Fans are routinely moaning and groaning about transfers. One, because they tend to have no real concept of the business of making the financial outlay, and two, because there are so many components that can go into making a deal work. However, there is one route that makes life easier. Pay the asking price for a player that one believes will make an immediate positive impact upon the squad.
Tottenham has been looking for an out-and-out striker who can share the burden with Harry Kane for many years. Numerous attempts have been made, but with little or no success, Soldado, Janssen, and Vinicius are but three recent misfiring efforts.
The line ‘so ‘oo would yew pick then, Mr know-it-all’ has been thrown at me more than once, and I am fond of reminding the intellectuals asking that until I get paid the big bucks, why would I do it for free.
Here’s an exceptional pick that it would be churlish to keep to myself. The boy is perfect and has all the qualities that the club (and ENIC) would seek and would, I believe, also be a crowd-pleaser.
Ben Brereton is the name. Stoke, born, playing for Blackburn, who paid Nottingham Forest in the region of £7million for the boy. The striker has now shot to the top of the Championship scoring charts with ten goals from 11 games so far, alongside Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrovic.
So he’s cheap as chips, and at 22-years of age, he fits neatly into Daniel Levy’s file marked, ‘nice little earner’.
Thanks to his mother’s South American blood, Ben represents Chile, and as you can see, he’s scored for them too. Physical, yet with an elegant touch, and at a price you can afford.
Crack on, Fabio.