Agree. The best option at the moment (if reports that he is available for 7m are correct) is Lacina Traore. He is young (23), yet capable of/good enough to be starting when called upon and offers something different to what we already have.He's obviously awesome, but we should be looking for a different player to him. One that is younger, more cost-effective and could function as a backup and be okay with that. Benteke and Soldado would give us two strikers that want to be the week-in/week-out starters and in a one striker system it just doesn't make sense. A younger option would give us the ability to have him start in the other matches and odd EPL match in place of Soldado.
Villa would never sell in Jan, they're struggling as it is and even if they got a huge sum they'd still find it hard to use it midway through the season to replace what they would have lost. They'd be in relegation trouble if they let him go IMO.
Don't see £28m as a risk for Benteke myself. He's top class and would make a huge difference to us. Probably the best striker we could hope to attract.
Either way, there's no way he goes in January. Summer for sure.
Agree. The best option at the moment (if reports that he is available for 7m are correct) is Lacina Traore. He is young (23), yet capable of/good enough to be starting when called upon and offers something different to what we already have.
They would be fools to accept12 million plus Defoe