Harvey Barnes

[Amir_9]

Played an absolute stinker today. I have faith in him to come good and rate his ability to be a solid signing for us but that was fucking horrific tonight.

[Gallowgate Toon]

He'll be up and down while he builds himself up. He's missed a lot of football.

[Parsley]

Lacking sharpness and looks low on confidence. Won't be displacing Gordon any time soon on tonight's showing. 

[TRon]

Even before the penalty miss his game was really tentative and nervous. He's not a young kid, I'm worried he's got a Longstaff mentality, not going to lie.

[Aiston]

Clearly not match fit after so long out.

[Pablo123]

I think he'll be quality, just look at Gordon. Just a bit rusty.

[Geordie_once_removed]

This isn't really a reflection on his performance today, but still don't really get signing him.  LW was arguably our strongest position given the way we play and as much as I like them both Miggy and Murphy's should have been playing an impact sub in this team behind a new RW.

 

I like pie, and I don't mind saying I'm wrong. So hopefully in a year I can serve myself a big slice of humble pie over this comment.

[Big Jow]

Send him back to Leicester to be made into a bag of Walkers crisps after that penalty.

[GEFAFWISP]

5 minutes ago, James said:

Weren’t some Leicester fans saying he could be a bit static and lazy. That’s what we saw tonight. Don’t see how he fits in a Howe team

Yeah if he's not scoring or assisting he'll have his critics, can drift in and out of games and is more a clinical producer than great all round player/threat.

[gbandit]

Agreed on the position, I like him and we need a player who can score from 20 yards but we needed that player on our right. I still think he’ll be overall a good signing for us but there were some priority signings we needed before him 

[madras]

7 minutes ago, James said:

Weren’t some Leicester fans saying he could be a bit static and lazy. That’s what we saw tonight. Don’t see how he fits in a Howe team

We saw similar from Joe W tonight. Could also be they're just coming back from long term injuries and just playing their way back.

[nufc123]

Wont be to hard on him. Just back from injury and he saved us against Luton, but that was a shite performance.

[Sibierski]

Hoping it’s just match sharpness, and still getting to know team due to missing large periods, but not only was he poor tonight, I’ve not been sold on him yet.

 

Seems more a moment player so far rather then out right performance. Which at £40m isn’t ideal. Hopefully by end of season we start to see more as both of the points highlighted at start improve.

[TRon]

I wonder if there was one person on here who thought he was scoring that pen?

 

 

 

[Aiston]

Poor game today but christ, people making their judgements on him already when he's had no chance to do anything yet.

 

Hell, saving us vs Luton is more noteworthy than his poor performance tonight but this performance tonight seems 'it' for people.

[Whitley mag]

Would love him to prove me wrong, one decent cut in and shot over the bar, still early days but just don’t see him offering the creativity where crying out for, looks very predictable in the attacking 3rd.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Hasn't he been injured for like 80% of his time at the club?

[Rafalove]

1 minute ago, Whitley mag said:

Would love him to prove me wrong, one decent cut in and shot over the bar, still early days but just don’t see him offering the creativity where crying out for, looks very predictable in the attacking 3rd.

 

 

Agreed. Early days and all that but Doesn’t seem to have any dribbling ability. 

[Terrymac1966]

1 minute ago, Rafalove said:

Obvious pun and gag here that must be avoided

 

Agreed. Early days and all that but Doesn’t seem to have any dribbling ability. 

 

[The Prophet]

Don't think he was bought to be a creator, he's a finisher. We badly lacked one at times last season.

[Amir_9]

He will come good and as stated earlier the goal against Luton was vital. If memory serves he scored in pre-season and on the first day with great runs into the box which I think he used to do for Leicester as well. Will be a useful option to have.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

6 minutes ago, Rafalove said:

 

 

Agreed. Early days and all that but Doesn’t seem to have any dribbling ability. 

He’s not really a dribbler, he’s more like an efficiency player. Gets the ball, makes a decision and an action, executes a shot (usually). 
 

See him as much more a wide forward than a creative player. 
 

He was wank tonight of course. 

[Pata]

23 minutes ago, Aiston said:

Poor game today but christ, people making their judgements on him already when he's had no chance to do anything yet.

 

Hell, saving us vs Luton is more noteworthy than his poor performance tonight but this performance tonight seems 'it' for people.

 

That's the forum right now, only able to look past two previous games at most.

[Big Jow]

He’s getting similar reviews as to what Gordon got after a couple of games. We know how that ended up.

 

He’s been injured most of the season but has still been a handful in the majority of games he’s played.

 

He’s a vast improvement on Murphy.

[Geordie Ahmed]

Some ridiculous overreaction from some

 

It's fine to say he was poor because he was but talk of sending him back or questioning the signing is absurd

 

He's been injured for a long time so we need to be patient whilst he builds up his fitness