Would you have signed this striker

yes it’s Harry Kane but I’m highlighting for young players you can’t really look at goal records say 5 in 16 for hoppe etc you can only go on attributes and how you think they’ll develop.
 
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There was this guy too. This was from the age of 20 to 24.

He then went onto score 100 goals in 200~ premier league appearances.
 
True I’m I’m not comparing him in just saying that even the best can struggle in the early days so goals don’t really mean anything at that age.
I think with a lot of strikers it just clicks at some point. The difficulty is judging who to hold on to, loan out, offload etc.
 
Cherry picking the best strikers and looking at their records is simply confirmation bias. How many players with the record of Kane went on to become his level (or even our level)?

Even then, Kane was highly rated at Spurs and they wanted to hold on to him. He did ok at those clubs considering his actual starts. He was in Leicester's promotion season and wasn't relied on as first choice. He would be more like a Balogun loan than the picking up players with crap records and hoping they suddenly come good.

I'll support anyone we do sign but I think any young player coming here, especially from abroad will need substantial settling in time and won't be what we need this season if we want to get promoted. We really need someone that can come in and hit the ground running. Someone with proven championship experience is more likely to give us that than a project.
 
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