http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport...lyses-why-jozy-altidore-has-flopped-1-6527063 ----------------- GUS Poyet says Jozy Altidore has to accept that his season has not worked out as he would have hoped and instead concentrate on finishing it with a flourish. The American was one of two big money signings â Emanuele Giaccherini was the other â made by former head coach Paolo Di Canio and director of football Roberto De Fanti last summer. Sunderland paid Dutch side AZ Alkmaar £6.5m for a striker who had scored 33 goals in all competitions in the 2012-13 campaign. And the Black Catsâ hierarchy hoped the 24-year-old would go on to prove that his 2009-10 spell at Hull City â where he scored one goal in 28 appearances â would prove to be a blip in an otherwise prolific record. Sadly for Altidore, and for Sunderland, his campaign on Wearside has proved a mirror image of his time on Humberside, and this season he has scored only one goal in 27 league appearances But Poyet says the American international has to accept what has happened and move on. âI think Jozy has been finding it difficult for a number of reasons,â the Uruguayan said. âIt is a mixture of how we have been playing, of the position he has been playing and just the fact that it hasnât been running for him. âItâs the way football goes sometimes too â sometimes you make a run to the front post and the ball goes to the back, then you make a run to the back post and the ball goes to the near post. âIt can happen time and time again and then you get paranoid and start thinking is it happening on purpose? âBut you can just have runs where youâre in roughly the right area but the ball just wonât drop to you, and I think Jozy has suffered a bit of that.â Poyet says he has sympathy for Altidoreâs annus horribilis, having endured a similarly torrid season himself as a player at Grenoble in the 1988-89 season. âWhen I analyse players who are struggling for form I always look at myself â when I went and played in France I was terrible,â he reflected. âNow did they play in a way that did not suit me? Maybe. âIt was difficult for me, I was 20. I did not speak the language. âThere are many reasons I could use for why it did not work out. âBut the reality is I was terrible, for whatever reason. So then I looked to have a new start. âWith Jozy, it has been hard for him. âIt was a great challenge for him to come back to England, to prove he could be better second time around than first. âThis is a difficult league though, a difficult league to play in, the game is played at a difficult pace. âIf you link up, then you are not in the box to receive the ball; if you do not link up then you do not touch the ball and it is easy to look bad. âThere are many ways to look bad in the English Premier League.â Altidore was better than he has been for months at Liverpool on Monday, in a system which seemed to suit him more â paired up front with Connor Wickham. And Poyet says that if the American is to get better in the remaining games it will have to be a collective effort between individual and team. He said: âIt is up to the team to help each other in situations like this. âEveryone has to look at ways of helping the player who is struggling, and the player who is struggling has to look at helping themselves. âThereâs nothing that can be done about the season so far and the games that have gone, so what Jozy has to do is to accept that and look to finish the season strongly in the games heâs involved in.â --------------------------------------- Now there's a lot of things I can see in there which could mean a number of different things! âIf you link up, then you are not in the box to receive the ball; if you do not link up then you do not touch the ball and it is easy to look bad." and âThereâs nothing that can be done about the season so far and the games that have gone, so what Jozy has to do is to accept that and look to finish the season strongly in the games heâs involved in.â Not relly sure what to make of these comments!
Well it looks like he we I'll be our number one striker for the run in.although he has recalled Mandoren.
STRIKER Mikael Mandron has returned to Sunderland from his loan spell at Fleetwood Town. Mandron made 13 appearances for the League Two outfit, netting one goal, after joining them on loan in the January transfer window. The 19-year-old was expected to stay with Fleetwood until the end of the season, but the bulk of the academy product’s appearances have been brief outings from the bench. Has he been sent back today
most of us came to this conclusion six months ago ,as i have said before and will say again ,poor management in not taking the plunge in the transfer window as this problem has been clear to see from the start.
exactly so Stu. can`t understand it, a missed opportunity imo. Di Fanti was still here then though wasn`t he? maybe something to do with not trusting him? dunno, just guessing like.
regardless ,every body was able to see the problem from close and afar,the very survival in the prem is in the balance due to the fact we have been turned over or held in games i feel where we should have been more threatening in attack than what we have had to offer on the pitch and on the bench,if i was the manager watching this unfold before me like it has with our forwards due to ,injuries ,poor form whatever ,i would be wanting the backing to spend to survive in this window the remit must have been to stay up for gus if possible ,the old saying of spend to accumulate i hope does not prove a big mistake . Hardly in hindsight i think as the problem has been there from august for contemplation
Do you not think we would have if we could have afforded to? I agree with you, but Ellis know our finances better and clearly it was not possible. I blame Bruce.
Cant be money as ellis is a very very rich man and also a very very good business man he knows the cost of relegation over the cost of two players coming in on loan with big wages or permanently ,i think it was viewed as such ,if one of the forwards could/would have come good and start scoring it would see us through ,but as of yet it if it was a gamble it has not worked as we are still struggling to score and survive ,that in its self was a risk only him and gus must have talked about and agreed on.
Surely the fact that he's a business man means there was a budget in place? Maggie has made a lot of noise about us sorting our finances and becoming self sufficient, so why on earth would he keeping us running in the red regarding the monthly wage bill. You did read our last financial report didn't you? We're on course just about break even this year with the massive tv money that will come but our wages to turnover ratio sits at around 77%. Which we need to reduce to 70% to bring it in line with the ffp rules. We all wanted a 10m-15m striker with the 40k-50k week wages it would cost us for an established goal scorer but it's clearly far to rich for us when we didn't make a move for the 7m, 30k a week wages Shane Long, even with the money recouped and saved wages from the Sess sale on the last day of the summer window. We're financially shackled down to mistakes years ago. Most of the problem will be solved in the summer, however, it could be too late by then. Shame the moderate permanent signings we made haven't beared fruit (Jozy Giacc) but it's always the risk you take with these sort of players(one a fringe player for a big club in a very different league and the other scoring for fun in a mickey mouse league) How much do I wish Long was available in the summer before Jozy was signed but he wasn't. Maybe if we hadn't thrown stupid money at contracts under Bruce, we'd have a bit more financial clout in the transfer market but we did so we don't.
Maybe if you didn't spunk £7m on Altidore you could have bought Long last summer or in the January window. Not forgetting Fletcher 12m as well.
Like I said, If he was available I'd like to hope we would have, why didn't you sign him in the summer? Why wait until January? Think about it. Because he wasn't available. Please read my posts if you're going to respond to them. And fletcher wasn't signed in the Summer or under Bruce so not relevant to what we're talking about.
I see Hull fans still use this site's search facility, franticly searching for any mention of Hull or one of their players
When you ask who ,there are strikers not getting a game else where im sure who would have been available for a end of season loan,and when you say who thats an answer i cant give or have no inside knowledge who would have been available,the same applies in the summer doesnt it WHO?,
