They both have good work rates on the pitch. KLP just needs to come down a peg or two, it’s good to demand higher standards there is just different ways to go about it. He’s a good honest lad at heart he’ll go far I’m sure just these little things that’ll stop premier league clubs taking the financial risk
Not to be able to quote them. Different wages websites quote different figures. The guess (by collating various websites) is that Weimann is the highest earner of the 3 on around £22kpw. Martin seems to average about £15kpw and Semenyo a lot less (for now) on about £2.5kpw. No idea what the actual truth is but we all know our wages bill is huge and we need to cut it back as a matter of urgency or FFP will get us. 2 of our highest earners (Wells and Palmer) barely feature.
Not sure I agree on KLP having a good work rate. He works if it's going well, but if it isn't he goes missing very easily
He always tracks back though, always supports Fleming/Elder. If anything he needs to work on it on the other side of the pitch. Which I think is what you’re getting at?
Someone on the Facebook fan page mentioned Scott Twine as an ideal replacement for KLP if he goes. Don’t know much about him but he scored 4 against Plymouth this weekend.
No chance. He’s a premier league player in waiting. 20 goals and 13 assists for someone who’s not even a striker. I was really impressed when he played against us for Swindon last season. We could’ve got him for nowt in summer too
I'm the same, I really enjoy watching young English talents develop and with so many around Europe now, there's so much variation. I watched loads of Sancho at BVB and Mount at Vitesse was an absolute joy to watch too. Sadly I don't get much time now with the hours I work but that's just life. It's probably why I'm considered harsh on KLP as you see players succeed and failing and the failings are usually down to the same things. Attitude and mentality.
This narrative of KLP having attitude issues seems to grow legs more from posters bouncing off each other on here than it does from anything that he actually does. Refusing to acknowledge the fans with his teammates isn't great, but the idea that this is a constant and growing problem just isn't true. Again I think people need to ask themselves why he plays every minute and never gets subbed. If he was a selfish player with a lack of team focus he wouldn't he playing every minute. He'd be on the training pitch alongside Wilks, a player who really has been petulant and selfish at times, and is probably why Shota doesn't fancy him. The idea that we can easily sell him and get someone on the cheap to be just as good, well that's the Ehab model isn't it. We did that with Bowen and got James Scott. Sure, sometimes you get a cheap gem from abroad but for every Allahyar there's a Proschwitz too, it's a gamble and that's why they're cheaper. Comparing KLP to Ben Arfa is really quite incredible. If being cross when he fails and sometimes looking daft because of it is the biggest issue, then Cristiano Ronaldo would be a good example of someone who shares that trait.
the funniest bit was the clueless commentator saying 'it could be 7 or 8 if Hull are not careful' - immediately followed by 'there goes the full time whistle'
I think you were one of the clubs at risk of the FFP rules. The EFL have allowed clubs some accounting adjustments in light of COVID which has saved 7 or 8 clubs from falling into the FFP mire, yours being one. My question was partly out of interest to gauge what we might have to pay to get the 'proven' 30 year old stiker who consistently scores (our owner has said that is what he would spend money on). Mind, you don't have to be that good if defenders just give you the ball
Saturday started to go wrong when Shota gave them an extended break after the Reading match. Wrong message.
Because KLP is still a good player and he's our best forward. The attitude aspect exists, that's obvious every single matchday. Sorry but it's completely wrong to say we did that with Bowen we didn't. If you're selling a player for £20m you expect at least £6/8m of that to be reinvested. We didn't do that, we took a punt on a young kid who hasn't worked out. We couldn't replace Bowen with one player, he was just too good, so we should have used the money to sign 3/4/5 players that really improved the team. It's also nonsense to compare the Bowen situation to KLP, Bowen was probably the best player in the championship when he left and to put it brutally, KLP just isn't, he's the 19th joint top scorer in the league now. That's hardly irreplaceable Every signing is a gamble, but that's where our scouting/recruitment comes into play. From what I'd read under Ehab, the scouting was done on an extremely tight budget and that's never going to get you the best results. We've now got Tan who comes with plenty of contacts and a very good knowledge of the Turkish league. We've already seen from Allahyar and Pesic that you can get players for relatively small fees who come with a good track record.
It's nothing to do with collective groupthink, plenty of people have seen this from very early on. He very rarely acknowledges a good pass, he very rarely apologises for a mistake, and he frequently tries to blame someone else when he loses the ball. He plays every minute despite this because he's our best attacking player. No-one is saying he's not a good player, just not as good as the money being talked about, which is why we should cash in if anyone makes an offer at those kind of levels. We should also prepare ourselves for the possibility that enough scouts will have reported his attitude and the flaws in his game and we won't get any PL offers at all.
I think Brentford will come back in. There's no chance they'll get anywhere near Brennan Johnson and Keano was their back up in Jan. I slight improvement on their Jan bid would probably get it done Apart from them, I'm really not sure. Someone could take a punt as it's not massive money for a PL side.
True - although I didn’t think we were out of the mire just yet. Under the previous Chief Operating Officer, Mark Ashton, we ‘played the market’ a bit like stocks and shares. Basically we traded in players. When the market was buoyant we did well - with some very lucrative deals. Unfortunately for us when the bottom fell out of the market due to covid we were left with some expensive players that we couldn’t sell.
