Leandro Damiao

[bceej]

At this point I'd much rather we put all of our striker eggs in the Rodrigo basket.

Ah bollocks iPhone fingers...Rodrigo looks excellent. Would take Damiao still.

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Paulo Freitas‏@Cynegeticus
Leandro Damião is on the pitch for #Internacional (vs Vasco). If he doesn't score tonight, he'll reach 12 games in a row without scoring.

@th14Renato I think he just reached his 'normal' level again after having a couple of good seasons. A move might help but the issue is+
39m
@th14Renato ...the issue is bigger than just needing a move. He lacks proper development as he started his career in amateur football

Paulo Freitas ‏@Cynegeticus
34m
@th14Renato I doubt he can be a top player, but Internacional made a mistake by not selling him before impossible to get 20m for him now.

 

[Kranjcar on Ice]

Paulo Freitas‏@Cynegeticus
Leandro Damião is on the pitch for #Internacional (vs Vasco). If he doesn't score tonight, he'll reach 12 games in a row without scoring.

@th14Renato I think he just reached his 'normal' level again after having a couple of good seasons. A move might help but the issue is+
39m
@th14Renato ...the issue is bigger than just needing a move. He lacks proper development as he started his career in amateur football

Paulo Freitas ‏@Cynegeticus
34m
@th14Renato I doubt he can be a top player, but Internacional made a mistake by not selling him before impossible to get 20m for him now.

Just desserts I say.

 

[UncleBuck]

What. A. Shame.
Should have gone for Ricky Lambert as opposed to following damiao around for the last 15 years...

 

[amardilo]

Still might be worth a go at getting now. His price will be lower and he could make a decent squad player.

 

[kr1978]

Still might be worth a go at getting now. His price will be lower and he could make a decent squad player.

Much better options out there unless they seriously drop their price expectations which is unlikely if the papers are right about Russian interest

 

[Shea]

I swear no one would even be interested in him if it wasn't for the hype that being a Brazilian no.9 generates

A nice youtube compilation of about 6 flashy career highlights (most against sub standard opponents) and a brief spell in the national team while options were at an all time low for Brazilian strikers is all he has amounted to.

A few signings ago he could trade of his potential to become a top class striker - he's not produced the goods as the years have rolled past and now he's another example of an over hyped potential talent who was never as good as people thought he could be (largely based on the country of his birth)

Where's the kid who was gonna be the next big thing by balancing the ball on his nose while he ran? Leandro was a bullet dodged

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

£3m

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

£3m

Tops.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Amazing how excited i used to be by this guy. Who knows what could have been, but certainly seems now he would have never been worth it

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Internacional gambled on him becoming more valuable and lost.

Perhaps we should be looking at their other young players and playing the fear factor of potential loss of value as a negotiating tactic?

 

[Shea]

They absolutely should have sold when he first broke into the Brazil national team

He was young and an emerging talent who had just broke into the most famous national side in the world (in peoples eyes)

His stock was never going to get any higher unless he really become a world class striker - and there was very little evidence to suggest he would

But they could have sold him on the potential that he might become world class - instead they waited it out and he showed his real level. Unfortunately for them it was that he had been massively over hyped and was never going to become world class, so they now have a massively devalued player they couldn't sell for half of what they could have a couple of years back

 

[Chris Finch]

I swear no one would even be interested in him if it wasn't for the hype that being a Brazilian no.9 generates

A nice youtube compilation of about 6 flashy career highlights (most against sub standard opponents) and a brief spell in the national team while options were at an all time low for Brazilian strikers is all he has amounted to.

A few signings ago he could trade of his potential to become a top class striker - he's not produced the goods as the years have rolled past and now he's another example of an over hyped potential talent who was never as good as people thought he could be (largely based on the country of his birth)

Where's the kid who was gonna be the next big thing by balancing the ball on his nose while he ran? Leandro was a bullet dodged

Kerlon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerlon

 

[fatpiranha]

I don't think LD is a bad striker but what is certain is that he is not the right type of striker for our system. I think we need someone like Lukaku (obviously no chance there, i'm just using him as an example). There's little point in having a striker who thrives on crosses into the box when we don't have players who deliver crosses.

