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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.

 

A goal every 321 mins this season.

 

30 minute camoes will give 1 goal every 11 appearances.

20 minute cameos will give 1 goal every 17 appearances.

15 minute cameos will give 1 goal every 22 appearances.

 

Yippey.

 

 

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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.

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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.

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Fucking crap news. hurry up and retire you big useless bastard. Depresses me seeing that plank on the pitch.

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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.

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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. :pow:

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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! :lol: 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.

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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.

 

 

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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.

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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? :dontknow:

 

We didn't offer them to him, they tried to sign him which is how we know of their interest.

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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? :dontknow:

 

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.

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