Mick Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 A new contract for Shola Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 51 goals in 282 appearances. A record any decent midfielder would be happy with. 9 goals in his last 74 Premier League appearances. 1 in 19 this season. 2 in 27 last season. What a mess we have. Only 4 more careers to catch up with Shearer. Turns out he averages a goal every 270 mins since he started playing for us. 1 in 3, not that bad for a backup. A goal every 321 mins this season. To put that in context, Danny Welbeck (a player who does a similar job on a far better level for the current league leaders) averages a goal every 299 mins in his Man United career to date. As I said earlier for someone to keep around the squad and bring on for 10 mins here and there he is fine. The chances of us buying the 2 or probably 3 strikers we'd need if we got shot off him are low too. I'm not sure that is putting things into context, aren't there far more goals scored in the last 15 minutes than any other time? Plus Welbeck plays 90 minutes here and there because he can, sort of warps the stats tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 51 goals in 282 appearances. A record any decent midfielder would be happy with. 9 goals in his last 74 Premier League appearances. 1 in 19 this season. 2 in 27 last season. What a mess we have. Only 4 more careers to catch up with Shearer. Turns out he averages a goal every 270 mins since he started playing for us. 1 in 3, not that bad for a backup. A goal every 321 mins this season. To put that in context, Danny Welbeck (a player who does a similar job on a far better level for the current league leaders) averages a goal every 299 mins in his Man United career to date. As I said earlier for someone to keep around the squad and bring on for 10 mins here and there he is fine. The chances of us buying the 2 or probably 3 strikers we'd need if we got shot off him are low too. I'm not sure that is putting things into context, aren't there far more goals scored in the last 15 minutes than any other time? Plus Welbeck plays 90 minutes here and there because he can, sort of warps the stats tbh. I've no idea and true, Ameobi comes from 56% starts to Welbecks 64% but I was merely using it as an example to show the cooked stats quoted beforehand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Fucking crap news. hurry up and retire you big useless bastard. Depresses me seeing that plank on the pitch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Someone shoot him so this can't happen Welcome back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vinkent Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Reckon he'll get a testimonial? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 it'll be a double testimonial by the time he actually retires Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vinkent Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 He might just outlive Pardew and become player-manager tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Excellent news. Reckon they'll low ball him with reduced wages though. Hope he stays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 He's already on a fair pittance apparently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 51 goals in 282 appearances. A record any decent midfielder would be happy with. 9 goals in his last 74 Premier League appearances. 1 in 19 this season. 2 in 27 last season. What a mess we have. Only 4 more careers to catch up with Shearer. Turns out he averages a goal every 270 mins since he started playing for us. 1 in 3, not that bad for a backup. A goal every 321 mins this season. To put that in context, Danny Welbeck (a player who does a similar job on a far better level for the current league leaders) averages a goal every 299 mins in his Man United career to date. As I said earlier for someone to keep around the squad and bring on for 10 mins here and there he is fine. The chances of us buying the 2 or probably 3 strikers we'd need if we got shot off him are low too. The problem with any goalscoring stat for Shola is that if he's on the pitch he often takes (quite rightly) the penalties. Which anyone, even Tim Krul, would expect to score more often than not. Therefore Shola's goals to minutes ration is actually a lot better than it would be were he not so good with spot kicks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 51 goals in 282 appearances. A record any decent midfielder would be happy with. 9 goals in his last 74 Premier League appearances. 1 in 19 this season. 2 in 27 last season. What a mess we have. Only 4 more careers to catch up with Shearer. Turns out he averages a goal every 270 mins since he started playing for us. 1 in 3, not that bad for a backup. A goal every 321 mins this season. To put that in context, Danny Welbeck (a player who does a similar job on a far better level for the current league leaders) averages a goal every 299 mins in his Man United career to date. As I said earlier for someone to keep around the squad and bring on for 10 mins here and there he is fine. The chances of us buying the 2 or probably 3 strikers we'd need if we got shot off him are low too. The problem with any goalscoring stat for Shola is that if he's on the pitch he often takes (quite rightly) the penalties. Which anyone, even Tim Krul, would expect to score more often than not. Therefore Shola's goals to minutes ration is actually a lot better than it would be were he not so good with spot kicks. Offset by playing with injuries/playing in a support striker role/so many of his appearances being sub appearances and not a run of games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Whats his assists total and ratio? Always seems to set up some major goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 51 goals in 282 appearances. A record any decent midfielder would be happy with. 9 goals in his last 74 Premier League appearances. 