Whitterz
Mmmmm? Marvellous
All these cheap punts add up to what could of been a decent signing. Undav was a way of getting money into Union why would Potter every request a slow lump of a CF? 100% a Bloom signing.
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All these cheap punts add up to what could of been a decent signing. Undav was a way of getting money into Union why would Potter every request a slow lump of a CF? 100% a Bloom signing.
Agreed. And took the easy way out by bringing someone in from your sister club , but a player I doubt anyone else was interested in
To be fair I don’t mind taking a relatively cheap punt (for a striker anyway) on someone who has scored 30 odd goals in a season in a top division. There were other sides interested from memory (although not PL ones). As it turns out he doesn’t look up to the pace of the PL. Win some and lose some.
He shouldn’t have been the sum of our striker recruitment this summer in particular though given how much money we had through the door.
You just need to look at the half decent strikers we’ve signed in the later Amex era & PL to see the ones that did ok pretty much played immediately - the ones not so good got put in cup competitions and odd minutes from the bench.
Baffling that we sold Maupay who was at least good for 8-10 PL goals a season - for a strike-force who combined have 0 goals between them after 8 games.
Similar, not the same!Not quite . You , to be fair , wondered why he hasn’t been a sub (he has), wondered why he hasn’t had some gametime (he has), and then wasn’t sure if he’s scored against Forest Green Rovers (he had).
Similar, not the same!
I know the team's been playing well, but I'm still slightly concerned at how few minutes he's had (other than the very few minutes he has had, of course!) for the 1st. team (it was pretty much the reserves/youth at FGR after all).
Who said anything about starting? I don't need to say who I might or might not have taken off to bring him on as a sub at any given time in any match. I'll just point out that we brought on four subs yesterday when we were chasing the game and needing a goal, but our Denis, the only striker on the bench, wasn't one of them - and I'll just leave it there!Who would you have dropped / subbed / not played to give him minutes ? In what games ? Hardly a surprise that we’ve had unchanged teams so why the surprise that’s he not had a lot game time.
Welbeck ? Mitoma ? Trossard ?
All these cheap punts add up to what could of been a decent signing. Undav was a way of getting money into Union why would Potter every request a slow lump of a CF? 100% a Bloom signing.
Undav never plays two games now we’ve needed a goal and he’s not been in two managers thoughts. People keep saying we struggle against the low block teams, it’s because we don’t have the quality to score when we finally create an opportunity, Welbeck’s second half chance a quality striker scores there.Ah, the old decent signing. Every signing is a risk, we've been round this loop so many times. We'd have creamed ourselves if we'd broke the bank and signed Darwin Nunez. There's probably as much chance that Undav will score as Nunez will, but at least we haven't wasted a truckload of money on a non-scoring "decent striker".
Undav never plays two games now we’ve needed a goal and he’s not been in two managers thoughts. People keep saying we struggle against the low block teams, it’s because we don’t have the quality to score when we finally create an opportunity, Welbeck’s second half chance a quality striker scores there.
Who said anything about starting? I don't need to say who I might or might not have taken off to bring him on as a sub at any given time in any match. I'll just point out that we brought on four subs yesterday when we were chasing the game and needing a goal, but our Denis, the only striker on the bench, wasn't one of them - and I'll just leave it there!
You're being very obtuse (and you don't like giving up!) RdZ brought on four substitutes - could have brought on a fifth - but opted not to. He could have brought on Undav instead of any one of the four subs he used, but he didn't. I can't quote how many subs we've used, or how many minutes they've played in total - but 17 minutes in eight games for Undav suggests that as yet he is not the first name that comes to mind when looking to change things up.You don’t need to say anything! But given we can’t play with 12 or 13 men then interested in the different choices you would have made to give him these minutes .. So I guess - yesterday you would have taken off Trossard or Welbeck on 70 mins . Fair enough. I suppose RDZ thought keeping em on and using Mitoma was a better option to get the equaliser. Nearly worked as well. But hey!
Unless your down watching training then none of us really knows if he is any good. Let’s be fair we have had a really settled team this season with little rotation or injuries so there a few players we haven’t seen much of - 9 players have started all games. After yesterdays game I’d like to see more of Mitoma and Lallana but to do that means dropping players and I think changing formation