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Confirmed Signing Dwight McNeil

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He’s only 22, which makes it a better signing than most of the wingers we have bought in the last 5 years. If he can find the form he had from the season before last, then it could be a great buy.
 
Watching some of his highlights. Seems like he's got a very good cross on him. I can see why his assist stats are deceptive. The amount of times he put it on a plate for someone only to have them screw it wide or balloon it over the bar was unbelievable. I'd hope that with Dom on the receiving end he'd rack up a good amount of assists this season.
 
He gets the ball into the box and works hard. There’s a lot of upside with signing him especially at the £15m price.

I’m hoping that we still buy another forward though.
 
BlueStevie35 said:
Said that to my mate last night, it’s odd how Burnley wouldn’t entertain a structured deal for Cornet but were happy to do so for McNeil
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Either we were never in for him and it was social media bs or someone else is looking to pay his release fee up front?
 
I saw an interview some time back about the England under 21 coach saying his delivery of a cross was the best he had seen at the age group. If DCL doesn’t score 20+ this season now he never will!!!
 

andy5000 said:
Watching some of his highlights. Seems like he's got a very good cross on him. I can see why his assist stats are deceptive. The amount of times he put it on a plate for someone only to have them screw it wide or balloon it over the bar was unbelievable. I'd hope that with Dom on the receiving end he'd rack up a good amount of assists this season.
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I've got a feeling that this season may repeat his last season then, if our strike force stays the same.
 
Rooney_Tunes said:
What standard are we talking about here?

Not good enough for a team that escaped relegation in week 39 of the previous season?

Wake up please...
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absolutely, we're rubbish but not to the standard of Burnley rubbish. 38 games not scoring a goal and 1 assist, Rondon did better than that in 20 games and his 32 .............I rest my case your honour ?‍♂️
 
bluestevon said:
Will start ahead of Gray, pushing Gray to the bench as an impact sub.

Gives us options as he's a completely different kind of player to Gray.

Right kind of attitude, work ethic, good on the ball, good deliver of the ball, doesn't look to constantly shirk having the ball.

Overall s good signing that improves the team.

Now go sort that centre mid out please Thelwell
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If he's starting ahead of Gray, we are then banking on him scoring more than 5 goals and 5 assists a season as thats what Gray offers. That's without even replacing Richarlison still.

Would the squad be more balanced? Yes.
Would the squad look better? At this stage no, it would be still be weaker as I wouldn't be banking on Mcneil to start weighing in with 8+ goals which is what's needed.
 

ForeverBlue92 said:
Will never score 10+ goals but providing DCL can stay fit he'll get us assists so its a yes at £15 millions.
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Huge risk though isn't it, banking on DCL to stay fit for the whole season. At some point he's going to need a break even if he stays fit and next in line is Rondon and he simply isn't up to standard.

We have to get some kind of quality forward in and sharpish and a DM.
 
Wrighty said:
absolutely, we're rubbish but not to the standard of Burnley rubbish. 38 games not scoring a goal and 1 assist, Rondon did better than that in 20 games and his 32 .............I rest my case your honour ?‍♂️
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I refer you to four weeks before the end of last season where bookmakers were quoting Burnley at 5/1 to be relegated and us at 9/10...

I rest my case.
 
maccavennie said:
Huge risk though isn't it, banking on DCL to stay fit for the whole season. At some point he's going to need a break even if he stays fit and next in line is Rondon and he simply isn't up to standard.

We have to get some kind of quality forward in and sharpish and a DM.
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I have a feeling we'll bring another wide player in after McNeil (more of a Richarlison replacement).

With the 5 sub rule we'll realistically need 4 wide players - McNeil, Gordon, Gray + one more.

Townie is out injured still for a while.

Why I would take Gana on loan and allow us to spend money on another wide player who can contribute with the gols.
 

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