I’ll try to answer some parts. When he arrived with us Simms was big , clumsy , poor ball control , powerful shot that was about it. They worked hard with him and in his 2nd season it payed off and he scored all those goals, many were decent strikes, equally many were earned by brushing aside smaller , weaker defenders. The best England youth prospects in that year were already playing at u23 , Simms was still playing u18 , he did get selected for an England squad but never got to start, I can’t remember the reason.
So no he doesn’t tick the boxes of England youth, playing up an age, playing with the first team. And for me his biggest weakness is his heading and aerial ability, it is so weak and almost nonexistent for someone his size. I don’t ever recall him scoring a headed goal or battering defenders in the air. His biggest asset is that he’s seemingly got ” muscle memory” in his legs , if he gets in a goal scoring position he just does the same thing again and scores . He’s still a work in progress, and continues to develop , I really think that “ sometime in the future” he’s going to put it all together in a season and blast in 20 plus goals and earn a big money transfer ……whether that’s with us in the PL is something I’m less sure of !
