Teddy Eagle
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Sky reporting Larsen has completed his medical.
Jørgen Strand Larsen
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Everyone will get behind him, more or out of hope than anything else.
Big difference between JPM and JSL is price. With JP it was always a bit of a gamble, and if he did well we'd make money. Which if the press is to be believed, we'll have doubled our money. Even for a 28 year old.
JSL is so overpriced. There is slim to little chance of us even breaking even on a future sale, let alone a any more. Does anyone think he has the potential to be a 100m player in the next 4 years?
Steve Coops
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It’s not the players fault he is over priced with JP wanting to move we had to bring a another striker in yes over priced but could be the difference in winning the euro cup and getting us back in Europe let’s hope
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His mum might.
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I feel like he will thrive under Glasner. Look at how many chances Mateta gets each game, he did have one of the highest xG's in the league in November/December. Strand Larsen would have a better conversion rate than Mateta this season 100%.
No one knows what's coming in the summer so it's hard to tell if he will be successful in a new system under a new manager. Hodgson used his striker as a hold up player to eventually play in one of our fast wingers (Wilf). Therefore our striker never had a good goal scoring record because they weren't fed alot of opportunities.
You will not find a reliable, consistent striker with Premier League experience at 24 years old for less than £40m. People need to be realistic about the money behind this deal.
No one knows what's coming in the summer so it's hard to tell if he will be successful in a new system under a new manager. Hodgson used his striker as a hold up player to eventually play in one of our fast wingers (Wilf). Therefore our striker never had a good goal scoring record because they weren't fed alot of opportunities.
You will not find a reliable, consistent striker with Premier League experience at 24 years old for less than £40m. People need to be realistic about the money behind this deal.
Frenchaigle
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It’s true you won’t get much for less than 40 mill .
It’s not the bargain of the century ,we’ve payed 10/12 million over perhaps but look at situation Mateta wants out ,Wolves are getting ready for Championship and it’s January .
Just hope JSL bangs a load in ,we need something to go for us again .
Larsen is an inconsistent (putting it kindly) striker who is costing way over 40m. Thiago, also 24, had very little PL experience before this season and he has outscored Larsen 15-1 in the league this year
Frenchaigle
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I’m not that concerned about long term future ,it’s the short term future we should be worried about .
Get ourselves back up table and win the bleeding Conference league.
I’m not asking for much .😏
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What's the story with ffp. In December, posters were saying our shareholders could not dump more cash in without selling. So if Mateta doesn't go do we still by this bloke?
For everyone saying JSL is an upgrade on JPM because he's young and will have a sell on value....guys I wish I had your optimism, but JSL is 26 in a couple of days and if he signs this 4.5 year contract we are offering at £110k per week, and proves to be a success (a big IF there) and are able to sell him in similar circumstances to JPM, ie approaching last year of contract, he will be 30 and no-one is going to pay more than the ridiculous £48m or so that we are. Come on, please.
And by 30, he wouldve lost a yard or two of pace as most strikers naturally do.
...oh wait, he doesnt have much pace at 26 so I guess he doesnt have any to use.
And for the one or two saying they would take JSL over JP and BJ at the moment, I think I would half agree about JP but no BJ as he is simply a better striker, but the bigger picture is value for money and the only way that can be done fairly is to judge all three players being discussed here, and only fair to judge them in their prime. With that said, put a poll out and I can assure you it will end up in this order.
1st JPM
2nd BJ
3rd JSL
And for that reason alone, it proves we are paying ridiculously over the top money for JSL, especially when you throw in the Spurs fans mocking us as well for paying £40m for BJ (£35m+£5m)
Finally, and not including friendlies, both JPM and JSL have scored 2 competitive international goals. Although JPM has only featured in 3 competitive games (2 as sub) whilst JSL has played in 10 competitive games.
Strand Larsen I assume will be going to the world cup, competing with Schjelderup of Benfica as a back up striker to Haaland and Sorloth (ironically)
And by 30, he wouldve lost a yard or two of pace as most strikers naturally do.
