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Viktor Gyokeres

Meatwad

Big Willie
yeah when i was watching eze clips last week, i was like "damn, why didn't we go after mateta?"

Big Willie

Meatwad yeah when i was watching eze clips last week, i was like "damn, why didn't we go after mateta?"

Yeah we got Gyokares now, but the last x amount of years with no striker we could have used someone like him. Granted he wasn't on my radar, but that's what scouts are there for, right? Shit, never mind, I forgot we sacked all our scouts under Edu.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Mateta is quality.

RocktheCasbah

Yeah, completely changed the game when he came on for Eddie at our place last season.

Coombs

Big Willie been saying...

Mirth

Big Willie United are fools for not going after Mateta

Klaus

Mirth Yep. The two players in England that I thought were similar in profile to Gyökeres this summer were Delap and Mateta. United pursued the former but not the latter even though he's the better of the two. Only reason of course is that Delap is younger.

lorddulaarsenal

Didn’t need the extra 5 words there Mirth

Qwiss

Big Willie he's genuinely really good and still pretty young. Surprised Newcastle didn't go after him this summer. He must be very settled at Palace.

daredevil

SimplyThePest

Odegaard plays on the other side of the pitch and his relationship with Saka is a staple of our attack. Eze and Gyokeres on the opposite flank suddenly gives us a dual pronged attack. We need Odegaard and Eze in the same team.

CPM

I don't think you can play transitional football in the Prem with this guy. He is not going to beat PL defenders for pace, and he gets pushed off the ball as well. He has his place for sure, great instinctive striker's movement and finishing, but at this level he's really only going to excel when you shorten the pitch and have him work in those short bursts of movement that he does very well.

It is very tough to have Havertz out with this stretch of big games to start the season. Matches like today are exactly when you need him.

Burnwinter

CPM He is not going to beat PL defenders for pace, and he gets pushed off the ball as well.

This is a bit harsh, his best moment today was when he shrugged off Van Dijk and laid it off. He's capable of doing it, but this isn't Portugal, there will be fewer soft defenders and fewer openings. Slim pickings for the likes of Ekitike and Salah in this match as well, so we need to bracket the doom a little bit.

Gurgen

Let’s wait with these big judgment calls until he’s fit and has played a few more games which aren’t United and Liverpool away.

Asterix

Gurgen it's a good thing this forum wasn't around when Bobby Pires joined - he'd have been written off after 3 weeks, let alone the 3-4 months it took him to acclimatise.

lorddulaarsenal

Yeah he certainly doesn’t look to be in the condition he was we he faced us last season. Did ok today - Van Dijk and Konate are probably the pairing most suited to the challenge he brings

flobaba

We are not utilizing him / his strengths. Still not creating room for or exploiting the channel runs. If we do not adapt our game, we have essentially set 65m on fire, or whatever it was he cost us. Only good news is we likely won't be shelling out for any goals scored related bonuses. :-/

Sicario2

Flat track bully’s are known for not scoring in big games

JazzG

Sicario2 As long as he does that I can make peace with this signing.

I won't hold yesterdays game against him, the likes of VDV has dealt with far better players than him and Liverpool were set up to give nothing away. Ekitike didn't really do much either yesterday and I think he's a good player.

Irishgunner

It’s early doors the guy doesn’t know his teammates and we clearly need to adapt tactically to play to his strengths - also hasn’t really had any preseason

No point casting judgement now, it will take time

FEBravo

He flattered to deceive. Seems like ko ate and Virgil van Cunt had him marshalled pretty easily. You can see he was shocked Ode found that pass to him - he wasn’t ready for that run. He’ll get used to it (hopefully!)

awooga83

Burnwinter I think this has been the worry, his goal against Leeds came when we were 2-0 up a different game state. But can he give us the difference in harder games like today that's the unknown and my main worry about him. It's not clear yet where he's at and today or last week you can't draw any significant conclusions about what he will do

Qwiss

We barely got the ball to our front line, when we did it was mostly to Madueke who didn't get any balls into the box. No striker is going to do much in those circumstances.

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