2024/25 Jesper Lindstrom

GrandOldTeam said:
I figure if we count the average goals/assists of all our players throughout their careers and add them all up, it's not enough. I don't think many start for more than 3 teams in the Prem.

Id be sad to see Pickford, Branthwaite and maybe NDiaye leave. The rest? Meh.

It's why I think no matter the manager we'll be near the bottom. Thats not me saying I'd give Sean Dyche a new contract...
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Football matches are almost always won or lost on slim margins.

I think a better manager with these same players would have a profound effect on our season. Not that it’s easy to choose that manager, as I freely admit.

At the moment, I’m not looking beyond May. Hopefully we can start the rebuild in earnest then, with perhaps a bonus signing or two in January.
 


I like Lindstrom a lot, but I til we change manager we won't see him succeed.

He's a wide forward/no 10 suited to play in an attacking team, we play as defensively as we could be and stick him almost with the fullback responsibilities for 70% of the game.

If we change manager which we should, then depending who comes in determines especially this lads future.

His downturn in form from Germany isn't the result of injuries or bad attitude - it's entirely down to finding himself in consecutive bad moves in terms of the roles he's being asked to play.
 
bluestevon said:
I like Lindstrom a lot, but I til we change manager we won't see him succeed.

He's a wide forward/no 10 suited to play in an attacking team, we play as defensively as we could be and stick him almost with the fullback responsibilities for 70% of the game.

If we change manager which we should, then depending who comes in determines especially this lads future.

His downturn in form from Germany isn't the result of injuries or bad attitude - it's entirely down to finding himself in consecutive bad moves in terms of the roles he's being asked to play.
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Do you not think though that if he was as good as you suggest, better teams may have been in for him than Everton? Maybe Glasner, his manager who he was apparently so unbelievable for in Germany would have wanted him at Palace? It feels very easy to just make out like it's some sort of unfathomable bad luck for the lad, but I can't see how it stand up to even the tiniest level of scrutiny. It seems more likely to me that he's just the latest in an extremely long list of players who some of our fans convince themselves would be fantastic if we just had a different manager/set up/played them in a position they've never actually played in before etc.
 

Lanolin said:
Do you not think though that if he was as good as you suggest, better teams may have been in for him than Everton? Maybe Glasner, his manager who he was apparently so unbelievable for in Germany would have wanted him at Palace? It feels very easy to just make out like it's some sort of unfathomable bad luck for the lad, but I can't see how it stand up to even the tiniest level of scrutiny. It seems more likely to me that he's just the latest in an extremely long list of players who some of our fans convince themselves would be fantastic if we just had a different manager/set up/played them in a position they've never actually played in before etc.
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Not really, who else was after Ndiaye when we came in for him mate?

Why didn't palace go after him etc? Well besides the fact we agreed to match the fee Napoli paid for him from Frankfurt and it's unlikely anyone else would go that steep coming off a really bad season...

The agreement we did like a lot of others out of necessity seems to be one of paying over the odds for players due to the terms we were for ed into needing the other party to agree to.

Klopp wanted him the year he turned them down to go to Napoli so sorry twelve months didn't turn a player from that into one whose not good enough for Everton.

Stick a peak Steven in this Dyche side - he looks mediocre and scores about 2-3 in a season. Sheedy would get lambasted for being slow with no right foot.

Systems and styles make players.

Show me any attacking player whose game won't look massively impacted by playing under a system we play a d yeah Dyche does frequently play players out of position - often when there's clear evidence they dont suit that position also.
 
bluestevon said:
Not really, who else was after Ndiaye when we came in for him mate?

Why didn't palace go after him etc? Well besides the fact we agreed to match the fee Napoli paid for him from Frankfurt and it's unlikely anyone else would go that steep coming off a really bad season...

The agreement we did like a lot of others out of necessity seems to be one of paying over the odds for players due to the terms we were for ed into needing the other party to agree to.

Klopp wanted him the year he turned them down to go to Napoli so sorry twelve months didn't turn a player from that into one whose not good enough for Everton.

Stick a peak Steven in this Dyche side - he looks mediocre and scores about 2-3 in a season. Sheedy would get lambasted for being slow with no right foot.

Systems and styles make players.

Show me any attacking player whose game won't look massively impacted by playing under a system we play a d yeah Dyche does frequently play players out of position - often when there's clear evidence they dont suit that position also.
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N'diaye is a totally different thing it doesn't work as a comparison at all really. The point is it is highly unlikely to be as simple as you're making out - he hasn't ended up not scoring a goal for 2 full years because of a set of really unfortunate circumstances. He's a lad who's failed in Italy, isn't doing well here, has never fully broken into the Denmark squad etc. We brought him in because he was one of the few players we could get for no initial outlay, Napoli just wanted shut they'd have happily taken any bid from anyone I reckon. He just doesn't look very good to me. He's not totally awful, but i'm not seeing really promising signs that make me think he could flourish in different circumstances, he looks every inch a bottom half PL squad player, which coincidentally is exactly what he is.
 

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