Mountain Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Silver lining is he seems nice enough and not toxic. Imagine being your country's all time scorer and still actually being rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 tbf to the lad his goals got us 6 points which not only helped keep us up but also to get 11th. The places in the table alone probably paid for his transfer. He was a means to an end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Guessing Weghorst will go back to Germany or Holland in the summer, they might just give us some of our money back for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Job absolutely done. Top lad. 11 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said: Guessing Weghorst will go back to Germany or Holland in the summer, they might just give us some of our money back for him. Was listening to something the other day he’d only moved to prove himself for the Dutch WC squad. Isn’t going well. Burnley absolutely fucked financially it may appear too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 I was horrified by his signing, even though I understood at the least we needed a body up front, although I think an actual body lying on the ground may have contributed as many goals His all round game is much worse than I imagined it could possibly be. His level is clearly Burnley, not us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, Mountain said: Silver lining is he seems nice enough and not toxic. Imagine being your country's all time scorer and still actually being rubbish. He seems a bit rubbish now, but that must be cos he's on decline (or in a bad patch). Double figures in the PL for Burnley the last 4 seasons isn't rubbish (and the year before that was 27 in the Championship). He was poorer than my fairly low expectations, but the team he was part of did a great job, so I think he deserves some credit for that. Think it's already time to move on though, if we're pushing on can't see he's shown enough to even be a back-up. Watching the goal he scored against us for Leeds in the Championship can't even really imagine that now. Edited May 23, 2022 by Inferior Acuña Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 It’s similar to his goal at Southampton just it was at a height to volley rather than head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Don’t think we played to his strengths at all in the first half dozen games.mind, if at all? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 He’s been a good outlet and figurehead for the team when we needed one but nowhere near the same league as Wilson now. If Burnley want to pay us half of what we gave them, I’d be happy to let him go. Sadly they haven’t got a pot to piss in now and the fans’ reception yesterday wasn’t exactly one of welcoming the local hero back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bompeter Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 2 hours ago, GWN said: Don’t think we played to his strengths at all in the first half dozen games.mind, if at all? Given he’s shite with the ball at his feet, shite in the air (although we pumped thousands of long balls at him), and is never in the right place at the right time in the box - what would playing to his strengths have looked like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 His strength is hope Ashley Barnes can somehow knock it on to him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 We overpaid and he's extremely limited, but he ultimately served the purpose he was bought for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundhog63 Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, Bompeter said: Given he’s shite with the ball at his feet, shite in the air (although we pumped thousands of long balls at him), and is never in the right place at the right time in the box - what would playing to his strengths have looked like? We didn't. I'm not going to do any bigging up of the lad. Suffice to say we went out, paid the release fee and got ourselves an experienced Prem striker in the bank then went after a better one. That, better, one never arrived. It's totally a mute point to suggest playing Gayle or anyone else would've had better results. Whatever his part, or lack of therein, of that remarkable run we went on it happened. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackyboy Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Him and Barnes worked well together in the way that Burnley have always played. He has a different role here and often isolated up front. Credit to the lad, he stuck at and always gave 100%. At the time we had a choice of him or nothing and if we'd gone for the latter we may not have avoided relegation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Season done for us, job done for him. We could debate forever and a day over how much of an effect having him as the focal point of our attack helped compared to just plugging the gap with Gayle for example, but you can't fault the effort and he seems a top guy. Fingers crossed we'll simply be wishing him well this summer as he lands at a Champo club or PL relegation battler. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Not really bothered how much we get for him, given that he's 30 and fairly shit, I think we might do well to get £10m. But no complaints, we stayed up so if we have to write off the vast majority of the £25m we paid, can't really complain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 He’s served his purpose, we will move on! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 18 hours ago, ponsaelius said: Yeah I'd shift him. Wouldn't even keep around as 3rd choice if we can avoid it. If he’s in the 25 man squad next season, we’ve messed up somewhere this summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 12 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said: If he’s in the 25 man squad next season, we’ve messed up somewhere this summer. Fantasist Breeze Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, Rich said: Fantasist Breeze Not too unrealistic to think we keep Wilson, buy a decent striker and one young one. That’d be much better than keeping this carthouse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 I think anyone assuming they've seen the last of Wood is kidding themselves. Howe likes him and we've invested massively - far beyond his true value, which will make him impossible to shift cos they're never taking a 15-20million hit on a recently-acquired asset. Besides, he's not as bad as people make out and clearly we haven't suffered from him getting an extended run in the team, despite his paltry goals return. It might not even be a lost cause for him either. We've seen worse players improve considerably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 If he’s 3rd/4th choice next year then that’s fair enough imo. Can see us signing a main striker this year to compete with Wilson for the main spot, and an up and coming one too. Toney, Wilson, Ekitike and Wood (or similar) would be a decent bunch to work with for next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelphish Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 I feel bad for him he wasn't more of a success. I don't think he's going anywhere in the summer fwiw but id expect him to be 3rd choice at best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Just now, ManDoon said: Does Howe like him? He dropped him almost immediately. He’s near 30 isn’t he? If he can’t control a football now, he never will be able to. I feel bad digging him out, but he’s genuinely horrendous I feel bad for him because he's clearly come in and tried his best but if we are going to be an ambitious and ruthless club going forward then he has no business being here next season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Be very surprised if he gets many minutes next season. I’d expect us to sign two strikers in this window, one a development prospect and one established. That would put Wood between third and fourth choice depending on how the new players fare. Would probably be best for us both if we parted ways Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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