The Newcastle United Summer Striker search command landed on Yoane Wissa, when it was said and done.
In the meantime, Eddie How’s Mags pushed Hard to Jorgen Strand Larsen from Wolves.
While they were reportedly also (due to less reliable sources and my own wishful thinking) that sniffed around the Jean-Philippe Mateta from Crystal Palace around the Jean-Philippe Mateta.
Three “needs must” strikers on the surface.
However, dig in their goals and you will find strikers that score if it really matters.
I define “Linking goals” (ED: “A link goal is a goal that is scored by a player in a high -pressure, crucial moment of a game that significantly influences the outcome”) as goals scored by a player when their team is level or comes from behind the scoreline. Nothing more or less. After all, ‘Goals Change Games’ is a worn -out adoption in the sport for a reason: Can you place the ball in the back of the net when it fundamentally changes the outcome of the match result?
It is very different to answer ‘yes’ to that question, in contrast to helping your team to refill the score when they are already one, two or three goals and you have probably scored space against the run of play in hectares (looking at you, Messi!).
Yoane Wissa: The Clutch King Newcastle actually signed
I always loved Wissa in a Brentford shirt, although I didn’t like the way he lost his head in the summer -especially after Deadline Day proved that Brentford 100% for the money was to play for the waiting game. But Wissa is now a MAG, which means what is good for Wissa is good for Newcastle and vice versa.
Looking at Wissa’s 2024/25 goal coria season, the majority of his goals (14 of the 19 competition goals) were effectively holding goals. I found that pretty incredible … even more when you consider that none of them were punished. That is a link of 73.7% of a striker who does not take his statistics from the place.
There is another grill: four of Wissa’s league goals came from him gambling on rebounds/flick-ons in the box of Brentford Long-Throws. Maybe this season Newcastle could get Tino Livramento for Wissa to keep rolling the dice.
Those who have gone
Signing Mateta would have been the dream for me. I wanted this guy to be one in the past two seasons, because I honestly just like to watch the man play football. He scored 12 coupling goals from his 14 PL goal last season. Only two penalties and one coupling penalty of the two. Mateta knows how to make a difference, but his influence in the palace side – under important departure such as Zaha, Olise and now Eze – means that Mateta has now made life as the most important man of Palace.
The more his teammates are sold elsewhere, incredible, the more Mateta becomes a productive goal scorer for Palace. That kind of important role in the team is not something that Newcastle could ever offer Mateta.
Elsewhere. In the Midlands Newcastle pushed hard and waited a long time to try to sign Larsen beach, but Wolves would not say goodbye to their number nine. Some call JSL slow and a limited player, but 11 of his 14 PL goals were scored on coupling moments last season. The Norwegian striker is also not a penalty contractor, so there is no Stat filling of the place there.
Both players fit exactly the same profile that Newcastle eventually came to Yoane Wissa: strikers that deliver when the game is on the line. Mateta is 28 and the first two seasons of his PL career were nothing to write about home in terms of goals, while JSL is only one season deep in the Premier League and only 25 years old was last spring. I like to be JSL on the Radar of Eddie Howe for the long term.
How the goals of Newcastle are best against the best of the competition
I had to get my feet back on the floor after I was hyped by Wissa’s goals at important moments. Was this clutch characteristic in Wissa’s game just as unique as I believed, or was I just dragging as soon as I looked at the other top goals from last season?
** Ollie Watkins – 93.9% Coupling scorer for Aston Villa **
Watkins scored last season an incredible 15 coupling goals of a total of 16 league goals for Villa. That is phenomenal for a man who floats wide to the left to drive back and score goals. It is an evergreen tactic that makes Watkins the most consistent scorer in the competition from Open Play, when you withdraw all the Guff around the songs of others.
Only TW0 punishment scored and only one of those two sentences scored came to a “coupling” moment for the chief of Villa in front. People talk about Marc Guehi when mentioning model behavior this summer, but the fact that Watkins held his head down to Villa is a Enigma in itself.
** Aleksander ISAAC – 65.2% Coupling scores for Newcastle **
Unfortunately, no longer a MAG, but Isak scored 15 clutch goals from 23 PL goals in black -white last season. Four of them were fines (three pens scored on clutch moments in the game), making Isak a light penalty trader for the objectives of the graphic images on social media.
