2025/26 Thierno Barry

[jazzy]

Couple of little flicks today just irritated me tbh. Probably thinks he’s doing really well because he put one in from a yard last match.
Forget the flicks - get the basics mastered - like movement, aggression, strength.

This. He seems to have precious little football nous and even less understanding of what a striker needs to do in terms of movement , technique and physicality.
Add to that his lack of desire and natural finishing ability and we appear to have yet another dud striker on our hands.

I say appear because he is still young and new to this country but boy he needs to learn very quickly or will be jettisoned

 

[maccavennie]

Could tolerate slow progress as he’s young and come from abroad etc, but last night looked like his acclimatisation was going backwards, possibly his worst performance for me.
Hopefully just one of those nights for him, but patience is wearing thin.

Nope, you are correct he was dreadful last night and the Wolves centre halves wouldn't have believed how easy their job is.

I'm hopeful he gets to about 7-8 goals this season so still has some form of rep in Spain and we get rid and don't lose too much on him. If your striker isn't padding out his game with goals, you need far more like bullying centre halves, stretching play, bringing others into play, he offers none of that.

 

[Sharpattack]

Beto played 10 minutes when we only had 9 men and contributed more than this lad did for 80 minutes. He was awful. He doesn’t even get into position to miss opportunities.

 

[davids]

This. He seems to have precious little football nous and even less understanding of what a striker needs to do in terms of movement , technique and physicality.
Add to that his lack of desire and natural finishing ability and we appear to have yet another dud striker on our hands.

I say appear because he is still young and new to this country but boy he needs to learn very quickly or will be jettisoned

Given how much his shoulder is strapped up you'd wonder why he's playing (if you can call it that) some strange things going on behind the scenes.

 

[BigDuncTributeBand]

Nope, you are correct he was dreadful last night and the Wolves centre halves wouldn't have believed how easy their job is.

I'm hopeful he gets to about 7-8 goals this season so still has some form of rep in Spain and we get rid and don't lose too much on him. If your striker isn't padding out his game with goals, you need far more like bullying centre halves, stretching play, bringing others into play, he offers none of that.

This why I’ve recently decided I’ve seen enough. I get we don’t create buckets of chances but he’s not doing the other things that would help the team and at least make it a bit more difficult for defenders. Extremely poor signing.

 

[kiss the crest]

See Thiago scored another 2 last night.

Why do we always sign duds, or is it the tactics that our managers deliver, either way its depressing

 

[blueconverse]

As poor as he was, we create nothing for him. No crosses or cut backs.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

As poor as he was, we create nothing for him. No crosses or cut backs.

He makes no effort to get ahead/infront/across his man.

There's minimal effort off the ball, no running to stretch play - centre backs have their easiest game of the season against him.

Moyes isn't the best with centre forwards, particularly those who haven't proven it in the Prem but I'd find it hard to believe he's being instructed to play that way.

 

[Victus]

As poor as he was, we create nothing for him. No crosses or cut backs.

That's because we force everything through Grealish who has that winnet Mykolenko who cannot cross to save his life, he is Ukranian Tony Hibbert. We also played with a flat three in midfield so there's no link up for him in the 10.

 

[maccavennie]

He makes no effort to get ahead/infront/across his man.

There's minimal effort off the ball, no running to stretch play - centre backs have their easiest game of the season against him.

Moyes isn't the best with centre forwards, particularly those who haven't proven it in the Prem but I'd find it hard to believe he's being instructed to play that way.

The ball by Armstrong outside of the foot first half, begging for your striker to get half a yard and in front of the defender but he was just stationary, standing behind him when with a bit of movement he would have had a great headed chance.

 

[johnjoeefc]

Was really poor last night. Like even a player like Anichebe back in the day offered something because he was a problem for defenders with his brute strength. But what does Barry offer? Occasional decent linkup but thats just not enough is it.

 

[johnjoeefc]

He has no technical ability. A perfect example was his Forest Gump run down the left, followed by smashing the ball out of play. He's that bad, we as fans show pity.

I was surprised when the fans behind him were applauding that bit of play

 

[bilyaletdinov_]

Definitely has a lot to work on but his hold up and link up play overall is solid; still think there’s a player in there myself

 

[BigBeto1]

Definitely has a lot to work on but his hold up and link up play overall is solid; still think there’s a player in there myself

His link up play is solid?? Our standards are so low it’s painful. Solid link up play would be a pass that could be a ‘pre assist’. A five yard pass backwards to the number 10 is not solid. He touched the ball 4 times in the first half

His position play is so far off being the standard we need I’m expecting Moyes to give Beto an extended run again soon

 

[Little Ralphy]

He's regressed a bit. Earlier in the season he was making runs off the ball, but the team didn't try to find him and he's either been coached not to make those runs, or realised the runs are pointless as no one is going to pass to him anyway. Technically he's not up to standard. I do feel there is a player in there somewhere, but no striker looks good in a Moyes team.
In terms of strikers alone, it seems to be a dying art of strikers trying to get in front of a man at crosses and things these days. Strikers used to be the sharpest players on the pitch, but now they're mostly big strong athletes.