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Where you sitting behind me yesterday by chance?He's a really poor footballer.
Where you sitting behind me yesterday by chance?He's a really poor footballer.
For 26 million pounds he should have more to his game than finishing chances others create for him. To be honest I expected a lot more from him but it's still early days.
If Defoe had started 10 league games this season I guarantee he would have had more than 1 league goal from open play.
I'm not meaning to be negative, just trying to call it the way I see it.
Told you guys he's an average player but some argued and felt I was speaking nonsense. Told you guys benteke would be the better option but was told I'm an idiot, look at him now, and tell me whether I was right or wrong, I'd be leaning toward the Told you guys he's an average player but some argued and felt I was speaking nonsense. Told you guys benteke would be the better option but was told I'm an idiot, look at him now, and tell me whether I was right or wrong, I'd be leaning toward the Told you guys he's an average player but some argued and felt I was speaking nonsense. Told you guys benteke would be the better option but was told I'm an idiot, look at him now, and tell me whether I was right or wrong, I'd be leaning toward the Told you guys he's an average player but some argued and felt I was speaking nonsense. Told you guys benteke would be the better option but was told I'm an idiot, look at him now, and tell me whether I was right or wrong, I'd be leaning toward the former.
Goal scoring stats fool people, players like soldado don't score loads in the prem. He has no special qualities, and its not reflecting well against prem defenders...as I said it would.
I'm confident that I'm going to have to wait till the end of the season for people to see the
Do you know how fucking annoying the phrase "Told you guys" becomes.
Do you know how fucking annoying the phrase "Told you guys" becomes.
The point is at the age of 28 and costing 30m euros you expect instant return, none of this settling time rubbish as he's supposed to be the finished article. Lamela was clearly signed for the future hence the slow intro, Soldado wasn't and quite frankly speaking I've been very disappointed so far....I find myself in the same boat. Not writing him off but I'm struggling to see why we thought he was a better investment than Benteke or various others we decided not to spend big on.
I'm happy to give him time to settle, forwards don't always start in fire. Lets see what happens by season end.
The point is at the age of 28 and costing 30m euros you expect instant return, none of this settling time rubbish as he's supposed to be the finished article. Lamela was clearly signed for the future hence the slow intro, Soldado wasn't and quite frankly speaking I've been very disappointed so far....
I think I read some stats from Newcastle game that soldado only received 9 passes all game from our Midfielders none from Townsend or Siggy. That's pretty telling!
I wouldn't dispute that our play in the final third leaves a lot to be desired, but for all those lamenting the lack of through balls to him I will say this:
When you are in the midfield/wide positions and see someone up there who a lot of the time doesn't have much pace to chase after the ball or get away from defenders, nor strength to hold them off, you probably question whether to pass it to him at all and choose another option in the heat of the moment... Lets face it, we have all probably been there in Sunday League or whatever standard we play at, thinking twice about giving it to the players who we don't trust with possession of the ball
Soldado doesn't lack strength IMO, he has had a few battles with defenders and cant rememebr him yet being over powered, the players behind him dont have the vision to see him. I mean its not that Bobby isn't scoring NOBODY is scoring. We seem clueless in attack and thats down to what goes on in training.
Personally I think his play in this aspect is patchy, sometimes he does well but others he gets brushed aside.
I was including stuff like through balls for him to run onto and into the channels, he has been given a few in his earlier games and he didn't have the legs to get onto them. Whilst I don't dispute that our play is clueless, just saying if he was given these mythical through balls I'm not at all convinced there would be a massive improvement.