GT49er
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Lots of players have scored a good goal or two for us, without ever kicking on.
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[Football] Percy Tau
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London Irish
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But he's played, like, 0 games since that goal? Not really much opportunity.
GT49er
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More opportunity than Moheto Molango, who played the same number of matches and scored as many goals (and not in a friedly)! Tau was with us for longer, and had much more opportunity to impress in training. I don't know why people are bothering about this - the manager looks at Tau, decides he's not good enough and the recruitment team find him a good home elsewhere; all good, not a problem.
London Irish
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You're assuming that it was the club that took the decision? Do we know this for sure? Why bother playing him in the pre-season game, in which he did well, if he was already surplus to plans?
It was his first touch that always looked off it to me. He had decent movement and could score a few goals in leagues where more space is available, but I remember a few sub appearances last season where the ball didn't stick with him upfront and put us under a lot of pressure - this is a very underrated asset of Maupay's imo, despite him not being the biggest build he can hold up play up front.
GT49er
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Maybe the move to Egypt wasn't a done deal at the time? Maybe there hadn't even been an approach.
London Irish
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I think that's likely because you don't play players who are moving on due to injury risk. Anyway a shame, but these are always difficult decisions for a player Tau's age who is not playing regularly, he could have stuck it out here and done a Duffy, the raw talent was there IMO
Connolly seems to have lasted
Shooting Star
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Not really. He joined us when we were a PL club finishing with around 40 points, and 3 years on we’re in exactly the same position. And when he joined we shipped him out on loan, probably because his level of ability didn’t suit us - and apparently still doesn’t.
But anyway, like others have said many of our other signings have pulled off - I’m guilty of remembering the Locadia’s, Anyone’s and Tau’s and ignoring the Veltman’s etc.
All the best Percy.
Jake Forster-Caskey.
Shooting Star
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Ah yes, true about the work permit - my bad.
Re: improvement, I’ll believe it when I see that points tally rising above 41 at the end of the current season!
sjamesb3466
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If you don't think we've progressed in the last three years then I suspect your view of football is very different to the majority of us who can see clear progress
sydney
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there's a fair bit of irony there , to Saffer fans we are/will be the team that brought him to the prem , we didn't give him a chance in their eyes and they have a passion about the game that rivals any brazilian or frenchman , we will be baddies for a while but i am enjoying winding them up on FB.....bless 'em.
Interesting take on this move from Benni McCarthy - basically very critical of Percy Tau for not staying and fighting for a place in the premier league. A bit different from all the Gram Potter has ruined his career, stuff we mostly hear from SA.
https://www.kickoff.com/news/articl...r-south-africans-in-the-premier-league/704512
https://www.kickoff.com/news/articl...r-south-africans-in-the-premier-league/704512
sydney
tinky ****in winky
hmm well yes after some SA fans were calling Taylor Richards a cow , which is a rather derogatory , term i called one of them a clueless twatt for which i got a 30 day ban......thats good isn't it...
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
Scored 2 last night for Al Ahly in Egypt.