If Benteke clicks at Liverpool (and it's obviously an "if" when you sign any new player) he would be a monster and would make a massive difference to our team. He would if he clicks provide "cheap goals". By that I mean in games where it's not happening for you, nothings working, all it takes is a cross into the right area with Benteke being on the front foot and against any defender in the world, he'll score you a goal. "Cheap goals" are something we completely lacked last season, aside from a brief period where Sturridge played and played well (I personally thought overall he was disappointing). All our goals were hard, we had to swarm at teams, dominate, create lots of half chances or score a blinder, very few were goals where "bang", a situation comes out of nothing and you score, Chelsea do it all the time.
If Benteke clicks at Liverpool he would provide a significant threat from corners and free kicks. That doesn't mean he'll score lots of headers direct, but it does mean he'll cause chaos in the area which will allow others to score. If he and the future captain were attacking corners together, that's some significant threat there.
If Benteke clicks at Liverpool he would be a reliable penalty taker, we don't currently have one.
If Benteke clicks at Liverpool we may finally see the end of us interminably playing it out from the back, or Mignolet attempting that ridiculous chip out to the right full back every single time we get the ball. It doesn't mean we will become a "long ball team", but it does mean we'll have the option of hitting him long and getting up the pitch. Perhaps if we sit Firmino close to him, teams will be reluctant to press us so high and leave themselves open to a long out ball followed by a flick on and a potential chance on their goal.
If Bentene clicks at Liverpool the physicality of our team will significantly increase. A much underrated attribute of any team (particularly in the Premiership), the nastiest and most physical team always punches above their weight, again think Chelsea last season, MEN in every position bar Hazard/Oscar.
If Benteke was playing for the Mancs or Chelsea against us, he's be a nightmare to play against. We all know this, and you can pull stats out of your @rsehole all day long but it makes no odds, we know it to be true. He would score in excess of 20 league goals in a season if he played for Chelsea and took penalties, ditto Man Utd. IF he clicks at Liverpool, he'll do the same for us. And while the opposition are doubling up on him, trying to nullify him, the likes of Coutinho and Firmino and Lallana, Markovic and the like can have more space to do their thing.
The signing makes lots of sense to me, lets just get it done.
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