Victor Torp (15 Viewers)

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 · Jan 11, 2024

rexo87 said:
I reckon it averages at about league 1 level, theres some decent teams. The likes of Bodo and Molde regularly compete against big European teams in Champions League and Europa league. I take the point though that the lower half of the league will be fairly poor.

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Yeah, the top end is certainly pushing a bit higher than the rest but I would say in general the rest of the Eliteserien is still only around league 2 level on average. I'm really not trying to be a party pooper!

The Allsvenskan is a bit better, but most teams there would still only be on average a league 1 standard. Some lower, Malmö and maybe one or two others slightly higher, with a similar pattern to those you pointed out in Norway.

They are fun leagues, but we need to give this guy a chance. It's going to be a step up, regardless of price tag.

TomRad85 · Jan 11, 2024

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Yeah, the top end is certainly pushing a bit higher than the rest but I would say in general the rest of the Eliteserien is still only around league 2 level on average. I'm really not trying to be a party pooper!

The Allsvenskan is a bit better, but most teams there would still only be on average a league 1 standard. Some lower, Malmö and maybe one or two others slightly higher, with a similar pattern to those you pointed out in Norway.

They are fun leagues, but we need to give this guy a chance. It's going to be a step up, regardless of price tag.

Always thought some leagues would really benefit from a merger. Scandi leagues would be much better for it.
I know they looked into it for Netherlands and Belgium too but it didn't come off. Again I think that would have been great.

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CovLad94 · Jan 11, 2024

Could be an interesting signing, looking forward to seeing the lad develop and fit into our team.

Mucca Mad Boys · Jan 11, 2024

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Yeah, the top end is certainly pushing a bit higher than the rest but I would say in general the rest of the Eliteserien is still only around league 2 level on average. I'm really not trying to be a party pooper!

The Allsvenskan is a bit better, but most teams there would still only be on average a league 1 standard. Some lower, Malmö and maybe one or two others slightly higher, with a similar pattern to those you pointed out in Norway.

They are fun leagues, but we need to give this guy a chance. It's going to be a step up, regardless of price tag.

Gyokeres came from the Swedish second division. At the time, the scouts/analysts at BHA couldn’t understand why there was seemingly no interest in him before snapping him up.

The bottom end of the Dutch and Belgian leagues must be pretty poor too. Sakamoto was relegated last year (iirc) and Hamer came from Zwolle who were thereabouts the foot of the table.

There seems to be a lot of metrics that favour teams looking to Scandinavia for talent. BHA and Brentford to name a few recent examples.

wingy · Jan 11, 2024

Was there something in the background about time at Wolves or have I misinterpreted things?

hill83 · Jan 11, 2024

TomRad85 said:
I'm not sure he is on this one, he gets down sometimes. We gotta cheer him up.

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TomRad85 · Jan 11, 2024

hill83 said:

Live footage

usskyblue · Jan 11, 2024

wingy · Jan 11, 2024

usskyblue said:

Not enough foliage.

torchomatic · Jan 11, 2024

wingy said:
Not enough foliage.

Too much foliage. Like those Christmas Specials on tele that were obviously filmed in July.

Evo1883 · Jan 11, 2024

Gint11 · Jan 11, 2024

Reckon he’s got a Torpedo of a shot?

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 · Jan 11, 2024

Mucca Mad Boys said:
Gyokeres came from the Swedish second division. At the time, the scouts/analysts at BHA couldn’t understand why there was seemingly no interest in him before snapping him up.

The bottom end of the Dutch and Belgian leagues must be pretty poor too. Sakamoto was relegated last year (iirc) and Hamer came from Zwolle who were thereabouts the foot of the table.

There seems to be a lot of metrics that favour teams looking to Scandinavia for talent. BHA and Brentford to name a few recent examples.

It's a very interesting set of leagues, with a lot of good players hiding in there. As soon as a player stands out they are gone though.

I remember watching Majeed Waris at Häcken around 2012. He was about 21 at the time and scored twenty something goals that season. Was sold for a large sum to Spartak Moscow and has spent the last ten years basically flattering to deceive at a variety of clubs but for the odd season here or there.

Regarding PEC Zwolle in the Netherlands, Kastaneer more or less went the other way when Hamer came here. He played regularly as they got relegated and then saw his game time largely restricted to substitute appearances the following season in the second tier. Funny old game!

Mr Panda · Jan 11, 2024

Football Twitter are certainly saying the right things about this guy

Evo1883 · Jan 11, 2024

TomRad85 · Jan 11, 2024

Evo1883 said:

He's going to be good isn't he.

