As good as he’s been since Jan and I give him his props he’s been good, I’m still not there in thinking he is set and forget in the positon
For me that’d pose a risk going into a new campaign without bringing in a striker
More firepower is needed in addition to a wide player IMO especially because so many goals came from set pieces which is great but it’s not necessarily something that you can replicate season to season
at least we should have Havertz cooking for the whole of next season for us, this season he started of poor because of the lack of confidence from Chelsea
When I saw him at the start of the season I never expected him to fight for the team this much and work so hard.
If we end up getting a top striker, a new starting 9, you’re basically marginalising Havertz’ role (who was one of our best players in the second half of the season) in the team and still leaving some other bigger issues in the lineup unsolved…
I don’t don’t think that would be the most efficient move for us this summer.
Get another top winger, keep Jesus for a squad role, stregthten the midfield further and we’re cooking with Havertz as the leading 9 next season.
Didn’t want him here to begin with and didn’t like him playing in midfield but he’s been just fantastic since January and I’m really looking forward to how he adds things to his game.
Pleased to be proven wrong on him too. It felt like another flaccid signing from Chelsea that was going to go horribly wrong.
Early on in the season, he proved a lot to me to begin with; I never thought he had it in him to put in the graft to win duels, drop deep and keep things ticking because he only ever seemed (in my mind) to be an Özil-esq attacking player that feigns from that sort of business.
Maybe a bit of a blessing that Jesus had his strains because we might not have seen the 2024 version of Havertz until later on. I am glad that (supposedly) the club now view him as a forward. He’ll still fill in at LCM from time to time next season but if we can harness this version of Kai for the next few years, we would be silly not to play to those strengths.
Hoping he has a semi-decent Euros but hopefully gets knocked out early enough that he can have a much deserved break.
If we end up using him as our first choice striker for the whole of next season (and we keep our best players around him fit) then he could very well achieve 20 league goals. He ended up with 13 with the vast majority coming in the second half of the season.
Oh come on, with that accent? He’s absolutely born to monologue about the plague of humanity and how detonating a nuclear bomb at Hoover Dam is the only way to save the world from itself.