WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 He may well come good one day but he's not what we needed at the start of the season. Signing a 21-year-old lad who cut his teeth in Serbia and then Belgium and expecting him to lead the line was always going to be a massive risk. Like it or not, it's one that hasn't paid off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Think he's dropping too deep so he's knackering himself out trying to join in with the final stage of an attacking move. If he could stay higher up the pitch I suspect he'd attack the ball more. A combination of fitness and mentality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 We have been lucky in previous season where Ba and Remy for example, were capable of creating and scoring goals out of nothing. We have had a real lack of pace and creativity, as a team going forward for years now. Until that is addressed we will always struggle for goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 He is a striker playing up front on his own in a shit team who create very little, of course he's not going to score many Maybe if we improved our build up play and put some decent balls in for him then he'll score a lot more. We're not a team who have supplied him very well at all and the type of striker that he is will never score solo goals from the half way line as he is not quick. Put him through on goal or a decent ball into the box and he'll bury it. When he's been under pressure (penalty v Man Utd or the clean through ball from Shelvey v West Brom) he's slotted home. Most of his other 'misses' have been half chances where he has had to feed off of scraps. Writing him off is ridiculous. Do you really believe that? Most of his misses have been damn right awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Neither Ba or Remy spent large swathes of time stood near the halfway line with their back to goal.l Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelveys Hair Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 He's 21 years old and been thrust into a main role at a club who are one of the worst teams in the league for creating chances and your expecting him to have a high conversion rate. Yep. Best strikers in the PL about in the 30s% range Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 He needs Shearer to do a few sessions with him Shearer would still have scored more goals this season if he came out of retirement than Misstro has. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymag Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I think it is fair to say he will never be a 20 goal a season striker. But he has the potential for maybe 10-15 with better service, and could be a good partner for a more natural finisher. His natural size and strength is a useful asset to have in any team, we just need to give him better support to take advantage of his hold up play. He's a poor mans Charlie Austin. Oh wait, didn't we pay £10 mill more for Mitro? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 It's hard to properly judge him as we've yet to see him play in a correctly functioning team set up with a strategy to supply him with anything other than hopeful punts forward. Was an interesting bit in one of the Benitez interviews where he said something along the lines of his teammates need to understand what he can do - think that means stuff like less through balls he's never going to get on the end of and a lot more crosses from the byline. Don't think he's a worldbeater but we've seen him nowhere near his best yet imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Don't think he's a worldbeater but we've seen him nowhere near his best yet imo. Well that goes without saying. But if we go down we never will see his best. No way he'll play Championship football - he'll be wetting the bed every other night up against those defenders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Don't think he's a worldbeater but we've seen him nowhere near his best yet imo. Well that goes without saying. But if we go down we never will see his best. No way he'll play Championship football - he'll be wetting the bed every other night up against those defenders. I know this is a running joke now but he definitely is all mouth. He gets knocked about like a sack of shite half the time. His physicality will be an asset when he learns how to use it, though, because we do get glimpses from time to time. But I doubt he'll ever be a natural goalscorer. Plenty younger strikers have looked ten times more clinical. He's a backup striker in this league at his best and I doubt he'll ever be much more than that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Today is a day for a young buck to etch his name in our hearts forever. HOWAY Alek, find your zone. I'm hoping for a Keith Houchen style diving header (kin hell, life at the moment holds the possibility of this happening...) though will still be delighted with a ricochet off his arse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 If he scores today and gets the winner at that[emoji38] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Think he'll run upto level 7 and chin all the mackems single handedly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Got my money on him scoring today. Hope he knacks Clattermole in the process too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Quietly confident he'll score and eat Perez today. Managed to get him as first goal scorer but cant find any odds for the second bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh74 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Hopefully he doesn't let the occasion get to him and lose his rag. Got a good feeling about today lads,personally think we'll stuff the inbreds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nattfare Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 If this bloke scores against the mackems, genuinely expect him to murder someone on the pitch in excitement and eat them raw. http://i.imgur.com/dAycpl0.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Most of the pundits are backing Sunderland on tv right now only because they've got a goal scorer in Defoe. I wish I had that confidence in Mitrovic but I don't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Hope the lad can do a Shearer-esque performance today. Score and assist to shut up these pundits going on and on about Defoe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Hope he shoots a bit more instead of taking too many touches... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Probably get sent off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Very, very bad today. Get him off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Hope the lad can do a Shearer-esque performance today. Score and assist to shut up these pundits going on and on about Defoe. Yeah that was gonna happen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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