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Evo1883 · Jan 11, 2024

I included the same image 2x so apologies , but seems a great addition

Briles · Jan 11, 2024

The Danish Ben Sheaf apparently

Evo1883 · Jan 11, 2024

TomRad85 said:
He's going to be good isn't he.

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I really hope so

jimmyhillsfanclub · Jan 11, 2024

Never heard of him!

Mind you, I'd never heard of Haji Wright...... despite me actually watching him on the telly in the WC apparently....

...I did smoke a LOT of weed that world cup to be fair

shmmeee · Jan 11, 2024

Let’s say we’ve got £8-9m left of the Gus money for arguments sake. O’Hare looks like he’ll be off on a free. Vik might stay. £2m on this guy, same again on Binks, an AM, and a wide forward. Or £5m on a CM and £1m on AM/CB/WF who we need in the summer?

Hutch11 · Jan 11, 2024

CCFCSteve said:
Presume Greggs is on the wind up

Always presume @Greggs is on the wind up

hill83 · Jan 11, 2024

Reckon he’ll be tip torp

hill83 · Jan 11, 2024

From those YouTube clips as well he’s got a different sort of technique to his shots. Not sure it means anything but I count it as a positive.

shmmeee · Jan 11, 2024

Briles said:
The Danish Ben Sheaf apparently

Han er her. Han er der. Han er alle fucking hvor. Victor Torp. Victor Torp.

Skyblue_LDN · Jan 11, 2024

SeaSeeEffCee said:
Pretty excited by this one. Signing randomers from abroad that no-one has ever heard of is infinitely more interesting than signing Championship rejects like Todd Kane, Sean Maguire etc. even if they might still turn out to be shit. Been a while since we had a Dane as well.

Has there been anyone recently other than

SeaSeeEffCee said:
Pretty excited by this one. Signing randomers from abroad that no-one has ever heard of is infinitely more interesting than signing Championship rejects like Todd Kane, Sean Maguire etc. even if they might still turn out to be shit. Been a while since we had a Dane as well.

Not sure there’s been on since Claus Jorgensen … other than Schmeichel on loan

Martin180 · Jan 11, 2024

shmmeee said:
Let’s say we’ve got £8-9m left of the Gus money for arguments sake. O’Hare looks like he’ll be off on a free. Vik might stay. £2m on this guy, same again on Binks, an AM, and a wide forward. Or £5m on a CM and £1m on AM/CB/WF who we need in the summer?

Long term we need another GK

Briles · Jan 11, 2024

shmmeee said:
han er her. han er der. han er alle skide hvor

Well quite…

usskyblue · Jan 11, 2024

Skyblue Bangkok · Jan 11, 2024

Skyblue_LDN said:
Has there been anyone recently other than

Not sure there’s been on since Claus Jorgensen … other than Schmeichel on loa

Skyblue_LDN said:
Has there been anyone recently other than

Not sure there’s been on since Claus Jorgensen … other than Schmeichel on loan

Does he like Lurpak ?

CoventryUSA · Jan 11, 2024

jimmyhillsfanclub said:
Never heard of him!

Mind you, I'd never heard of Haji Wright...... despite me actually watching him on the telly in the WC apparently....

...I did smoke a LOT of weed that world cup to be fair

Heck, even as an American, we hadn't seen too much of Haji. Going to a non-ECL Turkish team will do that to you. He snuck into the UMSNT striker pool extremely late in the cycle based on injury to Daryl Dike and an extreme lack of form for Ricardo Pepi. Even then, there were plenty of us who wanted to see Brandon Vazquez (FC Cincinnati, now Monterrey) given the nod over Haji.

shmmeee · Jan 11, 2024

Love a Dane. Lego. Bacon. Marvellous.

Martin180 said:
Long term we need another GK

Think along with a LB and a RCB and a ST it’s a position well upgrade if Vik goes or we get a cash injection somehow. Maybe a loaner next season otherwise.

Astute · Jan 11, 2024

shmmeee said:
Let’s say we’ve got £8-9m left of the Gus money for arguments sake. O’Hare looks like he’ll be off on a free. Vik might stay. £2m on this guy, same again on Binks, an AM, and a wide forward. Or £5m on a CM and £1m on AM/CB/WF who we need in the summer?

Got news for you mate. Vik left before the season started.

Darth Robins · Jan 11, 2024

The good news is that I won't have to buy a Danish flag for him, I can just turn my England flag inside out.

Mucca Mad Boys · Jan 11, 2024

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I’m glad this guy recognised what we miss without Hamer. It does worry me that on some threads there’s a number of fans who think Sheaf, Allen, Eccles and Lati is enough for our CM options. We need more.

Torp seems like he’d be a good signing and exactly the kind of out of the box thinking we need to punch above our weight.

At £2.1 million, it could be a bargain.

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