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I'm not sure starting out wide really suits Perez, tbh, he seems to be a player at his most comfortable when moving out wide from a central position and then weaving back in to the space opened up. Cabella's a bit different, he seems more adept moving a few metres infield from the flank, picking up spaces inside & starting attacking moves (this'd suit Janmaat's game more too, IMO).

 

The other issue I have is our counter game with de Jong-Cisse together, we've been great recently having at least one of those two spots taken up by a player that can take the ball in transition and carry it up the pitch with speed, I think we'd lose a lot of that 'fret' with a one-paced combination like that.

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His link up play really is poor, but you could get away with that if his finishing was very reliable. Unfortunately we've found over a large number of games that it isn't.

 

The trouble with these specialist poachers is that the minute they go on a bit of a scoring run, everyone starts to say that they've recovered form, as though normal service has been resumed after a blip. In fact, by the laws of statistics, a striker's goals aren't going to be evenly spread out, and you are going to get these good runs and barren spells.

 

The question is, taking into account his overall play and his finishing ability as shown in bad times as well as good, is he the best option. For me, no. I'd continue to let Ayoze lead the line.

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It's weird, because when he first arrived his link up play was excellent. Almost as though it's been coached... Nah never mind.

 

He was playing with players whose link up player was significantly better than his like Cabaye, HBA and Ba.  But aye, he looked a player with a great first touch, could knock the ball about and was good even with his back to goal.  He doesn't have that quality of players to rely on.

 

But never the less, really hope he keeps his form and goalscoring up.  He just seems like such a sound bloke who is genuinely thankful to be where he is in life.  His constant smile and enthusiasm shows this.

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It's weird, because when he first arrived his link up play was excellent. Almost as though it's been coached... Nah never mind.

It wasn't like. When you're scoring every game though who is watching?

 

some will come back with his form and confidence going up

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It's weird, because when he first arrived his link up play was excellent. Almost as though it's been coached... Nah never mind.

It wasn't like. When you're scoring every game though who is watching?

Don't you get bored with repeating the same shite in this thread day after day? Everyone knows your opinion of him, do you really need to go on and on and on about it?

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Cisse will never be a great footballer.  He's probably not as bad as some exaggerations mind.  The main problem I had with him when his form was poor, was his inability to read the offside trap to any professional level.  Yes I know some goals got wrongly disallowed but he was still caught offside a ridiculous number of times.  It seems like he's fixed that a little bit so far this season.

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It's weird, because when he first arrived his link up play was excellent. Almost as though it's been coached... Nah never mind.

It wasn't like. When you're scoring every game though who is watching?

 

You're wrong. It's that simple.

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Key is, they've got to stop booting up to him, you might as well just kick as far as the corner flag, at least you'll get yourself a few seconds breather and get shape again. He doesen't even try for headers any more :lol:

 

Dude's knee is shot though, he looks 2-3 steps slower and much less nimble than when he first arrived.

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I think his link-up play was adequate. I could barely care less about that aspect of his game if he's scoring more than a goal every other game in our team, mind.

Aye, adequate is the word. And that's more than enough when he was on fire. But when he's back to being terrible for 4 games back to back what do we do? That can easily extend to 12 games. I reckon we should keep him when he's hot but a few bad games back to super sub. Take him out the firing line if a rot seems to be on the horizon.

 

I knew he wouldn't be able to sustain that first run but i'm more hopeful for this run. Like someone mentioned, it's the tap-ins he was scoring for Freiburg from the Youtube clips.

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Key is, they've got to stop booting up to him, you might as well just kick as far as the corner flag, at least you'll get yourself a few seconds breather and get shape again. He doesen't even try for headers any more :lol:

 

Dude's knee is shot though, he looks 2-3 steps slower and much less nimble than when he first arrived.

A lot's being made of this. But I don't see what it has to do with him missing all those sitters like he did last season.
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Cisse will never be a great footballer.  He's probably not as bad as some exaggerations mind.  The main problem I had with him when his form was poor, was his inability to read the offside trap to any professional level.  Yes I know some goals got wrongly disallowed but he was still caught offside a ridiculous number of times.  It seems like he's fixed that a little bit so far this season.

I have never thought it was (all) Cisse's fault that he got caught in the offside trap so much, rather that the side was never quick enough or direct enough to get the early ball through to him. His runs were great, just a shame that the team wasn't coached how to make the best of the striker... (see Pardle)...

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Don't agree... just based on the fact of how many times I can distinctly remember myself screaming at the telly for one of our midfielders/defenders/whoever to release the ball to him when he was making a run... Not the same as being at St James or wherever, but it was the impression i got a hell of a lot of the times.

I still like Cisse and think he can offer us a lot if given the right service. :smitten:

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