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After it was revealed on Thursday night that Newcastle United were closing in on the signing of Sheffield United forward William Osula, I saw a lot of frustrated supporters questioning the move on social media.
‘Not good enough to replace Wilson’, ‘what happened to big-money signings’ and ‘we need a right-winger and right-sided centre-back’ were common complaints I picked up on. Some I understand after a long wait for a major breakthrough that immediately improves our first team, but I don’t understand some of the reaction.
On the first concern – ‘he’s not good enough to replace Callum Wilson’ – I think a few have jumped the gun here. It’s hard enough signing a back-up striker to Alexander Isak never mind a third-choice option who has clearly been signed as a high-potential talent who can improve under Eddie Howe and eventually become a first-team regular.
When you have Alexander Isak – one of the best strikers in world football right now – it’s not easy to recruit a second choice striker, as they know they’ll VERY rarely start when Isak is fit and very few Premier League clubs have two top strikers. But once again, I’m pretty certain Osula – who can play up top and out wide – won’t be the only forward signed if Wilson did depart.
If Wilson leaves, I’m very confident another striker arrives – Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been targeted and Jonathan David is a long-term target – as this is no longer a club who’d be prepared for a young and inexperienced Osula to be the one and only replacement for Isak should the Swede get injured. Replacing Wilson won’t be cheap or easy due to the everything mentioned in the paragraph above – we may keep him one more season and let him run down his contract – but we won’t just gamble and swap a proven deputy for Isak with a raw youngster. I trust the club on that one, which brings me to the next scenario…
If Wilson does stay and inevitably misses patches of the season…
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Author : Olly Hawkins
Publish date : 2024-08-01 19:09:14
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