2025/26 Thierno Barry

[JimmyJeffers]

Don’t need any DCL revisionism.

Good point mate…. Oh

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

We have no idea how to buy strikers at all. Other teams, with small fanbases, poxy stadiums buy unheard of players with no PL experience, lob them straight into the team because they have good technique and are fast and athletic and massively driven, and they go on mad scoring runs, then settle to being good 1 in 3 strikers.

We buy strikers that look like they are about to fall over when have the ball, or are the slowest person on the pitch with really weird bald patch covering hair spray. Don’t get it. No matter how many goals a player is scoring in some weird league, just watch them run with a ball. If they look like they have their shoelaces tied together, stop buying them. Even if they are nice and smiley.

This league is nowhere near as packed with quality as the advertisers like to say. But it can be fast, and it’s definitely physical. If you can’t control a ball instantly and dribble in a straight line without looking a bit drunk and running past the ball, you have no chance.

 

[MACCA75]

Agreed. At least when DCL wasn't scoring, he was holding the ball up, bringing others into play and winning aerial challenges.

Barry is still only a young kid, though. And there's no point pining after a player that didn't want to play for us.

He is 23 like. That’s beyond ‘young kid’ tbf.

 

[Bob Elstone]

I feel for the young lad. He was clearly devastated with his performance, but his recent form has been superb.

He scored four goals in five games not so long ago.

Or four goals in 20 games

 

[dion]

His boots should carry a Toblerone badge on them.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

He is 23 like. That’s beyond ‘young kid’ tbf.

Yes. How many footballers that can honestly and politely we classed as a bit poo at 23, then develop into great players at club and international level, which is what we should aim for.

Close to zero. In fact, zero.

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

We should play KDH up front. Started out as a striker in his youth, scoring 40 goals in his 1st season. He was only 6-7 years old, but still better than our current strikers.

 

[carolinablue232]

Absolutely sabotaged our season having him and Beto as striking options. I don’t think either start for a single other team in the Prem.

They don’t. Forest have three strikers better than we do for comparison.

 

[Bally1989]

Bought as development signing but thrown in at the deep end because the committee got the summer so so wrong

 

[marsh]

That finish on the rebound was like a nerd who's never kicked a ball before, terrible.

 

[bebo86]

Feel sorry for the lad but simply can't miss two chances like that

 

[Joey66]

We should play KDH up front. Started out as a striker in his youth, scoring 40 goals in his 1st season. He was only 6-7 years old, but still better than our current strikers.

Nydaye & maybe Alcaraz own the middle would do better .... too much hoof ball ....

 

[frank_da_tank]

That is a frankly astonishing use of the word ‘superb’.

Whats superb in scouse?

SHABITE

 

[GoldenToffee]

The fella is a damn embarrassment. If those chances had fallen to Keane, it would have been two goals probably 75% of the time. I'd have scored the first one with my eyes closed. This isn't him being slated on the back of missing two gilt-edged chances, it's a a full season of diabolical efforts with a disgraceful goals-to-shots ratio. The guy's body language on and off the field is shameful, and we're saddled with him now for another three years barring some kind of miracle. I think he'll be in the Turkish league next year, wages paid mostly by FC Everton, and nobody who was involved in his transfer held to account.

Can copy and paste this into the Beto thread.

60 million pounds for arguably the two worst strikers the league has seen since... we last spend 30m on a striker (Tosun).

 

[boothill]

That finish on the rebound was like a nerd who's never kicked a ball before, terrible.

For some reason i couldnt get forrest gump out me head