Ayari’s chance was 0.3 XG. Gross missed a 0.41xg at 1-0 when we lost 2-0 last season. Gross missed plenty of chances too!
[Albion] Yasin Ayari
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Stato
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Tony's Albion maybe. We have plenty of examples over the years.
Ian Wright is the first that springs to mind.It sums up Tony Bloom that even with Gykores, the one that got away, he still at least trebled his money, buying him for £1m and selling for £1.2m plus a sell on clause that reportedly saw him get a couple of million from Coventry's sale. In betting terms he still didn't lose, he just cashed out too soon.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
I still think Gyökeres flatters to deceive and will not be nearly as successful if he returns to the PL.
Yes, he's banging them in the league, but he's doing so for a dominant team in a very uncompetitive league.
He scored 5 in the Europa League last season, but 2 were penalties and 2 were against Kjell Scherpen (who is clearly not as good as our other Dutch keeper...)
Admittedly, he scored 21 goals in the signifcantly more competitive EFL Championship 2 seasons ago, but even then scored several fewer than Chubby Akpom.
Wouldn't call it noncompetitive. 3 teams going for the title most seasons. Braga and Vitória S.C. are decent also.
Some players just develop later than others.
Lewandowski barely played for Poland at any level until he was 20. Then blew up.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink also. Struggled in his home country for years, then moved to Portugal and started banging them in.
Ian Wright was a labourer until he was around 21. Signed for Palace a week shy of his 22nd birthday.
I don't think he's world class. But he has become a very well rounded CF.
Withdean South Stand
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Gyokeres picks up a lot of assists as well, so he's clearly a very clever player who is contributing goals and assists at a rate that prime-Henry would have been proud of!
BRIGHT ON Q
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If Ayari genuinely tried to wrong foot Raya then fair play and love that speed of thought- Raya was just too slow to move his arse accross ,but if he just hit it and it ended up where it did then it was a bloody terrible effort!!
Only he knows
Only he knows
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
That one always rankles with me as he came to us on trial before palace and we turned him down. Similar time that we turned Roy Keane down as well.
And a couple of years after we rejected (after trials) Trevor Steven and Jon Aldridge...
And apparently had to hang around outside the ground afterwards to borrow money from one of our first-team players to get the train home.
HantsSeagull
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i think the story was that he was kept waiting in club office all day for his train fare home and no one providing it in the hope he would get bored and go. Steve Foster stepped in.
Baldseagull
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Looked to be trying too hard, and I remember a shot he took that went off target seemed to drain him. He looked the better prospect than Connolly in academy games, both lads perhaps not mentally ready, but in different ways.
I couldn't remember who Bergvall had signed for so searched his name and discovered it means "mountain wall" in Swedish, which is nice.
Less interesting is the fact he signed for Spurs.
Spurs did well to beat Barcelona to his signature. He has huge potential. Very technical.
Just to shed some light on Ayari's absence lately. He's speaking to the Swe-press today. Just did a quick Google Translate ...
"Mysterious disease
Ayari missed one game before returning and making an appearance against Chelsea.
- It was a scary disease. I don't know what happened. I couldn't eat, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't close my mouth and lost four kilos, says Ayari.
He had a fever and "everything possible".
- I think it was some corona thing or something, I don't know. But it was some sick thing, says Ayari who tells us that he woke up at night and froze and then was destroyed the next morning.
- Before the match against Chelsea I still couldn't eat. So I just ate soup and drank stuff before the game. There was a bit of a lack of energy if you say so, but now I'm back and it feels good."
Source: https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbla...-mystiskt-sjuk-missade-match-i-premier-league
"Mysterious disease
Ayari missed one game before returning and making an appearance against Chelsea.
- It was a scary disease. I don't know what happened. I couldn't eat, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't close my mouth and lost four kilos, says Ayari.
He had a fever and "everything possible".
- I think it was some corona thing or something, I don't know. But it was some sick thing, says Ayari who tells us that he woke up at night and froze and then was destroyed the next morning.
- Before the match against Chelsea I still couldn't eat. So I just ate soup and drank stuff before the game. There was a bit of a lack of energy if you say so, but now I'm back and it feels good."
Source: https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbla...-mystiskt-sjuk-missade-match-i-premier-league
That sounds extremely unpleasant. I think he’s been really impressive this season and yet I fear when everyone is fit he will struggle to make the match day squad. That seems unfair given his level of contribution but is a reflection of the new squad depth. There will be others who equally struggle.
London Irish
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Good to see him back - I think I'd prefer him to Hinshelwood at the moment, not that the latter is terrible, doing the ugly bits Ok (ish) I guess just not that involved creatively
Nobby Cybergoat
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Hmmm, in that state, how did he get on the pitch in a pro football game? Did the coaches know?
Yeah, valid questions, it sounds a bit strange. Came on in the second half I think. At least he didn't play with his mouth wide open