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(Correction: Dessers got 16 league goals, not 13.) Danilo's goals per 90 was 0.68 compared to Dessers' 0.63. Assist per 90 is 0.17 vs 0.14 in Danilo's favour. Danilo also has a much higher xG per 90, too - 0.93 vs 0.76. He just looks like a better all-round forward, IMO. Ridvan's xA is 3.72, which is much higher than someone like Lawrence, surprisingly. It's 0.22 per 90, which is about 8 assists in a season (Tavernier had 10). I don't disagree with his injury issue. I would rather see Yilmaz start, but wouldn't be bothered either way.

And poor 1-0 wins and a lucky OF win will see England NT levels of expectation and a statue for Philippe. I cant control that. I'll judge them on performances.

Danilo has much better stats than Dessers. I think if you give Danilo the 30 league games Dessers got, he scores 20 goals (compared to Dessers' 13, in the league). Yilmaz's xA is decent but needs to do more. I don't like Lawrence.

We're skint. Every signing has to have potential. That's just me, though.

His xG per 90 minutes was 0.44, which would have given 16-17 goals for the season. That would've been around 34 goals from Sima and Tavernier together.

If neither are going to be 100% successes, then I'd rather we take the risk on a project. Bigger upside.

28 goals and 10 assist they contributed last season, in the league. We do need more goals from a lot of places.

Which is why we should try to get both in one, no?

We conceded 32 goals from an xGA of 30. (They conceded 30 from an xGA of 33.) Quite a difference.

I think Cortes will score fewer goals, but assist much more than Sima. We need g+a from our whole front three and #10 to increase next season.

Yes, we definitely do, but my point is I'd rather we signed players that were both. We should not be wasting any money.

I thought we were discussing covering Tavernier's loss. In any case, I would expect Cortes to better Tavernier's output.

You chose 'starter' over 'project'. The latter implies youth. I suggested both in one, e.g. Cortes.

Cortes go brrr? Or, Cortes will make up for the loss of Tavernier's output.

You'd rather have an old fogey starting than a young prospect that's also a starter? Weird. It's a difficult task, but it's not impossible - Cortes, for example, is a starter with a high ceiling.

Genius.

I'd like to see McCausland hit double figures in goals and assists.

I think a full season from Cortes will cover the loss of Tavernier's output. Tavernier scored 5 non-penalty goals in 38 league games last season (0.13 p90) . Cortes scored 1 in 6 (0.16 p90). You'd expect him to better that, though. Tavernier's assists p90 was 0.24, while Cortes was 0.28. It's the 'extra' assists from a defender that worries me most, but most fullbacks should be able to contribute nowadays. (Yilmaz does have an xA p90 of 0.21.) And that's comparing a well-established player with a youngster just getting used to the league. I know this post won't go down well...

I think we'll get two players from Tavernier's fee and wages.

You're looking too much into it. I merely wanted a way of visualising the age profile of our targets compared to minutes played.

Value, according to Transfermarkt.

I'm conflicted by the Traore rumours. £3-4m for a 29-year-old is on the high side, for me. He hasn't actually played a lot of minutes in his career, either. He has played about 4,000 minutes more than Diomande (44 matches?), yet is 7 years older. I do think that's mainly due to a poor spell in France, where he played very little over three years. But then again, he does have a track record of winning titles. He won three league titles with TP Mazembe - one of the best sides in Africa - along with a CAF Champions League. And he won titles at Sheriff and Ferencvaros, and gained some UEFA Champions League experience. His last few seasons have been good: 89 G+A in 134 appearances. If only he was a few years younger...

The Scotsman running a story saying that we've got a windfall from Glen Kamara's move to Rennes coming and that we could use it to move for Tommy Conway after we had made a breakthrough in our pursuit.

The use of the JOKER let me down: 7 points is mid-table. I was good with the Correct Scores, though.