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[Albion] Mercurial, majestic, magnificent Mitoma [20/10/23: New deal signed]
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Jimmy Grimble
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I was a big Potter fan but I’m questioning how we had this guy and Caicedo bumming about in Belgium last year. Surely those loan spells didn’t turn them into superstars… Happy to be proved wrong!
T.G
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As much as I loved Ward I'm inclined to think even given the different eras that Mitoma is more skilfull. Ward in his jinking pomp was amazing to watch, but most of that was in the lower leagues. In Division one he was less prolific and less able to bamboozle defenders. Still one of our best ever players but Mitoma is something else! Let's see if he can do it over more than one season.
I’ve been thinking exactly the same, but with Will Buckley in mind.
macbeth
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don't know about caicedo but I think mitoma had to be loaned out to get a work permit
- Jun 27, 2012
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He started 14 out of the last 17 games he was fit to play for RUSG.
Change at Barnham
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From The Guardian:
"For Brighton there were some alluring early glimpses of Mitoma, veering around Trent Alexander-Arnold like the skating rink pro skirting his way past some gawping rail-clutcher. Mitoma doesn’t really run. He glides, he skates, he dusts the ground. A little later he made Joe Gomez fall over just by shifting his hips between strides to make space for a shot."
Barney Ronay's report from The Guardian
"For Brighton there were some alluring early glimpses of Mitoma, veering around Trent Alexander-Arnold like the skating rink pro skirting his way past some gawping rail-clutcher. Mitoma doesn’t really run. He glides, he skates, he dusts the ground. A little later he made Joe Gomez fall over just by shifting his hips between strides to make space for a shot."
Barney Ronay's report from The Guardian
hart's shirt
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"Brighton would go on to win the game, deservedly, with a brilliant goal a minute and half into stoppage time.
It was beautifully taken by Karou Mitoma, a footballer who is basically made of feathers, dandelion spurs and some kind of super-light high-tensile alien metal.
In the tiniest of spaces, with the ball bouncing up like a balloon, Mitoma shifted his feet, leant inside, flicked the ball up off his right foot, delicately back-spun, hanging in the air like some divine orb, then propelled it with thrilling precision off the same foot into the far corner."
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...but-jurgen-klopp-could-be-their-golden-thread
It was beautifully taken by Karou Mitoma, a footballer who is basically made of feathers, dandelion spurs and some kind of super-light high-tensile alien metal.
In the tiniest of spaces, with the ball bouncing up like a balloon, Mitoma shifted his feet, leant inside, flicked the ball up off his right foot, delicately back-spun, hanging in the air like some divine orb, then propelled it with thrilling precision off the same foot into the far corner."
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...but-jurgen-klopp-could-be-their-golden-thread
DT extract
Kaoru Mitoma is not the sort of footballer who seeks the limelight. On a day off from training, the Japanese forward is far more likely to be found at home on the sofa, analysing videos of his own performances, than in the trendy quarters of Brighton.
And even when he does venture out, Mitoma is hardly the most recognisable figure. With his slight build and floppy fringe, he usually goes unnoticed. Well, he has done until now – and that is surely all about to change.
A genuine star of the English game is emerging on the south coast, where Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton continue to show no fear of their more illustrious opponents. The whirling feet of Mitoma embody that bold approach and, for the second time in two weeks, the winger proved to be too quick and too inventive for a struggling Liverpool.
Mitoma’s winning goal here, struck in the 92nd minute, was just the latest demonstration of his considerable talent. One touch to cut inside, fooling a pack of red-shirted defenders, and another to slam the ball into the roof of the net.
Such was the speed of the movement, and such was the quality of the execution, that the ball did not even make contact with the floor between those touches. A ‘keepy-uppy’ goal, against Liverpool, in the final minute of a thrilling FA Cup tie: Mitoma continues to go from strength to strength, from defining moment to defining moment.
Kaoru Mitoma is not the sort of footballer who seeks the limelight. On a day off from training, the Japanese forward is far more likely to be found at home on the sofa, analysing videos of his own performances, than in the trendy quarters of Brighton.
And even when he does venture out, Mitoma is hardly the most recognisable figure. With his slight build and floppy fringe, he usually goes unnoticed. Well, he has done until now – and that is surely all about to change.
A genuine star of the English game is emerging on the south coast, where Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton continue to show no fear of their more illustrious opponents. The whirling feet of Mitoma embody that bold approach and, for the second time in two weeks, the winger proved to be too quick and too inventive for a struggling Liverpool.
Mitoma’s winning goal here, struck in the 92nd minute, was just the latest demonstration of his considerable talent. One touch to cut inside, fooling a pack of red-shirted defenders, and another to slam the ball into the roof of the net.
Such was the speed of the movement, and such was the quality of the execution, that the ball did not even make contact with the floor between those touches. A ‘keepy-uppy’ goal, against Liverpool, in the final minute of a thrilling FA Cup tie: Mitoma continues to go from strength to strength, from defining moment to defining moment.
Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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Is the guy on the right the voice of that annoying bird on that recent annoying ad? Eeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh?
Edit - ha! Found it
We are the current media darlings and Mitoma is very much fronting that. I can’t listen to a Podcast these days without a presenter rightly eulogising about Mitoma.
Stunning player.
Stunning player.
Translation... it's his agents: ohhh...now he's worth 90 millions, call Arsenal and Chelsea right away !!!!
Personally, I thought that our Japanese football ninjas goal was good enough to be 2 goals, so in my head we won 3-1.
nicko31
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Bargain of the season in the PL for sure, improving every game. Unplayable