Simone Zaza (81 Viewers)
- Thread starter Salvatore
- Start date
He will never become a star. Please stop over-rating this guy. The maximum he can aspire to be is a bench option at a top club/ a somewhat reliable sub of sorts.
The way you guys talk about him it seems as if he is the 2nd coming of Christian Vieri or Trezeguet. In reality, we'd be lucky if he reaches Zalayeta/Kovacevic levels.
The way you guys talk about him it seems as if he is the 2nd coming of Christian Vieri or Trezeguet. In reality, we'd be lucky if he reaches Zalayeta/Kovacevic levels.
You can't know that.
He does remind Vieri a bit imo...Physical,Lefty,Good Technique.
Ofcourse it's hard to tell if the talent is the same level or if it's anything close to that
,but he has potential imo,and if you will not take the risk,you won't find out.
What i found interesting from checking out stats of Italian forwards:
1.Most of them starting to score good(15+ goals per season) pretty late (26-27yrs average).
2.Most of them moved to a 'Big' Serie A club at the age of 24-25 on average.
3.They peak at 28-30yrs.and even have good season later on.
Based on stats of:
Vieri,Vialli,Signori,Ravanelli,Inzaghi,Toni,Di Natale,Montella,Gilardino,and for comparison also included few 'weaker' guys
like Quag,Pazzini,Chiesa,Di Vaio and Matri.
Didn't compare SS's...(ala Alex,Tottim,Cassano).
If looking on Vieri stats btw,Nothing special until 24yrs:
Games - Goals - Team - Year - Age
19 7 Atalanta 95-96 22
32 13 Juve 96-97 23
29 25 Atletico 97-98 24
26 13 Lazio 98-99 25
21 15 Inter 99-00 26
32 19 Inter 00-01 27
27 25 Inter 01_02 28
35 27 Inter 02_03 29
32 17 Inter 03_04 30
36 16 Inter 04_05 31
23 6 Milan+Monaco 05_06 32
He does remind Vieri a bit imo...Physical,Lefty,Good Technique.
Ofcourse it's hard to tell if the talent is the same level or if it's anything close to that
,but he has potential imo,and if you will not take the risk,you won't find out.
What i found interesting from checking out stats of Italian forwards:
1.Most of them starting to score good(15+ goals per season) pretty late (26-27yrs average).
2.Most of them moved to a 'Big' Serie A club at the age of 24-25 on average.
3.They peak at 28-30yrs.and even have good season later on.
Based on stats of:
Vieri,Vialli,Signori,Ravanelli,Inzaghi,Toni,Di Natale,Montella,Gilardino,and for comparison also included few 'weaker' guys
like Quag,Pazzini,Chiesa,Di Vaio and Matri.
Didn't compare SS's...(ala Alex,Tottim,Cassano).
If looking on Vieri stats btw,Nothing special until 24yrs:
Games - Goals - Team - Year - Age
19 7 Atalanta 95-96 22
32 13 Juve 96-97 23
29 25 Atletico 97-98 24
26 13 Lazio 98-99 25
21 15 Inter 99-00 26
32 19 Inter 00-01 27
27 25 Inter 01_02 28
35 27 Inter 02_03 29
32 17 Inter 03_04 30
36 16 Inter 04_05 31
23 6 Milan+Monaco 05_06 32
Players like Zala, Kovacevic, Esnaider were no pushover players. Much better than the Vinny IQ, Amauri, Bendtner, Anelka chapters of this club.
Zaza is a promising target/prospect and we can only evaluate based on what he does week to week. That's a much better and more concrete set of criteria to evaluate compared to scouting reports based on hearsay and tales of potential.
We need to reload and secure our future up front. I don't know what other better options we have. I hope he pans out for the better and wears our shirt. What I don't want to see is management forgoing the opportunity to secure the future by cheaping out and signing another Osvaldo because the price break.
Zaza is a promising target/prospect and we can only evaluate based on what he does week to week. That's a much better and more concrete set of criteria to evaluate compared to scouting reports based on hearsay and tales of potential.
We need to reload and secure our future up front. I don't know what other better options we have. I hope he pans out for the better and wears our shirt. What I don't want to see is management forgoing the opportunity to secure the future by cheaping out and signing another Osvaldo because the price break.
Zaza is a prime exaple of a mature player who wants to play although he is not as talented as the likes of balotelli he works hard and that makes up for it. We should invest in him and sell Llorente so that we have Zaza and Morata as our prime number 9s. I could even see both playing side by side because they are strikers that a more mobile than llorente and don't necessarily need feeding of the ball. Also, i have noticed that zaza seems to make the most trouble with higher opposition teams like roma, napoli and juve. no wonder conte gived him so praise...