I’ve always found it bizarre how impressed some posters are by a list of exotic sounding names with made up valuations.

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When a 'highlights' video makes you look no better than Sanogo I'd say we need to be wary of spending 15m+.

But then again we do love an injury prone, non-goalscoring striker.

When it comes to strikers I'm more in the take a cheap punt or give a youngster a chance category. It's served us well in the past I.e Wright, Johnson, Murray and now Ayew. Spending big doesn't guarantee goals - rarely does a player outside of the top six bag 15+.

You have no right attacking me cause I made a list (that you cannot understand with your football knowledge or know the valuations on it).

Your contributions to this forum:

about Batshuayi on January 22 2018:

Nobbybm: Meh. I know at least 6 Chelsea ST holders who go home & away, week in, week out & they are all of the same opinion - he just isn't good enough.
(proceeds to paste a Chelsea fans discussion where opinions of Batshuayi are varied)

EverybodyDannsNow: Pretty conclusive. To add even further, one quick look on the Chelsea forum would show that they think very little of him;
"Show me a Chelsea fan or pundit who has said this" (which had been my comment) seems a laughable comment now.

spartakev2: I'm sorry but matteo knows every player in world football and his is the only opinion that matters..

me: People at Chelsea are comparing their strikers to Diego Costa, Lukaku, Luis Suarez, Lewandowski, the best in the world. Comments like "Batshuayi isn't quite up to the Chelsea level we want" or "Batshuayi in not as good as Diego Costa" are not reflective on his value. We're talking here about Batshuayi vs Benteke, not why Bats isn't exactly a Champions League winning player.

Not giving Benteke for Batshuayi now, probably the last time in this century that a top 6 team will ask for Benteke, would be madness. Conte is either cocky as hell or mad

EverybodyDannsNow: To be fair to Conte, from what he has shown recently you can see why he doesn't want play him. Real shame, as I was hoping he could be the answer, but last night he looked a million miles away from being PL / CL standard (so EDN didn't think Batshuayi was Premier League standard ))))) )

EverybodyDannsNow: Someone throw him a life jacket - he's drowning (in reference to me). Benteke, whilst admittedly having a poor season, is a proven goal scorer for our club and in this league.

Result of this Batshuayi-Benteke debate over the next years: does it even need to be said??)))))))))

And more discussions where your knowledge about football or players was proven awful. I can provide more examples, but this is not a personal attack and I don;t want to.

It's a response to the reply you gave about me where I prove that you don't know what you're talking about.

All the best. I hope I never reply to you again.

Is it an attack to quote exactly what someone wrote? How is this an attack? Do I insult him?

Mattteo appears to spend a significant amount of time compiling screeds of information about an array of players not playing on these shores so I give praise for his efforts and for the fact he has supplied the details in good faith in order to be informative.

I suspect there are those who take a single look at the protracted list and simply do not bother to peruse the information about players who they have simply never heard of and is of no interest to them so perhaps his efforts can be wasted in this respect.

Being somewhat cerebrally challenged I have to admit that my 'Grey matter' has real difficulty computing "Minutes" in relation to the playing time as it is programmed to think in terms of "Games".

Apropos the 'Valuations' I simply have no idea whether this is a personal view or is attained from some website or software package.It is a 'Moving picture' of course and probably bears no resemblance to the fee commanded by the player when he is sold.

In the main I have found Mattteo's list of player analysis useful.

Edited by Willo (26 Aug 2020 6.04pm)