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I know man but it's not like there isn't a history of SUCCESFUL strikers from Holland flopping here-plus he wasn't THAT young! Or at least, yeah ok he was younger so he only got 5 or 6-but zilch? You don't pay what we paid with that background, surely?

Wouldn't the fire make it harder/burn his little feet?

At a poor level. Frankly, you just don't spend that much on a player who can go goal-less in the Dutch league! Although as I think as someone pointed out when I first said this, "but he scored in the cup!"

Were you going to type "Fancy pants supporters"?

Plenty of signs that he wasn't a prolific striker from his history, too: 2017–2019 Schalke 04 7 (1) 2017–2018 → SV Sandhausen (loan) 15 (1) 2019–2020 VVV-Venlo 22 (0) Honestly thought he looked clumsy in his Turkish highlights vids. A flair player with pace who can do the unexpected-if...

This fella is:

For Oli Tanner, Just 40k? Nope, we're shopping at sodding Harrods now!

Tempo's quicker there!

About once a game he does a lovely bit of link up work with his back to goal that, purely in terms of the way he moves, really reminds me of Regis!

Absolutely. What really concerned me before we'd seen anyone play was that we kept reading about big clubs abroad (in particular) pulling out of going for players based on us blowing them out the water with transfer fees (Sakamoto/MVE/Wright/Simms maybe? had mentions of this). It seems that word...

Reckon that's partly heads dropping. Although passing it back and back and back when we're right on the edge of their area wide is clearly not what Robins wants, so hopefully he can fix that for one thing.

That wasn't great, but he wasn't the only one involved in that goal.

One factor is the players don't seem to really know each other (contrast with Kelly's ball to Godden for goal) and we need to built team spirit/chemistry. Get them down Fizzy Moon for a bonding exercise!

I think just that we were paying that much so he must be good, he had very good form against the top 6 in Turkey, that he was a US international, etc. I agree with you though, awful league to recruit from and especially at that price. My partner said this evening: "I don't like our team this...

So he at least sees what we see, now he needs to fix it. Ayari has to be a part of that.

I said it at the time we signed him but I think the consensus was that the Turkish League was about on a par with The Championship, if not slightly better. Looks laughable now. Still hope he can come good-or better: he has attributes that we are not using very well and his head seems to have...

No.

So did Palmer. Brought some good stuff back...

I think that is slightly harsh. He delivered one particularly good ball and was a constant threat going forwards as well as working hard. The Cardiff commentators said he was our best player.

I honestly did think that may have been a factor!