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Player Watch: Alejo Véliz

only1waddle

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Try and get him out to a Portuguese side in January if he's wanted by one of the lower half clubs, I think that's the only way he gets regular minutes.
 

JUSTINSIGNAL

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£13m, similar to Bergvall after add-ons.

We should do these type of deals every season, some will hit and some will not.

Exactly. If he develops to the level he makes an impact on our squad, great. If he doesn't then sell him. Literally no risk. So many clubs do these kind of deals regularly, I don't know why our fanbase expect every single player we sign to immediately be for our first team.
 
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Ron Burgundy

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Kid is still 21. At a similar age Gyokeres was scoring 0 in 11 on loan at Swansea. Solanke 1 in 21 for Liverpool.

Not saying he will burst into a top player mid twenties like they did but perhaps a bit of patience is in order.
It’s a fair point, but there are times when you see someone, and it’s clear that they’re have neither the athleticism nor the technique

From what I see, he’s one of them. Hope I’m wrong, but personally I think the chances of him making it here are very low
 

McFlash

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It’s a fair point, but there are times when you see someone, and it’s clear that they’re have neither the athleticism nor the technique

From what I see, he’s one of them. Hope I’m wrong, but personally I think the chances of him making it here are very low
Have any of us really seen enough of him to make such a judgement yet?
I'm not sure I have at least, so I'm not going to write him off just yet.

He's got enough about him to make us decide he was worth a punt and as we all know, players develop at different rates, so I'd say it's still too early to completely dismiss him yet.
 

rabbikeane

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Check what club in Belgium or Netherland that seek striker in January, or even an UEFA competing club elsewhere. La Liga too big of a level for him atm. Get him playing.
 

Krafty

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Maybe Westerlo?

He needs games for his own career. I don’t think he has the technical skills to make it with us, but could become an ‘always third choice’ option if he wanted to be (the kind of striker who scores the occasional crucial goal but is never good enough for a speed of starts)
 

Marty

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Maybe Westerlo?

He needs games for his own career. I don’t think he has the technical skills to make it with us, but could become an ‘always third choice’ option if he wanted to be (the kind of striker who scores the occasional crucial goal but is never good enough for a speed of starts)
The name Neil Mellor suddenly popped into my head after reading that description.
 

philll

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how many has he scored this year? I take it he cant get this team either?
The commentator in the match said all of their strikers have scored 1 each this season in the league. It looks like Alejo's scored 3 in their version of the FA Cup, though.
 

newbie

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Is he any better than Lankshear? From what little I saw of him he was all energy and not a lot of finess, much like Lankshear?

tbh it’s hard to say what I have seen of lanks I would say Lanka is a real talent give him service he will score
 
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