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Ademola Lookman

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I like Lookman but I find it hard to disagree that we shouldn't have sold him, It was clear as day it wasn't going to work out, You can argue he should be given more time but if the manager isn't going to pick him what can you do? I don't remember too many games where Lookman impressed me tbh he shown little moments of brilliance but that was it like the cross for Dom at Palace.

Sometimes players just don't work out at certain clubs and that's how it goes Lookman isn't the first and won't be the last.
 
MikeH72 said:
Koeman treated him poorly as he was a fat ming, but Silva gave him a second chance, started him quite a lot in that season and he was very much in the manager’s plans. That’s the season that his poor attitude really stood out for me, he was given the opportunity and wasn’t interested. We made the correct decision to sell him when we did.
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This isn't true. Silva started him 3 times in the league. It took 15 games before Silva gave him a start.
 
MikeH72 said:
Because his attitude was stinking Finch Farm out maybe???
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Fine but then you sell him right away?

We're going in circles here. I don't see any way that not selling him and not playing him was the right answer and you clearly think that it was fine. No one is changing. I'm happy to see the guy doing well now. He's going to be around the top leagues for a good while.
 
TheBigIguana said:
Fine but then you sell him right away?

We're going in circles here. I don't see any way that not selling him and not playing him was the right answer and you clearly think that it was fine. No one is changing. I'm happy to see the guy doing well now. He's going to be around the top leagues for a good while.
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Why do you think we didn’t sell him or loan him back out? Genuine question.
 

DOMNOLAN said:
This isn't true. Silva started him 3 times in the league. It took 15 games before Silva gave him a start.
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You have to earn your place in the starting line up as a fringe player, either in training or by making an impact coming off the bench. He obviously did neither, no one is entitled to starts.
 
TheBigIguana said:
Because Silva didn't want to. My problem is you don't keep a player who wants out if you're not even going to try and make him happy. So bad management.
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Exactly. Why didn’t he want to?

How can you “make” a player happy who’s made his mind up he wants to leave?
 
TheBigIguana said:
That's just not true. Richarlison is one of my favorite players but it is dishonest to say he doesn't have flaws. If he could become more consistent on the ball outside of the penalty box he'd be nearly unplayable.
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I didn't say Richarlison doesn't have any faults, I said he is far better than Lookman in every possible way.
 

Regrets, recriminations, and rationalisation regarding Wisdom's tenure with us is a 'round and round the mulberry bush' exercise that exhausts but ultimately arrives nowhere except at the beginning. Suffice to say, the lad was miserable...homesickness crippled him. I knew the fellow who lent his name to the syndrome that diagnoses this ailment. Potty Syndrome is an enervating malady possessing a somewhat nebulous mental pathology which even experienced psychiatric clinicians struggle to gain solid finger-holds in their attempts to scale the cliff toward its understanding.
Without wishing to sound dismissive of the valiant attempts herein this thread to apportion rationale to Wisdom's departure, I humbly submit that the myriad of psychological subtleties involved are beyond our ken. I have spent a loooong time in self-recrimination, castigating my insensitivity to Potty on that camping trip so many years ago. Take it from me lads, it takes it out of you...it's exhausting. Let us just wish Wisdom all the best and hope he finds happiness ahead....and let's all just move on...
 
MikeH72 said:
You have to earn your place in the starting line up as a fringe player, either in training or by making an impact coming off the bench. He obviously did neither, no one is entitled to starts.
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You said that Silva started him a lot. I'm just pointing out that's simply not true.
 

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