Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Hamer (3 Viewers)

  • Thread starter Covcraig@bury
  • Start date Jun 8, 2023
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 205
  • 206
  • 207
  • 208
  • 209
  • …
  • 212
Next
First Prev 207 of 212 Next Last

Finham

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #7,211
Covcraig@bury said:
Hope we had add one for international appearances £££
Click to expand...
That's just it, a fair portion of the supposed 15m could be after an international cap.

Not sure why so many people wanted Sheff U to lose as we probably stand to gain by a lot financially if they stay up as well!
 
Reactions: steve101 and SBT

Wyken Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #7,212
I've always pronounced his name as Hay-mer, it's not Har-mer is it?

Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: oakey

skyblueeyesrevisited

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,213
Already too good the blades
 

CCFC86

Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,214
Can't stand Sheff Utd fans always been cocky smug bastards. All the best to Hamer but Sheff U can fuck off they might even get less points than Luton.
 
Reactions: Fysnkysc

skybluecam

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,215
fucking crying myself to sleep tonight, beaten to promotion by a shite little team and now our best player has gone to an equally shite team and is scoring bangers yet will probably be playing against us next season.

Hamer scoring one like that at the CBS would kill me off
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,216
skyblue1991 said:
I've always pronounced his name as Hay-mer, it's not Har-mer is it?

Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
I think it’s Har-mer
 
Reactions: mark82

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,217
shmmeee said:
Something something can’t do it in the Prem
Click to expand...
Something something complete
 

CV3SkyBlue

Active Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,218
Sick Boy said:
I think it’s Har-mer
Click to expand...
yeah the Dutch way of saying it is Har-mer
 

RegiswasGod

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,219
skyblue1991 said:
I've always pronounced his name as Hay-mer, it's not Har-mer is it?

Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
In his reveal video at Sheffield Utd, he pronounced it Hay-mer himself.
 
Reactions: oakey

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,220
Matt smith said:
Oh just piss off mate what you gonna do stop me from commenting on a thread
Click to expand...
I take it you do understand the meaning of irony
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,221
RegiswasGod said:
In his reveal video at Sheffield Utd, he pronounced it Hay-mer himself.
Click to expand...

Yeah but he’s Brazilian what does he know?
 
Reactions: RegiswasGod and CV3SkyBlue

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,222
That’s a shit song ! He could have got sent off
 

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,223
Frostie said:
Hammer
Running down the wing...

Click to expand...
Strange song for a central midfielder.
 
Reactions: PUSB-We_are_going_up, SkyBlue_Bear83, TomRad85 and 2 others

Frostie

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,224
mark82 said:
Strange song for a central midfielder.
Click to expand...
Quite.
Not sure they'd ever seen him play before.
Mind you, given the way they lined up, I'm not certain the manager had either!
 
Reactions: Blind-Faith, SkyBlue_Bear83 and Briles

Briles

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,225
I've genuinely not ever took an interest in a cov players career after leaving us but I did watch last night with fascination to see if we were right all along and that he was prem quality, or if it was our sky blue blinkers. He defo belongs there.
 
Reactions: Astute, steve101 and eastwoodsdustman

TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,226
As if social media wasn't embarrassing enough last night, it's now full of people defending themselves for still loving him

He's playing for a shite team who will probably finish about 5/6 places higher than us in the pyramid come the end of the season, not fucking Real Madrid.

Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: Sick Boy and SeaSeeEffCee

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,227
Briles said:
I've genuinely not ever took an interest in a cov players career after leaving us but I did watch last night with fascination to see if we were right all along and that he was prem quality, or if it was our sky blue blinkers. He defo belongs there.
Click to expand...
He's definitely prem quality, unfortunately for him they aren't
 
Reactions: AOM and steve101

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,228
TomRad85 said:
As if social media wasn't embarrassing enough last night, it's now full of people defending themselves for still loving him

He's playing for a shite team who will probably finish about 5/6 places higher than us in the pyramid come the end of the season, not fucking Real Madrid.

Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Some of the comments on that song tweet are embarrassing, who gives a shit what they sing about him, he's their player now.
 

