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Alexandre Pato

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But apparently he's choosing to come to us despite offers in China where he could be paid much more to do the same job. That shows he wants to play. As for lazy, surely the club bothered to scout him before signing him

The same club who brought in Falcao, Djibfmfrf and that lad we loaned out to the championship?

............

Remy is off (no secret there)

Falcao is well... Falcao (perma-injured)

Bamford needs playing time but isn't trusted at this level (much to mine and most fans annoyance)

If we know this then players/agents/clubs must be aware too

What a joke, the side is calling out for a goalscorer

with experience and the club sign this 'has-been'

??and just to rub salt into the wounds he's gonna share

the bench with the other ripping success of a loan signing

Falcao - the goals will be flooding in from the pair of them thus saving our season thanks ME you're a f'in star.

Piece written bout his sitch back in October , lots of hammy

problems in AC M, sounds like it went pear shaped for him

back in Brazil. He ain't played much lately & him & his agent would bite the hand of any mug team that would get him out of Brazil & pay his wages. Silver lining is that it's only a loan.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/oct/30/alex-pato-premier-league-corinthians-sao-paulo

I am still dead against this despite the fact it would only be a 6 month loan deal which admittedly makes it much less of a gamble. I guess because we are still in CL, the powers that be feel we need a striker with CL experience should Costa get injured and Falcao remain as sh*te as he has looked so far. But I would much prefer us show some faith in one of Bamford, Traore or even Abraham. Give them the game time now so we can evaluate them and help make decisions for next season and beyond.

 

To take the route of "once great stiker but now past it and sh*te" yet again after Schevchenko, Torres and Falcao, are we really learning NOTHING from mistakes?

Edited by Nibs

I am still dead against this despite the fact it would only be a 6 month loan deal which admittedly makes it much less of a gamble. I guess because we are still in CL, the powers that be feel we need a striker with CL experience should Costa get injured and Falcao remain as sh*te as he has looked so far. But I would much prefer us show some faith in one of Bamford, Traore or even Abraham. Give them the game time now so we can evaluate them and help make decisions for next season and beyond.

 

To take the route of "once great stiker but now past it and sh*te" yet again after Schevchenko, Torres and Falcao, are we really learning NOTHING from mistakes?

This one people, will never happen. Ever. Period.  More chance of Abramovich buying Spurs and merging the 2 clubs

 

Bamford I would expect to see given the odd cameo next season.  Traore another who i think will be lucky to be here by next Tuesday, and into next season.

 

None of us have seen enough of Pato to judge how good he is/isnt, how well he may or may not do.  Reading blogs and the opinions of Corinthians fans is also a less than accurate way to judge a player.

Edited by RickUK

This one people, will never happen. Ever. Period.  More chance of Abramovich buying Spurs and merging the 2 clubs

 

Bamford I would expect to see given the odd cameo next season.  Traore another who i think will be lucky to be here by next Tuesday, and into next season.

 

None of us have seen enough of Pato to judge how good he is/isnt, how well he may or may not do.  Reading blogs and the opinions of Corinthians fans is also a less than accurate way to judge a player.

 

What makes you think Abraham won't make it or are you just talking next season?

 

This is a good try. Not a gamble at all. In the prem you need pacy players and he has pace. Might end up being a great thing.

 

"Might" says it all. I might win the lottery one day. I might get lucky and shag Kate Upton. Chances are though...................

 

I know you have to judge each player on merit but you can't help look at our track record on strikers of this ilk and wonder if the club will ever f**king learn. Yet again it is short-term thinking and I'm still hoping the deal doesn't go through.

Edited by Nibs

Pato has been playing left wing recently. He's not a striker. He plays behind the striker. If we signed him as back up to Costa then our scouting team have been watching the wrong player.

Pato has been playing left wing recently. He's not a striker. He plays behind the striker. If we signed him as back up to Costa then our scouting team have been watching the wrong player.

He's naturally a striker who can also play in advanced positions behind the striker re Remy.

He's naturally a striker who can also play in advanced positions behind the striker re Remy.

It was the master tactician Silvio Berlusconi who insisted he play through the middle at AC Milan. His best position has always been on the left wing playing off a main striker and running at defenders according to the player himself.

https://www.whoscored.com/Articles/ivbuvuepcugtnvbjvn4qdq/Show/Player-Focus-Pato-Beginning-to-Shine-for-Sao-Paulo-After-Change-of-Position

It was the master tactician Silvio Berlusconi who insisted he play through the middle at AC Milan. His best position has always been on the left wing playing off a main striker and running at defenders according to the player himself.

https://www.whoscored.com/Articles/ivbuvuepcugtnvbjvn4qdq/Show/Player-Focus-Pato-Beginning-to-Shine-for-Sao-Paulo-After-Change-of-Position

Stand corrected, never knew he was originally a LW. Wow

He may be lazy now, but you can't get to being in the Brazilian team by being lazy. He clearly has put the time and effort in at some point.

The question is going to be how much of his original pace he still has and whether he can stay injury free.

Can't be worse than falcao.

I think this is a smart enough deal, bamford did nothing special in his last loan outing.

Back in September,

"Two hours before [the window closed] I had a

very good offer from Manchester United," Pato

told Sportv, although he did not give any further

details of the proposed deal."

That makes Liverpool, Utd, Chelsea, Sporting, Benfica that were interested in him. Surely if he could amass interests from these clubs he isn't a deadhorse as most fans think.

Edited by lesblues

You would hope. However United thought bringing in falcao last season was a good idea so...

In fairness they bought him after he had just recovered from a bad injury and when he played before that he was good so....

Pato is one of the best potential deals Chelsea have made in recent times.

 

Very low risk, very high talent and has qualities that would really help Chelsea in an area of need.

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