dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
If you look at their line ups he was mostly up top with someone else, which makes signing him to play up front alone here even more mental.
If you look at their line ups he was mostly up top with someone else, which makes signing him to play up front alone here even more mental.
dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
Couldn't really afford this to be one of those oh well let's see how it goes signings. At £30m we needed him to hit the ground running.
Tonight was the biggest worry so far. Looked anonymous the whole time he was on.
He was the same with the French team in the summer he was mostly coming in off a wide starting piont not playing a straight down the middle centre forward.
Wish we would go two up top sometimes its so boring seeing a forward just isolated up front every bloody week.
It’s obviously still early days and I’m not judging his potential long term impact but I’d really just like to see one little moment of something from him that makes you believe he’s got it. Still not happened.
dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
With how badly both of them are playing it'd be a brave manager that throws caution to the wind and puts them both in. Their link up play has been so poor we'd have no option but to throw crosses into the box all game and with Mykolenko and O'Brien at full back I can't be bothered with that.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
How badly he is playing? We literally have created him zero chances other than Aaron couple of headers in his last 3 games.
We created him absolutely zero today.
I struggle to understand those who write him off, West Ham completely packed in and it was basically him vs. 3-4 bodies in the box. There was 1 cut back late that was just behind him.
I don’t think he’s shown much, but I don’t really think he’s had the opportunity to.
I don’t think he’s shown much, but I don’t really think he’s had the opportunity to.
dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
We had enough of the ball and the play for him to get involved. He was anonymous and that shouldn't have been the case given the way the game was.
A lot of the time when nothing is getting created it's because the striker is in the wrong positions and can't do anything to worry opposition defenders.
A 55 year old Vardy would show more promise than these two.
We usually buy poor strikers so I'm imagining this will be no different. Hope I'm wrong like
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £50m
raiseyoureyebrow4thewin!
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Brighton is a team that doesn't sit deep like west ham did tonight
I think we should not play so high with the strikers we have
have the team win possession back say before halfway line or slightly higher
irishtony1878
Player Valuation: £25m
Sorry but this guy hasn't got a clue, at the game tonight and watched him and Beto, both of them will only score if it's on a plate.
They don't know how to create space for themselves or their team mates.
I know we have form for writing players off too soon, but we are playing with 10 men every week.
They don't know how to create space for themselves or their team mates.
I know we have form for writing players off too soon, but we are playing with 10 men every week.
HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £35m
This. The “we don’t create anything for them” is overused. He has to move, make runs, check back, come deep just to get a touch. It’s not just him it’s Beto too, although Beto does make a few little runs, but only when he knows he will defo get it played through. They both need to be constantly making their marker think. Even just to make a gap for others. At the moment, I could happily mark Barry.
We do now need to recognise that the likes of Grealish, KDH, even Garner do have quality on the ball. Grealish will get pelters this week for backing his defender into the box, then recycling back to Myko or Garner. Pretty sure all those players would try a pass if there was movement.
We’ve managed to have 2 strikers in our squad that, whilst they have different attributes, neither has any intention to dart in front of their marker when we have the ball out wide. They just stand there waiting for it to be lofted in hopefully. Grealish won’t do that. If they don’t move, he will keep the ball (which isn’t that helpful sometimes).
When the ball is flashed across with pace, neither of our strikers is across their man. Ever. Even some of Myko’s hopeful low crosses are made to look terrible as they are smacked away. But maybe someone could bust a gut to get in front of the defender?
We absolutely needed a striker, almost regardless of age, that instinctively knows where to be to cause maximum damage, just whilst Barry works this out. As it stands, i can’t see him ever scoring unless he keeps one of the headers he occasionally wins from corners under the crossbar.
Ignoring what he is or may become, the timing of us brining in a player at his level without and experiences foil is looking……really really stupid. We’ve spent quite big on a striker that if he hadn’t already played in 5 countries and scored regularly, we’d all say he was ‘raw’ and needed a year on loan.
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