trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
Though he struggles when we put him up against a more mobile opponent, like a cone.
The best strikers around do not stand still and wait for their team mates to put an unmissable chance on a plate for them. What separates the great strikers from the average strikers is precisely their movement off the ball, and knowing the areas to run into and the runs to make, to put themselves in the position to get the tap ins. They don’t just arrive by chance. Some people clearly fundamentally don’t understand football.
Think people need to watch a striker like Haaland and see how often he’s stood still daydreaming during a game. He never stops moving off the ball, he’s the best poacher in world football and I’m convinced people think he just stands still and wait for De Bruyne to pick him out. If that’s all he did then he’d barely ever score because he’d be so easy to defend against.
"He doesn't get any chances"
"He just gets the ball hoofed at him"
Man is sat in 9th for Xg (I know, I know, but it's some level of assessing whether or not he's getting chances) and has less than half the goals of anybody else in the top 20.
It's everybody else's fault he doesn't finish his chances.
Or the wind direction or humidity. Take your pick.
I won't argue he's better than Beto, but can we stop making up so many excuses for him and just admit he's been horrific in front of goal?
"He just gets the ball hoofed at him"
Man is sat in 9th for Xg (I know, I know, but it's some level of assessing whether or not he's getting chances) and has less than half the goals of anybody else in the top 20.
It's everybody else's fault he doesn't finish his chances.
Or the wind direction or humidity. Take your pick.
I won't argue he's better than Beto, but can we stop making up so many excuses for him and just admit he's been horrific in front of goal?
Gilbert..
Player Valuation: £40m
I thought the replies were a bit of a parody for a while in this thread but some are dead serious.
Its like we've got this world class striker on our hands but just dont know how to use him.
Its getting more ridiculous by the day.
As I keep saying, the teams that are interested in him will tell us about the actual level he is. People keep mentioning Carlo knowing how to unlock his magic, well Real Madrid are in need of an elite centre forward to play in front of Mbappe and Bellingham, and Dom is someone he knows well and could be available with a year left on his deal. Let’s see what materialises there.
I like DCL and think he's in a massive rut with no confidence whatsoever.
But to say he isn't getting decent chances is just absolute nonsense. As a team we are creating a lot of chances but the forwards and other attacking players are constantly fluffing their lines.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
Wasn't even looking as the ball fizzes across the 6 yard box. Don't create chances tho
Dobbins fault for playing it before he was ready mate
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Missed the replay where he’d got a knock to the face seconds before so his face was turned then?
2 games without him starting - not sure we improved.
Maybe the answer wasn't as simple as binning him off for Beto.
Maybe the answer wasn't as simple as binning him off for Beto.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
Also 2 games where he's came on and we haven't improved once he's came on, in fact we got worse both times.
Not fair though, chasing a game. I believe that was the Beto defence time and time again.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
We were drawing with west ham?
Beto who scored last week, or Dom who hasn't scored in four months?
Tough one this.
