Some quotes from another forum from Derby fans: "At Derby he has looked lightweight and too easily is muscled off the ball. His general play has improved recently and he does have skill but isn't especially quick. He knows where the net is though. I don't think he is anywhere near ready for the Premiership at the moment, at least not as a starter. He needs another season in the Championship beefing himself up and learning a few old-fashioned centre-forward skills while being pushed and shoved around by grizzly defenders." "I have to concur with *above post* on this one. When I watched him in the Forest game, he looked surprisingly lightweight, and in physical challenges can be easily knocked off the ball. I don't think he's ready for the Prem yet. However, he's got that one thing most managers would kill for in a player: an eye for the goal. He just seems to find it. A single contribution from him can turn a game. Needs to work on his strength, then he'll be formidable. He's a long way from making any Chelsea starting line-up. " "Agree with *above two posts*. He has some Prem qualities (skill and finishing both excellent) but isn't ready yet. Needs to beef it up a bit first moer than anything. I dont see him adding anything to Chelsea as yet, maybe in a year or 2." "To put it bluntly he's too lightweight.easily gets knocked off the ball and not quite ready for the premiership yet" "He ideally needs more physical stature to continue in the Championship, but has enough about him to be effective in the EPL where the referees tend to be a little more European than those we see in the second tier. He has talent in spades though and I'd like to have seen a bit more of him up top centrally rather than wide in a three, but he happens to be up against a man in form for that role and so plays wide or not at all." "He's been playing on the right at Derby. He isn't a natural wide player but because Derby play 4-3-3 and he isn't considered strong enough to play on his own centrally, this is a compromise position to enable him to be on the pitch to score goals. Derby have 4 good wide players so he has been playing about 50% of the time, although recently because of injuries he has been playing throughout matches. His eventual position will no doubt be central so he needs to play somewhere where he can get experience in this position." "Very good player and a great attitude, if you played a 4-4-2 possibly you could have him as a squad player, as a hold the ball up solo attacker maybe not just yet, although we haven't seen him in that position as people have already said, last couple of games he's been given more of a licence to roam and does look more dangerous when central than on the wings, his tracking back, defensive play and reading of the game are a long way off elite Premiership standard probably even Championship standard. He also loses confidence quite easily and can give away possession through sloppy passes and sloppy dribbling, this could be as a result of having the 5hit kicked out him by more traditional champioship players. I imagine with the players your immoral concentration of wealth buys you, you'd get him more service and be able to pull players out of position better thus giving him more space to make an impact though. Needs to work on his right foot, getting a few more tricks in the bag (defenders have caught on to letting him cut inside from the right and shoot with the left) and decision making. If you did use him next season I think it would only be as a last 10 minute sub, think he'd develop better on loan somewhere else for half a season and then take stock in January. Not sure Jose will show patience though." "As for Bamford, quite good technically but poor decision making and weak."
