JSL

[JHB]

How much was Strand Larsen? How many goals has he scored? How many will he score?
None of us even like Mateta or really want him at the club - but we all think we'd put him up front.
What does that say?
I always thought Strand Larsen was a worse buy than Johnson!

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think JSl has been a good buy. It’s just when we signed Johnson an empty taxi turned up at Selhurst and he got out.

 

[Willo]

How many Premier League games has Strand Larsen played and how many goals has he scored? Failing that, how many goal involvements has he had holding the ball up or assisting? I'm going to go out on a limb and say it won't take long to count up. The proof is in the pudding.
Nobody in the entire world thought that fee was worth it. We'd be better off with Edouard. Was Hobbs doing mates a favour? Or paying back how inept he'd been? Somehow it's worse than the Johnson deal. But we'd be very lucky to recoup anything from this.

A total of 18 goals in 72 PL appearances, the first 14 in 35 appearances in his first season at Wolves when he was on Loan from Celta Vigo. The deal at Wolves was a £2.5 Mill loan fee and a possible £23 Mill if the move was made permanent.Gary O'Neil signed him on loan for Wolves.I believe Vitor Pereira signed JSL on a permanent deal.

 

[PatrickA]

A total of 18 goals in 72 PL appearances, the first 14 in 35 appearances in his first season at Wolves when he was on Loan from Celta Vigo. The deal at Wolves was a £2.5 Mill loan fee and a possible £23 Mill if the move was made permanent.Gary O'Neil signed him on loan for Wolves.I believe Vitor Pereira signed JSL on a permanent deal.

We've vastly overpaid for him.
Does that make me a bad supporter for pointing this out?
Well possibly.
For me he's like a combination of Chris Jones and Tony Mahoney - you know they are on the field and in a centre forward postion , but you're not entirely sure why.
The main times I noticed Larsen yesterday was when he was laughing and joking with Haaland at set pieces , and on the one and only occasion he did win a challenge he celebrated by punching his fists towards the fans as if he had scored a winning goal in a cup final.

Of course I want him to do well, but I just can't see it.
To compound the issue he doesn't even provide the nuisance value offered by other non scoring strikers.
It's almost like playing with 10 men.

 

[eritheagle]

I put jsl, johnson and nketiah all in the same boat.

£15m on any of them as back-ups, ok (ish in johnson's case) prices but when you pay £48m, £30m and £35m for those three then it is really, really very bad business!!

(you could even put £26m on pino into that bracket also)

 

[ASCPFC]

A total of 18 goals in 72 PL appearances, the first 14 in 35 appearances in his first season at Wolves when he was on Loan from Celta Vigo. The deal at Wolves was a £2.5 Mill loan fee and a possible £23 Mill if the move was made permanent.Gary O'Neil signed him on loan for Wolves.I believe Vitor Pereira signed JSL on a permanent deal.

4 in his last 37? It feels like that. One in 9. Gareth Tayloresque.

 

[Willo]

How much was Strand Larsen? How many goals has he scored? How many will he score?
None of us even like Mateta or really want him at the club - but we all think we'd put him up front.
What does that say?
I always thought Strand Larsen was a worse buy than Johnson!

The deal was £43 Mill rising to £48 Mill.
He has scored 3 PL goals for us in 15 appearances.
Simon Jordan labelled him a "Donkey" in the early part of this year.