Jonathan Kodjia - SOLD

[Villa in Denmark]

He'd be very much at home in the Hutt's palace

Ha.  Does that make laughing boy Richards Salacious Crumb?

[mr underhill]

love it.

[SoccerHQ]

Looks Gestede lite with the ball at his feet although he did have a lovely run at 2-1 up in the corner by the Holte.

Unlucky not to score with the header first half.

[Ads]

Gestede lite?

[Risso]

Gestede lite?

Even if that were right, which it isn't, Gestede has morphed into Messi/Ronaldo/Pele this season, so it's alright by me.

[Toronto Villa]

Gestede lite?

Yeh I didn't get that either. Kodjia is a very decent step up from Gestede and Rudy's doing very well this season.

[SoccerHQ]

He looked uncomfortable dribbling with the ball imo, y'know like Rudy does against any decent defence.

That said he was unlucky to score with a few headers.

[ozzjim]

He turned them inside out 3 or 4 times when dribbling?? Liked what I saw, another day he scores twice today.  At least his efforts required saving!

[Matt Collins]

Gestede lite?

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Nonsense. He got in behind. He had good movement. He took people on. He did that lovely touch on the break

[saunders_heroes]

I thought he was excellent today, and deserved a goal for his performance. I like him!

[SoccerHQ]

Gestede lite?

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Nonsense. He got in behind. He had good movement. He took people on. He did that lovely touch on the break

It was me who said it, not Ads.

I wasn't blown away like other forwards have on their debuts although suppose I have to remind myself the level we now operate at.

He'll score goals for us no doubt but I suppose the issue here is I look at how far a player can step up e.g. in the early games you could see Gestede was very limited beyond heading the ball and so it proved.

[Matt Collins]

Fair enough

I was pleasantly surprised though. I thought he might be mostly a poacher

I thought he looked exactly the sort of player we need.

[Dave]

Fair enough

I was pleasantly surprised though. I thought he might be mostly a poacher

I thought he looked exactly the sort of player we need.

I agree. A far more impressive debut than McCormack's for example.

[Brend'Watkins]

He has a great jump on him, wants to get involved, has good pace, at last, a forward with pace. A beast in the making I hope.

[SoccerHQ]

Fair enough

I was pleasantly surprised though. I thought he might be mostly a poacher

I thought he looked exactly the sort of player we need.

I agree. A far more impressive debut than McCormack's for example.

Benteke, Baros, Phillips, Gestede, Bent, Carew?

In fairness when you look at it we've had a look of forwards who have had excellent debuts rather than shockers like JPA did.

Couple of those were excellent strikers for us, others were best forgotten...