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tbh I just don't get the mitro love but I don't outright hate him or anything. Just think he's an average striker at best and limited further by his temper. The passionate radgie archetype doesn't appeal to me.

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tbh I just don't get the mitro love but I don't outright hate him or anything. Just think he's an average striker at best and limited further by his temper. The passionate radgie archetype doesn't appeal to me.

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Regarding the temperament, he'll grow up. Especially now that we've got a proper manager he can respect and learn from. I strongly doubt he'll ever be 'great' but he's certainly good at holding the ball up and bringing others into play and he will get goals. Perhaps not enough to to justify the team being built around him but his finishing will only improve too. Not getting the no.9 shirt is the best thing that could've happened to him this summer. He'll play both without pressure and the incentive to earn it over time. We'll see a better NUFC with him available again.

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Regarding the temperament, he'll grow up. Especially now that we've got a proper manager he can respect and learn from. I strongly doubt he'll ever be 'great' but he's certainly good at holding the ball up and bringing others into play and he will get goals. Perhaps not enough to to justify the team being built around him but his finishing will only improve too. Not getting the no.9 shirt is the best thing that could've happened to him this summer. He'll play both without pressure and the incentive to earn it over time. We'll see a better NUFC with him available again.

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Who at 21 years old wasn't an 'average striker' besides Lukaku?

He's average (PL quality) for 21. In 5 years time he'll be average for 26. The statement was about potential. End of the day, I don't think he will develop that much more; many apparently do and that's fine, I'm not really knocking anyone's opinion but just saying I don't see it.

 

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Who at 21 years old wasn't an 'average striker' besides Lukaku?

He's average (PL quality) for 21. In 5 years time he'll be average for 26. The statement was about potential. End of the day, I don't think he will develop that much more; many apparently do and that's fine, I'm not really knocking anyone's opinion but just saying I don't see it.

 

You could not be more wrong. You could try, but you would not be successful.

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Rafa saying that Mitro 'gives us something different' suggests to me that he'll be an alternative to Gayle rather than playing alongside him.

 

Hope I'm wrong though.

Suggests that he will give something different to the starting 11 for me.

 

Why persist with a bottler like Perez when it would be so natural to just slip Gayle behind Mitro.

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Might play them both at home, then start with Gayle away and bring on Mitro to protect a lead, etc...

 

Fuck that, play both away and smash teams. None of this looking not to lose first bollocks. Lets attack teams from the off and show we're better than them, not letting them get some steam up by sitting back.

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Rafa saying that Mitro 'gives us something different' suggests to me that he'll be an alternative to Gayle rather than playing alongside him.

 

Hope I'm wrong though.

Suggests that he will give something different to the starting 11 for me.

 

Yep. Which isn't tough to figure out, to be honest. We've got nothing else like him in the squad.

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“I know what to do so I’ll try to be like Ronaldo or Messi and score 50 or 60 goals.

 

If I have to I will die on the pitch for Newcastle.”

 

:lol: Mad buggar.

 

I wish players wouldn't say things like that tbh. 99.99% of them never live up to it. One instance of him not tracking back or pressing his man, and we'll be all over him for not trying.

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