I hope so too, in return for our investment Success has to have been the worst incoming transfer we ever made. Even though Gray cost more, Gray at least scored a number of goals in 18/19 and never seemed to shirk when clearly not good enough. Success has been missing for long periods and never really contributed anything.
- 'I really want to stay and fight for my place' - 'Isaac, you're our ninth choice option' - 'ok, when's the plane?'
I hope so, but I just have this horrible feeling that among the hierarchy he'll still be seen as Watford's problem, including possible financial responsibility, and the move to Udinese is only to keep him in the shop window in the hope that someone may be persuaded to buy him in the future. Of course if he signs a 5-year deal with them then this line of thinking is seriously flawed and I will content myself that I was worrying about nothing.
I thought at least his effort and work ethic looked better last year. Perhaps he'll step up (finally) like Okaka and actually be worth something to someone.
Against Spurs in the League Cup match played at MK a couple of years ago he was awesome. There's a great player in there somewhere
Odd career trajectory. Went from being a lightning quick winger to lumbering centre forward in 5 years. I know the days of Nigerian players lying about there age is gone, but there's no way he's 25
A great success. A millionaire from sitting on his ar5e for the last 5 years. It doesn't get better than that.
It's frightening when you look at his stats on Soccerbase https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=75668 In 5 years he has made a total of 20 starts in all competitions, so that's an average of 4 per year since we signed him for £12.5m. He had made 52 sub appearances in that time, so that averages to just over 10 per season. His return? 6 goals.
Hopefully they will give us some of that pussestto money back. Bye Isaac, we all had very high expectations when you joined. Thanks for taking our money for absolutely nothing.
Also as a side note - Udinese are signing Nehuén Perez on loan from Atletico Madrid. Very highly rated young Argentinian (@Smudger ?) Wonder if that might have any ramifications for us in the CB area at some point…
This is turning out to be a great window. Get rid of Gray and it becomes one of the best in the Pozzo era.
He has been loaned out by Atletico to Familcao in the Liga Sagres where he was mightily impressive in leading the backline. Not so much at Granada in his second loan. Looked rusty and never had a consistent run of games. He is very mature for his years though. Calm under pressure. Strong for his age but needs to work on that. His anticipation is excellent namely at when to drop off or when to press to make interceptions from through balls or crosses as is his timing of the tackle. His distribution is good, so is his ability to carry the ball. Aerially he is very decent but could work on that. He is pretty mean. The credentials are all there. Just needs a consistent run of games to work on some of his weaker areas. This is being over eager/ rash from a desire to show what he can do. He has been earmarked from an early age at Argentinos Juniors which has a tremendous academy and teaches them aspects of not just being a player. So impressive for Argentina u17 and u20 which saw talk of him being earmarked for an early jump to the seniors. He has trained with them and was with the Olympic squad and one of it's better performers. Needless to say I would be overjoyed if his move to Udinese in the footsteps of de Paul and Molina took a step to the Vic. Fabulous talent.
Absolutely. Remember when he first came on to the scene under Walter and he was unplayable at times! Boro away standing out.
After that and Boro I spent about 5 months desperately waiting for the new superstar to be fit again!
Makes you wonder what went wrong. Other than huge wads of cash,only having to kick a plastic ball around for two hours a day plus an hour in the gym, copious drink,narcotics, ladies of a certain reputation,fast cars.... continued page 94.
This. That goal against Swansea shows his time has come and he’s ready to take the prem by storm. Typical if we let our Italian brothers prise him away in return for some dodgy young Brazilian.
Yep. His muscles have finally become perfectly balanced, and those dastardly Italians swoop in and walk away with a superstar-to-be. Clearly some people's muscles just take longer to find their equilibrium.
I’ll be glad to get this waster out of our club, but in truth the useless turd doesn’t deserve to land at a top flight Italian team either. More enablement for a player who has stolen a living for all but the first five minutes of his career with us.
If he stays fit, gets his head right, cuts out alcohol and controls his sexual urges, I think he might do well in Italy.
Surely you can't contribute towards the salary of someone who isn't contracted to you? Would have to be by way of a lump sum payment upon him leaving you'd assume.
Leeds infamously used to: https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/money-pit-that-is-leeds-united-7228789.html
Didnt Leeds come to that arrangement when Robbie Fowler was sold. Think they picked up tab for his wages over time. Like a reverse transfer instalment.