1 in 19 this season. 2 in 27 last season. What a mess we have. Only 4 more careers to catch up with Shearer. Turns out he averages a goal every 270 mins since he started playing for us. 1 in 3, not that bad for a backup. A goal every 321 mins this season. To put that in context, Danny Welbeck (a player who does a similar job on a far better level for the current league leaders) averages a goal every 299 mins in his Man United career to date. As I said earlier for someone to keep around the squad and bring on for 10 mins here and there he is fine. The chances of us buying the 2 or probably 3 strikers we'd need if we got shot off him are low too. The problem with any goalscoring stat for Shola is that if he's on the pitch he often takes (quite rightly) the penalties. Which anyone, even Tim Krul, would expect to score more often than not. Therefore Shola's goals to minutes ration is actually a lot better than it would be were he not so good with spot kicks. Plus he's generally used from the bench (he's the most used sub in Premier League history, and he's being used that way even more so in recent years), which makes this goals per minutes on the pitch thing a bit daft. Say he plays 15-20 minutes for 10 games in a row and he scores 1 goal, you could say he's scoring a goal every 2 games. Do you think he'd score 5 goals if he played 90 minutes in those 10 games? NOOOOOOOOO! Means that these comparisons with players that are doing more than the odd cameo don't make any sense. And that's before you consider his general play FFS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 How many apples can he eat on a 6km bike ride? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Do you think he'd score 5 goals if he played 90 minutes in those 10 games? Aye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Do you think he'd score 5 goals if he played 90 minutes in those 10 games? Aye. wot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 He's fucking rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Signing up Shola to a new contract will make absolutely zero difference to us signing other strikers imo. We have had a number of games with no forwards on the bench and I don't think he is anywhere near as bad as some will make out. He's not exceptional, he's not the player you bring on to pull out that bit of magic but he is someone who can come on, put in a decent performance and help a game in different ways to our others options. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 He's f***ing rubbish. Exactly, it's crazy he is still in and around the first team. Should be nowhere near a premiership team. Shite Stoke didn't want to keep him, and that says it all really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 He's f***ing rubbish. Exactly, it's crazy he is still in and around the first team. Should be nowhere near a premiership team. Shite Stoke didn't want to keep him, and that says it all really. Didn't they bid £4m for him? We didn't offer them to him, they tried to sign him which is how we know of their interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 He's f***ing rubbish. Exactly, it's crazy he is still in and around the first team. Should be nowhere near a premiership team. s**** Stoke didn't want to keep him, and that says it all really. Didn't they bid £4m for him? We didn't offer them to him, they tried to sign him which is how we know of their interest. No, they played him a couple of times, realised how shit he was and benched him for the rest of his time there, then sent him back and legged it. Only Ipswich came sniffing but the useless knacker didn't fancy it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hobshobs Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Whinge about lack of depth and whinge about a perfectly serviceable depth player being retained, bizarre IMO Serviceable for what? League 1? Not the premiership. Of course he's servicable, not as a starter but he provides perfectly decent depth and his record proves it. He's happy to be "depth" (which shouldn't be underestimated) is evidently a good influence in the dressing room. Seriously what's not to like. It's not like they'll be getting shot of Cisse because of this and Shola is to be our featured striker FFS I'd rather have Shola than £5 Million man Danny Graham any day of any week. Jeez, 6 of us having a Sunday pint this afternoon and to a man said we'd rather have a lazy Michael Owen than bloody Shola. Complete waste of space. Actually infuriating that even the smallest percentage of my season ticket money may go towards keeping this abomination of a football player on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Jeez, 6 of us having a Sunday pint this afternoon and to a man said we'd rather have a lazy Michael Owen than bloody Shola. Complete waste of space. Actually infuriating that even the smallest percentage of my season ticket money may go towards keeping this abomination of a football player on. The worst thing for me isn't how much I pay towards keeping him, it's the thought of having to watch him for even longer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Why on earth would you rather have Owen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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