to be a goalscorer first and foremost. I think Higuain would be far more effective in that respect than Defoe and has a little bit extra in general.

 

[SteveH]

Both blow hot and cold. Even the most turgid of strikers should do well at Real.

 

[Barry Mead]

Both blow hot and cold. Even the most turgid of strikers should do well at Real.

If you look how top strikers like Villa, Ibrahimovic and to a lesser degree Sanchez have (comparitively) struggled blending into Barca, it's not always that cut and dried. Both teams have truly world class goalscorers that don't quite fit an orthodox role yet which the team tend to create and shape a lot of their game for and I think it can at times make even top strikers appear less effective

 

[SteveH]

If you look how top strikers like Villa, Ibrahimovic and to a lesser degree Sanchez have (comparitively) struggled blending into Barca, it's not always that cut and dried. Both teams have truly world class goalscorers that don't quite fit an orthodox role yet which the team tend to create and shape a lot of their game for and I think it can at times make even top strikers appear less effective

I said Real?

 

[ilikeost]

I said Real?

His point still stands. There are a lot of players who doesn't click at certain clubs, even if the club is Real. VDV, Sneijder and Huntelaar are prime examples of that.

 

[Barry Mead]

I said Real?

Exactly and I referred to how quality strikers don't always work as well in a big team where the game is focused on a goalscorer that isn't the main striker-my reference to Barca was to undeline that in the same way as Higuain and Benzema don't hit maybe the consistent heights that you expect from a top striker in a top team it has been the same at Barca with the likes of Villa, Ibra and Sanchez at Barca.
Obviously with both Ronaldo and Messi not in their teams Real and Barca would be lesser teams yet conversely those strikers mentioned might have looked better

 

[SteveH]

Exactly and I referred to how quality strikers don't always work as well in a big team where the game is focused on a goalscorer that isn't the main striker-my reference to Barca was to undeline that in the same way as Higuain and Benzema don't hit maybe the consistent heights that you expect from a top striker in a top team it has been the same at Barca with the likes of Villa, Ibra and Sanchez at Barca.
Obviously with both Ronaldo and Messi not in their teams Real and Barca would be lesser teams yet conversely those strikers mentioned might have looked better

My bad - what I was trying to say is Barca do have more problems fitting in strikers than Real. Imagine Ibrahimovic at Real!

The bones would be fights with Jose!!!!

 

[trnk]

I think for Real it'll come down to one or the other between Higuain and Benzema.

I'd actually argue that I think Benzema is more of the type of striker AVB would covet as he has a little more intelligence about his game than Higuain who is a little more direct as a striker.

Yeah Hugo should ask him to join us.
Higuain is much cheaper than Benzema (fee & wages).

 

[WiganSpur]

I can't see RM letting him go unless Bale is heading the other way. If we were in the CL I don't think he would mind coming to the lane though. We could sort something with his wages i'm sure.

 

[DJS]

If you look how top strikers like Villa, Ibrahimovic and to a lesser degree Sanchez have (comparitively) struggled blending into Barca, it's not always that cut and dried. Both teams have truly world class goalscorers that don't quite fit an orthodox role yet which the team tend to create and shape a lot of their game for and I think it can at times make even top strikers appear less effective

Villa did very well in his first season as Barca and scored shedl loads of goals.

I'm pretty sure the long-term injury that put him out for a while is what has made things go less smoothly of late - Barca also lost out on the title with him missing from their starting eleven...

Ibrahimovic just wasn't fancied by Guardiola but still but a fair amount of goals per game.

 

[Barry Mead]

Villa did very well in his first season as Barca and scored shedl loads of goals.

I'm pretty sure the long-term injury that put him out for a while is what has made things go less smoothly of late - Barca also lost out on the title with him missing from their starting eleven...

Ibrahimovic just wasn't fancied by Guardiola but still but a fair amount of goals per game.

Villa struggled a lot the first season at Barca and only really started looking comfortable in the latter stages of the season. Yes he got a decent tally of 18 La Liga goals that season but he had moved to Barca the most creative team around yet he scored more goals the previous couple of seasons at Valencia 21 the previous season, 28 the season before and really you would have expected more rather than less. By comparison that season Ronaldo scored 40 and Messi 31. So whilst it was a decent tally it wasn't what they had hoped for. Same with Ibra, he got what 16 which I guess is decent but Messi got 34 that season

That's my point, I'm not suggesting either Villa or Ibra are bad strikers or didn't score what to many strikers would be a decent goal tally, simply that the quality of strikers they were, going into a team they did, should have produced more, but imo having to adapt their game round Messi and the fact that the team inevitably looked for him with their final pass meant they never really achieved the amount of goals they hoped