Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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He scored...kinda.
Now, you say VAR is useless...
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On SSN this morning they showed another angle. It didn't hit his arm, it went in off his face.
He scored...kinda.
Now, you say VAR is useless...
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Potter know best Some decisions in football do seem strange I would of rather seen him given a chance this season than having to put up with Connolly’s tantrums and lacklustre displays.Getting some very nice ratings from the fans: https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/player-ratings.135718/
Hope it wasnt a mistake to sell him... from watching him talk and play (mainly in the Swedish U21) I think he will turn into a great player one day.
Potter know best Some decisions in football do seem strange I would of rather seen him given a chance this season than having to put up with Connolly’s tantrums and lacklustre displays.
Getting some very nice ratings from the fans: https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/player-ratings.135718/
Hope it wasnt a mistake to sell him... from watching him talk and play (mainly in the Swedish U21) I think he will turn into a great player one day.
Agree with that - for a good while we've only really had Steve Cook and maybe Russell Martin to whom you might look at as "ones that got away" having been on our books as youngsters and had decent careers with many top flight appearances. But even then the regret is minimal as we've had an embarrassment of riches at CB for god knows how long now.I suppose it's just a fact of having an academy with a lot of players. You'll have to release a lot of them because you can't give them the game time to develop, they find a club and environment which is right for them, they go on to do well. It doesn't mean it was a mistake to release them.
You can use the loan system of course, but the players wishes have got to come into it, and we'll still be paying some of the wages. Plus some players will only properly kick on when they're standing on their own two feet.
Good luck to Viktor
Nah. Fans know Justice knows best.
Getting some very nice ratings from the fans: https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/player-ratings.135718/
Hope it wasnt a mistake to sell him... from watching him talk and play (mainly in the Swedish U21) I think he will turn into a great player one day.
Listening to reports from the match yesterday, he somehow managed to miss two one-on-one chances before he got his goal. Clearly his finishing is not better than Zeqiri (his replacement) or Connolly.
I thought his all round game was much better than Connolly’s that year they had in the u23. I’d imagine we have a pretty healthy sell on clause.
I suppose it's just a fact of having an academy with a lot of players. You'll have to release a lot of them because you can't give them the game time to develop, they find a club and environment which is right for them, they go on to do well. It doesn't mean it was a mistake to release them.
You can use the loan system of course, but the players wishes have got to come into it, and we'll still be paying some of the wages. Plus some players will only properly kick on when they're standing on their own two feet.
Good luck to Viktor
I think more accurately it means that we have to now accept that inevitably some mistakes will happen. And this may turn out to be one of them.
I am of the belief that in the long term attitude and application will generally be as important as raw talent (see for instance, Patrick Bamford) unless that talent is truly prodigious. And Gyokeres seems to have those attributes, as well as sufficient, if not excess, talent.
Possibly a mistake, but we can't know. If he'd stayed at the Albion he wouldn't have the game time to develop. We could have sent him out on loan for the next 1,2 or 3 years, but we can't hold onto players forever in the hope they might come to something. (Chelsea can fund paying the lions share of the wages of vast number of loanees until they're 26, we can't)
Best not to look at it as a mistake. A certain amount of this is inevitable.
I don't know how much Coventry paid for Gyokeres, but hope we've got a good sell-on clause!
Football fans.
Give these things time...
Form is temporary.
He might be a 25 a goal season man. But he probably won't be.
If his talent was that obvious, he would still be here... and that's a fact.
Football fans.
Give these things time...
Form is temporary.
He might be a 25 a goal season man. But he probably won't be.
If his talent was that obvious, he would still be here... and that's a fact.