Quote from: Ad@m on December 28, 2015, 08:53:50 PMQuote from: ChicagoLion on December 28, 2015, 08:46:08 PMQuote from: Clampy on December 28, 2015, 08:43:51 PMQuote from: brian green on December 28, 2015, 08:41:31 PMI have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip. I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.Then please someone explain why he has not been played?Because he's not as good as Benteke? In fact, given three managers have decided not to play him now maybe he's just not very good at all? 13 league goals in 87 games across 5 seasons in Italy would suggest he's hardly the answer to our goalscoring issues. Even Gabby's got a better record than that.In fairness they only seemed to play him in the europa league and I think he either finished their top goalscorer or the tournaments top goalscorer whilst he was there, I forget which.
Quote from: ChicagoLion on December 28, 2015, 08:46:08 PMQuote from: Clampy on December 28, 2015, 08:43:51 PMQuote from: brian green on December 28, 2015, 08:41:31 PMI have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip. I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.Then please someone explain why he has not been played?Because he's not as good as Benteke? In fact, given three managers have decided not to play him now maybe he's just not very good at all? 13 league goals in 87 games across 5 seasons in Italy would suggest he's hardly the answer to our goalscoring issues. Even Gabby's got a better record than that.
Quote from: Clampy on December 28, 2015, 08:43:51 PMQuote from: brian green on December 28, 2015, 08:41:31 PMI have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip. I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.Then please someone explain why he has not been played?
Quote from: brian green on December 28, 2015, 08:41:31 PMI have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip. I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.
I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip. I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.
Oh, and in the season he pissed the Europa he scored zero domestic goals in 20 matches!
Quote from: Ad@m on December 28, 2015, 09:00:00 PMOh, and in the season he pissed the Europa he scored zero domestic goals in 20 matches!Oh well, at least we gave him a chance, eh?
In fairness to his league record, he's only started 30 league games for us, Lazio and Brescia combined. At the same time even allowing for his injury that's pretty shit over a 6+ year period, so maybe he's just not very good?