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On the subject of Rondon, it's been interesting to see his style of play these last few games now that he's been essentially handed an entirely new role in a side which is playing more expansively. Previously he was expected to do the job of a target man a la Fortune or Anichebe, with his back to goal, the ball dropping down from the stratosphere and rarely any willing runners to lay it off to even if he managed to win it. No surprises that he was poor at it, because that's clearly not his game.

If the last few matches are a reliable indicator, he seems like a Lukaku-style battering ram of a forward. Slip him a through-ball, give him a straight foot race with a defender and he's got the pace and strength to cause problems. Perhaps lacks the creative ability Lukaku had of dropping deep and conjuring something from nothing, and maybe needs to be more clinical with half-chances, but that could potentially improve as his confidence grows. I'm trying not to get too carried away (after all, it hasn't been that long since the Second Coming of Brown Ideye), but at the moment it does feel like we've got a whole new signing... and this one won't be off to Everton in six months' time.

Really hope he can go from strength to strength here, because it feels like ages since we've had a goalscorer who's genuinely loved by the fans. Works wonders for the atmosphere when we've got a cult hero to rally behind.