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1teem, I admire your positivity about all of our new managers and players, and sometimes I agree with you. I really hope you're right this time and can see more than the rest of us can because we need a good centre forward now, more than ever.
Other teams manage to get good youngsters on loan from Premier League clubs. Coventry, for example, have got Romain Esse from Palace. I wonder how many goals Spurs' Will Lankshear would score if he were on loan here rather than Oxford United?
At least he comes out of his goal for crosses, which neither McCarthy nor Bazunu were doing. Sometimes you think, where's he off to? But, I'd rather that than a goalkeeper who just stays glued to his line. He appears to have one quality which is essential for a good goalkeeper: bravery.
The thing about Sport Republic is, just when you think they've got rid of a player who wasn't good enough, they manage to find a replacement who's even worse.
This one sounds like a downgrade on all of the forwards we managed to offload in the last couple of years.
Looking at his career, his better days were 5 to 10 years ago. He was scoring goals regularly for Orlando when he was a youngster. It sounds like injuries and lifestyle issues have caught up with him. He's prone to hamstring injuries and has now reached the fag end of his career.
I've never heard of him either, but a quick search reveals he's 30 years old and plays as a left winger or stiker. He sounds like a Canadian Cameron Archer.
What's the point of signing someone like him when we've been trying to clear out players who score more goals than he does? If he's not good enough for the Dutch league why would be good enough here?
This is what he offers:
Fitness and injury issues, a few minutes as a sub and no goals. No wonder they want to get rid of him:
No, but I saw Pete Brown at a university gig. He certainly had a way with words. My favourite album title of his was, "Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever".
Yes, I did think at the time, our other goalkeepers wouldn't have made that save from 배준호 (I used to live in Korea, and their alphabet is surprisingly easy to learn. I don't get many opportunites to use it nowadays :))
Puel made some big mistakes. Substituting Gabbiadini at Wembley, when he was having the game of his life, cost us our 2nd major trophy. Who knows what might have happened if Fonte had been in our Europe League team? We'd at least have got past the group stage. He captained Lille through to the knock out stages of both the Champions League and Europa League.
At least he got his glory at the San Siro in the end. He captained his Lille team to a 3-0 victory over AC Milan there. Ironically, Milan's No. 9 was Ibrahimović.
I agree. I was sceptical because of his lack of experience and initially he was quite erratic, but he looks like a natural goalkeeper and an improvement on both Bazunu and McCarthy. Many have likened him to Boruc. I'm glad we got him.
In terms of what he achieved as a team leader with Saints, Lille, Braga and Portugal, José Fonte is one of the greatest. He organised a defence, read a game, and guided young players better than any captain we've ever had. I wonder how many more goals we'd have conceded and whether we'd have done anywhere near as well in the league without all those interceptions he made? Puel leaving him out of the Europa League games certainly cost us.
2 promotions and 4 consecutive top 8 finishes with Saints, Ligue 1 title with Lille, League Cup with Braga, 50 caps, European Championship and Nations League winner with Portugal; he's a great example to all the youngsters he plays with and he's still the captain of a Portuguese Primeira Liga club now at the age of 42. 746 first team appearances, 30 in the Champions League & Europa League, 288 for Saints, and still going strong.
We've not had many players who've won a European Championship as a Saints player nor a captain who's led us for so many years as a top 8 team.
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