2025/26 Thierno Barry

He's poor and will be back in Spain or in france by the end of his contract, more important is that we have identified how bad these 2 are and we will have a replacement in as soon as possible in January hopefully the 1st.
 

I am done with having to tickle this lads ego to try and instil the miracle of him scoring goals tbh. Ditto Beto. It is time to just face reality really and admit that they are not very good strikers and we need to buy one as a priority very early January.
 
It's difficullt. I mean, it's like kicking Bambi in the nuts because he's so lovely the lad.

But every opponent we face know they wont have a problem with him and it must be a boost straight away to know he's not going to convert chances.

He'll make it as a professional, but I just think he's ill-suited to this PL as defences are so physical and he's not tough enough and the massive attention from the global media it gets means that everything he does wrong gets magnified.

He'll do well back in Spain or his native France. Just isn't working out here though.
 
I’ve genuinely seen improvement over the last month or so.

However that improvement has been the absolute minimum basics required of a professional footballer.

The lad is out of his depth.
 

Neiler said:
Hes developing. But we don't help him, we are slow and ponderous at getting the ball forward and making chances, which means zero space for a striker - that's despite having good creative players now.
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Hmmm not sure how long we can keep using the 'developing' tag. He's 23 not 18, has played ~120 games before coming here not 12. Adapting to a new league or new teammates or new country may be a fair shout, but then same goes for Woltemade and Ekitike and Igor Thiago and they don't seem to have a problem. Just doesn't look like a great natural finisher to me, but he'll clearly get the full season to see if he can develop and improve.
 
Username. said:
Anyone out there still backing and making excuses for this lad please stop because you're making yourself look very silly.
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Still going to back him as whatever happens still has the rest of the season to show is good enough to be here. Do expect more from him and this will only get higher when we go into next season. Problem is us not having a first choice cf or well many goals at the top of the pitch
 
EGWToffee said:
I’ve genuinely seen improvement over the last month or so.

However that improvement has been the absolute minimum basics required of a professional footballer.

The lad is out of his depth.
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Yup, I suppose going from 0 goals all season to 1 goal all season technically does count as 'improvement'. Was hoping for a few more, mind.
 
Titus Shambles said:
Hmmm not sure how long we can keep using the 'developing' tag. He's 23 not 18, has played ~120 games before coming here not 12. Adapting to a new league or new teammates or new country may be a fair shout, but then same goes for Woltemade and Ekitike and Igor Thiago and they don't seem to have a problem. Just doesn't look like a great natural finisher to me, but he'll clearly get the full season to see if he can develop and improve.
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Would argue ekitike and woltermade at better clubs with better players so create more. Also thiago been at brentford for awhile now even after his injury. 100% agree on some of his finishing needs to improve. Sure the same was said about his last club started off slow then ended up finishing the season strong. Might be the same case again
 

mikel_88 said:
Would argue ekitike and woltermade at better clubs with better players so create more. Also thiago been at brentford for awhile now even after his injury. 100% agree on some of his finishing needs to improve. Sure the same was said about his last club started off slow then ended up finishing the season strong. Might be the same case again
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Maybe. If he [somehow!] finishes the season with 10-12 goals that would be a decent return for a "young" player's first sesaon in the Prem. We could have peak Zidane putting them on a plate, if a striker can't finish it doesn't make any difference how creative the team is, but then that's probably why Ekitike and Woltemade cost about £70m each and our guy was less than half of that.
 
james2805 said:
Yeah it was literally taken out of his path at the last minute by goalkeepers touch.

Some people have just made up their minds about him and like to beat him with every stick they can.
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The guy is first choice striker, has played the vast majority of games so far, and is on 1 goal almost half way through the season, having missed a number of easy-looking chances in a few previous games. It's hardly beating him to give fair criticism to that picture.
 
Encoder said:
May aswell get behind a young guy in a new country and adapt to a physical league.

At least supporting him might improve his confidence.

Always a race to write people off. Great supporters.
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I think he's had a lot of support. It's only on the likes of this forum where people are being honest about what we've seen so far. Are we supposed to clap along and pretend it's going well?
 

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