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That's the point, he evidently no longer can be bothered. Bruce either needs to change something or drop him. Having a player that's not trying isn't acceptable, obviously.

I mean, if we don't have a target man, then don't play a formation that requires a fucking target man

^ Can you blame him? He doesn’t stand a chance in this position. You can't "not try", but I sympathise entirely.

From what I saw today he looked like he's going through the motions putting in minimal effort.

ASM is literally the only player in the team with an "attack first" mentality. Such a negative, self-defeating team.

He's playing like a defeated man at the moment. I sympathise with what's being expected of him, but if he's not trying he needs to be out of the team. From the 70-ish minutes I saw, he offered absolutely nothing and was constantly flat footed when the ball came near him.

Not saying he's a bad player, but this is a staggeringly bad signing for many reasons.

About as predictable a performance and outcome as you could expect so far.

Ah that early season realisation that you're in for another season of utter trash.

This is in the "in isolation, I'm okay with this", category for me.

Kaka does tend to get an inordinate amount of ridicule for being optimistic, mind, even if it is a bit sickly Not even like that optimism always turns out to be wrong either.

Charnley clearly on Futbin filtering "Future Stars" players.

Remember that, in all likelihood, nobody outside of the handful of people directly involved in the deal knows absolutely anything at all, if anybody is even involved in anything at all to begin with... It'll either happen or it won't, but constantly refreshing on here, twitter and wherever else is always just going to be an exercise in frustration because literally everyone is clueless, attention seeking or agenda-driven Or a massive cunt. Mainly massive cunts when it comes to football fans on the internet. Believe that. Cheers Big Dog.

He was, but he appeared for us 4 times

Also, the fact that in 4 pages, the name Ameobi has only been uttered once says an awful lot about the amount of shit strikers we've had to endure over the years

As alluded to in the OP, I think it's fairer to judge a player that's had a good number of games, and failed, more so than a player that hasn't. Of course, you could argue that they didn't get the number of games they did because they were quickly found out, but when the number of games is so small it just skews any real comparison as a fan. I mean, they technically could have had their career worst performances all bundled into consecutive matches For that reason, I just don't consider people like Xisco (9 appearances), Robinson (11 appearances), Dalglish (11 appearances), Guivarch (4 appearances) etc. as a choice. Numbers are from Wiki, so may not be totally accurate but won't be too far out. Since I've been watching football, those that have had a fair number of games and stood out for me as the worst are Joselu, Smith, Andersson and Riviere. I'm inclined to just omit Smith from consideration since most of his time for us was spent in midfield. Wasn't he already a withdrawn midfielder for Man Utd following his serious injury, prior to signing for us? That leaves Joselu, Andersson and Riviere. In all honesty I can't really disagree with any one of them coming out on top, but my pick would be Joselu (very closely followed by Andersson). He's played the most games of the three of them, and over that number of games has looked consistently poor. He's had a few 6-7/10 performances, but it's an extreme exception rather than anything close to the norm. I also think that Rondon's performances this season all but cemented my opinion of Joselu, since the difference between the two is staggering, considering they are supposed to perform the same role. Finally, special mention to Tomasson; I personally don't consider him for this list since he wasn't signed to be a striker, and got thrown in at the deep end coming in from a weaker division as a young player. The fact he went on to have a pretty impressive career suggests he was simply played out of position.

Scored on his debut (in a loss), as well IIRC.

His technical ability was apparent from the start, but he came across as our weakest defender of our centre backs in my opinion. Certainly doesn't seem the case now, mind.

Schar didn't particularly cover himself in glory immediately prior to the foul, mind.

Brainless. When a single moment undoes a positive (albeit without a goal) performance.

Hasn't Rice been playing well all season?

Really poor half. No one seems to have any conviction about their play and seem to just be sleepwalking into a defeat. Rondon has had a very poor half, can't seem to hold the ball and when he gets the pass off it's too weak. Manquillo (too predictable and lacking quality offensively) and Hayden (having a poor game) need to come off.

Or even 3 or 4 weeks ago...

I figured he was just totally ill equipped for this division having watched him since promotion, but he's been very useful since pairing up with Longstaff.

He was as good as anyone on the pitch, particularly in the first half against Burnley.