Article: Leeds will struggle for firepower without Luciano Becchio - Football, Leeds United

Oi Oi fellow whites!

Is anyone else proper concerned abut Becchio? I'll admit im biased, and dont think any of our other strikers come close (cos i love him so!) to his drive and ability to score the goals when it matters, but without him, I do think we might struggle!

With Somma injured (I kno some dont really rate him-but cant deny he scored a few last year) and Paynter with all the footballing ability of a vegetable, that really only leaves McCormack. I will conceed that if RM can regain his form of a couple of seasons ago he will be more than able to knock quite a few in, but what if he doesn't, or what if something happens to him injury wise?!?

I know a few of you on here will point to Gradels 18 goals from outwide (and rightfully so) and players like Howson and Snodgrass who can also chip in with a few, but dont you think that teams are now wise to Leeds ability on the flanks? This year I think when Leeds roll into town, teams are gonna pinpoint Gradel/Snoddy/Sam as the dangermen, and we'll need to rely more on a mixed attacking stategy with more hold up play from the front man than we had last year. And if Paynter is up front, i'd rather our midfield just shoot from 50-60 yards than pass!

All of this is just my look on the current striker situation, so your thoughts would be appreciated. Even with all this, I do think our lads are capable of doing well without the awesome Becchio, but it will be a fair bit harder!!!

MOT!!!

 

yea i think we are incredibly weak upfront with becchio injure, personally i think paynter is probably the worst player i've ever seen in my life not just proffesionally but including in the leagues i play in. With somma injured who woujlda been our second striker last year as well that leaves the goalscoring to McCormack and i really dont think he can play p front on his own which is tough seeings he is the only fit striker who isnt diabolically bad.

I think we need another striker signed who is a big hold up man like becchio, this scenario would provide more competition for places when becchio is fit again and would also never allow paynter to put on a leeds shirt again

 

Relegation battle without becchio

 

not sure i'd go that far but he was probably one of the best three or four players for us last season without a doubt

 

Yeah I agree josh, i wouldn't go that far, but (again I'm biased) i think he's been such an important player since the moment he pulled on the famous white shirt, and without him, we may struggle for P/Os.

 

yea maybe but he wont be out for anywhere as long as somma from my understanding...i dont know though if he has the surgery. I thought he was just gonna miss the first five games of the season or something like that

I actually didnt think he would be one of the squad that could make the step up from league 1 to championship, how he proved me wrong...

 

Sommas better than Becchio, scored almost as many goals in almost half the games, he's the real loss. Not Heskeyo. Rm isnt good enough either, he'd still be at Cardiff if he was, We shda got Danny Graham 3 seasons ago, we were linked to him, Le Fondre now or some international

 

knob

 

Afraid I have to disagree QSS-i do rate Somma, and he has a knack for finding the net with limited opportunities, although he seems to have done better when coming from the bench, whilst Becchio does well in amongst it from the start, and if I had to hazard a guess, i reckon oppo defenders would prefer to play against Somma if given the choice.

Agree with the rest of what you said tho...

 

lol-no words wasted eh longwayback?

 

Somma looks lost when he starts games. He's a great impact sub and there is no reason to move him from that spot. So McCormack's not good enough but a striker who hasn't played above L2 is? The reason Cardiff let McCormack go was because he was desperate for games and they had Bothroyd, Chopra and Bellamy in the team at the time. I'm sure they'd have him back now that they've all gone.

 

Becchio...is our number 1 striker....anyone who does not see that is blind......

Target Man
Holds the play up
Great in the Air
Good link up play
Great finisher

If we dont replace with another striker i think we will struggle especially with Somma also out.

Sell gradel use the cash for a striker job done......

we still need a
GK
LB
CM

Bloody get your fingers out!!!!!

 

Why don't you wait until the season starts before you complain about the lack of signings.

 

Becchio was vital to us last season. We always struggled to score when he didn't play.

Josh, we have a manager who signed the player who you consider to be the worst player you've ever seen at any level of football, and proclaimed he was as good as Becchio, yet you abuse me for criticising him and wanting him out.

Can you not see what a massive hypocrite that makes you?

For the record, I disagree with you on Paynter. He's the second worst player I've ever seen after Neill Collins.

 

Clive, what you dont seem to grasp is that i disagree with things that grayson does but he is still the best manager we've had in a long time, dont reply to this because it pisses me off that you can turn a thread talking about how important becchio is and now hes injured into how **** of a manager grayson is just **** off

Back to the topic, becchio is definately our number one striker for the reasons that spanish stated. I think mccormack will smack goals in this season when given the chance and to say somma scored almost as many goals as becchio is a bit stupid... do you know the stats from last year, i know he had considerably less games but becchio is an all round striker not just a finisher and the reason he worked off the bench so well was to give the defenders something else to think about

 

Becchio a great finisher lmfao, he falls over every time he scores, Novice Ice skaters come to mind hahaha

anyway


Who's the better finisher?? Somma
Who's quicker?? Somma
Who's more skillfull? Somma
Who doesnt fall over everytime he touches the ball?? Somma
Who keeps possession better?? Somma
Who has a better goals to game ratio?? ooo thats Somma again
Who has better movement?? Sssssooooommma


Sky Sports commentator quoted " I cant belive how this lad doesnt start, his movement is terrfic, a natural striker and a handfull"

All Becchio has is support from fans and good workrate, he is a white emile heskey

 

It's fine to be positive about Somma, but you don't have to run Becchio down to do it.

Do you not understand, Josh? It is the topic. It's always the topic. Grayson is the manager so it will always come back round to him. Who's fault is it that we'll struggle for firepower without Becchio?

Do you not see the contradiction in saying the manager, who you think signed the worst player you've ever seen, is the best we've had in a long time?

And it's not like he signed him, realised his mistake, and dumped him. He was actually playing him ahead of Becchio last season!

 

obviously don't know anything about anything.

 

clive, you are allow to like a manager but not every decision he makes, thats why im not a manager because i dont make every single decision right and i can assure he doesnt and infact no manager in the world does.. football is a matter of opinion, this means he may see something in a player i dont, he may not see something in a player that someone else does. This does not however mean that he is a bad manager otherwise he wouldn't have been so successful with leeds and by getting promotion and then competing for play-offs in a better league the next season, that is successful. Dont get me wrong i look at some of his decisions and think why the **** is he doing that but he is still the best manager we have had in a long time, and because i want the thread to stay on topic instead of going of to another anti-grayson thread, i'll put it back on topic

Somma is a good player, he just misses something from his game and i have a feeling that its his work rate, if he worked as hard as becchio he would be a better striker, taking into account that somma cant head the ball either but i think the point is that without both of them we all of a sudden look weak upfront. We should look at getting a three month long loan at the start of the season for a striker... no one comes to mind though

 

But if he hadn't done all those things that did baffle you, we could have got promotion.

Can't you see that?