Player Watch - Carlos Vinícius

[King of Otters]

Is this based on YouTube or did you watch him during last season? Genuine question.

Do you even have to ask?

 

[Yiddo1982]

Watched his latest YouTube compilation. Reminds me of Pavlyuchenko

 

[delawarespur]

Guys scored 24 goals in all comps in Portugal and CL, and some in here want deeney. This is why we can’t have nice things.

 

[joey55]

I suggested him yesterday. I've never seen him play, but he was one of the very few strikers, that fit the "under the radar" description, who has a reasonable scoring record.

 

[DiVaio]

Except this guy is 25, potentially more expensive, and lacks a lot of the stand-out qualities of the other two, apart form being a bit taller.

Honestly think he'd have high 'bust' potential.

Forget about age and potential but I just don't understand how best striker from Scottish league with 1,29 G+A per 90 and best striker from Austrian league with 1,44 G+A per 90 is exciting but best striker from much better Portuguese league with 1,22 G+A per 90 is 'underwhelming'

Edouard is Champions League because free smarterscout plan doesn't have Scottish league

 

[THFC_is_my_life]

Doesn’t look too bad here? Admittedly the standard of defending/ goalkeeping isn’t great, but by and large he seems to be hitting the corners + takes up decent positions in the box.

 

[mark87]

100% YouTube. 1st highlight video I’ve ever seen where the first three things are a shot 3 feet over the bar and two horrific goalie errors. Shows very little speed. Nothing unique on the ball. He is big.

In the same way you can't really call someone a great player based on a highlight video, you also can't call someone garbage if all you've watched of them is a few minutes on YouTube.

 

[St José Dominguez]

Mentioned loads by posters due to his link to Mendes. Was obviously going to be on the list along with two million others it seems. Be nice to get past the monitoring stage on one.

 

[mark87]

Do you even have to ask?

I didn't wanna assume, so asked the question.

 

[thfc1989]

I like the fact that most of you have never heard of vinicius yesterday. And now you claim that he would be the Brazilian soldado or janssen because of youtube highlights

Guarantee that the vast majority of people desperate for Daka or moaning about this guy have never seen either play.

 

[SecretLemonadeDrinker]

SC: Sign a striker FFS, Levy! Any striker! FFS!

Spurs linked with a striker.....

SC: Not that striker FFS, Levy! FFS!

 

[Japhet]

Don't know what the price is but I'd rather have Diallo (presumably for loads less). Nowhere near Daka or Edouard for sure.

 

[joey55]

Guarantee that the vast majority of people desperate for Daka or moaning about this guy have never seen either play.

That's probably still an under estimation.

 

[samspurs92]

He seems to be attacking the 6 yard box which is exciting because none of our players really do that. Even in recent years Kane has been dropping off to the penalty spot a lot instead of really gambling and attacking the 6 yard box.

 

[bbunc]

In the same way you can't really call someone a great player based on a highlight video, you also can't call someone garbage if all you've watched of them is a few minutes on YouTube.

I can and I just did. Not trying to pretend otherwise. Just hope if it’s him we’re getting him for no outlay.

if we spend 40M+ here, I think it’s a really poor use of club resources.

much rather 10M on Diallo and 30M to strengthen elsewhere.

 

[wiggo24]

Forget about age and potential but I just don't understand how best striker from Scottish league with 1,29 G+A per 90 and best striker from Austrian league with 1,44 G+A per 90 is exciting but best striker from much better Portuguese league with 1,22 G+A per 90 is 'underwhelming'

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Edouard is Champions League because free smarterscout plan doesn't have Scottish league

One of my best mates is Portuguese and supports Benfica so I've just been going off what he's been telling me all summer, which is that he's the best striker in their league but that he doesn't think he'll adapt to the Prem as he lacks any stand-out qualities and most of his finishes are the result of team play in the box rather than creating them himself. He said similar things about Gedson Fernandes when we signed him but raved about Bruno Fernandes and he's a pretty sensible fan so I usually trust him.

I hope I'd be wrong but when you add that to the age, his lack of experience at any top level (this was basically his debut season in Portugal) and the fact that he's a Mendes client, I'd still argue he'd be a risky signing, especially at the fees mentioned! Not saying he's a *bad* player at all, he's clearly not trash, just that from what I've seen he'd be more of a risk than Daka/Edouard imo.

 

[King of the Lane]

Meh...we should have all expected it would turn out like this.

 

[Hotspur88]

Jesus christ, the state of some of the replies in here.

The guy clearly isn't garbage!

Jose can pick a striker, bloody trust him.

 

[delawarespur]

I’m not gonna pretend I’m his #1 fan and stalk him around the world, but I’ve also seen matches as opposed to simply highlight clips. Very similar physically to diallo which I mentioned. Tall yet rather quick with good feet for a guy of his size. Granted, I’ve only seen him play vs. Porto and sporting, but he’s a handful. You can point to the defending, but as a striker what I see is great spatial awareness and movement. He’s a finisher, left footed, with his head, with his right, he’s a natural goal scorer. Most importantly, he has awareness of his teammates, and in possession he is very very good. I’d say as a striker, he’s the best link up/build up player we’ve been linked to, bar maybe edouard. You can all assume this is just due to Mendes, but it’s not like this dude just has nobody clients from Portugal. Benfica fans rate him very highly, he is a big game player. There’s a reason he’d cost 40-50 mil. People were even skeptical of Bruno cuz he came from Portugal, the league is not trash. We can never win. He’s in my opinion only a step down from edouard and Daka in terms of players we’ve been linked to. And those two do play in garbage leagues.

 

[matty74]

I sense a Gedson type of deal here . Loan with option to buy after this season either that or pay structure deal.

hard to tell from his highlights but I trust Jose if he feels he can cut it here