Ollie Watkins

[SamTheMouse]

If we could keep a clean sheet occasionally, we wouldn't be the slightest bit worried about Ollie's goal return. He scored yesterday, after all. We didn't win because we leaked yet another really, really poor goal. Against a shit team playing with ten men.

He's doing his job, it's others that aren't.

[john e]

I love Ollie but he's missed 19 big chances this season. More than anyone in the division. His finishing hasn't been good enough.

Huge miss today.

He wasn’t the only one, Rogers and Asencio missed sitters as well
at least Watkins Popped one in from one of our 25 attempts on goal

[eamonn]

Great footwork for Roger's chance at point blank range and was in the right place for Rashford's cannon.
Asensio could have had a hat-trick.

Yet Watkins still gets most stick for one decent-ish chance missed. You are gonna miss him when he leaves, I guarantee you.

[Rigadon]

Who are we going to get with a bigger contribution of goals than Watkins. Scoring and assists?

We should only sell if he wants to leave.

I think he wanted to leave last month.  I take your point though about his contribution. 

I'm not sure he wanted to leave last month. He would have said so especially with Arsenal wanting him. He may fancy a new challenge next season though.

I suppose we can't know for sure either way, but I doubt Arsenal would've gone public with interest in Watkins unless they'd sounded him / his agent out first.  That we didn't sell was good, and that he didn't cause a fuss is a credit to him too.  I think he'll go in the summer but for less than people might think.

[olaftab]

Who are we going to get with a bigger contribution of goals than Watkins. Scoring and assists?

Any of our defenders?

[olaftab]

What's Rashford's song?

A reworked version of Duran’s.

What's Duran's song?

[brontebilly]

Great footwork for Roger's chance at point blank range and was in the right place for Rashford's cannon.
Asensio could have had a hat-trick.

Yet Watkins still gets most stick for one decent-ish chance missed. You are gonna miss him when he leaves, I guarantee you.

It's bizarre really, the level of criticism the likes of Watkins and McGinn get on here. If there's better out there within our budget who are they?

That was a good strikers goal Watkins got yesterday too. He's first to react to the break. Sure it's a poor miss in the first half but we shouldn't be so reliant on one missed chance at home to Ipswich.

[Demitri_C]

Watkins is top of the big misses chart with 19 hence why he does get some criticism

[Clampy]

He's also won us a lot of points.

[Demitri_C]

No one is saying he isnt but he is costing us games with his misses too

[Clampy]

If we're going to rely on one player to win us games, then we won't get anywhere. They all need to chip in.

[Demitri_C]

If we're going to rely on one player to win us games, then we won't get anywhere. They all need to chip in.

Yeah i agree with that. Luiz and diaby were helping with that last season and we sold them both so we kind of shot ourselves in the foot there.

Hopefully  the new boys will help ollie out as your right ollie needs help with the goals

[Sexual Ealing]

The time to sell him has passed. There's no point now.

[john e]

I think Ollie’s goal average works out at about 14/15 a season, and thats including his stand out performances last season
so I think that’s where he is 15 goals A season is a decent striker, not a goal machine but a very useful front man, allied to that his work rate, attitude and professionalism are all top quality,
 basically he’s a good egg but he’s no Gert Muller

After Every single game we get this debate about Watkins, let’s just accept him for what he is a decent hard-working centre forward who has been with us so long he will end up being our record goalscorer in the prem that’s no mean feat,
But the fact is he does miss big chances, yes, I know all strikers do but he misses more as the stats as well as our own eyes tell us

We can forget about the upgrade thing we’ve just let one of the best young strikers in Europe go for 60 million or whatever it was because he was a loony/difficult to handle/bad influence take your pick,
 he’s going to waste his career but fill his pockets I personally don’t think it will end well but that’s up to him

We have now added some quality to the forward line, so that should help share the goals around a bit

[Olneythelonely]

Has a goal contribution in 42% of our premier league goals over the last 3 seasons.

What are his stats this season?

Watkins 46%
Haaland 42%
Salah 62%
Isak 52%