well he certainly wasn't the dynamic player he was 3 years earlier. But he was always technically quite limited.
At least there is a realistic prospect with him.
Connolly was eager, he was just more eager for beer and the pally fanny which hindered his performance. If he sorts his life out, he's still got talent and can come good at this level.
only if there career is injured. There is no mitigation against putting all your eggs in one basket with a 15m forward for him to spend a year with an ACL and your team having to revert to your league one level backup CF. You just have to write the season off because of the injured player.
exactly, even if you fail to go up, you can offset the average players by selling the best of them at profit then reinvest again. It's all just a numbers game. I'll support whichever way we go. If we spend 12m on Gyokeres I'll back it, if we spend 11.5 on Forss, Hoppe, Larson and Muniz (loan) I'll back that as well, I'll just be a little more nervous every time Gyokeres hits the deck than if 1 of 4 hit the deck.Hoping these players are young, hungry and as well as playing for Boro are thinking like Tav - putting themselves in the shop window. Rattle the goals in they could (will) move to a bigger club.......which means we make £££££, they make ££££ and everyone's happy. And if they do rattle the goals in, were going up simple as.
BUT. If they are average, and they move on with an undistinguished Boro career, very small gamble. Likelihood of all of them being crap is unlikely.......is it ???
Let's see.
Whilst Britt didnt score as many as he should of, he still did put the ball in the back of the net 161 games 47 goals is still not the worst return considering the styles he played under, he would score a lot more in a wilder type team, yes his overall play is very ltd but his record is still not too bad in all honesty for the Boro considering he was a lone striker for most of his time here.
And he would have been if we’d had someone alongside him - clearly wasn’t Southgate’s signing as Alves could never ever work in the system GS wanted to play. Losing Fabio Rochembach and not replacing with a similar player, as said above, was also why he struggled
GS has said he did not buy he was bought for GS - dangerous.
Had the same thoughts when we were signing quality players and Coventry were signing 3 for our 1 back under Robson .
These games are coming thick and fast. They’ll all have a part to play! 5 subs out of seven.. damn right you want fresh legs coming off the bench! Lots of options with the two big guys and the two finishers. Great stuff!! Fingers crossed!!
You don't spend 15m on a striker to bang it in against Burton, Rotherham and Birmingham, you spend big money to make a difference in the big important games against your promotion rivals.
I can’t believe you still think this.
time will tell. By his own admittance his head was in the wrong place, girlfriend issues, on top of that his confidence went. He'll end up as a championship player within a couple of years.
Yes classic flat track bully
I would argue that you can be selective based on your opinion on a player, hence picking holes, IMO yes not worth 15m but that was the price we paid, he still scored virtually 1 in 3 in a bad style of play team and if he showed more composure should really of been more 1 in 2.
He might, but the game is played in 4 zones and in possession is only one of them. He's next to useless out of possession and in positive and negative transitions. So Wilder wouldn't ever pick him as a striker given the choice. He might score 15, but he would be too detrimental to the teams shape in and out of possession and the total goals scored and conceded.
absolutely this. We shot ourselves in the foot really with that bit of business. We could have spent that 8m difference on an attacking midfielder to feed Bamford and gone up