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,229
They were all over the place Forest looked a much better organised team - they don’t know where to play Gus
 
Reactions: Londonccfcfan

TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,230
Mcbean said:
They were all over the place Forest looked a much better organised team - they don’t know where to play Gus
Click to expand...
Which says it all as Forest look like a decent candidate for relegation themselves.

Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
 
N

napolimp

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,231
TomRad85 said:
Which says it all as Forest look like a decent candidate for relegation themselves.

Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

TBF, great year to be in the Prem with Sheff U and Luton there. You only have to be better than one other team.
 
Reactions: TomRad85

Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,232
He’s gonna piss that league even in that terrible team and have a whole load of suitors come end of next year
 

SkyBlueSoul

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,233

From The Athletic:​

​

Gustavo Hamer, Sheffield United’s all-action hero, offers hope in defeat​


By Nick Miller
5h ago
3

If you’re looking for something to take the edge off promotion, losing your two best players before the season even starts will do it.

Perhaps it’s a bleak indication of how much importance is placed on the transfer market these days, but Sheffield United fans would be forgiven for approaching this season with a mild sense of dread after the departures of Sander Berge and Iliman Ndiaye.
The arrivals of Vinicius Souza from Lommel in Belgium and Benie Traore from Sweden’s Hacken may have raised spirits a little, but any Blades supporter who claims to have watched enough of either last season to form a cogent opinion is, if you will excuse the accusation, a great big fibber.

Gustavo Hamer on the other hand… now there’s a signing to get excited about.

To a point, the play-off final last season didn’t matter enormously for Hamer and his former Coventry team-mate Viktor Gyokeres. Sure, losing to Luton Town wasn’t ideal, but both men knew they would be playing at a higher level this season regardless of events at Wembley. So it proved, with Sporting Lisbon signing Gyokeres in mid-July and United, a little belatedly perhaps, moving for Hamer just before their first game of the season.

It was a little surprising that the Dutch-raised Brazilian was still there to be snapped up. He had been one of the best players in the Championship for a couple of seasons, and one of the most eye-catching too. He has a combination of technique and physicality that should make him ideal for the Premier League, so you wonder why someone had not already swooped.


But everyone else’s loss is United’s gain. And even though their 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest on Friday means they have lost their opening pair of games back in the top flight, Hamer’s performance gave them something to cling to.
First, the goal. The ball broke to Hamer on the left corner of the penalty area, and even though on the angle he was probably 25 yards out and there was a melange of defenders in front of him, it felt inevitable as soon as he opened up his body that the ball was destined for the top corner.
What was particularly impressive was the power he managed to generate, his first touch not quite getting the ball from under his feet meaning he had to hit it from a standing position, almost with his weight going backwards rather than forwards. That tells you how good his technique is, being able to fizz a shot as he did with such minimal backlift.

Hamer is a pretty all-action, scruff-of-the-neck player, but that almost overshadows how smart he is. You lost count of the number of times he just seemed to find himself in space, often hoping for a pass that didn’t quite come. That doesn’t happen by accident.
Hamer always seemed to be… there. Like when nobody else was showing for a throw. Give us an option lads… ah, there’s Gus.
He did his bit in defence, too. Morgan Gibbs-White, playing in a sort of No 10-but-off-the-left role for Forest, was given an astonishing amount of space by the United defence and midfield, especially in the early stages. You wouldn’t mind quite so much if he hadn’t played for them in 2021-22: even if they hadn’t bothered to watch him last season, you would already know that he was pretty decent. Hamer had to take it upon himself to step in on a few of those occasions, notably one in the first half where he sprinted back from an attacking position to knock Gibbs-White off the ball.

And in many ways that summed up his performance. He was all over the place, popping up wherever he found pockets of space. He appeared as the left ‘eight’ in a three-man midfield, on the right wing, as a No 10, then sitting deep to ping passes into dangerous areas in the closing stages.

