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SBAndy

SBAndy

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Mucca Mad Boys said:
Salech is absolutely better than Simms at things; aerial duals, clearances, interceptions and tackles. This season he’s had more shots and goals in less minutes.

Areas he’s worse than Simms (per 90); pass completion, assists, xA, xG and xA combined, progressive carries. Frankly, the pass competition got me because Salech is in the bottom 1% of the league. That alone almost seems like it’d be a bad fit.

Best in mind that this is just this season only, comparing the two (and Wright’s) ‘entire career’ and there’s less daylight between the 2.

No doubt Salech looks like a really good find for Cardiff because he’s had a great half a season. The talk around him though is ridiculous; he’s not better than Wright and we’re not going to ‘trade’ BTA and Simms for him. He was signed for £3m and is contracted to 2029 so Cardiff will want around £8+ million for him. Sorry to burst the bubble, this signing isn’t happening.

Think of it this way, Simms scored 11 goals from NY to May 2024, there was paper talk that Brentford wanted him as a potential Toney-replacement… then he followed that up form with his worst season to date. That could happen to Salech and I wouldn’t go all in on a player who has had one good half season in English football.
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The pass completion will as much be down to the tactics Cardiff use. He’s winning a massive amount (quantity) of aerial duels which implies they’re going long a LOT. As a result, less likely to have people around him and the duels he wins equally unlikely to land at a teammate’s feet (as I’m sure you’re aware, they’ll be doing some of it as pressure relief). I wouldn’t get too hung up on it.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Can Salech trap a ball?
 
Tea & Busquets

Tea & Busquets

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procdoc said:
I just want @Tea & Busquets to give us some realistic names!
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Been shite but I would still love an Evan Ferguson loan move with a buy option upon promotion.

Ragnar Ache whom we were previously linked to has been stellar.

Willem Geubbels would be nice as well, Leeds want him.

Romeo Vermant, Nicolo Tresoldi and Damion Downs all have one year left, would be stellar business.

Some striking options for ya
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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SBAndy said:
The pass completion will as much be down to the tactics Cardiff use. He’s winning a massive amount (quantity) of aerial duels which implies they’re going long a LOT. As a result, less likely to have people around him and the duels he wins equally unlikely to land at a teammate’s feet (as I’m sure you’re aware, they’ll be doing some of it as pressure relief). I wouldn’t get too hung up on it.
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That will play a part but over his career, his passing stats are comparable to Simms. Iirc, Simms was better at short range passing and Salech better at long range passing (I could be wrong, the data is not in front of me). When I reviewed the data metrics earlier in the week, Salech was better at dribbling than Simms but worse than haji (between the two). Tackles, aerial duals and interceptions Salech is in the top 2% which could be partly down to how Cardiff play as well (i.e. low possession % = more defending). There are a lot of metrics where you’d struggle to distinguish the two if you did a blind test.

You’ve kind of made the point for me, he plays in a v different tactical system to us and the underlying data suggests that it wouldn’t be a good match.

If you’re spending £8+ million, you need a safer bet than Salech imo. Especially when we have a striker on the books already that has similar stats (who isn’t first choice). Just a point of clarification, saying 2 players are have similar statistical outputs is not quite the same as saying they play the same way.
 
fatso

fatso

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quinn1971 said:
maybe, maybe not,,could say the same about injuries with, sheaf, wright, dovin, torp, someone will take a chance him
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I don't think he would fit our style, he's not a traditional CF, doesn't play with his back to goal, not exceptional in the air, is very injury prone, and at 33 he no longer has that turn of pace that got him so many goals. And obviously no sell on potential that Doug usually likes.

Someone will take a punt on him on a free, but I feel that would be more to please the fans than to actually improve the the team.

1 goal in 21 matches last season isn't great.
(Although most of those appearances came from the bench)
 
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Trueskyblue20

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Mucca Mad Boys said:
Salech is absolutely better than Simms at things; aerial duals, clearances, interceptions and tackles. This season he’s had more shots and goals in less minutes.

Areas he’s worse than Simms (per 90); pass completion, assists, xA, xG and xA combined, progressive carries. Frankly, the pass competition got me because Salech is in the bottom 1% of the league. That alone almost seems like it’d be a bad fit.

Best in mind that this is just this season only, comparing the two (and Wright’s) ‘entire career’ and there’s less daylight between the 2.

No doubt Salech looks like a really good find for Cardiff because he’s had a great half a season. The talk around him though is ridiculous; he’s not better than Wright and we’re not going to ‘trade’ BTA and Simms for him. He was signed for £3m and is contracted to 2029 so Cardiff will want around £8+ million for him. Sorry to burst the bubble, this signing isn’t happening.

Think of it this way, Simms scored 11 goals from NY to May 2024, there was paper talk that Brentford wanted him as a potential Toney-replacement… then he followed that up form with his worst season to date. That could happen to Salech and I wouldn’t go all in on a player who has had one good half season in English football.
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Ok thanks Ellis, hope you’re enjoying some time off
 
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PUSB-We_are_going_up

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I hate this “is he worth the same as Gyokeres, Hamer etc etc” its a different situation where they would have walked for a free after the season if they didnt go so we let them both go on the cheap if you think about it but got good value for what we could have. No Rudoni wouldn’t be as much as Gyokeres if Vik had the length of contract Rudi currently has we probably would have asked Obscene money for him talking circa 30m-35m and Gus we would have been asking a little more but we probably maximised more for him
 
Sbarcher

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Would Newcastle pay £25m on a prospect or £40/50m on a proven player. I think the latter.
 
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