Ikpeazu

TeaCider said:
I still do think he could have managed 15 for us.

But he started less than half of our games under Warnock, who played a style you'd think would suit him more, and it sounds like he's not going to suit Wilder's plans for the future.
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Has he ever scored 15 in any season?
 
BoroMart said:
Has he ever scored 15 in any season?
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No, but he managed 6 in half a season with Wycombe in the Championship.

We are a better team than Wycombe and they're one of the few sides we could score more goals than.

I know we're starved of it at this club in recent decades, but 15 goals isn't really all that many in the Championship.

9 players managed 15 or more goals last season, 11 the season before, 14 before that etc.

I think Ikpeazu would probably have managed 10-12+ with us this season if he'd played the majority of the games, and that's not bad for a cheap signing.
 
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He was a budget signing. I can only assume that we now have more money available now than we did when we signed this guy?
 
Steer said:
He was a budget signing. I can only assume that we now have more money available now than we did when we signed this guy?
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either that or Gibson didn’t wanna give Warnock too much money. Think now Wilder is here with a long term view we may be prepared to spend a bit more but still wheel and deal at the same time
 
He wasn't 2mil😂

It was 700k with add ons (that I doubt we will pay). I imagine we will get our money back. We don't with most.
 
TeaCider said:
No, but he managed 6 in half a season with Wycombe in the Championship.
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6 in half a season doesn't mean he is capable of 14 in a season. What if someone scored 3 in a quarter of a season?

TeaCider said:
I know we're starved of it at this club in recent decades, but 15 goals isn't really all that many in the Championship.
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agreed, we've had some shocking forward who have failed to reach that mark

TeaCider said:
I think Ikpeazu would probably have managed 10-12+ with us this season if he'd played the majority of the games, and that's not bad for a cheap signing.
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Yeah I think about 10 at a push, but that would hinder not help us. It's like when people were saying Britt was important to us as our top scorer on 10-14 goals, in reality he was holding us back.
 
GazC_MFC said:
Iirc some thought he would be a 15 goal striker
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I thought that, and still don't think I was far off, if he had started most the games like was mentioned, and had we played as well as we expected/ to his style.

I thought he would get fitter mind, but now looking back it probably wasn't just that, it was more a combination of that, and all the running he had to do/ reliance on him, and it clearly knackered him out. This wasn't a bad thing mind, as he knickered the defenders out too, and this was being partially reflected in our results.

We only lost two of the 7 games he started, where he scored a couple and had and assist. We lost to Cov away, where the team was awful, and QPR which we should have won, but they're both top 6, and we managed a draw at Fulham too.

Not counting Birmingham away where he got injured, but it was 0-0 when he went off.

I think for a Champo side, where they want to play it long, he's a good asset and will give the defenders a tough 70 minutes, which hopefully can be capitalized on, or capitalized on with the subs. Not that I want us playing that way mind.
 
TeaCider said:
He cost around £300,000 with add-ons rising to £750,000 according to Warnock, many of those add-ons being difficult to achieve.

Even at the high end of the reported claims, if we assume Warnock was lying, it was £750,000 rising, he cost nowhere near £2m.
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Just read in the press he was 2 mil, price apart still not good enough, very poor player.
 
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