Indicative of the current striker market - having seen and been unimpressed by the likes of sesko and gyokeres at well over double barry’s price.
Like others you do have to give him time to adjust but he’s nearly 23 and i’d like to have seen...
For once there I’d like us to play with a bit of courage - open the body out when receiving the ball and play forward. Never expect to win here but it’s the limp defeatist mode we default to. Ndiaye and grealish can hurt these - get the ball to them.
Every time we turn up here, we play aimless long balls and let them come at us.
We don’t play long balls and then pressure. We just give to them and step off.
Mentality is woeful.