Rousseau

The transfer window isn't even open yet. Chill.

Ordinarily, yes, but it's Quagliarella! He was clocked as one of the fastest players in Serie A at 38!!

@Bill's out. He doesn't go in for the newfangled number stuff.

They're the same thing. Some older OS required three or four characters in the extension, or something like that. Have you tried renaming the file extension? Just add or remove the 'e'.

You also like to move the goalposts, don't you? They're individual stats, showing past performance. It gives you a flavour of what style of player he is. They can't predict the future, but you can generate estimates and probabilities from them. Nothing more, nothing less.

Surely the numbers are more useful when comparing like-for-like rather than comparing players to all position? How would comparing a forward's defensive stats compare to a defender's? They'd be absolutely meaningless.

Those numbers are compared to other forwards. I suspect if he was compared to attacking midfielders he'd rank poorly. He's also in a relegated team, so you wouldn't expect his goals and creativity to be high.

Most find it difficult to see past the traditional number 9. Did you know Man City scored more goals last season without Haaland?

I was thinking about the way in which we take to certain rumours. It's often illogical, and then we pick and chose the stats that suite our position. I don't like Dessers. Mainly because of his age, but also I think he's just a goalscorer that does nothing else. Whereas Lammers is not a goalscorer, younger, his technical ability looks superb, his link-up play looks good, he presses, he puts in the defensive work. He also quite tall and fast. If it's a straight choice, I much prefer Lammers. It's fascinating how we see things differently.

I don't think his lack of minutes is that telling, to be honest. At Sampdoria he had Quagliarella and Gabbiadini in front of him; two legends, almost - certainly the former. Lammers was just a back-up to them. Secondly, you're comparing the minutes from players that play 38 league games and another 20 games in cups. Lammers plays league games only, and a very short run in the domestic cup. If you just compare his league minutes, he's played over 600 minutes more than Jack.

Lammers looks to be more of a pressing forward. This does have its uses.

POTS Flop Most Improved Unsung Hero Best Signing Roasters Player Count Player Count Player Count Player Count Player Count Player Count Tillman 8 Matondo 6 Sakala 7 Tavernier 4 Cantwell 17 Uilleam 1 Tavernier 5 Morelos 2 Souttar 4 Sakala 3 Souttar 1 Ian1964 1 Cantwell 3 Kamara 2 Yilmaz 4 Goldson 2 Colak 1 Goldson 3 Kent 2 Barisic 1 Jack 2 McLaughlin 1 King 1 Lundstram 1 Roofe 1 Fans 1 McGregor 1 Kent 1 King 1 Broxi 1 GvB 1 UBs 1 Drummer 1 Barisic 1

My issue is his age.

Cifuentes stats:

I'm not Mystic Meg, but... If he's hitting his xG, as many as we can supply him. In last season's CL, Morelos had an xG of 0.56 p/90, yet scored 0. I think it would be more likely that Dessers hits that xG in actuality.

I do like a big spreadsheet...

I wouldn't compare team and player. We'd need to compare his xG to actual goals to see how clinical he is. His recent Dutch season showed him hitting his xG. His Serie A season also sees him hit his xG closely.

These responses are not in the spirit of the game.

Invalid! Players can only be nominated for one category.

Genk - Good team in their league. Feyenoord - Good team in their league. Cremonese - Sh*t team in their league. Simples.

Dems da rules.

@Scott7

C'est juste. So, 'flop' is some someone that just hasn't performed. I'll change to McLaughlin.