PLAYER WATCH: Soldado

[Shadydan]

(Helga Postiga, Sergei Rebrov, Roberto Soldado)

Hope he's gone in Jan, if we keep him until the end of the season, at the rate he is going he'll be lucky to score ten goals in the league in two seasons! You'd expect that from a centre half not a striker.
Complete flop, time to cut our losses and move on.

presumably you'd want to bring someone else Iin because we cannot go through the season with 2 strikers and with Ade's mum jujuing him up we can't rely on him either, the question Iis who do we replace him with?

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

Even his staunchest defenders, and i've been one of them, cannot deny that he should have scored last night. It's the biggest attribute he was meant to bring to the team and he hasn't delivered.

But

Despite the lack of a goal he actually played quite well, and our attacking play does look more fluid and inventive with him up top. If the ITK is true then it will happen anyway, but for me the all round performance of our attack still prompts me to have Soldado above Ade at the moment.

 

[Borks]

Ade is lambasted as woefully out of form when he had 2 goals from 9 games or whatever, yet Soldado with a worse record this season is painfully unlucky? Yawn.

When people call for Lennon to be picked others cry that just because he adds that defensive attribute, he's not good enough as a winger, the same applies to Soldado. He can be a great link but if he can't do his job of scoring 20 (or 10) goals a season, then what use is that to use? One thing you can't deny regardless of whether you think he's the laziest player to have ever lived (which he obviously isn't) is that Ade scores goals. The facts prove it, you can't disagree because he's done it wherever he's been.

I look forward to all the responses on how much better our attack looks with Soldado though.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Pavlyuchenko...

 

[YiddoInPoland]

Pavlyuchenko...

Loved that crazy Russian bastard....

 

[Kendall]

Pavlyuchenko...

Without the occasional jaw dropper.

 

[Donki]

It's amazing how many times this needs to be said.

Amazes me too people either dont watch the games, or dont understand what they are watching.

 

[E17yid]

He's so unlucky, it's almost funny.

He's a perfect fit for us

 

[mpickard2087]

I must be watching a different game, I see someone who at times is neat and tidy with his layoffs who then ruins this by too often trying aimless little flicks and giving the ball away. I also don't think his first touch is often that great, certainly not under pressure.

 

[mpickard2087]

I must be watching a different game, I see someone who at times is neat and tidy with his layoffs who then ruins this by too often trying aimless little flicks and giving the ball away. I also don't think his first touch is often that great, certainly not under pressure.

I've even done something I never do, which is check WhoScored to see if there's any evidence of this stats wise. Oh and there is...

 

[Spurs_Bear]

I must be watching a different game, I see someone who at times is neat and tidy with his layoffs who then ruins this by too often trying aimless little flicks and giving the ball away. I also don't think his first touch is often that great, certainly not under pressure.

No that's the actual game.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

It's amazing how many times this needs to be said.

And still be untrue? I agree.

 

[tiger666]

He's so unlucky, it's almost funny.

He's a perfect fit for us

What exactly is "Unlucky" about him?

 

[Kendall]

What exactly is "Unlucky" about him?

Yup. This isn't a case of him doing everything right and keepers pulling a worldie out of their arse. He's wasteful and lacks composure. That's nothing to do with luck, it's a long standing deficiency in his game.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

What exactly is "Unlucky" about him?

 

[E17yid]

What exactly is "Unlucky" about him?

I was thinking of that shot that came off the post when I made that comment.

I see what you're saying though, it's not like his whole Spurs career to date has been "unlucky"

 

[NI_Yid]

I actually think Soldado is one of the best players in our club.. his link up play for the attack is far better when he is playing compared to when he isn't... playing with 2 upfront, I would think it would be Kane's dream to play alongside a player like Soldado as he is a very neat and tidy player round the box, finding great through balls and making good runs..

Give him time and his chance will come, these past 2 games he's been getting service for the first time in god knows how many months (if ever since he arrived) and the signs are showing that he really has improved in recent months, a goal will come (from open play) and that will be him sorted..

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Why do you think he's shit for the team, apart from the drought?

The worst thing for a team (especially one that is always likely to concede) is that their striker cannot hit a barn door. So the team and supporters know that chance after chance will go begging knowing that at at some point the opposition will score

Demoralising for everyone and the longer the game goes without us scoring the more nervy and frustrated we all become

 

[Donki]

I actually think Soldado is one of the best players in our club.. his link up play for the attack is far better when he is playing compared to when he isn't... playing with 2 upfront, I would think it would be Kane's dream to play alongside a player like Soldado as he is a very neat and tidy player round the box, finding great through balls and making good runs..

Give him time and his chance will come, these past 2 games he's been getting service for the first time in god knows how many months (if ever since he arrived) and the signs are showing that he really has improved in recent months, a goal will come (from open play) and that will be him sorted..

Have your first positive rating my fellow NI friend.

I have never denied I have been a fan of his for years but I have to admit I have been dissappointed with his goal scoring as much as anyone. Hes not a shit player, as soem would lead you to believe but he is struggling to adapt to the PL. This hasn't been helped by the clusterfuck of a club we have been since he arrived. Its not coincidence that highly regarded players such as Eriksen, Lamela and Paulinho have all at times looked dissappointing. None of these players are shit its just as a team and a club we aren't in a very good place at the moment. What happens now and over Christmas IMO will determine if Bobby stays here longer than this season, as for Pauli I think he has already gone.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

The worst thing for a team (especially one that is always likely to concede) is that their striker cannot hit a barn door. So the team and supporters know that chance after chance will go begging knowing that at at some point the opposition will score

Demoralising for everyone and the longer the game goes without us scoring the more nervy and frustrated we all become

You also need a striker playing for the team that can drag the midfield forward with his movement.

I guess my glass is half full.