Quote Originally Posted by occult View Post
Effort isn't enough. How many more decent chances must he squander before people realise that he hasn't succeeded at various clubs for a reason.
No, you're right, effort alone isn't enough....but, we've had some fucking chancers at our club recently and people appreciate the work he puts in.

As for your second point, I don't think any of us are under any illusions about him. He's 27 years old and based on his piss-poor goals to games ratio then he's not likely to pick up and suddenly start banging them in just because he's playing for Rafa. However, he does lots of other things right and just maybe, if one goes in, he'll start shooting with a bit more confidence...and thought and hopefully pick a few up.

This one, I'm afraid is down to fat Mike not opening the cheque book when Rafa wanted a striker. We don't know for sure how far down the list Joselu was...or even if he was on the list at all but at the minute, we're getting exactly what we paid for. Remember, we paid £5 million for Hanley a year ago and nobody expected much of him-decent cover in the Chimpo and that was before the madness of this Summer's prices.

I'll be hugely surprised if he breaks into double figures but I do like his attitude and maybe if we keep creating chances...you never know.