Rodrigo Muniz.

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Out of all the signings, hopefully this lad will be the one that sparks us and gets us going. Brazilians and Boro seem to be a perfect match. Hopefully Muniz will be the missing link between us being average or up the top of the League. Looking forward to next Saturday. (y)
 
I'm really hoping so and looking forward to seeing what he can do.

Does concern me a bit that he is also a bit of a project so we have hoppe, forss and muniz who all sit within that group (imo) then akpom who still has a lot to prove, Watmore is good but time limited, I hope one of these can hit the ground running and give the others time. Hopefully it clicks! Excited for it though!
 
I think a top two of Forss and Muniz could be really effective if we can get them firing. Muniz seems to be described as a bit of a powerful unit of a striker and Forss is all about movement, get them an understanding and they could be great together.
 
He's still very much a project like Forss and Hoppe. So I've frankly no real idea what to expect.

5 in 25 for a side that ran away with promotion. Clearly the majority as sub and behind Mitrovic. So its really hard to gauge what he's like.

I'd rather have had someone like Armstrong. You know he's played 40 odd games a season in the champo and consistently scored goals over 3 seasons. Yet I imagine his wage and Southampton wanting to recoup losses ruled that out.

I feel the same about Larson. I'm not remotely convinced we should be paying 10mil+ for him. It's a pretty poor league. I would also put him in the project bracket. Yet a far more expensive one.

I do think a big money signing is coming. It maybe Larson or someone completely left field. It's weird because I don't think any big money forward will solve some of the issues we've seen. Tav appears to be a bigger miss than finding a 15-20 goal CF.
 
S7DiscoDown said:
He's still very much a project like Forss and Hoppe. So I've frankly no real idea what to expect.

5 in 25 for a side that ran away with promotion. Clearly the majority as sub and behind Mitrovic. So its really hard to gauge what he's like.

I'd rather have had someone like Armstrong. You know he's played 40 odd games a season in the champo and consistently scored goals over 3 seasons. Yet I imagine his wage and Southampton wanting to recoup losses ruled that out.

I feel the same about Larson. I'm not remotely convinced we should be paying 10mil+ for him. It's a pretty poor league. I would also put him in the project bracket. Yet a far more expensive one.

I do think a big money signing is coming. It maybe Larson or someone completely left field. It's weird because I don't think any big money forward will solve some of the issues we've seen. Tav appears to be a bigger miss than finding a 15-20 goal CF.
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Difficult season in a lot of ways due to Mitrovics incredible "one up top" goalscoring exploits. Fulham fans really rate him, even if his appearances were cameo ones from the bench. Looking forward to seeing what he brings.

Armstrong - yes, he'd be an excellent signing, but Southampton short of strikers and he's on PL wages at £50k week......so imagine any deal wouldn't be easy.

At this moment in time I'd be looking to add top drawer CMs and a LCB before getting another forward in, much more important to reinforce these areas than blowing a lot of money on another striker project
 
h_m_boro said:
Difficult season in a lot of ways due to Mitrovics incredible "one up top" goalscoring exploits. Fulham fans really rate him, even if his appearances were cameo ones from the bench. Looking forward to seeing what he brings.

Armstrong - yes, he'd be an excellent signing, but Southampton short of strikers and he's on PL wages at £50k week......so imagine any deal wouldn't be easy.

At this moment in time I'd be looking to add top drawer CMs and a LCB before getting another forward in, much more important to reinforce these areas than blowing a lot of money on another striker project
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I think it's a very good thing that they rate him, meaning they probably would have been happy with him as Mitro's replacement in the Champo, if he got injured.

I'm just not sure why they would let him go out on loan?

If he's that good, then why would they need another striker/ let him go? Maybe they thought he couldn't play up top on his own? I don't see who else they've got as reputable strikers if Mitro got injured, and can't see them getting anyone in to be Mitro's understudy, and getting someone better would have been a push, to say the least.
 
Andy_W said:
I think it's a very good thing that they rate him, meaning they probably would have been happy with him as Mitro's replacement in the Champo, if he got injured.

I'm just not sure why they would let him go out on loan?

If he's that good, then why would they need another striker/ let him go? Maybe they thought he couldn't play up top on his own? I don't see who else they've got as reputable strikers if Mitro got injured, and can't see them getting anyone in to be Mitro's understudy, and getting someone better would have been a push, to say the least.
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Maybe he has demanded game time, maybe they want him to play a full season and see where they are at next summer. Can he replace Mitro if they come back down etc
 
Win win for them as he's either a cheap gamble or an appreciating asset. If he does well for us he will cost us to buy or they may want to use him if they go down. If they go down and we don't go up I doubt we'll have his services and he will be blooded if they need to cut costs on mitro or have an established backup
 
Priv said:
Maybe he has demanded game time, maybe they want him to play a full season and see where they are at next summer. Can he replace Mitro if they come back down etc
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Yeah, I think that's what it is. If you keep players on the bench they're just going to run their contracts down and leave for nothing.

Suppose they would have less an idea of how good he would be too, if he's not been playing much in the champo or prem, and training won't replicate that.

Mitro shouldn't stick around if they go back down, he's far too good for the championship and I thought he was easily good enough for the prem before they came down. He'll get goals in any league if you can get him chances, or even just get the ball in the box.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Win win for them as he's either a cheap gamble or an appreciating asset. If he does well for us he will cost us to buy or they may want to use him if they go down. If they go down and we don't go up I doubt we'll have his services and he will be blooded if they need to cut costs on mitro or have an established backup
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It's not win-win if Mitro gets injured, who they going to play alone up top?

He does have a contract to 2026 mind, plus an option for another year, to they've certainly got time with him.
 
S7DiscoDown said:
He's still very much a project like Forss and Hoppe. So I've frankly no real idea what to expect.

5 in 25 for a side that ran away with promotion. Clearly the majority as sub and behind Mitrovic. So its really hard to gauge what he's like.

I'd rather have had someone like Armstrong. You know he's played 40 odd games a season in the champo and consistently scored goals over 3 seasons. Yet I imagine his wage and Southampton wanting to recoup losses ruled that out.

I feel the same about Larson. I'm not remotely convinced we should be paying 10mil+ for him. It's a pretty poor league. I would also put him in the project bracket. Yet a far more expensive one.

I do think a big money signing is coming. It maybe Larson or someone completely left field. It's weird because I don't think any big money forward will solve some of the issues we've seen. Tav appears to be a bigger miss than finding a 15-20 goal CF.
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the 5 in 25 - of those 25 games, did he start or was he a sub? I don't know.
 
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In response to his tutor saying "Kid is flying in English" to his interview with the club today.

Glad he's putting the full effort in on that front, bound to help him integrate in to the English game.
 
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