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Southampton is willing to pay about £6 million for his services this winter, although Everton and Wolves will also be vying for the player’s services.
The Scotland forward’s deal with the team expires in the summer, so the Saints will need to find a way to make up some money for their number 10 player, or else they run the risk of losing for nothing at all in a matter of months.
Eze scored 10 goals in the previous campaign, and the addition of a real number nine like Adams may enable him to do so again.
This season, Adam Armstrong has scored 14 goals for the Saints in the Championship under Russell Martin, and while Adams has lagged behind, the Scotland international is still enjoying a very good season, tallying eight goals and dishing out two assists in only 12 games.
A few of Adams’ season-long stats are included in the table below, along with a comparison of Adams to his positional counterparts in the Championship.
With only eight goals between them in the Premier League this season, Odsonne Edouard and Jean-Phillipe Mateta are in dire need of a striker who can consistently score goals for Palace. Adams would be a minimum of a solution to that issue, as seen by his goals-per-game ratio and goals per shot.
Adams’ addition would provide Eze, who is creative, with a target to hit in the box or seek for in further areas, which would enhance the number ten’s production and the Eagles’ offensive tendencies.
Statman, a football analyst Adams has been described by Dave as a “technical striker,” and it is hard to argue with that given his passing stats. In the previous season, Eze was Palace’s greatest goal threat, with his capacity to