So far our stellar free signing has done **** all, is he not fit enough to start a game by now?
So far our stellar free signing has done **** all, is he not fit enough to start a game by now?
He has more energy than the rest, unfortunately only gets chucked on when everyone else has given up. I think he'd be useful if we play 2 up top.
And what about the other star signing... Jordan Ibe......another **** signing.
Who knows? As you told me in no uncertain terms once(?), we’re not privy to all that goes on...maybe he’s not fit enough, although I doubt it seeing as he was training with us for a while before we signed him, maybe he’s not considered good enough, or maybe his face just doesn’t fit with the ‘new broom’.
I agree with Adi, to me he’s looked okay in the little we’ve seen of him. He at least gives us something different - height and physicality - and frankly he doesn’t have to be much good to be better than any of our other misfiring front men.
P.S. Think Ibe has been recovering from severe gastroenteritis...so I suppose you could call him a ‘crap’ signing.
Last edited by ramAnag; 26-11-2020 at 06:15 PM.
Really? ‘So far our stellar free signing has done **** all...’. Seems quite a ‘definite’, not to mention damning, statement to me, but I agree it would be better to judge him on performance, which is precisely why my response offered possibilities rather than any attempt at certainty.
So your issue with that statement (which as far as I can see is factual based on actual observation) is what? its not speculation its not an assumption about what may or may not have happened its a simple factual statement. Or in your world has he done more than **** all?
Oh here we go...Swale’s in ‘fight’ mode...again.
My point - not ‘issue’ - is that frankly you’ve been on CKR’s back since he arrived. Now you’ve started a thread laced with sarcasm about how our ‘stellar free signing’ has done ‘**** all’ since he arrived.
Personally I prefer to judge people once they’ve had an opportunity to prove themselves. CKR hasn’t. Like you I don’t know why - which was my point - but I see little point in starting on a guy who hasn’t had a chance when there are all too many others who’ve had chance after chance and failed to shine.
Ibe has, indeed, been recovering from severe gastroenteritis. It seems it caused him to lose a lot of weight and that will have negatively affect his fitness.
He is now back training and is training with the squad full time. Possibly available for selection for the Wycombe game.
We can only start 11 players. Might it be that, thus far, the people selecting the side haven't deemed him worthy of a start due to somebody else fitting the role better, in their opinion?
Ergo, it may well have nothing to do with fitness. Maybe, his career average of a goal every 7 appearances might be a clue when the team's biggest issue is goalscoring.
I questioned the wisdom of his signing at the time. The few minutes he has played together with Waggy seemed to show they have some kind of understanding/chemistry. Maybe worth playing the pair together up top? He keeps making the matchday squad so he must be "doing well in training".