Aleksandar Mitrović

[Mick]

He's far too laid back when attacking the ball.

[Guest firetotheworks]

I've defended him and still think we don't create enough chances, but he's missing all of his chances and a few of them have been incredibly easy chances that he's somehow managed to miss.

[Gallowgate Toon]

His finishing has been very hit and miss. He's on his heels too much too, sometimes. Great ball in in the first half that he attacked but was late to because he didn't anticipate it well enough.

[Ronaldo]

Hit and miss? I hope you meant that literally instead of in the metaphorical sense. He has 3 goals. It's nearly January. His finishing's been crap so far.

[ujpest doza]

I dunno how he missed, otherwise he played very well.

[sempuki]

Looks sluggish to me - needs to lose weight and sharpen up. As Ronaldo says he shouldn't be relied on as our main striker, at least not at the moment.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Who should?

[sempuki]

Who should?

Someone new - but we should have sorted this out before the season started. What I'd give for signings of the calibre of Cabaye or Ba in January...

[Ronaldo]

Why do you insist on asking such annoying questions Ian? It's painfully obvious we need a new main striker.

[ilikenewcastle]

A young lad making the step up from Belgium to the PL should simply not be relied upon as much as Mitrovic has been. I don't like making excuses for the players, and he's had some bad misses, but this is what happens when you keep buying prospects instead of players who've been proven at the top level. Our club has underestimated the importance of top level experience for too long.

[PineBarrens]

Just not good enough, but what else can you expect from an errant owner, hit-and-miss scout, an over-promoted Managing Director and Steve McClaren?

[Guest ElCid]

Just not good enough, but what else can you expect from an errant owner, hit-and-miss scout, an over-promoted Managing Director and Steve McClaren?

 

Got it in one.

[ExiledGeordie]

 

Unsurprisingly took a punt on on a raw, unproven striker from the continent and while he has some qualities he's not scoring anywhere close to the goals that we need to keep us in the league. As others have said we shouldn't be relying on him for a goal haulage.

[Tiresias]

Exactly, while he wasn't perfect £15m for Austin was the price of the difference between staying comfortably in the league and struggling, and we gambled. I like the idea of bringing through young talent but it's always a gamble. He shouldn't be relied upon and we should have signed someone else as well.

[Guest neesy111]

We need 2 new strikers tbh.

[Hanshithispantz]

Mitrovic is exactly the kind of player we should be buying like, young, talented and clearly hungry to succeed. We've never been interested in supporting them with an actual squad though, just plug a few holes and hope the ship doesn't sink.

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Was such a lovely run for that chance he missed. Hope he starts putting things away more often.

[Gallowgate Toon]

Mitrovic is exactly the kind of player we should be buying like, young, talented and clearly hungry to succeed. We've never been interested in supporting them with an actual squad though, just plug a few holes and hope the ship doesn't sink.

 

[Carlito]

If we were putting more crosses like that into the box it'd help him with his development, in terms of not dwelling on one major miss. It's probably the biggest problem we've had for the last few years tbh.

[Ketsbaia]

Think the criticisms of Mitrovic are a bit OTT. He's our biggest aerial threat (even if he didn't score today), links up well with Ayoze and has good movement. He actually seems to care too, which stands out amongst our yellow bellies.

 

If you put him in a side with a half-decent central midfield and something resembling width, he'd be lethal. As it is, he's either being benched by Super Schteve or feeding on scraps from this shower of shit. He's not the problem.

[mrmojorisin75]

Yeah, he's far from our biggest problem. Also struggling to think of another striker of his ilk who would be burying the scant chances he gets from our shitpile of a team. He's probably as shocked as fuck when the ball actually reaches him in a goalscoring position.

 

Needs to score soon mind.

[Hanshithispantz]

He's still young and only been here 6 month, but we've seen Demba Ba and Loic Remy score hat fulls on service as bad as this.

 

I like him, but we need someone else in January, we cannot rely on him coming good in a relegation scrap.

[Sima]

While we shouldn't be relying on him this much, he isn't good enough to be leading the line. He misses far too many glaring opportunities, even Cisse would blush at some of them.

 

So typical of this club that we let the likes of Ba and Remy slip through our fingers due to frugality/lack of ambition.  Those two masked how awful we really were.

 

 

[Taylor Swift]

Not worried about him. Strikers miss chances all the time. The shit ones don't even get themselves into a position to score. This guy gets in to the position often so the goals will come. A bit like Suarez's first year with Liverpool where he missed chances galore.

[mrmojorisin75]

He's still young and only been here 6 month, but we've seen Demba Ba and Loic Remy score hat fulls on service as bad as this.

 

I like him, but we need someone else in January, we cannot rely on him coming good in a relegation scrap.

I don't think Ba and Remy are fair examples tbh, both in their mid 20's when we signed them and both relied on either pace or power to get in behind defences while the rest of the team stood about and watched. Granted they both finished better than he is atm but they were much more experienced.

 

We are not playing remotely to his strengths at all, not even close.