[wba_1996]

Last season I was over the moon when we signed Ideye as I thought, and still think he could be a big player for us.

However, IF we pull off the signing of Rondon we have bagged ourselves, imo, one of the top 20 strikers in world football. The guy is a class act, I've seen him play a bit for Zenit in the Champions League and also whenever Malaga were shown on Sky Sports when he was breaking through as a 21/22 year old. He is 6'3", built like a brick sh*thouse, an animal in the air with a lethal shot - not too slow either for a big guy. Great goalscoring record at both club and international level to boot. Right up Pulis' street.

He is a player I have been wanting to see in the PL for a while now as he suits it down to the ground, but I thought it would be with someone like Liverpool - not us

As for Gnabry, what a signing for the season he is! Potential world class talent and gives us much needed pace and trickery down the wings.

Hopefully our patience in the window is finally paying off, after being jealous of the teams around us earlier in the summer we are now the ones making the signings other teams' fans are envious of. Our strikeforce could potentially be the best outside of the top 6. I just hope this doesn't mean Saido is off to balance the books

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Just looking at this Rondon, he looks very much a Kevin Phillips sort of player (right place right time).  My only concern was the level of defending in quite a few of the goals on Youtube, I don't think he would not get a quarter of those chances in the Premiership.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_BDgcL8VU4

That's always a worry when signing players from a weaker league, but I spotted goals against PSV, Ajax, Sevilla and Brazil in that video. The general reaction to the news of the medical from neutrals is "why is he going to West Brom?" which I think says a lot. I'm praying this deal gets completed.