2022/23 Demarai Gray

BigDuncTributeBand

Player Valuation: £20m
Another game where we struggle to sustain attacks because the likes of him and Iwobi (could easily add Gordon and McNeil if they were playing) turn the ball over constantly, hold it for too long, run down blind alleys, make the wrong decision. He isn’t good enough to be starting as a forward for a premier league team - it’s nothing to do with formations, he just isn’t good enough and is taking us down.
 

Achilles Heel

Player Valuation: £950k
He's a gifted footballer no doubt. Technically outstanding. But it takes more than that to separate the wheat from the chaff. Sad thing is he is playing in a time when players like him are protected and allowed to play. How good would a Mckenzie, John Barnes, Beardsley, Trevor Steven be today with the protection they get now? I think they'd be miles ahead and its mentality and resilience rather than pure raw ability...
 

den

Player Valuation: £500k
Under Dyche, it makes the most sense to move Gray to the right side and play McNeil on the left, both focused on sending crosses into the box rather than trying to be the focus of the attack. Too often the approach has seemed to be trying to run the attack through wide players, either directly or by playing them out of position (especially early on, with brief experiments using McNeil and Gordon in a central attacking position). What started as a desperate attempt to compensate for Calvert-Lewin's absence eventually coalesced into a stale routine of watching Gray dither on the left side and falter against two or three defenders. It's time to use Gray and McNeil to support Calvert-Lewin, Maupay, and Simms, and trust in a more focused attack.
 

Rita_Poon

Player Valuation: £50m
We have everything on the line with Gray signed for 1.6M and Cal Lewin at 1.5M. Moyes signed Cahill and Bent for just shy of the total and was fighting us up to fourth - nearly 20 years ago.

How many miracles are we all praying for here? This is a scandal.
 

HTCHERO

Player Valuation: £5m
Under Dyche, it makes the most sense to move Gray to the right side and play McNeil on the left, both focused on sending crosses into the box rather than trying to be the focus of the attack. Too often the approach has seemed to be trying to run the attack through wide players, either directly or by playing them out of position (especially early on, with brief experiments using McNeil and Gordon in a central attacking position). What started as a desperate attempt to compensate for Calvert-Lewin's absence eventually coalesced into a stale routine of watching Gray dither on the left side and falter against two or three defenders. It's time to use Gray and McNeil to support Calvert-Lewin, Maupay, and Simms, and trust in a more focused attack.
Stopped reading after the 2nd line...McNeil.
 

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