2017/18 Oumar Niasse

Papa Shango · January 1, 2018

bluelegend said:
How we signed a striker to play in the premier league that cannot use their left foot is beyond me.

We have a whole squad full of them.

ijjysmith · January 1, 2018

I don’t even have a soft spot for him.

Papa Shango · January 1, 2018

deipnosophist said:
He's a yard dog of a footballer...but I retain a soft spot for him.

Depends. Sometimes he pulls something good off.

I do find the concept of talent interesting. I keep hearing Niasse is awful, limited, etc yet somehow he scores goals, sets up chances and makes things happen.

Then you have players like Schniederlin. All the ability in the world, cool, calm, collected, makes playing football look effortless. Yet he is also seemingly useless and does nothing of note ever.

Give me the former type of player any day.

deipnosophist · January 1, 2018

Papa Shango said:
Depends. Sometimes he pulls something good off.

I do find the concept of talent interesting. I keep hearing Niasse is awful, limited, etc yet somehow he scores goals, sets up chances and makes things happen.

Then you have players like Schniederlin. All the ability in the world, cool, calm, collected, makes playing football look effortless. Yet he is also seemingly useless and does nothing of note ever.

Give me the former type of player any day.

you won't find argument with me there, mate

banno · January 1, 2018

Stutheblue said:
Tries his best. And has been influential in 2 or 3 games. But come on.........he ain't good enough.

I think at the moment the question is who you would rather have up front.......Naisse or DCL. Both are not good enough yet they are all we have.

LouReedwalkonthewildside · January 2, 2018

He offers more than Lewin, and is more of a threat.

Midnitemike · January 2, 2018

He's a complete blunderbus of a footballer. No skill whatsoever but he does have an uncanny knack of pressuring the ball and flukily getting it to bounce into his path or it ricocheting off him into the goal. Like they say if you can't be good be lucky. Really not good enough for us but beggars can't be choosers at the minute.

CRIMHEAD · January 2, 2018

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
He offers more than Lewin, and is more of a threat.

He does. A bit stronger on the ball, occassionally pulls a decent play out of his arse. DCL has some upside and if he ever learns how to finish and gets a bit stronger, we'll have something.

But man do we need a CF.

Seanjd · January 2, 2018

Can't bring myself to clap him legging it around chasing their defenders when they've got the ball cause I know he will give it back to them when he finds himself with it again. He really isn't good is he?

Toffe3m4n · January 2, 2018

Confidence player. Shows odd flashes of some good stuff when his instinct takes over, but when he has to actually think about stuff he struggles.

Fansince1988 · January 2, 2018

Toffe3m4n said:
Confidence player. Shows odd flashes of some good stuff when his instinct takes over, but when he has to actually think about stuff he struggles.

Sounds like Ross.

thirdmantackle · January 2, 2018

tried to hit that shot with his right foot
when he should have smashed it with his left

Toffeelover · January 2, 2018

One can say he has energy and enthusiasm pity not more consistent with his play.

Ricochet · January 2, 2018

Papa Shango said:
Depends. Sometimes he pulls something good off.

I do find the concept of talent interesting. I keep hearing Niasse is awful, limited, etc yet somehow he scores goals, sets up chances and makes things happen.

Then you have players like Schniederlin. All the ability in the world, cool, calm, collected, makes playing football look effortless. Yet he is also seemingly useless and does nothing of note ever.

Give me the former type of player any day.

Well said, It is tiresome seeing all the negative comments about Oumar...he deserves better. If he or DCL had better service in the attacking 3rd they would be putting up more points. I like DCL's pace and more but I think Niasse is a better finisher. He has almost as many goals as DCL and Siggy combined in all competitions. There is something to be said for that...he can find the back of the net and he has served up a couple of nice passes to Siggy in front of the goal and he blew both of them. Similar to what we saw with his pass to Gana against Bournemouth. Niasse is our best option right now.

Plus, I would like to see a true 4-4-2 or something with 2 strikers (DCL & Niasse) to see what they could do together. I don't think we have really seen that yet...maybe against Liverpool but the ball rarely got out of our half of the pitch in that game.

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
He offers more than Lewin, and is more of a threat.

Deffo.

joey_macmo · January 2, 2018

Ricochet said:
Well said, It is tiresome seeing all the negative comments about Oumar...he deserves better. If he or DCL had better service in the attacking 3rd they would be putting up more points. I like DCL's pace and more but I think Niasse is a better finisher. He has almost as many goals as DCL and Siggy combined in all competitions. There is something to be said for that...he can find the back of the net and he has served up a couple of nice passes to Siggy in front of the goal and he blew both of them. Similar to what we saw with his pass to Gana against Bournemouth. Niasse is our best option right now.

Plus, I would like to see a true 4-4-2 or something with 2 strikers (DCL & Niasse) to see what they could do together. I don't think we have really seen that yet...maybe against Liverpool but the ball rarely got out of our half of the pitch in that game.

Deffo.

He hasn’t even got as many as Calvert Lewin in all comps mate.