Ayew and Swansea...

Ayew Is a winger , just not our kinda of winger . Ayew is not a striker , that's more than obvious after today .
Ayew is wanted by other clubs that have money , especially Liverpool . With Liverpool winning today , Klopp is safe and should be still in charge during the window . Klopp loves Ayew .....SOLD for a good profit imo .
Other players I think we should sell ... Gomis and Shelvey .
Buy a striker , and if Tabanou leaves , a left back with the money accumulated.
Good to go .

 

I wanted Ayew to play up front instead of gomiss but like gomiss he got no service and combined with playing a physical team of girraffes today I don't think it suited him, against a proper footballing team he could do better but when he has to run round like a headless chicken to go get the ball himself coz those around him don't know how to get it to him in the box it's going to be hard for him. Who else could we try in the hole ? Shelvey for his height and brawn in their box may be worth a punt but can he run ?

 

I'd love to see Shelvey given a game or two as a forward but I don't think it will happen .
And given Shelvey's lack of starts of late , all I can see is him being gone by the end of the window ....which is ok by me if we can get 8 to 10 million for him .

 

I'd like to see Ayew in the number 10 role. The trouble is, we have nobody to play as striker.

I'd have brought Gylfi off after 60mins today and put Jonjo in the number 10 slot.
Gylfi looks out of sorts and for someone whose first touch is normally brilliant, his first touch is akin to pub football atm.

 

Ayew was certainly not at his best today, and I have heard the argument from a few Jacks that he doesn't suit our style of play, not sure where else to play him as he certainly no winger, but lets see how he does at Crystal Palace, his first touch today was as bad as Go-miss, we could do with our front line getting their act together, but at the minute he might well be low in confidence, I'll reserve judgement for a few games, but he's certainly not impressing at the minute, though he is our top scorer this season.........

 

The board may be experimenting to see if they can find a combination that works to avoid shelling out on an expensive proven striker to keep us up in the £100m lottery ?

 

Cash in on Ayew/Jonjo and buy Charlie Austin?

 

I think we need someone special up front who can back up his selfconfidence on the pitch, and that will cost a hell of a lot so a gamble if we do or if we dont.

 

I have said from day one Ayew is not a winger in the traditional sense he hasn't got the pace to start with. He has good ball control, lays off the ball well, has an eye for goal but is not suited and does not have the physique to be the lone striker role when he is buffeted behind by the defenders like WBA did today. I too would like to see him in the inside forward role with the freedom to roam and feed off the striker. This is a problem that has not been addressed since the departure of Bony.

 

Ayew and Shelvey are both good players , but they are killing our game .
We want to play Ayew every game but he doesn't align with the way we play wingers so now we are expiementing with him as a striker or central player .
Shelvey was playing every game , just about , before Curtis took over and we want to play Siggy every game .
Ki takes up the last position in the middle so where did that leave Britton and Cork , two of our better players during our improvement the last few games .
When Monk was playing Montero most games , Routs was on the bench between Britton and Cork .
If Ayew and Shelvey are unpickable , because there sold , it opens the door to Routs , Britton and Cork into positions they normally play .
The money from Ayew and Shelvey can then be spent on a position that needs to be filled , a striker
Gomis's sale can go in his pocket and he gets a fresh start elsewhere , a rich man .

 

So now what do we do with Siggy if Ayew slots in behind the Striker , as Ayew tries to learn something new again ?...If Ayew is not here , we don't have to move so many players around or bench some to find him a spot ..... As he starts out trying to learn another position he's never played before. Take the money I say , Liverpool will pay a bundle and we need that money , apparently , for a new striker as we have little in the coffers

 

We've been trying to knock a square peg in a round hole all season and it hasn't worked.

 

All manager's have the problem of fitting players into the team and keeping those that are not playing happy. This is easier to do when you are nearer the top than the bottom. Ayew should have been coached into an inside forward role from day one. He would not have been the first player to change his role. The fact that he wasn't is down to bad management.

 

Players should be fine tuned into their role when they come to a new club in the position they play imo , I assume that's why they are brought in .
Players should not be coached into "New positions " totally , especially at the expense of the players benched who already know how to play those positions imo . It's , at least , disruptive to team play , team moral and causes general mayhem on the bench and on the pitch .
This is where I feel we are at with both Shelvey and Ayew .
Ayew might be our top scorer , but after 18 games we have scored 8 less as a team than at this point last season

 

Doesn't that tell you it's the way we play that needs looking at?

 

No , it tells me that Routs , Britton and Cork sitting on the bench was a massive error in judgement and we need to make money off of sought after players who , without fault of their own , are causing it.
And no one is saying have "A Fire Sale " we just need money and Shelvey and Ayew will create quite a bit and free up good players that have been benched while this expierment was being tried

 

Ayew, Gomiss, and Shelvey are ruining the balance of our team and game...........

 

Shelvey & Gomis didn't start that last game.

 

We won't always play great , no team does but we finally got a long awaited , deserved break and got the points .
We got an early goal and the players got nervous with our first lead in a long long time at home . It caused a lot of players to be a little heavy on their first touch ......except for Britton and Routledge .....the players Shelvey and Ayew kept out of our line up most of the season .

 

The real question is, "What IS his best role?". We've virtually tried him in every forward position and he hasn't really shone in any.

He's come to the Club with a big reputation, but there's been very little evidence of it on the pitch. Let's hope that changes in the second half of the season.