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Player Watch: Georges-Kévin N'Koudou

Spurs72

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Tough on here, Nkoudou has never been given a good run of games Under MP, so IDK what to say about him , but Last Season when Rose was FIT GKN made an appearance as the LW/LM/LAM w/e and it was great he and Rose controlled the Left , hope he pushes on at Burnley and does what he can to make our Team, we need his like in our Team.

“He’s clearly talented”

“he’s clearly got ability”
“there’s clearly something there”


I agree with this 100% guy just needs to show up a bit more.
 

St José Dominguez

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Not saying it was you but there were a load of people saying the same thing about Kane when he was going out on loan to places like Millwall. I remember someone saying he was "100% a championship player at best".

GKN may well prove to not be good enough for us, or he may, however unlikely, turn into another Harry.

Nah it's different, doubt Dyche will put him straight into side half way through season and GKN half way through season won't have such an impact everything changes. We'll sign someone in the summer who'll push him even further down pecking order so he'll either be loaned out again or sold. He might be good enough but he'll never get chance to show it here.
 

Cornpattbuck

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Jul 23, 2013
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Intriguing.

Interesting how we keep loaning players to 'tough' managers - Pullis, Bruce, Dyche etc.

Test of character loans?
 

coys200

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I think the one thing it shows is that he wants to try. A loan to Burnley isn’t exactly the most glamorous of moves. He could easily have sat on his arse for next 5 months collecting wages then got a move back to France.
 

Tucker

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Jul 15, 2013
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Hope he does well. Like others have said. He clearly has something. But hasn’t delivered anything yet.
 

SpursD22

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Nah it's different, doubt Dyche will put him straight into side half way through season and GKN half way through season won't have such an impact everything changes. We'll sign someone in the summer who'll push him even further down pecking order so he'll either be loaned out again or sold. He might be good enough but he'll never get chance to show it here.

You could be right but according to L’equipe who was the first one to say he was going to Burnley Nkoudou turned down offers from St Etienne, Malaga, Fiotentina and Real Betis and Nice had him on their shortlist but Sean Dyche called him and convinced him. Levy also apparently refused include an option to buy, convinced that Nkoudou could succeed here
 

tiger666

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You could be right but according to L’equipe who was the first one to say he was going to Burnley Nkoudou turned down offers from St Etienne, Malaga, Fiotentina and Real Betis and Nice had him on their shortlist but Sean Dyche called him and convinced him. Levy also apparently refused include an option to buy, convinced that Nkoudou could succeed here

That's just the club being smart. Why include a future fee when hardly anyone has seen what he can do yet?
 

WiganSpur

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Once thing Dyche could do is teach him the hard graft.

If he gets him working for the team first and foremost then GK could still be of benefit to us in future.

To be fair to GK, I admire the fact he's gone to Burnley and not back out to France. It shows he's there to play football and not just be on holiday. I don't think it will work out but you never know.
 

JRSG

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He'll barely play and be gone next season. It's very cheap bench cover for Burnley, and they've only got 16 games left. I doubt Dyche will invest much time at all into working him into their system and improving him, unless N'Koudou just makes some ridiculously great first impression.
 

Luka Van der Bale

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He'll barely play and be gone next season. It's very cheap bench cover for Burnley, and they've only got 16 games left. I doubt Dyche will invest much time at all into working him into their system and improving him, unless N'Koudou just makes some ridiculously great first impression.
With Brady injured and West Ham looking at Arfield (6 months left on deal), I wouldn’t be so sure.
 

southlondonyiddo

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Nov 8, 2004
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So underrated on here

Looks a world beater every time I’ve seen him. Just the player Burnley need for the big push for CL places next season
 

Cravenspurs

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Wish him the best and hope he proves doubters wrong...that includes myself. I don't see much in him sans a good center of gravity and a quick burst out of the block.
 
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