2024/25 Beto

[Gilbert..]

Yeah you’re right. People have got obsessed with physical attributes because we’re so lacking in actual footballing ability that the ability to just do someone for pace or bully someone in the air is all they can imagine us doing and they’ve convinced themselves it’s our inability to do that that’s the issue.

I was saying last week that people see it all wrong when they say we try to use Beto as a target man and everything would just be fine if we played through balls instead - we don’t try to, we just have to, because we can’t impose ourselves enough to use a striker in any other way. Whoever we play up front simply has to be able hold the ball up and give defenders a bit of a going over because otherwise they’ll never touch the ball. One game against an absolutely woeful Leicester and people were convinced they’d been proved right but they’re conspicuous by their absence tonight.

That doesnt mean anything mate coz thats par for the course on here for any player or the manager. Its not even flavour of the month. Its flavour of the week.
Its easy to criticise that it was just leicester but we also have strikers here that wouldnt have probably finished those chances.
We dont have any consistency at the club in that dept. Or quality. If calvert lewin scores. He's quality. If beto scores. He's quality.
Its just a forum fad for a few hours. I think everyone knows the reality is different.