2020/21 Alex Iwobi

[TheBigIguana]

It really was mad to spent out on a perennial substitute.

I'd love to hear Brands explain the thinking with this one.

The thinking is easy to track. We had no one who got the ball forward and Iwobi did that so we brought him in to take that role. But he's never really gotten a chance to do it because Silva preferred Bernard and Sigurdsson for awhile and when Iwobi finally got into a role that we could do that injuries forced us to change. He did it for one game against West Ham and crushed it and never got a chance again.

Then Carlo comes in and sees him as a RW and that's pretty much that for him being useful. His ball progressing is still decent but he's not a creative final third player. He really needs to be played sort of like Gomes is or as a #10 but no one wants to do that so instead we get mediocre winger each week.

 

[billyblue80]

Was doing ok then got injured now he looks utter pony again

 

[Jim Hopper]

It really was mad to spent out on a perennial substitute.

I'd love to hear Brands explain the thinking with this one.

Panic buy. We needed a winger. Zaha weren’t happening. It’s telling that Arsenal were keen to get him off their books. Must have been rubbing their hands in delight when we came knocking with a potential £30m+ offer.

 

[leslad]

Would sell for free at nearest opportunity

 

[Verbal Kint]

Can't judge him on the last few performances, during the second half Chelsea had the ball over on the right ,I looked at the tv and seen Holgate roaring at him and pointing at Alonso leaving him and Keane free in the middle, i couldn't believe it. He has nothing to link up with, his crossing is poor but he is far from a major problem.

 

[EFCPaul]

File under Lennon, walcott, magueye gueye, drenthe, van der meyde and McGeady

That's unfair he is either better, or a harder worker, than all of those. Just he's playing in a side he'll never fit into, under a manager he doesn't suit, at a club that has never felt like a natural fit. If went back South and settled at a club like Fulham, Brighton or Palace I think he could a very good career. No one expects top class performances on a consistent basis at those places and the criticism isn't so fierce if you do stink the gaff out.

Was a panic buy if there ever was one, that summer was such a balls up.

 

[R.Reddington]

Can't wait for this fella to leave the club, he offers absolutely nothing here.

 

[hallamblue]

Just hope there's a manager out there who thinks they can get a tune out of him.

 

[sageyefc]

That's unfair he is either better, or a harder worker, than all of those. Just he's playing in a side he'll never fit into, under a manager he doesn't suit, at a club that has never felt like a natural fit. If went back South and settled at a club like Fulham, Brighton or Palace I think he could a very good career. No one expects top class performances on a consistent basis at those places and the criticism isn't so fierce if you do stink the gaff out.

Was a panic buy if there ever was one, that summer was such a balls up.

Lennon and Walcott both waybharder workers than iwobi is

 

[TheBigIguana]

That's unfair he is either better, or a harder worker, than all of those. Just he's playing in a side he'll never fit into, under a manager he doesn't suit, at a club that has never felt like a natural fit. If went back South and settled at a club like Fulham, Brighton or Palace I think he could a very good career. No one expects top class performances on a consistent basis at those places and the criticism isn't so fierce if you do stink the gaff out.

Was a panic buy if there ever was one, that summer was such a balls up.

He'd be great for Brighton

 

[TheBigIguana]

Lennon and Walcott both waybharder workers than iwobi is

Lennon maybe, Walcott no chance.

 

[Gilbert..]

That's unfair he is either better, or a harder worker, than all of those. Just he's playing in a side he'll never fit into, under a manager he doesn't suit, at a club that has never felt like a natural fit. If went back South and settled at a club like Fulham, Brighton or Palace I think he could a very good career. No one expects top class performances on a consistent basis and the criticism isn't so fierce if you do stink the gaff out.

Was a panic buy if there ever was one, that summer was such a balls up.

Is that a pisstake? Iwobi is not better than all of them. Based on what exactly.

 

[toffee-L]

Very bad player this guy. Think we're stuck with him for the foreseeable though because I don't think we'd get anything close to what we paid for him under normal circumstances, never mind in a COVID economy without assassinating our balance sheet.

By far Brand's worst signing. It didn't make any sense at the time and just continues to baffle me more every time I see him shoved out on the right wing and he looks like he doesn't even know what sport he's supposed to be playing.

 

[Carlito]

The thinking is easy to track. We had no one who got the ball forward and Iwobi did that so we brought him in to take that role. But he's never really gotten a chance to do it because Silva preferred Bernard and Sigurdsson for awhile and when Iwobi finally got into a role that we could do that injuries forced us to change. He did it for one game against West Ham and crushed it and never got a chance again.

Then Carlo comes in and sees him as a RW and that's pretty much that for him being useful. His ball progressing is still decent but he's not a creative final third player. He really needs to be played sort of like Gomes is or as a #10 but no one wants to do that so instead we get mediocre winger each week.

His entire time at Arsenal was spent being back-up to the left-winger, so I don't know why he'd have been brought here to be given some sort of Kaka role.

 

[pedro789]

I’ve backed this lad and have to admit I was wrong. He’s never a winger in a million years. He needs to play as 10 or not at all. But we’ve already got two of them, so I don’t see how he fits in.