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1 hour ago, jonny1403 said:

 

And you have missed my point completely as well - which is that saying he offers pure end product and not much else is an absolutely pointless comment when you haven't seen anywhere near enough of him to make that assessment. 

 

What are you basing that on? He started 3 or 4 games at the start of the season and that's it. Maybe actually give him some time to see what type of winger he can be when fully up to speed instead of trying to make any sort of analysis at this stage?

 

Eh? He's a premier league winger who's started consistently for Leicester since 2019, he's not an unknown quantity. Everyone knows what kind of player he is. 

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I missed the vast majority of the Bruce time because I didn't care, so I have no great emotional attachment to ASM. He was nice to watch and that but he usually did nothing (although I thought he was pretty good at times under EH). He couldn't play in EH's team, he was a waste of a shirt, he did nowt, Barnes will be much better in the long term.

 

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4 hours ago, Gallowgate Toon said:

Barnes has a very good goals and assists output - he's more than just a finisher. Very fair to say he's a final third player though imo.


His per 90 assist numbers are actually pretty poor. Expected assists per 90 for his PL career are 0.15 per 90, just as an example Miggy has 0.10 which is quite close.

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5 hours ago, Dr Venkman said:

I missed the vast majority of the Bruce time because I didn't care, so I have no great emotional attachment to ASM. He was nice to watch and that but he usually did nothing (although I thought he was pretty good at times under EH). He couldn't play in EH's team, he was a waste of a shirt, he did nowt, Barnes will be much better in the long term.

 


Think it’s harsh on ASM, as his game was all about dribbles/meters travelled with ball etc. Was part of a proper crap team where he had to do majority of his attacking stuff 60 yards from goal, similar to Gordon stats at Everton were poor because Everton were crap and he spent most of his time defending deep etc.

 

Do think ASM would’ve been good for us where we had ball more in final third and he could take players on, but it’s all mute now.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Sibierski said:


Think it’s harsh on ASM, as his game was all about dribbles/meters travelled with ball etc. Was part of a proper crap team where he had to do majority of his attacking stuff 60 yards from goal, similar to Gordon stats at Everton were poor because Everton were crap and he spent most of his time defending deep etc.

 

Do think ASM would’ve been good for us where we had ball more in final third and he could take players on, but it’s all mute now.

 

 


As I said, I liked watching him. He was a complete waste of time in an EH team.

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ASM was great to watch but he's not really a system player. He did try and adjust his game to fit and I think it made him worse. 

 

There's little demand for individual players like that with managers/teams focused much more on systems these days hence why nobody was really interested in him for a relatively low fee. He's in his prime playing in the Saudi league with 3 in 20. 

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My position on Barnes is this. He's not a bad player, but given 1. our financial limitations and 2. the relative strength players who could play in that position in our team before he signed he means may turn out to be a mildly bad signing.

 

Nothing happens in a vacuum and I feel the predictable knock on effects of his signing (i.e. not counting the unpredictable injuries) on other aspects of our overall team mean the money should have been spent elsewhere. I guess he'll be a 6/10 signing, but the way the deck is stacked against us due to FFP et all, means we can't really afford to have 6/10 signings.

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On 05/03/2024 at 17:45, Coffee_Johnny said:

I’d settle for matching his ‘uncle’ Peter.

 

 

one of favourite non-nufc players from the 70's along with Bob Latchford and John Robertson

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8 hours ago, huss9 said:

one of favourite non-nufc players from the 70's along with Bob Latchford and John Robertson

Me too @huss9 one of the players I’d pretend to be in kickabouts on Felling bankies. Tried to find footage of him dribbling/wing play somewhere but haven’t yet. 

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8 hours ago, huss9 said:

one of favourite non-nufc players from the 70's along with Bob Latchford and John Robertson

Probably Hoddle, Regis and Tony Currie for me. Always had a soft spot for SBR's Ipswich team too.

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12 hours ago, UncleBingo said:

Probably Hoddle, Regis and Tony Currie for me. Always had a soft spot for SBR's Ipswich team too.

loved forest and ipswich in the late 70's after we had been relegated.

anyone but liverpool.

also a strange dislike of arsenal for some reason.

didnt mind manu cos they were shit.

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13 hours ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Me too @huss9 one of the players I’d pretend to be in kickabouts on Felling bankies. Tried to find footage of him dribbling/wing play somewhere but haven’t yet. 

yeah me too!

just in a posher area than felling though.

 

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