by thebigbangtheo » Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:43 am
In that I have zero interest with regards to the club treasurer or accountant(s) and paying over inflated transfer fees beyond the fact of having identified who it is that we want and then having the bloody-mindedness to ensure that we got him, my concern centers on once again being used as a stalking horse in order for the likes of a Juventus to simply step in and reap the rewards of our fruitless pursuit.
As someone who was among my list of strikers (Cabral, Schick, Calvert-Lewin, Jovic, Isaak) I believed fit the profile to spearhead our attack as an alternative to Vlahovic but still in the fashion Arteta had portrayed back in January, my hopes were that in recoiling from that Serbo-Italian bitch slap, we now set about doing the ground works ahead of the successful recruitment of the footballing equivalent of a John Wick, Robert McCall, Jason Bourne, Leon or Agent 47 level assassin in the summer.
Following Cabral having been purchased by Fiorentina to actually replace Vlahovic, along with his age, ability and scope for development being bang in line with those of Odegaard, Smith-Rowe, Magalhaes, Ramsdale, Martinelli, Tomiyasu, Saka and Saliba, the big Uruguayan strikes me as finally being the man we have been looking for to end our quest.