Noggin
Winger
Rather chance it with Wickham, think it's best all round if he went back to an easier league in Holland.Should be loaned out to a Championship club for experience. We'll need him there next year.
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Rather chance it with Wickham, think it's best all round if he went back to an easier league in Holland.Should be loaned out to a Championship club for experience. We'll need him there next year.
You almost made a really good post until you went against everything you'd been saying.I personally still struggle to work out how people can criticise our strikers for being poor this season when they are averaging around 2 shots/chances per game, often in shit positions to boot! Jozy Altidore is a very good striker when happy and confident as all strikers can be, however this season we are so mind numbingly poor on the ball in midfield he must be crying every time he sees Larsson get the ball and attempt to pass it to him.
In Jozy and Fletches position of being the lone man up top with no midfield runners getting in behind me I'd be going mental at them in training! It'd do my head in!
This whole season is a write off. Forget the Jozy we see this year, forget the Giacc we've seen, hopefully next season no matter where we are, we will see a VERY different team than this one! The one player we can't forget is Adam Johnson cause he's shite!
That article is mental.
The article said:"In the twisting streets of Bosnia, there is a whispered tale about Jozy Altidore. If you find yourself near the third-closest pub to Sarajevo’s aging stadium, go inside and introduce yourself as an American. They will greet you warmly and serve you two-percent milk. If you stay awhile, they will ask you some questions.
Who is this man? Where has he gone? Please ask that he never return. It’s hard to know how to answer just yet."
All of these 'player supporters' are proper heed the balls.Great stuff.
Look at this through Yank eyes - the guy has had a great year for the national team, scored a load of goals, set up a few more. Against Bosnia, which has a pretty solid group of players, he scores three, sets up a fourth. He was an absolute beast that day, he even scored on a free kick on the edge of the area (first and only time I've seen him take one, although some on Big Soccer say he took them regularly in Holland. He still tries to get involved every time there's a free kick from a similar position, Larsson and the like blow him off every time.
Now he comes to Sunderland, the team is struggling, he's struggling. It's really easy, even if not necessarily correct, for we Yanks to pass it off as he isn't getting sufficient help.
I can understand the disconnect. If all I knew of the guy was what he's done here, and to some extent Hull when he was a kid, I'd probably be pretty negative on him, too. But having seen more than that, I can't write him off, I see the flashes and keep thinking he'll turn a corner.
Fletcher hasn't set the world on fire, either. It doesn't appear Poyet will go two up front often (and I don't question that), so to me, I keep rotating them, giving each starts and hoping beyond hope that one of them catches a run of form we can ride for a few weeks. And no, I don't put that past Altidore. Even the likes of Jon Stead and Michael Rickettts have had brief runs of form in the Prem, and Altidore is still a notch above them.
He looks much better running at goal with the ball than waiting for it with back to goal, he does need to use his strength better as he just seems to feel contact and go down too easily, but playing in our team is hardly gonna make him look great (Fletcher has loads of experience and he looks even worse atm) I think Borini playing closer to him would be the answer but we haven't the midfield quality to allow it unfortunately.
Yep.Reid made the same mistake in buying Flo to replace Quinn.
Altidore needs the ball to his feet, his 'goal' against Arsenal shows where his strengths are.
He may be suited more to international football than Prem League football
He has scored one more goal for Sunderland than Angell did.The lad makes Brett Angell look prolific. He will never be a regular goalscorer in this league, he just doesn't possess the natural instincts that any half decent striker requires for this division. The chance on Saturday when he had opportunity to hit it first time and instead fucked about trying to take another touch summed him up, this league is too big for him.
He's our nation's best striker and scores for our national team on a regular basis. Of course we see him differently.