Sell both this summer and buy someone that's faster, better in the ball and can finish.
Quote from: tomd2103 on January 16, 2022, 09:56:35 AMQuote from: olaftab on January 16, 2022, 09:43:40 AMVery disappointed in both of thm yesterday. Ings should only be a last 20 mins player.See, I'm not even sure that would work. You want some energy and spark coming off the bench in the closing stages and Ings won't give you that. If Watkins has started and has been pulling defenders around, you want more of that coming on off the bench.I suppose the logical order would be Ings starting, with Watkins coming on to give us that energy in the final stages.As much as I think Watkins has loads of qualities, and as much as Ings looks a passenger for a lot of the time, I think Ollie is most at risk of falling out of the first team. A starting front three of Coutinho, Ings and Bailey, supported by Buendia, JJ and /or SJM looks top 4 contender standard on paper (esp with a top drawer DCM sitting behind that lot). Ings is in there to score the chances that this team would certainly create. Watkins just isn't clinical enough. Mad really cause he's one of my favourite players over the last couple fo years.
Quote from: olaftab on January 16, 2022, 09:43:40 AMVery disappointed in both of thm yesterday. Ings should only be a last 20 mins player.See, I'm not even sure that would work. You want some energy and spark coming off the bench in the closing stages and Ings won't give you that. If Watkins has started and has been pulling defenders around, you want more of that coming on off the bench.I suppose the logical order would be Ings starting, with Watkins coming on to give us that energy in the final stages.
Very disappointed in both of thm yesterday. Ings should only be a last 20 mins player.
It's detrimental playing both. If Watkins is out left, he's a little hamstrung and he's taking space a more creative 10/wideman could be taking. Also, Ings loves that inside left channel, and if Watkins is wide, he's inevitably coming inside, so Ings gets pushed away. Danny barely touched the ball yesterday. He was lost, but compare that to Brentford, where he had his best game in weeks because Ollie wasn't playing. Both need that 9 role without the other. At the moment for pace and work-rate, Ollie gets it for me. But I do feel with Phil and Emi behind, our ball retention will improve and Ings could have a field day, as long as he's got the freedom to work the channels he wants. His a lethal finisher. Whereas Ollie needs 3-4 chances to tuck one away. I'd play Watkins against the top half sides, Danny against the bottom half.I think one or the other and you'll see a marked improvement from whoever is getting the nod.
Both are decent strikers. They are playing together because we've not had enough options due to injury etc.When Coutinho and Bailey are fit, and Traore is back, with Buendia getting better all the time there won't be a need to play them both.Either will work, and they offer different things that can be similar at times; that's not a bad thing, it's an opportunity for us to mix it up. As are the other midfield options with Chukwuemeka and Ramsey as well as JPB to be reckoned with.
Quote from: ozzjim on January 16, 2022, 12:58:12 AMSell both this summer and buy someone that's faster, better in the ball and can finish. Oh you mean someone like Erling Haaland?
Watkins is a 1 in 3 striker who works his nads off. He cannot play with a partner, but he's a pest and a menace. There is no chance we're getting rid for the foreseeable. Love him, even when he's not on form and has slippers on his feet.
Didn't need Ings it was a panic buy from the club after the sale of Jack Grealish. He is a good player but does not work with Watkins and given his Contribution I'd take Watkins over ings. There is absolutely no sell on value in Ings either. Great player to have on the bench and bring on though,if he's happy to do that. Expect him to go out on loan or end up at Burnley and do well