Gonzalo Higuaín (55 Viewers)

How many Goals will Pipita score this season in all comp?

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Mar 10, 2009
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If you think about it Salas was probably the worst signing in our entire history.
People tend to forget that Salas was supposed to be part of the Nedved, Thuram and Buffon package; "the Zidane money." Shame he turnes out to be awful because I was expecting big things from the guy. I never saw anything spectaculor in Amauri at Palermo to begin with and I thoight he did "ok" under Ranieri for the first part of the season. Salas was just woeful.
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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Salas is probably our worst.

Not that I don't think Amauri was terrible BTW, I just find it amusing how is infamous performances became somewhat a legacy here.
Like I said, he stuck around here for years while not playing. Refusing transfers and leeching 4.5 mil a year in salary.

There was certainly reason to hate him and rename him "the immovable object" or "janet"
 

Nomuken

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Dec 14, 2009
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Salas is probably our worst.

Not that I don't think Amauri was terrible BTW, I just find it amusing how is infamous performances became somewhat a legacy here.
Though I do appreciate the goal he made against Milan when he played for Fiorentina that dilivered us the scudetto.
 

Gian

COME HOME MOGGI
Apr 12, 2009
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Quick question:

Do you guys think Higuain sucks this season or is our brand of football (and our wingers) simply not suited to him?
 

pitbull

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Jul 26, 2007
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Quick question:

Do you guys think Higuain sucks this season or is our brand of football (and our wingers) simply not suited to him?
He sucked for a while this season, but I'm okay with his last two-three performances. There's no such thing as our brand of football yet, imo Max is still piecing it together
 

Osman

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Aug 30, 2002
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Quick question:

Do you guys think Higuain sucks this season or is our brand of football (and our wingers) simply not suited to him?
Its both, he hasnt been good enough, and we dont create enough chances for him. Clearly our attack is highly productive with 31 goals in 10 games, but our style and approach is not suited to creating chances in the way he makes runs/finds space. He really likes making darting runs just behind defence, and the two players who does passes like that, Pjanic and Marchisio in lesser sense, havent played with him enough (nor do that pass that often in Pjanic).
 

Gian

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Apr 12, 2009
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Which I mean by our brand of football is no defence splitting passes (like Insigne or Ozil provided him with), counter attacks and low crosses.

We don't do that at all. His strength is 1-vs-1's but we don't really get him in those 1vs1 situations to finish a chance.

For example, someone like Mandzukic suits our style better because we provide many high crosses (Cuadrado mainly) and hooff the ball forward. He has the phyiscal strength to win such duals against most CB's. But Higuain isn't really a combat warrior like Mandzukic and more of a finisher a la Trezeguet.

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Its both, he hasnt been good enough, and we dont create enough chances for him. Clearly our attack is highly productive with 31 goals in 10 games, but our style and approach is not suited to creating chances in the way he makes runs/finds space. He really likes making darting runs just behind defence, and the two players who does passes like that, Pjanic and Marchisio in lesser sense, havent played with him enough (nor do that pass that often in Pjanic).
:agree:

What do you think of Higuain actually? Worth the 90M or should we had -in hindsight- signed someone else?
 

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