“We played him higher up than possibly he may play for us, but we needed that in this game,” said Paul Heckingbottom afterwards.
There were a few moments where the realities of the Premier League hit him in the face, like a British tourist stepping off a plane in a hot country and recoiling at the soaring temperatures. A couple of times, he controlled the ball in what you might call ‘Championship mode’, assuming he had a second or two to make his next move. Not here, son.

There was another moment when his ambition got the better of him, the ball dropping towards him on the touchline and he spied the opportunity to hit a volleyed, sidewinder pass through the Forest defence. In the event, it skewed wildly off his foot and went out of play in the exact opposite direction he intended.

But even in that moment, he showed something of what Blades fans might enjoy: adventure, creativity, trying things. Ambition is good, even if — especially if, perhaps — you’re in a team expected to struggle.

After the game, Heckingbottom expressed his frustration that United haven’t been able to make more additions, particularly in the final third. When he needed attacking reinforcements, his only options were a couple of 19-year-olds, Andre Brooks and Antwoine Hackford. Until they fix that problem, they will struggle, but at least they know they have made a special addition in midfield.
“These boys will get better,” promised Heckingbottom.

If Hamer continues like this, that won’t be a hollow promise.
 
Reactions: Flying Fokker, Londonccfcfan, Deleted member 9744 and 2 others

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,234
Sounds good for our sell on fee next season when one of the big teams picks him up
 
Reactions: Briles

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,235
napolimp said:
TBF, great year to be in the Prem with Sheff U and Luton there. You only have to be better than one other team.
Click to expand...

The reality is, if we had gone up instead of Luton all we would have done is replace Luton in that theory.
 
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,236
Who even still cares about Hamer? Not me!! That’s for sure! I want everyone to know that I really don’t care!! Not one bit
 
Reactions: shmmeee, Darth Robins, Deleted member 9744 and 1 other person
N

napolimp

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,237
Hobo said:
The reality is, if we had gone up instead of Luton all we would have done is replace Luton in that theory.
Click to expand...

100% agree, not knocking Luton at all, I'd much rather we were up there collecting the pay check, even if it meant a difficult season and relegation.
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,238
napolimp said:
100% agree, not knocking Luton at all, I'd much rather we were up there collecting the pay check, even if it meant a difficult season and relegation.
Click to expand...
The trouble is a lot of teams spend more than the pay cheque and still come back down. I think at least two of last years relegated teams had spent £140 million plus on transfers.
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,239
SBT said:
Who even still cares about Hamer? Not me!! That’s for sure! I want everyone to know that I really don’t care!! Not one bit
Click to expand...
Yeah but you care that some people still care
 
Reactions: duffer, Bernie Rhodes Nose and wingy

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,240
Hobo said:
The trouble is a lot of teams spend more than the pay cheque and still come back down. I think at least two of last years relegated teams had spent £140 million plus on transfers.
Click to expand...
But they got 90 million parachute
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,241
Mcbean said:
But they got 90 million parachute
Click to expand...
Burnley got 46 million (whether that was after paying off contracts previous staff, loss of sponsorships etc not sure)? But that was what they said their income had dropped too through relegation.
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,242
Mcbean said:
But they got 90 million parachute
Click to expand...
Just looked it up teams get about 45m year one, 40 million year two and 17million year three.
 

baldy

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,243
I’ve got a bro who’s a Forest ST holder & he still maintains,after seeing him a few times on TV & last night,that Hamer’s ‘overrated’ & that ‘he scores goals but does fuck all else,passes go astray & gets muscled off the ball’
Mind you,I didn’t help last night by sending an MC Hammer gif after finding out Gus had scored
 

Essexrobbie

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 19, 2023
  • #7,244
I so hope we get them in the FA cup and put one over them.
 

Covcraig@bury

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 20, 2023
  • #7,245
 
Reactions: SkyblueTexan, Otis, RegTheDonk and 4 others
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 205
  • 206
  • 207
  • 208
  • 209
  • …
  • 212
Next
First Prev 207 of 212 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Share:
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
  • Default Style
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
Menu
Log in

Register

  • Home
  • Forums
    • New posts
    • Search forums
  • What's new
    • New posts
    • Latest activity
  • Members
    • Current visitors
  • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?