[Albion] Locadia Today

[Knocky's Nose]

I always fail to understand that when a golden opportunity is handed to you.. like signing for a Premier League club who genuinely want to help you improve and further your career, you toss it away.

I can only guess he's not the sharpest tool, and is surrounded by people equally as feeble of mind.

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

If I met him out I would ask him if he wants to thank the Bha charitable association for feeding his family for the last three years. And would he like to now return the favour by giving some of the 6m he's earned to help those less fortunate than himself ( which would be about 94% if the world population)

 

[Swansman]

I always fail to understand that when a golden opportunity is handed to you.. like signing for a Premier League club who genuinely want to help you improve and further your career, you toss it away.

I can only guess he's not the sharpest tool, and is surrounded by people equally as feeble of mind.

Or just a bit lazy. He was seen as the new Ruud van Nistelrooy before he had even made his PSV debut. Over his six seasons in PSV he went in and out of the side without ever really improving his perfromances. I can understand the idea behind signing Ali J but Locadia was just a very poor signing.

 

[ewe2]

We have to accept no one will take him, maybe he can still do something for us. He did ok in that 3-0 Watford game. Tbf I'd still put him before the current Connelly!

Now that is an interesting option IMO....Connelly out on loan,playing regularly (hopefully)with Locadia staying with us.......Both having a lot to prove.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

It really isn't his fault we bought him and agreed a salary at the values we did. He may well be trying his hardest. I also think Martial for MU looks disinterested, but I'm pretty sure that is just his demeanour, likewise with Locadia most likely. Don't really see the vilification of the player/person in cases like this, he hasn't fulfilled the potential we thought he had, but he may well be just as gutted he hasn't cut it.

To get to this sort of level a player has to have worked their nuts off and sacrificed an awful lot, you don't get here without a shit load of hard work. It's not worked out. When you're fishing for the uncut diamond, got to accept you're going to end up with a few ordinary rocks.

 

[vagabond]

Locadia did ok for a few games. The Watford one as already mentioned, where if I recall we had Glenn / Locadia / Maupay / Andone all having match time (four forwards, heady days).. and I seem to remember him scoring and having a good game at QPR in the cup, and a few of us were hoping that was a corner turning moment.

As a human being now, his confidence must be rocked. He must feel unwanted as a player and that has to have an effect.

We should either bring him back or release him on a free.

 

[Marshy]

Now that is an interesting option IMO....Connelly out on loan,playing regularly (hopefully)with Locadia staying with us.......Both having a lot to prove.

Jees, I know Connelly is currently failing the Dick test, but really !

 

[Pinkie Brown]

There is quality there, I hope we get a fee.

4 goals in just under 6 full Bundesliga games is great. He has also scored the same amount of goals for us than Connolly in a similar amount of appearances.

Someone will pay up, surely?

He had a short purple patch where he scored three goals. Either side of that his contribution was average at best. Hoffenheim sussed him. His loan spell ending early in the January window is telling.

 

[blue-shifted]

It really isn't his fault we bought him and agreed a salary at the values we did. He may well be trying his hardest. I also think Martial for MU looks disinterested, but I'm pretty sure that is just his demeanour, likewise with Locadia most likely. Don't really see the vilification of the player/person in cases like this, he hasn't fulfilled the potential we thought he had, but he may well be just as gutted he hasn't cut it.

To get to this sort of level a player has to have worked their nuts off and sacrificed an awful lot, you don't get here without a shit load of hard work. It's not worked out. When you're fishing for the uncut diamond, got to accept you're going to end up with a few ordinary rocks.

Totally agree. For the money we spent on him, in PL striker terms that was a punt. As was Bissouma. Some will work out, some not.

I've no reason to dislike the bloke. It didn't work out. Best for all concerned he takes a hit on wages and starts at a new club to rebuild his career .... (he says hopefully).

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Wouldn't be in the least surprised if it turned out that the crap decision to hire Locadia wasn't based on some crap TB betting company algorithm

 

[albionalex]

I always fail to understand that when a golden opportunity is handed to you.. like signing for a Premier League club who genuinely want to help you improve and further your career, you toss it away.

I can only guess he's not the sharpest tool, and is surrounded by people equally as feeble of mind.

I might have missed something but aside from not being very good at football, what did he do to 'toss it away'?

 

[Knocky's Nose]

I might have missed something but aside from not being very good at football, what did he do to 'toss it away'?

Lazy, disinterested, more interested in DJ-ing, and then got carted off - where instead of playing out of his skin to get a recall he was happy to try just hard enough to get a place on the bench. He was good enough for us to pay £14,000,000 for him, yet became not good enough to get in the first team of a bunch of noddies.

That, to me, is tossing it away.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Locadia or Kemy for the worst TB signing?

 

[Easy 10]

TB got well and truly stung singing this muppet and Ali J - pound for pound probably the worst couple of transfers in BHA's history, and has very likely shaped out transfer policy for the foreseeable.

 

[vagabond]

TB got well and truly stung singing this muppet and Ali J - pound for pound probably the worst couple of transfers in BHA's history, and has very likely shaped out transfer policy for the foreseeable.

Transfer wise we have a pretty good batting average overall though.

If a couple are unsuccessful, that’s how it goes. They can’t all be great signings.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

TB got well and truly stung singing this muppet and Ali J - pound for pound probably the worst couple of transfers in BHA's history, and has very likely shaped out transfer policy for the foreseeable.

Ali J is doing OK.

 

[Robinjakarta]

It wouldn't have been so bad if he couldn't play, but he could ... if he felt like it. Lazy tosser.

 

[GT49er]

TB got well and truly stung singing this muppet and Ali J - pound for pound probably the worst couple of transfers in BHA's history, and has very likely shaped out transfer policy for the foreseeable.

£14M for Locadia and £17M (?) for Jahanbakhsh - that £31M we'll never see again, plus several million in wages (probably two million or so a year each, so that'll be about £50M altogether). Look at that backwards, forwards, sideways, down, whichever way you like - it wasn't the recruitment teams finest hour! Jahanbakhsh we'd been after for years, apparently facepalm) - but Locadia was a bit of a panic buy. Thank fvck our recruitment team didn't persuade Vincent Janssen to sign as well!

 

[Guinness Boy]

TB got well and truly stung singing this muppet and Ali J - pound for pound probably the worst couple of transfers in BHA's history, and has very likely shaped out transfer policy for the foreseeable.

This

Ali J is doing OK.

An occasional squad player with 2 goals and 1 assist across two different managers? On his wages and fee? Not really.

 

[Seagull58]

£14M for Locadia and £17M (?) for Jahanbakhsh - that £31M we'll never see again, plus several million in wages (probably two million or so a year each, so that'll be about £50M altogether). Look at that backwards, forwards, sideways, down, whichever way you like - it wasn't the recruitment teams finest hour! Jahanbakhsh we'd been after for years, apparently facepalm) - but Locadia was a bit of a panic buy. Thank fvck our recruitment team didn't persuade Vincent Janssen to sign as well!

A panic buy because with Kemy gone we had nobody to spin the discs at the Christmas Party.