Depending on who you believe, Liverpool has either signed the entire striker … Or an injury order who does not like to make it tight in the middle, and who always explodes one game from his groin. He has already taken over enough column space this summer, so I leave it to you to decide.
** Erling Haaland – 63.6% coupling scores for Manchester City **
It is 14 coupling goals from 23 in total, with a few light stat filling from two coupling sentences (of three total penalties scored by Haaland in the competition). Whether you like to look at a physical presence such as Haaland or someone who moves across all channels such as Isak, their very different styles that have largely the same impact on their respective teams last season.
The criminal traders
** BRYAN MBEUMO – 85% CLUTCH CORER for Brentford **
Mbeumo would be higher pure rankings (17 coupling goals of 20 in total) if 20% of his goals did not come from the place. He is now in Manchester United and, as Mbeumo and his new teammates find out against Grimsby … someone has to get up and punish!
It is a certain kind of pressure from the place where you can still fall flat on your face, so I don’t want to get away if scoring punishments is a kind of downright negative. It is not. But if Mbeumo is not on a criminal obligation, you look at someone who hardly makes the top scorers list in every season of his career so far.
** Mohamed Salah – 50% Coupling Corer for Liverpool **
I could call Salah a penalty trader, I could call Liverpool a side that was heavily favored by the referees – Salah scored a stingy nine penalties last season – that is 25% of his goal of 12 meters out – and seven of those penalties scored on clutch moments that change the nature of the game. Quite shocking in all honesty.
But Salah was done unfairly because of these rankings, because I had not taken assists into account, and that is where he would destroy everyone on this list. You just have to look at Salah’s Matrix-like nutmeg from a West Ham defender in the bullet time, during the structure to help Gakpo at the end of it, to acknowledge Salah is a baller and some.
The Chris Wood “What-IF”
12 Coupling goals of the 20 PL goals for Hout in Forest last season, but there is considerable Stat filling when Forest was already gone. A certain 7-0 drubing from Brighton (where Wood scored a hat trick) certainly helped his figures.
The shape of Wood, both before and after its Newcastle still increases question marks about the club’s efforts to get the most out of wood on the Tyne. I am the size of a loyalist from Eddie Howe when they come, but you can’t say that every signature has been maximized, while you conveniently ignore what Wood showed that he was everywhere outside the northeast. After all, what would the Newcastle Fortuinen look like if they have never taken the trouble to sign Isak?
Keep Wood and you would look at a Newcastle that was never forced into those “bad decisions” to sell Elliott Anderson, or Odysseas Vlachodimos to make the record-mast-expensive goalkeeper of the club who signs in the history of the club. IFS, Buts and Maybes.
On the other hand, you may not win a League Cup with Chris Wood as your most important striker.
His goalscoring shows a considerable drop-off in clutch percentage from the first half of last season until spring. Wood will rightly point to events outside his control (an injury to international duty are incurred as the reason, while the opponents of Wood will say that the main route of Forest to the goal “looked out” with the big kiwi at the helm.
The future is Wissa
Newcastle was shopping for impact this summer and landed outside the very unlikely dream of landing Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa, on the best signature they could in terms of Yoane Wissa. I could have mentioned Nicolas Jackson briefly, who scored a remarkable eight clutch goals from 10 PL objectives that were scored last season. The Senegalese frontman really made other other pressure moments in the season of Chelsea, a where the West -Londen outfit finally finished above Newcastle in the table.
But Jackson scored only 10 league goals in total and eventually moved to Bayern Munich for a very questionable loan costs of 15 million pounds and further obligation to buy for Anoer 55 million pounds. Those were songs that were simply outside the Newcastle ball park when they are talking about signing a striker who hardly came in double digits, and would be asked to rotate with the considerable talent of Nick Woltemade. So it is understandable why Newcastle ended up on Wissa to do the work.
Newcastle has replaced a 65% clutch scorer (Isak) with a clutch scorer of 74% that does not relieve punishment at all. In an ideal world, Newcastle’s top management could have done this without paying double the reimbursement after the Brentford management has fully read the Newcastle summer campaign as an open book. But if you talk about signs “needs must”, Wissa can be familiar to place the ball in the back of the net. Not only often, but also when it counts the most.
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