re: 2013 Summer Transfer Thread

I'll feel a lot better about the signing if we sign a no. 10 or a winger (not named Nani).

For Higuain to be effective, we will have to produce chance after chance for him. Hopefully Wilshire can step up in that department as he's been fairly disappointing in chance creation.

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ETA: Get it? Bc Higuain is not even close to a world class striker

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alright bud, lets just stick with giroud, gervinho, Walcott and podolski.

Higuain is top 25 or so in the world imho. Which to me makes him world class

this could be interesting

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WarSlamEagle

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You´re certainly no slouch at trolling, now are you?

Strikers, sorry didn't clarify

I tried to make the number conservatively large, I'd probably rate him around 20. But I also don't have as much experience watching regular la liga matches as some so my guess comes mostly from the last 3-4 years of whenever he's played CL/el classicos/Argentina matches.

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I'd probably rate him around 20.

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So there are 20 world class strikers in your opinion?

I thought it was supposed to be some sort of exclusive club.

Elite? I thought we were talking about world class here.

In reality, all footballers playing in a top league in the world would be considered elite. They are elite athletes playing at the highest stage.

My definition of world class would be any player who would theoretically (removing systems as much as possible) start at any club in the world.

Higuain is not world class. If he was, he wouldn't be moving from RM to Arsenal.

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My definition of world class would be any player who would theoretically (removing systems as much as possible) start at any club in the world.

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That's a decent enough definition and reflective of what you would assume the two words would mean together, but it's a term that means so many different things to so many different people that it really means nothing.

I've found that for a lot of people, their definitions are just expansive enough to include their favorite players, or whichever player they're gushing about at the time.

I didn't want to go there directly.

Higuain isn't a terrible purchase. He's obviously an excellent goalscorer and isn't completely worthless when involving himself in build-up play. May not be an absolutely ideal situation for him, but he's a good player.