I was having a quick look at what Simms stats look like compared to Gyokeres, in the Championship last season. By the looks of it Simms is your more traditional forward, playing through the middle, whilst we know Gyokeres liked to drift out wide left. I guess different styles overall.
Here we have Gyokeres's numbers:
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Goal every 191 minutes (3 penalties).
Assist every 402 minutes.
Here we have Simms numbers:
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Goal every 162 minutes.
Assist every 566 minutes.
Gyokeres took 2.9 shots per game.
Simms took 1.9 shots per game.
Simms had a slightly higher accuracy rate at 4 shots per goal scored, whilst Gyokeres was at 4.38.
Simms was much less involved in the actual creation of goals, with 0.9 key passes per game, and 0.4 dribbles. Gyokeres had 1.9 and 2.1. It was mostly down to Gyokeres and Hamer to create chances last season, especially whilst O'hare was out, whilst Simms had others around him to create chances.
Coventry had 21.78 shot creating actions per game last season, whilst Sunderland had 21.65. Very similar number of chances created per team, but a lot of those will have come from Gyokeres for Coventry.
Obviously much more difficult to maintain a high level of performance across a 46 match season. I think Simms will struggle if expected to slot into the Gyokeres role. Coventry are going to have to find someone in the 10 role to create chances along with Hamer, whether that's Palmer or someone else. I think at Sunderland Simms would have been a 15+ goal forward for the season, and his value would now be at least double.