durrington gull
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Abysmal performance
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[Albion] Neal Maupay *** SIGNED from Brentford - 4 year deal - undisclosed fee ***
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Abysmal performance
portslade seagull
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Time too offload along with Gross and Locadia
Frankworthington
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The injury-time equaliser against Palace seems like a life-time ago
he plays better in a front 2
This seasons scapegoat?
he plays better in a front 2
This seasons scapegoat?
Ding Dong !
Boy I'm HOT today !
Confidence shot to bits and just not good enough i'm afraid.
Think you’ll find he was last season and this season’s scapegoat! And to be honest, deservedly so a lot of the time. He has cost us a lot of points.
I just have to remind myself of the Palace goal and celebration at times!
- Oct 17, 2008
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He wouldn't be getting pelters if he stopped missing sitters and directly costing us wins. If he did the job he is paid handsomely to do, we would have beaten Norwich and won comfortably today, and he would've had himself a hattrick. This isn't rocket science. He will be rightly criticised if he fails to do his job competently, which is what he is currently doing. If we had any sort of competition up front, he would be on the bench, or finding some form in the stiffs.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,680
Of only the club had shown some ambition and spent twice as much money on Joelinton.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,321
Sadly that balloon over the bar from a yard out is becoming something of a Maupay trademark
I don’t blame Maupay, I blame Bloom. We have defenders that cost more than our strikers. Pay peanuts…. I think Maupay is reasonable but he can’t do it all himself. He had a good start to the season with 4 goals in the first 9 games or whatever and then dropped for 3 games while we experiment with a ‘false 9’.
Not going to do any striker confidence is it ?
- Oct 17, 2008
- 14,501
I am really sorry, but there is no spinning this. If you are a Premier League striker, and consistently miss extremely easy chances, you aren't going to be popular. The guy is out of form - when he is picked, he misses sitters. There is no way to defend that. He is still a lot better than our other two options, which is what is so concerning about all this.
I'd rather Maupay there for his running, with just an acceptance that he'll consistently miss open goals, than Locadia who doesn't even offer that. But if a high work ethic is the only expectation, we could've saved a fortune and got any old football league plodder willing to press for 90 minutes. I imagine Sam Baldock is available for cheap from Derby. He runs a lot.
Maupay is on par for what we paid. He has a very similar goals per minute than Ollie Watkins who is being paid roughly double what Maupay is if you believe the press.
Facts are he started the season well - 4 goals in 9 games. Then we dropped him….
Also other teams score goals all over , we don’t. Webster & Dunk should score more. Moder, Biss, Gross should score more. Hi
willalbion
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I love Maups, I love that other teams hate him but feck me he should have buried those chances. Still we’re a better team with him in the starting 11. How close is Welbeck to being
fit?
fit?
He also has started his other seasons well before fading,
Better keep booing him then - that’ll help
IMHO this was the problem with playing that pointless "false 9" bollocks against Newcastle and Villa, should have bought him straight back in after Liverpool before he got rusty.
Or just applaud at his finishing prowess?
He was okay outside the box but he is simply not good enough where it matters - nothing has changed, but he is all we have.
Milano
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I thought Potter killed him by taking him off, unless he was injured that was poor man management. We became less dangerous when Maupay went off and Locadia came on, which isn’t really that surprising seeing as DJ is completely shite.
GingerBeerMan
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- Dec 29, 2011
- 8,204
We're a better side with him in. He pulls defenders towards their goal which gives the space for Trossard and Lamptey to run at the defence and cause issues. It's no coincidence Lamptey had a Stormer tonight, as the defence had to keep track of Maupay. That being said, his finishing was apauling at times.