More so than Godfrey and Holgate as a partnership, yes. Also, having to be able to get on to a functional midfield better than what we have works wonders. For every play Barkley drove forward towards Watkins we had Sigurdsson slugging away and Iwobi doing nothing. You expecting Dom to do everything himself?
So apart from 20 goals in all competitions. Leading the line all season. He's expected to score 20 yarders, chase lost causes, create chances himself. So basically...to be any good in your eyes he needs to be a complete striker, an elite level one. Basically on par with Harry Kane in this league.
Mate, hardly any players get into a "top European side". Guess why? They already have that striker.
And who are these bang average players getting 13-17 a season? Cos if they're doing that every year, they're more than bang average.
I bet your solution would be....buy a better striker. But then you've put yourself in a contradiction because you say bang average strikers get 13+ goals a season, we need to improve on DCL, so where do we get this elite level striker from if the striker we've got isn't good enough for us?
Watkins?
Oh and guess what? Doms not the finished article yet. So who knows what he can do
Well Godfrey and holgate have played more premier league games than konsa and Ming's, so id say both sets of CBS are pretty inexperienced.
Where have I said I expect Dom to do everything? Do I expect him to do more than win a header from a corner in the whole game though? Yes.
This thread will be like this for years, with us arguing for and against Dom but it honestly baffles me how after watching him recently people think he's doing enough.
In regards to the top European clubs, people are saying he would be of interest to them all, which is just so fabricated.
What I mean about people banging in goals each season, I didn't specially mean one player is doing it every year, I meant more so different average players are getting a good return in goals, like DCL has 15 which is decent but even people like Patrick bamford have 14, is he of interest to all major clubs? If not, why not?
Didn't Charlie Austin get like 20 league goals a couple of years ago with qpr?
I go on about DCL a lot in here, but people don't seem to understand my beef with it, it's not I'm saying he's absolutely terrible, I just don't agree he's as good as people make out, if he gets 15-20 constantly for the next few season then fair enough I might change my mind on him, I just don't see it, his all round game isn't good enough ( for me ) to suggest he's capable of getting 20 a season constantly.
