obviously I wasn't serious, I just dnt think he should start at this point, out of all the new signings he is the one I dn't see fitting in our system.
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obviously I wasn't serious, I just dnt think he should start at this point, out of all the new signings he is the one I dn't see fitting in our system.
He fits, he just needs to be given time.obviously I wasn't serious, I just dnt think he should start at this point, out of all the new signings he is the one I dn't see fitting in our system.
Strongly disagree that anyone is kneejerking over Soldado, no one has completely written him off from what I've read. It's a valid discussion.
After all that's over £50m there which, so far hasn't performed to the level we would have hoped.
He hasn't scored as freely as we'd have liked but it's early days and he has made his contributions. But, he hasn't scored in open play in the league thus far, so people have the right to ask the question. He will and should start against West Ham.Anyone expecting miracles in the first few games from a 21 year old who doesn't speak English is frankly unreasonable. And to criticise Soldado's quite sizeable contribution to our effort is pretty short sighted. Let's all just chill out and look at the bigger picture. If at the end of the season he's still on the same Goals total then there may be a concern. But right now we don't have anything to worry about.
So much knee jerking on twitter last night about Lamela. He's barely played for us FFS. Same with Soldado in that other thread. For a club that has waited so long to get back into the top positions in the league you would think our fans would have learnt a little bit more patience.
Free Bulldog puppy thrown into the deal!!Sell him him to QPR in January along with Soldado - 10m special price
Not hat-tricks, no skills, nothing. Fucking failures
I stand by what I said, after the departure of Zeman and the dismantling of his all out attacking system Lamela only had 3 assists and 5 goals in the 4 months after Zeman's departure as opposed to the 10 goals and 2 assists he had when Zeman was there. This highlights two things firstly the fact that Lamela had less assists and more goals in the first half of the season under Zeman shows that he basically did play as a striker and the 5 goals and 3 assists show that under the interim coach Aurelio Andreazzoli he played as more of a winger which is the position he would be playing in our system meaning that we cannot expect the same output as the first half of last season as the tactics were totally different to the way we play. That is why I believe that 30 million is way over the top even if the fee we paid was based on potential or based on the player we think he can become it to is over the top as rarely do players turn out the way we think they will.No sure if trolling or serious
I stand by what I said, after the departure of Zeman and the dismantling of his all out attacking system Lamela only had 3 assists and 5 goals in the 4 months after Zeman's departure as opposed to the 10 goals and 2 assists he had when Zeman was there. This highlights two things firstly the fact that Lamela had less assists and more goals in the first half of the season under Zeman shows that he basically did play as a striker and the 5 goals and 3 assists show that under the interim coach Aurelio Andreazzoli he played as more of a winger which is the position he would be playing in our system meaning that we cannot expect the same output as the first half of last season as the tactics were totally different to the way we play. That is why I believe that 30 million is way over the top even if the fee we paid was based on potential or based on the player we think he can become it to is over the top as rarely do players turn out the way we think they will.
Original post: Very overrated footballer scored 15 goals and had 5 assists in a season which he played the majority of under the great Zdenek Zeman who is essentially the Arsene Wenger of Serie A in that he has a group of footballing principles which he will never abandon. Has been playing the same 433 all out attacking brand of football since the late 80s where the full backs are wingers, the front 3 are all strikers and the middle 3 are constantly making runs forward without a care in the world for defending, which is left up to the 2 centre backs and the goalkeeper who is essentially a sweeper. 30 million wasted if you ask me, shame.