How long do we stick with Jelavic???

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Jelavic and Berbatov are really not similar at all, Berbatov thrives off other players in the team and his work rate is minimal.
I think he's even got less pace than Jelavic.
 
I keep thinking that it's only a matter of time before Jelavic gets back to the form he showed last season, but I could be wrong.

He started with Wagarem in 2002 and has had three seasons that you could call prolific in the time since.

I forget the numbers but one was with Rapid Vienna in 2009/10 and the other two were with Rangers. The brief cameo with us last season was very good, too. Apart from that, he's been pretty ordinary.

That doesn't mean he can't get back into that kind of form, but I'm getting impatient.
 
Jelavic has been called up to the Croatia squad for their World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Wales.

I was hoping he'd come back feeling confident after scoring in his last international, but it didn't seem to do him a lot of good.
 
met069 said:
True, but I don't think it was ever said that it was a bad thing, just that it was bad for Jelavic. Players like Fellaini however, thrive.
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What kind of striker are crosses bad for though? Surely that should be their bread and butter?! And he 6 foot 2, it's not like he's a dwarf.
 
Steve0 said:
Hahaha, nobody's allowed an opinion on Naismith until he's played 'behind the striker' for seventy-two games straight (or something) but you can say Vellios is gash based on two starts?

Lovely stuff.
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Everybody is allowed an opinion, i don't see anything about Vellios that shows he's cut out for the Prem.
 
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D410 said:
http://theexecutionersbong.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/whats-up-with-jelavic/?
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"This season he’s taking exactly the same number of shots from the same kind of positions. He’s simply not getting as many on target. It’s how the ball is arrives to him that’s different. Put the ball on the deck in front of him and he’ll slot. Pinging a long ball over his shoulder, or slinging hopeful crosses in isn’t utilising him in the best way."

That sounds a bit hollow. He was getting goals from crosses and racing onto long balls and scoring last season. And to suggest he has to have a chance placed in front of him in his 'gold zone' is a bit of a strange one when he kicked off his piece saying that that type of service is realistically confined to strikers at Champions League challenging clubs.
 
davek said:
"This season he’s taking exactly the same number of shots from the same kind of positions. He’s simply not getting as many on target. It’s how the ball is arrives to him that’s different. Put the ball on the deck in front of him and he’ll slot. Pinging a long ball over his shoulder, or slinging hopeful crosses in isn’t utilising him in the best way."

That sounds a bit hollow. He was getting goals from crosses and racing onto long balls and scoring last season. And to suggest he has to have a chance placed in front of him in his 'gold zone' is a bit of a strange one when he kicked off his piece saying that that type of service is realistically confined to strikers at Champions League challenging clubs.
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I think it sounds a bit hollow because its been discussed so endlessly on here. Maybe we have argued the point so much the obvious option sounds stupid.
 
Should change his hairstyle to how it was five years ago, might help him start scoring.

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