Chairman David Gold has confirmed that the club is still trying to bring Alex Song to east London.
ClaretandHugh reported over a week ago the club were likely to move in on the midfielder before the end of the transfer window, and Gold has revealed today: “”These things are ongoing. ”
Really this whole scenario is being played out exactly as has been obvious almost from the day Slav. Took over .
He is building this team on the basis of a strong, attacking style midfield with plenty of strength in depth.
The thinking regarding strikers has only changed with Valencia’s injury but still not enough to make the club jump into anything.
On the Hernandez thing, I read that he scored 9 goals last season. Is this guy really a prolific scorer?.
I would guess that more goals could come from more than one of the midfielders we have.
Ive been trying not to pull out the stats during the whole Hernandez vs Austin debate but everyone seems to get blind sided by the goals to games figures. If that was all that was in play then it would be Austin all day but whereas most of Austins games are him playing the full 90mins, Hernandez on the other hand is generally only ever a sub so his actual playing minutes are a fraction of Austin’s.
(gonna pull some numbers from last season, sorry)
Austin scored 18 in 35 games and played 3070mins of football
Hernandez scored 7 in 23 games but only played 860mins of football.
So Austin scores on average every ~170mins whereas Hernandez nets one roughly every ~122mins (he has similar figures during his prem seasons). A massive difference and the reason he is always described as prolific (only Messi and Ronaldo had a better mins to goal ratio in spain last year iirc).
Ofc there are other factors that you could go into but the long and short of it is that if Hernandez could carry that sort of form into 90mins week in week out he would be on course for 25 odd goals a season (not likely but you get the point).
Spot on MyOld.Most the time stats bought up in an arguement are useless,you can just use whatever part you want to try to justify your side of the arguement.But what you say is a great point when you take the mins to goals ratio instead of just pointing out Hernandez only scored 9 goals all last season.But now you will have sent the all seeing,all knowing wise owl Canchaz into a tailspin,lol