McBain
Player Valuation: £80m
Forum Experts from across the World disagree with you there. Apparently a midfield of Davies Gomes Iwobi and a 12 year old should be good enough for you to score a hatrick every week.
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Forum Experts from across the World disagree with you there. Apparently a midfield of Davies Gomes Iwobi and a 12 year old should be good enough for you to score a hatrick every week.
But DCL has had chances to score and he has ballsed up? (He does this regularly, but that header against Norwich and whatever that was against Southampton if we’re talking restart) How is a better midfield going to improve that? How is it also going to improve his decision making? His pass to the full back instead of turning and running at the defender? The two yard pass he underhits? The lack of aggression to defenders.
If this guy was any good, he’d be linked with every man and his dog. Rico had a huge link with Barca and I’ve no doubt that there are bids forthcoming. But a 23 yr old top English forward in the premier league? That’s gold dust. Who’s after him? No one because he ain’t top. He’s improved without a doubt. But if this guy turns out to be anywhere near a forward good enough to be challenging at the top of the league then I’m missing something
A football brain, football intelligence is something which cannot be taught. Wayne Rooney made the right decisions when he was 16. Ross Barkley didn’t, and still doesn’t. Anthony Gordon, now when you watch him, seems to generally make the right decisions with what to do. We’re lucky we watch a football game from above and a great view. Rooney did it all the time, literally as soon as you thought, play him in, hit it wide, take
him on, he did it. DCL for me makes the wrong decision so many times when he gets the ball. It’s just not something you can teach. He’s one on one, how many times out of ten do you think he finishes that?
him on, he did it. DCL for me makes the wrong decision so many times when he gets the ball. It’s just not something you can teach. He’s one on one, how many times out of ten do you think he finishes that?
firefighterblue
Player Valuation: £20m
Agree with this. I like DCL and he is improving prob down to hard work in training (Tom Davies take note) but he isn't the natural goalscorer we need. But he always works hard and we need to keep him unless a stupid offer came in. We do have a midfield that generally creates nothing so better players will make DCL and Ricky a lot better
APN_EFC
Player Valuation: £25m
It's tough judging DCL = like Davies, (and Dowell, Lookman, Barkley, Kenny before that) - because I think we want them to do well because it's a nice story to have a local or English player for not much of a transfer fee coming through and making it big. In DCL's case it will be even nicer as he works hard and seems to be really dedicated to fitness and improvement.
The big difference for me in this criticism of him missing chances, is that even top strikers miss easier chances, but they have 2-3 chances per game with better supply of assists and key passes - or more if you're Man City - and therefore they score one. Then the really top ones, score from 1 chance in an entire game, when it's a defensive tactical battle in a CL match for instance. So DCL has got to make 2 steps up first - take 1 out of 2/3 chances, and then hit the target with every chance he gets, while making more intelligent runs and movement to create space for himself. And then finally, he has to be a striker who can make chances out of nothing. But then we're talking about an elite skill that only a few players have, so while we're waiting for him to develop, or for money to buy a much better striker, we may as well support him and see how he goes!
The big difference for me in this criticism of him missing chances, is that even top strikers miss easier chances, but they have 2-3 chances per game with better supply of assists and key passes - or more if you're Man City - and therefore they score one. Then the really top ones, score from 1 chance in an entire game, when it's a defensive tactical battle in a CL match for instance. So DCL has got to make 2 steps up first - take 1 out of 2/3 chances, and then hit the target with every chance he gets, while making more intelligent runs and movement to create space for himself. And then finally, he has to be a striker who can make chances out of nothing. But then we're talking about an elite skill that only a few players have, so while we're waiting for him to develop, or for money to buy a much better striker, we may as well support him and see how he goes!
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Spot on - Im fine with DCL as a squad player as he works hard and puts himself about which is what you would ideally love to have someone off the bench to provide when needing to defend from the front to see a game out and/or chase a goal by throwing him into the box and trying to get his head on the end of something.
But long term if we have genuine ambitions of fighting for the Champions League or even Europa League consistently we need a natural goalscorer coming in alongside Richarlison.
Depending on FFP for me it makes perfect sense to sell Tosun & Kean who offer nothing to the team, have DCL as a good option from the bench and scout/bring in a proper goalscorer with the finishing/movement ability to be a handfull up top with Richarlison.
I remember when some people on here were comparing him to Drogba. Deary me.....
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
You admit Dominic has improved, with better central midfielders he’ll still miss chances but he will score more, Richarlison misses plenty of chances, you’ll forgive them, but he will also improve and score more, heard talk of Barcelona making a bid for him, that’s all it was talk, there’s still plenty of room for improvement with Richie as well as Dominic.
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Maybe if he gets more than 1 chance a game he'll score lads, DCL nor Richarlison are players who are clinical enough to slot there only chance of the game otherwise we would be in the Europa spots.
I just find it utterly bizarre how much flak this lad gets despite him doing what everyone wanted last season which is to score goals.
People would have laughed in your face if you said DCL would score 15 next year and rightly so but now he's doing it he still isn't enough, Whatever.
I just find it utterly bizarre how much flak this lad gets despite him doing what everyone wanted last season which is to score goals.
People would have laughed in your face if you said DCL would score 15 next year and rightly so but now he's doing it he still isn't enough, Whatever.
I agree he would be the complete striker if had composure in front of goal and a more natural finishing ability.
kiss the crest
Player Valuation: £35m
Spot on, being saying this for sometime the guy is a very average player who is NOT a goal scorer, he has even stopped working hard which should be a given anyway
McBain
Player Valuation: £80m
I reckon any good team has a second striker - a worker who can batter a defence, get 1 in 4 and provide a foil to the main man.
It's also true that he's not your natural finisher, but then again we always knew that. You only have to look at Big Duncs record to see DCL has already scored more goals in a PL season than he ever did, and we all love Big Dunc.
I'm not the only one who can see that a 25 - 30 year old DCL is going to be an absolute monster, getting goals or creating space, and the guy playing up top next to him (solid midfield included) is going to easy score 25 a season.
It's also true that he's not your natural finisher, but then again we always knew that. You only have to look at Big Duncs record to see DCL has already scored more goals in a PL season than he ever did, and we all love Big Dunc.
I'm not the only one who can see that a 25 - 30 year old DCL is going to be an absolute monster, getting goals or creating space, and the guy playing up top next to him (solid midfield included) is going to easy score 25 a season.
I admit he misses the odd chance, but in a good midfield team he would get more chances than he is getting now .,....our two front men are started of service end of !
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Well said friend, DCL needs to get with it and start scoring more.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Maybe Joey but can he put his chances away regularly.
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