Morgan Rodgers

BoroMart said:
There isn't such a thing as a 'natural goalscorer'. It's a skill that people learn.
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Not necessarily. It's not something anyone can just learn. You have to have the natural attributes to do it.

All footballers are at a level where they can kick a ball and it will go to the place they want it to go but some are better at specific things like scoring goals or playing through balls. It's usually the things you can't really learn from practice like vision, awareness and decision making that make the best players the best. Some players make decisions based on thought and others make them on instinct. The instinctive player make the right decisions quicker so are going to be better finishers because time is something that you don't get a lot of.

Obviously, you are correct that nobody is naturally just a goalscorer but there are definitely players that are better because of their attributes rather than because of their practicing.
 
They're obviously confident they'll get a tune out of him as a centre forward. Carrick and co. will know the attributes he has, but sounds like he's also very much still developing.

Interestingly I think Blackpool played him as a 9 a fair few times too so it's not just our staff who seem to think he has something about him in that position.

I guess we'll see. Can't see him being prolific, but he could do a "Watmore" and develop a knack of chipping in fairly regularly (another former wide player with no previous track record of being a goalscorer).
 
Nano said:
Not necessarily. It's not something anyone can just learn. You have to have the natural attributes to do it.

All footballers are at a level where they can kick a ball and it will go to the place they want it to go but some are better at specific things like scoring goals or playing through balls. It's usually the things you can't really learn from practice like vision, awareness and decision making that make the best players the best. Some players make decisions based on thought and others make them on instinct. The instinctive player make the right decisions quicker so are going to be better finishers because time is something that you don't get a lot of.

Obviously, you are correct that nobody is naturally just a goalscorer but there are definitely players that are better because of their attributes rather than because of their practicing.
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I don’t agree. Nobody comes out of the womb knowing how to kick a ball. Finishing, decision making, finding space. These are largely decisions made in your head and anyone can be trained to do this. If you spend 10K hours practising 1-vs-1 you’ll be supreme at it.

Haaland is seen as a top class finisher, but he didn’t inherit that from his dad who scored less than 2 goals a season in English football. What his dad failed to give him in genes, he taught him
 
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