Two months away? King out
Esse was starting every week for Millwall before his move to Palace
There's not a lot to make you happy if you wouldn't be happy with the signing of Esse. Gets time with a mid table Prem side. Young and fast. They paid nearly 15m for him and are strong in his positions.
He's been playing for their u21s so will be fit, it's not like he's been sat doing nothing
Another plus. We need players who can hit the ground running, everything points to Esse having a good chance of doing that. It's why I'm skeptical of the Manneh rumours.
Cant remember the last time they passed to each other or worked down the corner. Its very odd
Unless he turns out to be shit.
Their left back got booked at the weekend.
He's coming to the right place then. We have many that would join in with celebrating any goals against us in the future.
I don’t think opposition tactics would matter if we still had the same energy in performances to be fair.
Both Tats and Wagner went off soon afterwards. Rudoni did a few bits, but nothing of now that I remember.
The options off the bench have been abysmal recently. Esse will get us off our seats just give him time. Just hope he doesnt try too much like Rudoni.
100% - I also don’t think Sakamoto is a top end championship winger. It’s been my unpopular opinion for a while now.
Sakamoto is good enough to be in a top end squad but shouldn't really be essentially playing every minute when we are using wingers.
Top end squad player, absolutely. My ideal role for Sakamoto is to come off the bench, inject energy for last 20-30 minutes and get good crosses in the box if we’re chasing a late goal, for example.
Top end squad player, absolutely. My ideal role for Sakamoto is to come off the bench, inject energy for last 20-30 minutes and get good crosses in the box if we’re chasing a late goal, for example.
Wrexham game, he was the best player for us, the assist for EMC and his goal were top class but he’s basically done nothing since.
We’re more than happy to criticise strikers when we’re not scoring but it’s a wider effort and in the modern game the goal scoring is nearly just as high for wingers and AMs than strikers.
Here’s a stat: Both Kitching and Thomas have had more shots than Sakamoto. There’s only 3 outfield players who have shot less than him: MVE, Grimes and JDS with comparable minutes played.
Easiest charity bet made @fatso
He scores v low xG chances and ironically, misses the higher xG chances he gets.
Looks like EMC has started shooting from outside the box which to me doesn’t look like his forte, but clearly he’s done some work on it and backs himself.
He’s really stepped up in recent weeks, he’s by far our most potent attacking threat atm. Simms is doing a good job of converting chances but we all know he’s pretty useless in build up play.
Might need some more work on his shooting from distance as nearly all of his goals for us have been poachers’ efforts, but I agree he has really improved this season.
That was a different match iirc, one I was referring to was an FA Cup tie last JanTo be fair they also sang “what a waste of money” and “Bangura-Williams, he’s better than you”
1 thing that Saka has missing is pace so he has to keep dragging it back and forth to try and beat his man
