That's a shame for the lad but no real surprise. It won't help his confidence but maybe it will be a spark to ignite him.
Another player whose career goes into reverse as soon as he puts a Saints shirt on. It’s no wonder we can’t attract quality.
A bit of an exaggeration but do wonder about the coaching of our younger players. We need some one like Dave Merrington
So do 72 football clubs! When a club finds one that improves the club they are tempted away by bigger money from bigger clubs. We moan about our best players tempted away or going on strike to make a move away but how many of our best backroom staff have been poached? It's not a level playing field.
He was all over the place for the first 6 months, just like Sulemana. Showed flashes, but didn't actually contribute where it mattered.
Contributed to the 8-0 against Sunderland and scored the winner against Stoke a week later. And that was October.
Just gone and looked it up as intrigue got the better of me and in his first 6 months (September - February) he got five goals and two assists in the league while missing 5 games. And that doesn't include the Sunderland game where he harshly had a goal taken off him. Obviously not at the level that he went on to reach for us but certainly can't be classed as not contributing.
I was responding to the claim that he didn't contribute for 6 months which clearly isn't true. It's far too early to make a proper long term judgement on Downs but either way I think it's a poor comparison. Though it'd be great if we could take off like Mane did!
Give him a month in the u21s, bang in a load of goals and see what happens. He is so low on confidence that I can only see him getting worse - unless the ball hits his arse and then goes in.
Yeah a run in the u21s definitely seems the best option for now. I said similar before the Boro game I think. If he can bang the goals in there for a while hopefully it'll give him some confidence as you allude to.
I remember Mara dropping down to the u21s for a bit. Didn't he bag 4 in a game after dropping down? Didn't do him much good for us
Yeah, probably is, he was ****e. Just making an alternative case that we have been here and done that before and that its not always just a case of dropping down, getting some goals and coming back a new refreshed player.
Not how I remember. He had a few games where he didn’t contribute much at the start, missed a sitter. But generally he looked exciting.
