I hope Mayuka will play regulary in Ligue 1 and return next year as a better player. And I really don't see anything wrong with his departure. Some of you are indicating that now we lack players in wide position, but Mayuka never played wide, he is a striker. We might maybe employ him out wide, but it's not his game. And in the pecking order he is well behind Lambert, Osvaldo and Jay.
Reading clearly in the market for a striker. Linked with Cameron Jerome, Billy Sharp and Luciano Becchio.
Mayuka frequently played wide before arriving here; his ability to play anywhere in a front three was one of the selling points.
Nicklas Bendtner shown driving out of the Crystal Palace training ground having spoken with the Palace owner.
Hate to admit it but you might be right. When a young player goes on loan I try to think of them going for game time and to bash off the rough edges. With the exception on puncheon I cant think of a young player who we have loaned who has come back stronger and earned a place in the team. Anyone?
Can't think of any. Even Lallana failed at Bournemouth due to injury and hardly played (plus it was a long gap between his loan finishing and him playing for the first team). Interesting that Spurs have 4 or 5 players at Swindon, all playing and performing well from the small snippets I've seen. We seem to prefer to keep ours close to home, playing in front of 10 people and a cat in U18 & U21 games.
Clyne has been in full training for about a month, and had had more match practice and a better preparation than fox and still poch picked fox ahead of him which would suggest he rates fox higher than clyne at leftback. anpicked up a very minor knock. And i dont think it was all down to the fullbacks jwp was beaten far too easily a few times by redmond. And on the left apart from a lot of needless fouls fox looked alright defensively. We might play the same fullbacks but i wont be that worried if we do although clyne and shaw are far superior.
Whats this about Mayuka leaving? A strong rumour? Very silly decision, leaves us very lacking in pace up front.
Yeah, JWP was beaten pretty easily, but he's not a wide player and really doesn't have much experience there, nor does he have a tonne of recovery speed. Therein lies the problem; we're playing central midfielders wide right now, backed by an 18 year old converted winger and a guy who really isn't up to playing fullback in the Prem. And if Poch rates Clyne poorly as a leftback, we need another leftback. Fox is legitimately very bad.
