Should be moulded into a winger or a wing back. Fast, strong, athletic, good on the ball but cant finish to save his life
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Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
You realise you are now going to be accused of comparing him to Shearer and Henry.
Never give barkley credit? How can you give credit to someone that liertally can't be arsed to work hard and not even attempt to get the ball back? Someone who was running his contract down. And not giving DCL credit? I have said that he has a great attitude and seems a decent lad that wants to improve and wants to do well here. Problem is he's not good enough, just like niasse... I have immense respect for niasse to fight the way he did to get into the squad again... but he's still not good enough in his allround play. If DCL had the scoring knack of niasse or was at least giving keepers into good saves then you would have a case to say he could develop into a decent goal scorer. Fact is that he isn't and he misses sitters consistently and he misses the target when he does.
I just don't see anything that stands out and catches my eye . Lookman shows a very good touch and turn of pace and has shown he can hit a ball from distance as well as having very quick feet and is good in tight areas. That caught my eye and shows potential . DCL shows he can't hit the target and doesn't have conposure. He can run fast in a straight line and is very fit and can challenge in the air ( only off GK kicks tho) but these traits aren't hard to find and don't really stand out as being good enough to balance out the weak parts of his game. Cahill wasn't a technically good player and he got by on determination , attitude, and heart , all qualities which DCL has. Cahill wouldn't have made it with just these tho, he was immense in the air both defending and attacking and scored goals in tight games (like yesterday) DCL doesn't have the same knack and tbh not many do... it's rare and costs a lot of money. DCL doesn't have anything that stands out IMO , if he were to play for westham for example and we wanted to buy him , how much would you spend? 5m? 10m? Because that's what I would class him as... he is a Watford , stoke level player or at least he will be eventually. He will be a prem player but not a good one
You do realise that he has just used both shearer and Henry as a comparison don't you?
Rooneys goal record for us when he was young wasn't good so statistically DCL might not be very different... but you can see other parts of their game and everyone knew Rooney was going to the top... point is you have to spot something special in a young player and i can't see anything special in DCL, Barkley had that something special , the ability to carry the ball, shoot from distance with both feet ... those were his special attributes that made him worth developing ... and even he didn't improve enough.
Toffee in Jandals
Player Valuation: £35m
.... He's not great, but still better than Dominic Solanke. Let's not write him off yet.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Thats exactly what the guy didnt do. He put forward 2 names as exampes of players who didnt have fantastic scoring records in their early years but turned out prolific. At no stage did he compare their games to DCL.
But haters like you will twist it to ridicule the DCL supporters. Pathetic really.
Anyway. The kid missed a chance from the corner of the 6 yard box. Enjoy your weekend.
McBain
Player Valuation: £80m
Cahill would have been 25 when he joined us and had 4-5 years in the lower leagues.
Writing off DCL after this season is poor form considering the work he does. He could have won it yesterday through his own determination. I think that miss will sit with him for a long time and he'll work twice as hard on his finishing. He's got a lot of minutes this year by default - he shouldn't have but that's how it gone. The reason we keep seeing him is that physically he's a weapon. Only going to get better.
BernieH
Player Valuation: £35m
I was prepared for that because it backs my point up about strikers taking time to mature, I purposely picked the Premier leagues best 2 strikers because at Dominics age they were wet behind the ears and not the prolific scorers that they became, mind you they were bedded in properly over the course of a few years and not expected to carry the striking burden in their first seasons.
BernieH
Player Valuation: £35m
I did yes, did I say at any point DCL was going to be as good as those players or did I use a relative comparison for the same age of development, if you can't tell the difference then that's not really my problem.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
He's a below average finisher...which is not a great trait if you're a striker
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
what's wrong with having a Danny Welbeck type in your squad?
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