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I was at the Cardiff FA cup game. I was impressed with the goal he got. He squeezed the ball in from a tight angle when there were bodies in the way. Later in the game the ball came to him on the edge of the box. The old, confident Cissé would have volleyed a shot at goal but instead he hesitated and then passed the ball to Ben Arfa. He also just failed to get on the end of the good cross from the right which Obertan put in.

 

Cissé is out of form but NUFC don't play to his strengths. We don't have wingers who put crosses into the box and even if we did we rarely have more than one player in the box. We don't play balls into feet.

 

What are his strengths though?

 

Crosses into the box? He's 5"11 and not exactly known for his aerial prowess. When we do play to feet his first touch isn't all that great and he lacks pace to run in behind unless his run and the pass is timed to perfect.

 

Cisse just isn't good enough to be starting week in week out I'm afraid he just doesn't offer enough.

 

:thup:

 

The 'not playing to his strengths' thing has been done to death. It basically boils down to "Well we didn't pass him the ball, 6 yards out from goal with no keeper or defender, we forgot to get the offside rule abolished and no-one bothered to level out the turf 4 minutes ago to make sure there weren't any bobbles".

 

He has just been playing very poorly for a long while now, other players have come in and scored all sorts of goals. Remy, Ba and even Gouffran mainly from midfield were/are managing to get goals.

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9million or not they are right to turn it down until a replacement is at the club. Take Cisse away and you have a loanee and Shola. You cant just go selling your strikers when you hardly have any in the first place.

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9million or not they are right to turn it down until a replacement is at the club. Take Cisse away and you have a loanee and Shola. You cant just go selling your strikers when you hardly have any in the first place.

 

They didn't reject it for fear of not having a replacement at the club :lol:.

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