Over the last 3 seasons, looking at those who've played 10+ games up front since the take over these are the stats:
Tony Watt - 38 games 9 goals 0.24 goals per game
Igor Vetokele - 60 games 11 goals 0.22 goals per game
Ade Lookman - 24 games 5 goals 0.21 goals per game
Simon Church - 63 games 10 goals 0.16 goals per game
Simon Makienok - 35 games 5 goals 0.14 goals per game
Reza Ghoochannejhad - 42 games 5 goals 0.12 goals per game
Karlan Ahearne-Grant - 26 games 3 goals 0.12 goals per game
George Tucudean - 23 games 2 goals 0.09 goals per game
Joe Pigott - 16 games 1 goal 0.06 goals per game
Ricardo Vaz Te - 12 games 0 goals 0 goals per game
From midfield Gudmundsson hit 17 goals in 86 games (0.20 per game - 1 in 5) and Buyens wasn't bad either.
The 6 main strikers brought into the club since 2014 scored only 32 goals between them......despite 4 of them being full internationals.
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Hardly worth it if we only get 0.24 and even that fella don't even want to play for us...
Our best player when he's in the mood and although I hear Wilder doesnt always serve up fantastic football, he is known to demand and produce top fitness teams...and a fully fit Watt would be lethal in league one.
Unlikely as it maybe it would a big bonus if he is still with us and starting games next year IMO.
Actually only played in a couple of them!
Simon Church - 63 games 10 goals 0.16 goals per game
Hmm. Not a great difference there at all. For all we can say that Igor was forced to play injured, he's hardly given us much in the last 18 months. Church definitely didn't have players like Johann and Lookman behind him either
Other than the strikers in promotion season - Clive, Hunt and BWP, and Darren Bent, I doubt many of our other strikers would be better than Watt's figures of 0.24...
I guess I don't need to dwell on the differences between the two cases
Igor was absolutely awful in the last 2 games this year.
If that's true, then it would make the cover stories a bit silly looking.
We signed Church and Sordell (season long loan) about two days before the season started. SCP chose him, but only on the basis that they were the two best players he could find who were willing to play for peanuts. Don't think they were top of his list, or even on his list at the end of the previous season.