2025/26 Thierno Barry


He's pretty much 23, yes he's come to a new country, but I think we need to drop his age being an excuse going forward.

Bizarrely, I'm seeing more promise in former Juventus player Kaly Sene that Boro have picked up for 1.5m, than either of our 20m+ Strikers 🤷
23 is planty old enough to be honest, we need to not buy players in their early-mid 20s who are crap and have 2-3 years of development ahead of them to become half decent at best.

Id literally rather we spent the same money on an 18 year old pace merchant and taught them what a football is
 

I just can't work out how we got 8 league goals from Beto last year and now we can't get our strikers more than ten touches of the ball.
From my perspective, last season when Moyes took over there was basically one way to get Beto to score, which was Alcaraz or Garner feed him through behind the defenders. This season we're far more intricate and have creative players out wide instead of Jack Harrison, and I think that Beto just isn't up to understanding these different chances to get into position. We also push the opposition defence back further through Grealish, which means less space for Beto to get in behind. This is from my arm chair of course.
 
I just can't work out how we got 8 league goals from Beto last year and now we can't get our strikers more than ten touches of the ball.
I said it loads last year and in the summer, one little run of form like Beto had can’t be used as evidence of an ability to do it over a longer period. He got 5 in 4 games which was amazing but also completely out of keeping with the rest of his career. For some reason loads of people decided he was likely to keep up that sort of level in the long term but unsurprisingly he hasn’t.
 

Young. New club. New club. Limited enough minutes. No value in overly criticising him so far.

We've all seen players shine bright and do nothing, and others do nothing and come good.

Give it til the end of the season
That's pretty much how I feel about him.
Saying that I actually cant see anything that says he is anywhere near ready for the first team any time soon.
 

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