I think naturally he is a goalscorer, a proper goalscorer, just lost his touch a bit these days.
There is a difference between guys who literally don’t know how to finish and can’t get into positions and those who know how to do it but they’re just in a bad phase atm… Jesus falls into the second group, no doubt. You could say like Benzema in the past, or Higuain.
TBH with his contract expiring next year and him coming off the back of a less than impressive season statistically - I’d hope we could get him for less than £30m
I’m a big fan of Osimhen will cost a fortune probably over 100 million…a big risk though with injuries he has been getting in the last couple seasons. Napoli won’t sell anyways imo.
City have proven before that they won’t stand in the path of a player that wants to leave, so I don’t really see them asking for a lot more than what they initially paid for him, 30 mill €.
For me it’s and either/or situation for those 2, they’d both fulfill the role of the rotation striker but ideally we’d have a better first choice. Same for DCL but I think he’d cost a lot more than the others so probably not worth it.
At least with Jesus however he’d have a chance of becoming number 1, he’s a good enough player, but not being clinical as a striker can make quite a big difference
For first choice options:
Nunez/Adeyemi/Osimhen/Martinez/Abraham/Barbosa/Leao/Isak/Schick/David
In roughly that order of priority taking into account ability/potential/likely cost.
Haaland goes to Madrid I’d also target Benzema. Likewise Lewandowski if we get CL and the top teams are targeting others
Let’s hope so.
We need someone like Omishen who will be a lot more expensive but is a more efficient striker.
I can’t remember Jesus scoring that many headed goals either, which is something we’ve lacked in recent seasons from our strikers.
As I said before, his stats at Man City are no better than lower level strikers in the PL like Pukki and Broja and yet he is playing for the best manager and in front of the best midfield in Europe.