Saint_clark

Che Adams scored 22 goals in the championship when he was Archers age and scored the same or more in the Prem in 4 different seasons. I think some of you are setting yourselves up for serious disappointment with this lad.

In movement and stature for sure, not so much in conversion. At the same age Defoe had 88 goals already.

I do like the look of this guy. Guessing we don't have an option to buy included if he's highly thought of at Chelsea.

If we try to play like City we'll go down. They can play that way because they can spend hundreds of millions just on their defence alone.

Just a long winded way of saying that just because Archer has more goals at a year older and literally thousands of minutes more game time, it doesn't mean he's actually any better.

Of course he could, Mara is not despite what some on here say literally the worst player in the world which means there are millions of players worse than him. In 3176 championship minutes and 1909 Prem minutes respectively, compared to 621 championship minutes and 541 Prem minutes for Mara. In fact if you take Maras ratio and give him the same amount of minutes Archer had, he would have ended up with 20 championship goals and 3/4 Prem goals.

Remains to be seen.

Well they got relegated so it wasn't that good.

Well, I hope I'm wrong about him. Welcome aboard. Should be able to come up with a unique chant for someone called Archer surely?

That's fine but it means we'll be lacking elsewhere.

The times I've seen him play he seems to snatch at chances, lacks composure. I'm sure I'll get ridiculed as writing someone off before they arrive but I'd like to remind everyone I was the person who made the infamous "all his goals seems scuffed or poor defending" about Che when we signed him

Don't get your hopes up, he's an atrocious finisher.

I don't think we have a lot of choice really. We don't have the funds to buy everything we need and with Dibling and SAA we have two attacking midfielders that could do well for us this season.

Over there.

Dibling?

That's...not how that works. We still spent money on him originally.

And then when he doesn't win us the game in that 15 minutes he gets slated. If he's being integrated he needs to be given proper chances, a run of 5 starts, get players actually playing to his strengths rather than expecting him to play a fast paced dynamic role where he covers the width of the pitch.

And wasting resources we don't have to waste. Let's be conservative and say he's on £60,000 a week, that's over £3million we could have tacked onto a transfer offer to get it over the line.

More than he scores from outside the box.

Rubbish.

If JWP had stayed last season we'd have gone up automatically. He absolutely would suit the style, he's basically Smallbone but many levels higher in ability.

I agree but we seem to have done our best to freeze him out this pre-season.

Is it time to just accept we aren't getting money for KWP and make him our first choice left back?

Something strange went on behind the scenes. We'll probably never know the full story.

Like Norman Hunter reborn, is Stephens.