...oh wait, he doesnt have much pace at 26 so I guess he doesnt have any to use.
And for the one or two saying they would take JSL over JP and BJ at the moment, I think I would half agree about JP but no BJ as he is simply a better striker, but the bigger picture is value for money and the only way that can be done fairly is to judge all three players being discussed here, and only fair to judge them in their prime. With that said, put a poll out and I can assure you it will end up in this order.
1st JPM
2nd BJ
3rd JSL
And for that reason alone, it proves we are paying ridiculously over the top money for JSL, especially when you throw in the Spurs fans mocking us as well for paying £40m for BJ (£35m+£5m)
Finally, and not including friendlies, both JPM and JSL have scored 2 competitive international goals. Although JPM has only featured in 3 competitive games (2 as sub) whilst JSL has played in 10 competitive games.
Strand Larsen I assume will be going to the world cup, competing with Schjelderup of Benfica as a back up striker to Haaland and Sorloth (ironically)
I didn't know news reader needed a medical.
Yikes!!
And for those saying he must be good as Newcastle offered £55m on deadline day in the summer. Give your head a wobble as it was deadline day and they had just received £135m for Isak. Therefore whoever they went after, that players' club would have been well aware they were desperate whilst holding £135m in the back pocket and Wolves said right ok, give us £60m and he is yours but Newcastle (knowing he wasnt worth anything like £55m) pulled out, much to the relief of their fans.
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All this time, I was hoping it would turn into Josh Sargent. Who I think would work out here, plus would be a third of the price. Oh well. Also nearly the same initials.
Maybe the payment terms are good? So its a guaranteed 43m but not all upfront.
Trying to persuade myself that this is good value. League goals:
20/21 - 9 goals
21/22 - 14 goals
22/23 - 5 goals
23/24 - 13 goals
24/25 - 14 goals
25/26 - 1 goal
And then they went an overspent on Woltemade and Wissa (who only had a year left on his contract) so maybe not the best club to be judging how much we should spend on a striker.
If he passes, I presume we're no longer interested??
He did score 14 (9 in open play, 5 pens) in 36 Prem games last season for Wolves....but he had a couple of creative superstars either side of him in Matheus Cunha and Ryan Ait-Nouri, both of which are looking shoo-in's for Player of the Year awards for Man Utd and Man City this season respectively.
What does that tell you mate?
Have a look at the Wolves fan's previous (and very interesting) comment about when either of them wasn't playing and feeding JSL, he always went missing. Of his 9 goals in open play, 7 of them were assisted by either Cunha or Ait-Nouri.
But is 9 goals in 36 Premier League games really that good, considering BJ scored 11 in open play in 30 games?
Look at the stats below from SEASON 2024/2025 (I copied from another thread) regarding goals scored in open play last season when starting and this season (they did not include pens obvs) anyone remember Dennis Irwin once scored 12 goals from the spot in one season from Right Back for Utd, ha!!
SEASON 2024/2025 (Apparently Strand Larsen's stand out season too!)
(Most Valuable Player) BJ - 11 Goals in 22 Premier League starts (50% Success Ratio)
(2nd Most Valuable Player) JPM - 12 Goals in 32 Premier League starts (38% Success Ratio)
(3rd Most Valuable Player) JSL - 9 Goals in 35 Premier League starts (25% Success Ratio)
CURRENT SEASON
(Most Valuable Player) JPM - 6 Goals in 1914 Playing Mins (.32% Success Ratio) goal every 319 mins
(2nd Most Valuable Player) BJ - 2 Goals in 1023 Playing Mins (.20% Success Ratio) goal every 511 mins
The following player cannot be valued due to not scoring any goals during 1045 minutes of playing in the Premier League this season.
JSL - 0 Goals in 1045 Playing Mins (.00% Success Ratio)
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Mate, i did the same thing on Friday trying to convince myself "this is gonna be ok" but then found out his goal this year was from spot so he's on zero goals from open play.
Oh and further reading revealed he's also missed two pens this season, meaning he has the unwanted title of becoming the first £50m striker to have missed more penalties than entire goals scored in a single season so far.