hes got no real strikers instinct for me, Tosun has that thing where hell score more of the chances you throw at him then not.
id let DCL have a loan in the championship personally, bit of roughhousing and ideally scoring goals would do him good
I really don't get this 'loan him to the Championship' stuff
It's a step down. I appreciate the Championship has some good teams but it is still a step down. We would - and DCL would - learn nothing from a loan to the Championship, only than perhaps stalling his progression (see Galloway, Garbutt).
It's not like he's a player with a handful of appearances. He's a player who has established himself as a decent squad player in a PL side. He was chucked in at the deep end last year and, more often than not, swam rather than sank in a side with no system of playing.
At the moment, he clearly has a defined role in our squad. It's a squad game and if we need a player who can either
a) come on and help us switch systems to a 4-4-2 if we need a goal as on Sunday
or
b) come on for the last few minutes to help hold the ball up and see out a result
or
c) start the odd game where we need a player who can stretch a defence
then he's a very useful asset to us, because he can do all of those things.
I don't think he's brilliant, or got bags of natural God-given talent.
But he works exceptionally hard in whatever position he plays in (I know, a prerequisite) and is now finally working under a manager who seems to have told him his role and now it's up to him to continue to improve for that role.
