He always worked hard at Vale but he lacks that cutting edge and intelligence to be a top L1 striker who will score 20+ goals per season, in fact he has only achieved that feat once in his entire career
Tom Pope played 176 league games for Vale and scored 59 league goals for us - nigh on a record of 1 in 3 which isn't a completely terrible ratio for a striker in the lower leagues. However, 31 of those league goals came in our promotion campaign from L2 when we had a decent side for that level...
Bury fans would drive Tom Pope to us. I asked Vale fans about him and they responded either with this ":woot:" or by simply saying he's awful. Yet you people will not want Leon Best but will want a striker who scored 6 times in 36 games last year. Christ alive.
Perhaps they've announce this so early that they're hoping of having another deal done before 5pm. Just a thought.
Happy with Wilson coming in. He's played 200 games more than Reda so the situation isn't exactly the same as I'll play 3 games then my knee will ping off and hit someone in the crowd.
Under Pressley we lost Joe Murphy, Moussa, Wilson, Adams, Christie and Mark Marshall.
Under Thorn we lost Platt, McPake, Clingan, Cranie, Eastwood, Bigi, Keogh, Deegan
Pressley's signings at the same time in 2014/15:
Danny Swanson
Jim O'Brien
Reda Johnson
Shaun Miller
Danny Pugh
Ryan Allsop
Mohammed Coulibaly
Andy Thorn's signings at the same time in 2012/13:
Stephen Elliott
John Fleck
Kevin Malaga
William Edjenguele
Kevin Kilbane
Callum Ball
Reece Brown...