Tammy Abraham - done

[aldridgeboy]

Whilst I imagine he’s on enough to pay the bills and get some food this week, I love it he went for a lower financial reward to come back here.

[Dave]

Whilst I imagine he’s on enough to pay the bills and get some food this week, I love it he went for a lower financial reward to come back here.

It's definitely A Good Thing, but it's more to do with Turkish tax rates than anything else.

Süper Lig footballers pay a flat 20% of their income, so those millions that he's sacrificing are more to do with the 45% he's now giving to HMRC. What we're paying him probably isn't any different to what he was getting there.

Could even be a higher wage and he'd still making a financial sacrifice to join us.

[aldridgeboy]

Oh I see !!

[tony scott]

Is Tammy an upgrade D Malan I’m not sure.

[Ozzjim]

Different player. Would have liked both, but only 3-4 clubs are allowed more than a couple of decent forwards.

I think he will score quite a few once we understand how to feed him. He looked a million times sharper than Watkins as a striker, but like with Malen, might be more effective in a 2 with Ollie

[paul_e]

Is he an upgrade is probably the wrong question. "Is Tammy a better option than Malen to rotate with Ollie in our system?" is the question to consider because that's the problem we were trying to solve.

and for clarity the answer is a very obvious yes.

[LeeB]

And Sunday was exactly the situation 2nd half where having both of them on the pitch would've improved our chances.

[paul_e]

Sunday would've been the perfect game to have Malen for in my opinion, which is frustrating and I'm absolutely certain that without PSR restrictions we'd have kept Malen and added Tammy but that just wasn't an option for us.

[brontebilly]

And Sunday was exactly the situation 2nd half where having both of them on the pitch would've improved our chances.

With Brentford sitting in I'm not sure Malen had much success against those types of defences. Granted having two forwards might have given us the option of taking off a centre back or full back late on.

[Ian.]

It’s all ifs and buts, some days like the weekend and against Everton it just doesn’t happen. Another day, Tammy’s goal counts, or someone beats the low block with a bit of magic. We’re not and nor is every side going to get all their fair share of luck and will also have bad days at the office.

One things for sure, the injuries we’re facing would really hamper every team in the world.

[LeeB]

And Sunday was exactly the situation 2nd half where having both of them on the pitch would've improved our chances.

With Brentford sitting in I'm not sure Malen had much success against those types of defences. Granted having two forwards might have given us the option of taking off a centre back or full back late on.

I meant Ollie and Tammy together, in a 'fuck our luck' way.

[brontebilly]

And Sunday was exactly the situation 2nd half where having both of them on the pitch would've improved our chances.

With Brentford sitting in I'm not sure Malen had much success against those types of defences. Granted having two forwards might have given us the option of taking off a centre back or full back late on.

I meant Ollie and Tammy together, in a 'fuck our luck' way.

Fair enough, don't see those two working together if I'm honest where to be fair Malen did have joy down the inside right channel at times.

Small margins really. Tammy scores one of his chances, expected him to score from the Sancho cross before half time. Or Bailey scores his chance like he should have and we are lauding how patient we were in breaking them down.

[paul_e]

I knew you meant those 2, I just thought one of the problems after the disallowed goal was that we had 2 wingers and 2 10s and they were all in the same spaces. Malen pushing right onto the defence and trying to create a gap to turn in behind might have given us more options.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I think he will score quite a few once we understand how to feed him. He looked a million times sharper than Watkins as a striker, but like with Malen, might be more effective in a 2 with Ollie

I think he’ll get a few as well but he’ll suffer the same problems that Ollie does maybe even more so in that he won’t get loads of chances and his work rate and working defenders may not be as on point as Watkins.

I didn’t really see much evidence on Sunday to suggest he looked sharper than Watkins. He got to the rebound for the disallowed goal but missed a 1 on 1 as Watkins does and didn’t really get involved.

[Toronto Villa]

I expect we will see Ollie start this weekend and Tammy off the bench. Hopefully Onana back in too so Doug can get further forward.