If you and 1000's of others think that the threat will be Trippier to Wood do you not think the best coaches in the world will see this? You will be gushing all over the 1st goal the pair make but will forget about the countless goals they will give away by getting behind the right full back.
It's football. We will ship goals as we have done, Trippier or not.
However we have better quality going forward and much bigger threat to actually score more than we concede against teams around us and potential upsets for those well above us.
In 18/19 Wood scored 30% of his goals against relegated teams and the average position of the teams he scored against was 12th. In 19/20 the stats were 29% and 12.5th.
Stats are nothing.
What counts is the new start for a player. A sink or swim set up which can only be seen to be good or bad as time goes on...not earlier stats at other clubs.
Look at the players that scored very little but went to other clubs and became prolific.
A change can be famntastic or it can work against you. It depends.
However I think Wood will rise to the occasion. (pun intended).
In those seasons he scored against the top 4 finishers once and twice respectively (in 17/18 and 20/21 he failed to score against a top four side) He is a bang average premier league striker, who scores largely against poor teams, that you will have paid 25m for and who will likely be on 150k for four years. If you stay up you will all be moaning away at having him in the side.
It doesn't matter what he's touted to be.
A top striker will command a hefty wage and a hefty transfer fee. We don;t offer any illusions of him being in that bracket.
We triggered a release clause because top strikers in January are like rocking horse tish or so highly priced out as to become non negotiable.
This is where we're at.
We are second bottom and in real danger of relegation.
We do not require fancy Dan's at this moment in time, we need grafters and quality with experience.