Latte Lath

ThatFragranceGuy said:
He's hardly bossing games for Milan is he? He came on for 18 minutes and who scored rated him 6.18, where 16th place udinese boredrawed with 19th place Cagliari ,both winless this year and not looking much better than we are so far.


Unfortunately that's going to be the thing for all time now. The classic "there's a player in there!", and if MC had just a few more games with payero he would have become Maradona
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I shouldn’t post this as he’ll smash in an hat trick against us. Ashley “just needs a run of games” Fletcher has been a revelation since leaving.

2021–Watford3(0)
2022→ New York Red Bulls (loan)7(0)
2022–2023→ Wigan Athletic (loan)26(2)
2023–→ Sheffield Wednesday (loan)6(0
 
Alzi said:
I shouldn’t post this as he’ll smash in an hat trick against us. Ashley “just needs a run of games” Fletcher has been a revelation since leaving.

2021–Watford3(0)
2022→ New York Red Bulls (loan)7(0)
2022–2023→ Wigan Athletic (loan)26(2)
2023–→ Sheffield Wednesday (loan)6(0
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Fair enough.

Might as well get Latte Lath in the reserves, see if we can claw back a third of his transfer fee in Jan? Or loan him out. He's had his chance. 318 minutes is more than enough for any player.
 
atypical_boro said:
Yeah but there are extremes aren't there. Writing off ELL after 4 games because he hasn't equalled Akpom's goal a game record is also foolish.
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I'm not writing off Latte by the way. I think he's shown enough that there's hope. His finishing ability (or lack of) does concern me though.

But we can't just turn around and say "look at Akpom" every time someone says a player is poor. That's not really a substantiation as to why we should keep a player.
 
B_G said:
I'm not writing off Latte by the way. I think he's shown enough that there's hope. His finishing ability (or lack of) does concern me though.

But we can't just turn around and say "look at Akpom" every time someone says a player is poor. That's not really a substantiation as to why we should keep a player.
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Akpom is a shining example of how players, especially at this level, are often neither 'amazing' or 'terrible'. It is rarely black or white. Plenty of strikers in this division probably have the very basic competences needed for the sort of season Chuba had last year, if a coach knows how to motivate them, get them believing in their own ability, playing to their strengths etc.

Sure, it won't happen very often but from what I've seen of ELL he has every chance of becoming a semi-prolific goalscorer for us if we don't all set out to crush his confidence, purely to send a message to Scott/Gibson about how rubbish the recruitment is or whatever.
 
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atypical_boro said:
Akpom is a shining example of how players, especially at this level, are often neither 'amazing' or 'terrible'. It is rarely black or white. Plenty of strikers in this division probably have the very basic competences needed for the sort of season Chuba had last year, if a coach knows how to motivate them, get them believing in their own ability, playing to their strengths etc.

Sure, it won't happen very often but from what I've seen of ELL he has every chance of becoming a semi-prolific goalscorer for us if we don't all set out to crush his confidence, to send a message to Scott/Gibson about how rubbish the recruitment is or whatever.
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You can't blame the fans for crushing his confidence. Missing about 10 chances for every goal is doing that
 
Latte Lath could do with employing that life coach Akpom employed at the beginning of last season. He just needs a few zoom calls with him, a little notebook to write down some outrageous goals for the season ahead into and the job should be a good one.
 
B_G said:
You can't blame the fans for crushing his confidence. Missing about 10 chances for every goal is doing that
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Not saying I am, but I just think we need to be mindful of giving players a chance. He's been given big shoes to fill (whether its Archer's/Akpom's or both) and his work rate cannot be faulted.
 
atypical_boro said:
Fair enough.

Might as well get Latte Lath in the reserves, see if we can claw back a third of his transfer fee in Jan? Or loan him out. He's had his chance. 318 minutes is more than enough for any player.
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I hope Lath does do the business here. Whether or not the fans "get behind him" or "see a player in there" is largely irrelevant though.

If he is good enough for this level he'll ultimately do well, if he isn't he won't.
 
Alzi said:
I hope Lath does do the business here. Whether or not the fans "get behind him" or "see a player in there" is largely irrelevant though.

If he is good enough for this level he'll ultimately do well, if he isn't he won't.
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Agree with that, its on him to prove himself. Personally I will refrain from making judgements this early on him though.
 
https://x.com/matt_rowney/status/1703360711106117831?s=46&t=LY1va89TvH4wUczOvcRrZw

A little link from Twitter for 2 of Lath’s chances. As someone has said above, it’s getting to the point where you expect him to miss.

I get the argument that foreign players need time to adapt and settle in… but… how does moving to a foreign country/new team explain him falling over his own feet and not even getting a proper shot off in both of these chances?
 
Inoffthebar said:
https://x.com/matt_rowney/status/1703360711106117831?s=46&t=LY1va89TvH4wUczOvcRrZw

A little link from Twitter for 2 of Lath’s chances. As someone has said above, it’s getting to the point where you expect him to miss.

I get the argument that foreign players need time to adapt and settle in… but… how does moving to a foreign country/new team explain him falling over his own feet and not even getting a proper shot off in both of these chances?
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Confidence.
 
Could he play as one of the 3 behind? or as part of a front 3?

His build up and hold up play seem to be decent, he's obviously got the pace. I think he'd be great coming in at the back post a bit like stuani or forss have done in the past - he needs to arriving in the box to apply the final touch without thinking, not running 30 yards through on goal giving himself time to think himself out of it
 
Inoffthebar said:
Respectfully disagree. He’s just not a good finisher.

Happy for you to dig this post up in a years time if I’m proved wrong 👍🏼 just can’t see it
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Well fair enough, horses for courses. I know this a level or two down from the Championship, but rewatching this only reinforces my view that if someone can help him find his mojo we might have a half decent striker. If I had to guess, he'll never reach the levels Akpom did last season though.
 
I think he's got decent movement and seems to have a knack for finding himself in decent positions/able to get away from defenders with a bit of pace, but he is an absolutely atrocious finisher and has zero composure, which sadly are the attributes he'll need to have any success as a striker. If he was better at the latter skills though, he wouldn't be signing for a Championship side for 4/5m (or whatever it was)

I think he'll always graft and will get a lot of goodwill from fans because of that, to a certain extent, but any team relying on him to be their number one striker are going to struggle to score enough goals across the full season.
 
16 days is a long time in football?

I know last night's goal doesn't discount every opinion in this thread, but he now has 3 goals to his name. I think he might start on Saturday. I reckon he's good for double figures this season at least in the league (maybe 12-15).
 
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atypical_boro said:
Latte Lath is fairly quick and lively, work rate cannot be faulted in my opinion. He has missed a host of chances when through with only the keeper to beat, and I would only put that down to confidence. He has clearly still not found his feet but he is getting into the positions. I honestly feel he’ll get goals if we persevere.
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Just wanted to give this little nugget of wisdom a hoof. :cool:
 
atypical_boro said:
16 days is a long time in football?

I know last night's goal doesn't discount every opinion in this thread, but he now has 3 goals to his name. I think he might start on Saturday. I reckon he's good for double figures this season at least in the league (maybe 12-15).
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And this one.:cool:
 
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