Stuani
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Centralscrutinizer
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Imagine how good he'd look v our current crop of "strikers" 
Unbelievable, can't believe karanka didn't play him upfront. Wasted on the right hand side will have been prolific in the championship and no doubt scored more than he did in the prem. Another talent wasted at boro.We've spent the last 5 seasons looking for strikers and spent how much? Over £25m trying to recruit one half decent.
And yet when relegated we had Stuani and Bamford. Didn't need to spend a penny.
Not sure we could've made a bigger mess of it if we'd tried
festa5
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The annoying thing is he played him up front in a couple of cup games and I think for half a game against Brentford in the league and he looked good. Very good.
Frustrating.
S7DiscoDown
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Clearly he was the best finisher at the club. He more so had the 'knack' of being in the right place and the right time. To stick him out wide because he tracks back well is unforgivable.
Then to add insulate spend 12mil on Bamford and Rudy (Bamford had never even scored a prem goal and Rudy had about 4 for villa).
Clearly he was the best finisher at the club. He more so had the 'knack' of being in the right place and the right time. To stick him out wide because he tracks back well is unforgivable.
Then to add insulate spend 12mil on Bamford and Rudy (Bamford had never even scored a prem goal and Rudy had about 4 for villa).
We've spent the last 5 seasons looking for strikers and spent how much? Over £25m trying to recruit one half decent.
And yet when relegated we had Stuani and Bamford. Didn't need to spend a penny.
Not sure we could've made a bigger mess of it if we'd tried
It's the sort of thing it's just best not to really think about isn't it.
Bamford-Stuani-Traore as a front 3 for that first season back in the Championship...
Alexander Supertramp
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79 goals in 128 games for Girona 
BoroMart
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Yup said this before, we should have spent the 15mill Britt money, 7mill Fletcher money and 9mill Braithsnake money (31mill) on 2 or 3 high quality creative midfield players around 23 year old.
Imagine if we had bought James Maddison from Norwich that summer for 20mill and Benrahma from Nice for 6mill to join Traore as our third key creative player, we would have smashed that league and still had 5mill for squad players
newyddion
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(31mill)
Ollie Watkins, Jarrod Bowen at £10m/£12m a piece then £7m on Oliver McBurnie
brain_in_a_jar
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I'm pretty sure Stuani wanted to leave to go back to Spain.
Who would blame him
atypical_boro
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The thing is it did 'work' when we got promoted. At least, we got promoted.
Once we were up though it was as if Negredo had to play every minute of every match as the #9 and Stuani, Rhodes, Nugent and anyone else simply weren't allowed a go there no matter how few we were scoring. We signed Bamford and Gestede in the January and didn't play them either. It was all very strange. Negredo was a good player but he wasn't fit enough to play 90 minutes every week effectively and he certainly wasn't so good that he was above any form of competition.
Once we were up though it was as if Negredo had to play every minute of every match as the #9 and Stuani, Rhodes, Nugent and anyone else simply weren't allowed a go there no matter how few we were scoring. We signed Bamford and Gestede in the January and didn't play them either. It was all very strange. Negredo was a good player but he wasn't fit enough to play 90 minutes every week effectively and he certainly wasn't so good that he was above any form of competition.
wilkos_perm
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I never quite get the frustration around the promotion year. It's about the team and the system worked pretty well - we got promoted.
I'm not sure if he would've thrived in the premier league, we needed more pace up top and creativity, which could theoretically have helped him.
We certainly could've done well with him and Bamford up front after relegation though. All the money we squandered on strikers could've just been used to improve the squad generally
BoroMart
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We really needed someone young and dynamic to play alongside Negredo who did ok but had no pace anymore
atypical_boro
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Well, we had 'the wavebreaker' De Roon.....
Doncaster Smoggie
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No doubt Negrado was a good player but he needed someone alongside to support him.
I remember one game he won a header, flicked it on and then had to chase after it himself !! There have been others over the years that have been signed with a good goal scoring record yet failed to provide for us. At one point it looked as if we were a graveyard for strikers. Hope our luck changes.
BoroMart
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He was employed too high up the pitch, Grant and Leads legs had gone, he needed to sit and break those waves deeper, if Gaston hadn't had a strop maybe things would have been different. Glad that lad ended up a squad player at Sampdoria and got dropped from Uruguay squad.