I've heard of him and he has a very good goalscoring record...but i've never seen him play...could you give me just a small briefing about what his main strengths\weaknesses are??..curious because we bought him with the same amount of money we sold Henry with.
You bought a good player with a lot of potential, he's 24 and I feel he still hasn't shown all he's got. Because of that I'm glad he joined Arsenal, though I was hoping he'd leave for a less demanding leauge, perhaps to PSV in the Eredevise. Anyway I'm sure Wenger will suck out every last bit of talent out of him, and he has that in abundance.
As a player, he's a box striker, though not a typical one like Trezeguet for example. He can hold the ball at his feet and dribble with ease, that said bare in mind our leauge is piss poor and the defenders are of low quality. He has some similarities with Henry, mainly his speed(though not as fast as Henry) and eye for goal. Henry likes to go search for the ball deeper while Da Silva likes to get it as his feet, preferebly in the 16m. He's a clinical finisher and rarely misses a goal opportunity. Once again, our leauge is piss poor so his incredible goals per game ratio should be taken with a pinch of salt.
If the reported sum of 6m pounds(there's no chance in hell the reported 24mil euro price is true) is correct I think you got yourself a good deal who won't disapoint you. Main thing is that he's slowly moulded into the team, once he starts playing I'm sure he'll find his way around. The only thing that could maybe cause a problem for him IMO is fitness, our leauge is much weaker and the fintess level is much lower, he'll need to work on that.
