I’m not going to compare Elijah with DJT but he was very raw when he joined the club and he took a little while to utilise his strengths.
Timmy Abraham is a player who seemed to have some of the key attributes to be a good striker but it never all clicked together.
So far, DJT has not delivered but I would play him out on the left. Even players like Deeney (and Thierry Henry, but that might make people spit out their drink incredulously!) started out wide.
Ironically, we need a player that we expected when we signed Matt. This is why Draper has looked good; pity we ran him into the ground. Hopefully, we can manage the workload better if we invest sensibly in January and release some of the players (on loan maybe?) who aren’t contributing to the cause…
Difference is adebayo always looked like he had something
I highly rated adebayo from the start as he looked like he could be something special and so he became
Djt and Abraham never looked like they had potential, nothing that shone
There have been many a young striker who has taken stick then gone on to have a career, Martin Butler, Micheal Rickets, Clive Platt, even Karl Hawley went on to have a reasonable lower league career, Andy Bishop on the other hand looked better than Matty Fryatt when they played together, but it didn’t pan out that way.
It just goes to show it’s hard to judge young strikers they need time and faith perhaps more so than young defenders.
As for DJT there have been better and there have been worse, but according to reports his work ethic and attitude seem up there with the best young strikers time will tell if his ability to learn off the likes of Matt and DJ is there too
People give him stick for his transfer record and of course signings like Liddle and Gaffney weren’t good enough by a long way (interested how far down the transfer list those two were in summer 2019…) but ultimately he did a wonderful job at Bristol Rovers, did exactly the job at Vale he should’ve done here (with awful stuff happening off the pitch for him while that was going on) and I think he’ll keep Cheltenham up which would be a great achievement in its own right.
That’s the problem really when managerial appointments like him and Flynn don’t work out. If guys proven at getting similar sized clubs in the same league promoted or into the play offs can’t even get close here then it dosen’t really leave you much else to go and then you gamble on a complete rookie like Sadler doing better and so far not much indication of that really.
Deeney got ridiculous amounts of stick when he first broke through aswell. Even around 2009 loads would’ve said he’d have more of a Nicholls type career in lower leagues than doing what he did for next decade. Demontagnac was far more highly rated in that period at the time on here.
If he’d moved to Leicester in 2016 as Vardy replacement he’d have played a season of CL football and got an England call up aswell but he did alright regardless considering the low of the jail term a few years after leaving.
He’s been to visit the physic medium again this is definitely not a goodbye as i believe one day we will connect together again
this is definitely not a goodbye as i believe one day we will connect together again
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he bloody scares me Walsall need to take out a restraining order against him .