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Jack Clarke


Georgewhitt said:
They will love hime next season when they get to see the real Jack Clarke.
He'll be a regular starter for them, and they will see what they are missing this season.

Like you said, he has rebuilt after a bad move once, and I hope he has enough self confidence to do it again.
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They could but I’m not 100% convinced. Could very well have the same manager, with the same shape & Szmodics in front of him. He could win his place & change his game like. Or the manager might change his tactics. As it stands, if they got relegated today & played Stoke away in the Championship, he’d likely be on the bench.


Bob Gurney's Ghost said:
Why can't people forget Jack Clarke and just move on?
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It’s interesting to see what happens after. He was our best player, very well liked. The majority want to see him do well cos he’s earnt the chance. There’ll be a little part of most of us that want to show him the grass isn’t always greener.

SAFC should be watching it very closely & talking to prospects about him. Come he you can be a hero, earn a move upwards & we won’t be a huge blocker. They should also be saying to the likes of Dan Neil & Cirkin, look, the grass isn’t always greener. Think carefully about who you want to play football for. Or if you want to play football.

We might have sold him, but Jack Clarke is a part of us for the short term at least, just not on the pitch.
 
Longy said:
It’s interesting to see what happens after. He was our best player, very well liked. The majority want to see him do well cos he’s earnt the chance. There’ll be a little part of most of us that want to show him the grass isn’t always greener.

SAFC should be watching it very closely & talking to prospects about him. Come he you can be a hero, earn a move upwards & we won’t be a huge blocker. They should also be saying to the likes of Dan Neil & Cirkin, look, the grass isn’t always greener. Think carefully about who you want to play football for. Or if you want to play football.

We might have sold him, but Jack Clarke is a part of us for the short term at least, just not on the pitch.
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This^^^

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There were a reasonable number of folks on here who suggested that Clarke might not cut the mustard in the Premier League. The way that Ipswich play him hasn't helped him at all. However, it's plain to see why we didn't get as high a transfer fee as many wanted and why the queue for his services wasn't as long as people expected.

I'm quite disappointed for him, but that doesn't translate into wanting him back. If nothing else, it makes no sense from a financial perspective. It would also impact negatively on Mundle and Watson. The only scenario that may make sense is a half season loan, where we pay a minimal portion of his wages. That would depend on the injury to either (or both) Watson or Mundle being far worse than we've been told.
 
beezer said:
I remember a long time ago Niall Quinn pointed out that a lot of players don’t kick on any higher in their career after leaving SAFC. As if to say don’t take what you have here for granted. Henderson is the obvious one it really worked out for but I can’t think of many others recently.
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Jordan Pickford?
 
bowers2 said:
Ipswich fan posted in their forum that he was been a very expensive mistake and will never be a prem player.
Stated he may be ok next year if they go down.
We need to forget about jack Clarke and his one good season.
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Saw enough with my own eyes to know the lad could be a prem player
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
That’s an incredibly bold statement at this stage. One has a lot of potential and the other had a very good start to the campaign but his form dipped. He’s yet to have a good campaign from start to finish in his career.
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Clarke has done very well in the Championship…that’s it. He’s had two opportunities in the top league and hasn’t made it. Watson imo will make that step up with ease. Mundle possibly. Clarke is so one-footed, he is easily sussed out by Premier class defenders. They know his only option is to cut in onto his right foot.
 
Hulkster said:
Ipswich have built a team that will storm the championship next season.
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Nothings given in this league mate. You should know this by now.. can have all the talent in the world but if the vibes not right your onto a hiding imo. Just look at Luton.
 
Ohnonotagain said:
Clarke has done very well in the Championship…that’s it. He’s had two opportunities in the top league and hasn’t made it. Watson imo will make that step up with ease. Mundle possibly. Clarke is so one-footed, he is easily sussed out by Premier class defenders. They know his only option is to cut in onto his right foot.
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Early days for both those judgements. Mundle is coming up 22. He’s not had a good consistent season at any level and has ‘failed’ in the same way that Clarke did at Spurs, ie he was moved on for buttons.
 
Onlyfoolsrushin said:
A couple also suggesting he isn't being played to his strengths due to the way they play. I don't understand why Ipswich bought him and then give him a different role to play in a higher league. Rank stupidity IMHO. Ipswichs scattergun approach to signing players hasn't really worked.

I'll be interested to see what happens with Ipswich in January. Stick or Twist and bust.
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It does seem like an odd signing in that regard. I like Clarke a lot but I would never have really suggested that he should play as a 10.

His best skill is isolating full-backs one-on-one and going past them/drawing a foul, etc. He was excellent at getting us up the pitch. But he did that by collecting the ball in wide positions and then driving inside.

By starting tucked in, you have way less space to work with, more bodies and much harder to build up the speed. They do this because Davis is central to their gameplan, but it just seems weird to go after Clarke as a big signing in those circumstances.

I do think he's good enough to play Premier League football but I would be trying to play to his strengths.
 
Fireball07 said:
It does seem like an odd signing in that regard. I like Clarke a lot but I would never have really suggested that he should play as a 10.

His best skill is isolating full-backs one-on-one and going past them/drawing a foul, etc. He was excellent at getting us up the pitch. But he did that by collecting the ball in wide positions and then driving inside.

By starting tucked in, you have way less space to work with, more bodies and much harder to build up the speed. They do this because Davis is central to their gameplan, but it just seems weird to go after Clarke as a big signing in those circumstances.

I do think he's good enough to play Premier League football but I would be trying to play to his strengths.
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An out of form Trippier had him sussed in minutes last January.
 
Ohnonotagain said:
An out of form Trippier had him sussed in minutes last January.
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Hard to write someone off after one game against a premier league fullback, but my god that performance was an eye opener and probably confirmed to the higher ups that he was more than an expendable for the right price.
 
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