Yeah targeting his profile is ideal considering we are a bottom half club now a days
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We should aim getting the best players from the Championship more often actually. In certain aspects the level there is higher than the rest of the supposed top 5 leagues in the world(Spain, France, Italy and Germany).
Plus, the players cost way less too.
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This Buendia remontada. Heās carrying Norwich back to the PL. 
2 goals, 4 assists and 1 penalty won in the last 2 and
a half(HT against Rotherham now) matches.
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Odegaard is better.
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Jordan Rhodes. Tom Ince. Adel Taarabt. Anthony Knockaert.
I could go on. The Championship has had a host of players who didnāt live up to expectations in the big league. I know Buendia has already been in the PL, but he wasnāt that much cop then. I just donāt see him being valuable to a club with CL aspirations.
And in my opinion, he isnāt even the best player in the Championship anyway. Kieffer Moore has been smashing it. As has Ivan Toney, Michael Olise and Harvey Elliott. To name but a few.
Actually, Iāll got further and say Buendia isnāt even the best player at Norwich right now. Whenever I watch them, Cantwell is the one balling, and I hate to say it, but Oliver Skipp has been great for them too.
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Sorry but this is just false.
He was the best thing about Norwich and played in a crap team and yet shone game to game, a lot of what I see aimed at him looks like snobbery tbh just because he plays for an inferior team. If those around him could finish heād have probably finished with over 10 assists last season easy.
He was excellent in the season in which they got relegated, on what basis is anyone calling him a player who couldnāt hack it at a better team? In what area of his game is he not good enough for a shot? Iāve yet to see a credible argument for talking him down.
Like I said it comes off as snobbery pure and simple, Cantwell best player for Norwich on what planet?
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Lol itās definitely not snobbery. I love the football league and will happily praise any player I see fit.
Iām not actually saying Buendia is rubbish or anything either. When I said ānot much copā I meant I didnāt see enough to convince me he was top of the PL team worthy. Yes I know weāre not there, but we are still considered one of the ābig 6ā and to me I have yet to see anything to convince me heād improve us or improve one of the other ābig 6ā teams.
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That was not specfically aimed at you but it seems like the fact heās playing for Norwich is being used against him.
And last season not only was their most creative player he was also the most tenacious with his defensive contribution, from what I saw last season he is a player that can play for a top club. Heās versatile, creative and a beast defensively.
He hasnāt missed a beat in the Championship and is also addiing goals to his game which was the only slight on him last season, like I said yet to see a credible argument as to why heās not good enough which is why it seems to me like snobbery.
Odegaard has done sweet FA in the league by the way and yet so many are getting gassed.
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Still. Odegaard > Buendia.
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Just loving the hype from a guy who had 36 apps 40 shots 1 goal, he plays as a winger most of the time even in the championship so clearly not trusted as a cam
No idea why we need a player like that, like heās good for a shit team. But heās not displacing auba sake pepe martinelli
It was his first season in the PL playing for a garbage team, heās a versatile player who can play #10 too which he did when he played in the PL.
@SDGooner: Because you say so yeah sure, I suppose you regularly watched him in Spain then? And who says Odegaard is going to sign here anyway?
What has this to do with, Odegaard > Buendia? Btw. Youāre saying/implying Odegaard is not better than Buendia, or what?
What does you bringing Odegaard up have to do with Buendia especially in the context here?
Iām not making up my mind on Odegaard based on not even a handful of games, I suppose all these guys regularly watched him in Spain.
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Which is fine. But when you have watched enough you will agree that, Odegaard > Buendia. Sure of it.
Nah, I havenā actually.
This is a Buendia thread in which weāre discussing his qualities, mentioning Odegaard is random and does nothing for the debate on hand.
No one can is actually assessing what Buendia can or canāt do, just making statements based on the fact he played for Noriwch which is funny to me like I said snobbery.
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Who has actually rejected him based on the fact he plays for Norwich?
If anything, I think he has been built up too much. People who donāt even watch him want him because that is what other people tell them they want.
Iāve seen a lot of buendia actually, I loved their team, Aaronās Godfrey Lewis buendia Cantwell are all great.
Buendia just doesnāt have the impact youāre portraying at all.
Tbh thatās the sense I get from @Stroller @SRCJJ and more.
Iād say thereās more suggesting heās not good enough rather than the contratry.
@SpankyJoyJoy: Well thaāt not true is it? Do you know what he was doing in the PL? Please see below. A young player of this profile isnāt potentially good enough for us?
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Buendia is a gamble, but so would Jack Grealish have been when he was in the Championship with Villa.
Itās impossible to say whether signing a player from that division works out. (Unless said player has already played in the PL and has experience)
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Thatās genuinely not how I feel haha. I just think that when a player leaves a club of Norwich profile you have to understand the difference in step up is immense across the board in terms of coaching, pressure, expectation, scrutiny etc etc so you have to look at a players mental profile as well as his play attributes.
A significant number of top talent shone at smaller clubs and made the step up so itās not about who he plays for just understanding that sometimes itās not just how good you look at a smaller club but everything that comes with stepping up.
For example as good as I think Ziyech is, I said for a while I didnāt think he was ready for a big club because of his mentality and stuff so itās more just - Buendia could be good and he could be amazing. But Iām cautious until I see it.
Iād be happy with this signing even if I donāt actually rate him that highly