Haha
He picks the ball up on the half way line, beats his man makes the chance - he has a right to take that on in striker money, from a team point of view its poor.
Dom is terrible at 1 on 1s with the ball at his feet as well.
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He picks the ball up on the half way line, beats his man makes the chance - he has a right to take that on in striker money, from a team point of view its poor.
Dom is terrible at 1 on 1s with the ball at his feet as well.
Dom has been a write off so we haven't played that way most of the time Dyche has been here.
I'm pleasantly surprised with the football under him tbh.
No back to goal , hold up , bring others into it , it's been fast incisive transition football carrying and passing without the use of a target man.The build up and chances created are pleasing to watch.
Then we are back to the same old problem.
Goalscoring.
Bluelenny1984
Player Valuation: £6m
I agree, but it's not as simplistic as saying Adams isn't good enough cause he didn't bang in 20 goals last year. We have brought in more forward players in wide areas with the the hope of spreading goals around.
We have to be realistic if he banged in 20 goals last year, we wouldn't be buying him. I get the frustration, our club is a mess and this signing doesn't excite me or may not be the answer to the long term problem but pragmatic it may be prove to be.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
He runs, with a weird little pause after every stride, in a diagonal line past the goal then shoots from an impossible angle when almost at the byeline despite having had half a dozen chances to pull the trigger. God bless you for trying to find the positives, but that was a horror show.
….it’s weird, posters saying Dyche wants a man mountain CF like Weghorst to support his hoofball then suggest a 5ft 9in counter-attacker like Adam’s is a also a Dyche signing. Maybe they just don’t like Dyche.
Really warming to him the more clips I watch. Should be good comedy if nothing else, check out 1:00 but hopefully time-stamped:
I don't know if they're positive. I'm not behind the scenes. I do know lots of departments have been reorganised and people moved around. I also know that new people have joined in data, medical and recruitment.
We won't know if they're positive for a while. (if you read back, I didn't once say he'd done anything positive)
Didn't read it, everything released by the club is loads of words that say nothing. My advice, don't waste your time on them
We may well be selling our best young players, but if they're not deemed good enough for the first team or another loan, it's better than having then stick around, like Pennington or Dowell who both long outstayed their welcome.
As for the current academy, kids enter sometimes as young as 6! It takes time to see the effect of whatever changes are made at academy level.
At risk of sounding like a broken record. We're not an attractive proposition!
The only notable purchase was Onana, and that was lampards influence. Would you be happy with him back so we can maybe attract better players?
Honestly, we could have the world's most respected DoF and I'm not convinced we'd see spectacularly different transfer activity.
Anyway. Again, it's the Che Adams thread.
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £15m
Che Adams is complete dog turd.
Of all the strikers we've been linked to, and are still available, he's bottom of the pile.
I hear the shouts of £12m is like a free transfer in the PL, so we might as well go for it. If we wouldve put his £12m on top of Muppets £12m along with their combined wage we could actually sign someone who adds value to us rather than 2 journeymen who we'll struggle to shift when they fail, and like Muppet, Adams will fail.
Of all the strikers we've been linked to, and are still available, he's bottom of the pile.
I hear the shouts of £12m is like a free transfer in the PL, so we might as well go for it. If we wouldve put his £12m on top of Muppets £12m along with their combined wage we could actually sign someone who adds value to us rather than 2 journeymen who we'll struggle to shift when they fail, and like Muppet, Adams will fail.
nothing wrong with a counter if you get chances from it
Lampard wanted to win the passing and we created nothing
I agree Fulham are a bit weakened(so 3pts thrown away because of bad recruitment)
Brighton had over 70% v Luton...starting out with more isn't a thing
Dyche isn't an attacking manager but we have more chances to score under him, so its not something that would put a striker off signing
Brentford also counter a lot. Leicester won the league with about 30% possession and Vardy was on fire that season
I think Maupay just behind a Calvert-Lewin type would work - or an option to come on when chasing a game to support the attack. He's just never a number 9, and not one in this team. I was advocating his signing (age/experience/fee - figured we shouldnt lose money on him) but when I did so, I said loads he wasn't a striker we could play on his own/replacement for Calvert-Lewin. We've done what we do best since Moshiri and set the lad up to fail.
But on Adams - this was me 2nd August;
I don't want Che Adams either.
But we've reached that point now unfortunately. I always expected him or Iheanacho.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
I don't want Adams but...
It's not ideal but...
He wouldn't be my first choice but...
It seems many GoT alumni are in the acceptance phase of grief.
It's not ideal but...
He wouldn't be my first choice but...
It seems many GoT alumni are in the acceptance phase of grief.
Lob
Player Valuation: £50m
Who cares about last season or the season before or being in the league below us. This season is the only season that matters. The lad is currently scoring goals, we haven't got any money, nobody else wants to come. It is what it is and where we are as a club.
Baggzio
Player Valuation: £15m
This is spot on. No one is saying Adams is a very good player, really he's a bit crap but so are we. People bringing up the likes of Brighton or saying to rely on Chermiti are away with the birds. If Brighton go down tomorrow their club doesn't change, even slightly. They can take the risk of basically finishing anywhere because of their business model and the fact that honestly they're not a big club, their fans are happy to just be in the league. People mention Brighton and the "sexy" names but always leave out that Danny Welbeck gets consistent game time for them and scores 6 goals a season, if we signed him after he left Arsenal people would've lost their minds.
Look at the reactions on here to Adams, a lower end PL striker, he'll get through it I'm sure but like you say we could throw Chermiti in and he could be truly awful and we'd just ruin him before he's even given a chance, same thing if we went after some 20 year old from South America that no one has heard of. Nothing in football is a guarantee but Adams is a good link up forward and can probably get anywhere from 5-10 goals a season for a team in the PL, it'd be great for us to spend £30m on a striker that *could* get 20 goals but they could also just as easily not score at all. I mean for God's sake we all loved Richarlison and would take him back in an instant, he only scored a single league goal last year, in other words the same record as Maupay.
We need a solid, stable and frankly boring set of players that will see us consistently mid table again before we can move on and grow, I wish we weren't in the situation that we had to look at players of Adams' quality but we are and for what we are he's a solid option. That's the unfortunate truth. Anyone moaning and groaning saying we should take expensive gambles on players that we have never heard of would be the first to call those same players a disgrace if we got relegated.
As a club we need stability and consistency, I think as a fan base we need a dose of realism.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
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