Saints Said To Have Agreed Terms For Striker
With only a few days left of the transfer window the rumour mill is starting to turn quickly and various media outlets are claiming that Southampton have agreed a deal to sign a striker.
The man in question is Stade Rennais forward Kamaldeen Sulemana, but a look at his career stats don't fill me with great hope.
Firstly at only 20 years old, he is not the experienced striker that we are crying out for, in fact a look at his profile shows that he is more a winger than a striker and how many wide players do we have at this club, yet still we seem to want more.
He isn't even a regular for Stade Rennais, so far this season he has only started 2 games in the French League, come off the bench in another 12 and sat on it without getting on for 4, these aren't promising figures.
Add to that he has scored just once with no assists in 314 minutes of Ligue 1 football and it is hardly shouting at us that he is the goalscoring saviour that we need up front.
But there is hope, for this season he hasn't shined, but last season his stats were a little better, he started a lot more games and in 1,015 minutes in Ligue 1 he scored 4 goals and 2 assists, a little better but still not what I would like to see.
We are said to have tabled a £17.5 million bid which is slightly more than the £15 million that the French club paid to take him from FC Nordsjaelland in Denmark in July 2021.
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