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Post by jimmy on Nov 25, 2016 15:09:04 GMT
What do you think the real reason behind Niasse getting excluded is? I've read a few people hinting they think Martinez took a bung to sign him lol, but I'd be careful spouting that one around. Our players don't seem to have enough quality to compete at the top. If you look at the league table, it's a good reflection of who we are. The teams we think are better are above us and the teams we think are worse are below us. The Niasse situation is baffling. The lad clearly has some ability, after all, he did ok in Russia, and You Tube clips are never a completely reliable judge of form, but he does ok in those at least! And, if true, he won their League Player of the Year. So it may well be that he was bought in good faith, but he's just completely out of his depth in the PL and he knows it. To then be sent to the U23s who will (being young) be an unforgiving bunch, will have smashed what little confidence he may have had left. He's played 8 times for Senegal let's not forget, and scored 3 times as well. Perhaps Gana knows him better than anyone as he's a team mate at International Level. My bet is that he was seen as a prospect, but he looks anything but - we should try and loan him out, just in case, but likelihood is he'll be sold. Kone doesn't appear to be on the radar either, and Calvert-Lewin would be my bet for a striker place on the bench alongside Valencia. I would have said Dowell, but he appears to have gone off the boil a bit of late (but he'll be back) Baffling is the right word. We're not scoring and 2 senior strikers are totally out of the squad, with Valencia getting mere minutes. If he doesn't drop Jagielka it will show he hasn't been watching the games as he's responsible for half the problems last year, and is doing it again this year.
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