Elliott Embleton


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After watching him tonight, I just hope the decision to loan him out doesn't bite us in the arse.

His movement off the ball is excellent, he drags defenders all over when he goes looking for the ball, he was making runs into the box when the ball went wide, he's got great vision for playing through balls.

Could have been the ideal replacement while O'Brien is out because Maguire and Gooch haven't got that ability.

On the other hand, Blackpool lose an important player when we play them twice.
 
I really didn't see anything from him to suggest he'd be worth keeping.
Too right! He hasn’t had much football so I’m hoping this kicks him on
Thats why loans are so useful to us or shuld have been in the past. Diamond looked nothing until he went out on loan. Hopefully Elliott does well and saves us some cash on players, even if its just a squad player. Its the strategy we're committing to so supporters are going to have to get on board with it and understand the aims.
 
To be fair he wasn’t even given two full games
He made 14 appearances - as you say mostly sub appearances. There's a reason for that. He's not an 18 year old. He's 22 and if he was going to make it should've shown a lot more. He didnt take his opportunities however limited they may have been. Parkinson didn't fancy him and it's clear Johnson doesnt either.
Diamond will be a carbon copy imo.
Be great if they both kick on and become Championship players with us next season - fingers crossed - but unfortunately they wont.
 
He made 14 appearances - as you say mostly sub appearances. There's a reason for that. He's not an 18 year old. He's 22 and if he was going to make it should've shown a lot more. He didnt take his opportunities however limited they may have been. Parkinson didn't fancy him and it's clear Johnson doesnt either.
Diamond will be a carbon copy imo.
Be great if they both kick on and become Championship players with us next season - fingers crossed - but unfortunately they wont.
Ian Wright didn't make it until he was 23. I think Drogba was 26.

Age is by no means a cast iron indicator of potential or quality.
 
He made 14 appearances - as you say mostly sub appearances. There's a reason for that. He's not an 18 year old. He's 22 and if he was going to make it should've shown a lot more. He didnt take his opportunities however limited they may have been. Parkinson didn't fancy him and it's clear Johnson doesnt either.
Diamond will be a carbon copy imo.
Be great if they both kick on and become Championship players with us next season - fingers crossed - but unfortunately they wont.
Parkinson didn't fancy McGeady,
 
He made 14 appearances - as you say mostly sub appearances. There's a reason for that. He's not an 18 year old. He's 22 and if he was going to make it should've shown a lot more. He didnt take his opportunities however limited they may have been. Parkinson didn't fancy him and it's clear Johnson doesnt either.
Diamond will be a carbon copy imo.
Be great if they both kick on and become Championship players with us next season - fingers crossed - but unfortunately they wont.

I don’t get the ‘he’s 22’ argument. Players often mature later now. Deeney, Lambert, Holt, Vardy, and there’ll be others. I blame it on sterile under 23 football for too long. Very rare do you have 18 year olds making an impact in the first team of clubs. Foden is a special talent, City protected him til the time was right.

As others have pointed out, Embleton made an impact at International level through the youth levels. We sent him out a division lower than where we were to get professional games. He did, was one of their best players.

He comes back to us first into a very cautious Ross side, gets a nasty injury. Then Parkinson gives him some sub appearances and the odd start. He’s now started playing regularly again after we send him out to the level we’re at, Blackpool lad on here is singing his praises. Still some on here have written him off completely.

I’m glad the likes of Speakman are making these types of decisions now. He might not turn into Messi, but I reckon he’ll get further than say, Honeyman?
 
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