2021/22 Salomón Rondón

[Milkman]

Anybody got a YouTube compilation of his best bits in a blue shirt?

 

[rochdaleblue]

True but booing him off I don't really understand

It’s embarrassing really. The fault lies squarely with benetiz for signing him despite it being obvious he is finished playing at this level. I’ve less respect for the likes of Tosun who has the opportunity to move but stays here to pick up a fat pay cheque.

 

[rochdaleblue]

If I was offered 30 or 40k per week knowing that my legs have gone and having played almost non-competitive football in china for 2 years, I would sign up in a heartbeat, so no blame attached to Rondon here.
But watching him with his socks rolled down for most of the second half and extra time, losing every ball in the air and losing possession every time the ball was played to him, and reacting so slowly when the ball was squared to him on the 6 yard line, and being too tired to close down the hull defenders, you wonder how on earth he stayed on the pitch for most of the 120 minutes.
He will not get any better, but Benitez will still make him our 1st choice forward with DCL and Richi unavailable, despite all evidence showing that it is a waste of time.

Dobbin or Simms should be ahead of him in the pecking order.

 

[jaspercabbage]

Dobbin or Simms should be ahead of him in the pecking order.

Absolutely, Rondon is not the future. In fact he isn't really the present.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Oh look, another £70m cock end.

You seem lovely

 

[toffeeblue9]

Dobbin or Simms should be ahead of him in the pecking order.

Dobbin isn't a striker. He's a wide forward or a 2nd striker. He may well be talented but he isn't the lad to lead the line.

 

[windymiller]

Anybody got a YouTube compilation of his best bits in a blue shirt?

Yep, here it is







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[BirkenheadBlue]

Anybody got a YouTube compilation of his best bits in a blue shirt?

 

[rochdaleblue]

Dobbin isn't a striker. He's a wide forward or a 2nd striker. He may well be talented but he isn't the lad to lead the line.

He would do better than Rondon. At least he offers pace and is a willing runner.

 

[windymiller]

Absolutely, Rondon is not the future. In fact he isn't really the present.

I'm starting to wonder if he was even the past

 

[Littlesue]

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I once saw him score an hatrick, don't know what he was on that day

 

[Milkman]

He's still young, don't write him off yet.

 

[toffeeblue9]

He would do better than Rondon. At least he offers pace and is a willing runner.

Not for me mate. May as well say that Townsend would be a better option up front, or Gordon.

I'm all for giving Simms a go up there, but not Dobbin. Dobbin should be given minutes in the wide areas or else off a main striker.

 

[windymiller]

Not for me mate. May as well say that Townsend would be a better option up front, or Gordon.

I'm all for giving Simms a go up there, but not Dobbin. Dobbin should be given minutes in the wide areas or else off a main striker.

Or, we could just stop lumping it up to the big man as our one and only tactic and try and play another way.

 

[rochdaleblue]

Not for me mate. May as well say that Townsend would be a better option up front, or Gordon.

I'm all for giving Simms a go up there, but not Dobbin. Dobbin should be given minutes in the wide areas or else off a main striker.

I appreciate he isn’t a central striker. But he offers more than Rondon as at least he has pace and is a willing runner. Let’s face it what we’ve seen so far benetiz isn’t adverse to playing players out of position.