 

[Snarfalicious]

I don't think there's any question that he's a talented player. Anyone that watches him on his game he does tend to stand out in a big way. It's just that he should have moved 2 years ago to keep his progression going. Instead, he stuck around, Internacional held on to him and look at where he's at now. His progression arrow is on a steep decline and now Internacional are holding on to a guy they know should be worth more but simply isn't because they got greedy.

 

[chinaman]

I like the Anjhi guy Traore. He is so strong and would offer us something different when brute strength is needed.

 

[Snarfalicious]

I like the Anjhi guy Traore. He is so strong and would offer us something different when brute strength is needed.

Artem Dzyuba is a similar type of striker. He's had a fantastic start to the season and while he is 2 years older than Traore (25), he will probably come at a cheaper fee. That is, of course, unless Anzhi decides they will sell Traore for peanuts just to bring in additional money.

 

[Shea]

I don't think there's any question that he's a talented player. Anyone that watches him on his game he does tend to stand out in a big way. It's just that he should have moved 2 years ago to keep his progression going. Instead, he stuck around, Internacional held on to him and look at where he's at now. His progression arrow is on a steep decline and now Internacional are holding on to a guy they know should be worth more but simply isn't because they got greedy.

I dunno - I think there's a pretty big question really

Having kept an eye out for him every since we were linked to him and therefore watched him play in full matches (as opposed to highlights) several times I'd have to say that if he weren't linked to us he wouldn't have stood out to me really and if he wasn't Brazilian I doubt he'd have developed much of a name for himself in the first place

The best thing about him (I've seen anyway) are his youtube highlights - and we all know youtube compliations can be very misleading

He looked a good goal scorer in the Olympics but Olympic football is basically an U23 competition and not always a good indication of ability to perform on the bigger stages (GDS always seems to look sensational at this type of level) but there didn't really seem to be much else to his game

I saw him live at Craven Cottage for Brazil in a friendly match against Ghana - he was the invisible man pretty much all game in a match that was very much played in the spirit of a friendly match (not top level football, more like a pre season meaningless match) although to his credit he did score the winning goal with a well timed run and a decent finish

Other games for his club in preseason tournaments I have watched him in he's been nothing short of disappointing every time I have watched expecting to see an exciting young Brazilian no 9 we're about to sign.

So I'd say there have always been many question marks against him -

on the one hand he had an impressive scoring record - on the other his record was padded against poor opposition

On the one hand he was a full Brazil international - on the other hand he broke through when Brazil had very few options

He's always been seen as an exciting prospect because of his goal scoring record, his nationality and international call ups at a young age and his video highlights - there's been enough in there to give him question marks instead of write him up as not good enough

I'd suggest now - having lost his national team place, having grown to an age where its hard to still call him a prospect and having a less impressive scoring record (how many games without a goal did the tweet suggest he'd gone?) there are less and less question marks about him and more and more reason to believe he was simply an over hyped prospect who should now be considered a dodged bullet

 

[Barry Mead]

I still think there's a very good player there, I think he may be suffering a bit. Losing Oscar last season certainly impacted him and from what I've seen and heard Internacional as a team have struggled more. Strikers lose confidence and then goals dry up but then look at players like Huntelaar, Gomez, Tevez for example they hit very long dry spells and then break out of it

I like Leandro, he is an intelligent player, who gets in good positions, has decent if not necessarilly "Brazilian" skills and is very good in the air. I'm not so sure he is the best option we could get anymore than he was the best option we could have gotten all the time we were after him, but I think in a decent team who's style of play suited he'd be a good addition at the right price.

Personally I think we need a different type of striker as a second striker, one with a bit more guile and sharpness to help break down the tight defences we find ourselves up against, but an aerially strong and tall striker with decent skill and intelligent positioning would be a useful third option, I guess it's all down to price and available options, but there's a decent player there imo just simply one who's lost his way a bit and hitting a dry run

 

[chinaman]

Artem Dzyuba is a similar type of striker. He's had a fantastic start to the season and while he is 2 years older than Traore (25), he will probably come at a cheaper fee. That is, of course, unless Anzhi decides they will sell Traore for peanuts just to bring in additional money.

I have never seen anyone who could just brush off Sandro so effortlessly as Traore. Stronger physically than Drogba and Balotelli combined. Unsure about his footballing abilities though.