🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 9. Liam Delap

[Fernando 6,679]

57 minutes ago, prime adriano said:

We'll never be title contenders under maresca.  More likely to finish outside of top 5. No title winning manager picks last nights lineup 

I think we have a chance of winning the CL this season then winning the PL. 

Doubt we finish outside of top 5, we are much better then last season for that to happen. 

And last night lineup is just that problem that needs to be addressed in the summer. If the board don't do it then the problem is them not the manager. 

[NikkiCFC 8,481]

54 minutes ago, Fernando said:

 If we don't spend some good amount addressing the defense then I will start to worry like you. 

If Colwill and Fofana are always fit playing 80% of the games we would already be there. 

[Thor 2,779]

On 05/12/2025 at 01:17, DDA said:

The standards are in the bin with most of you lot. 
 

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

 

 

Yeah we should have signed Isak for 125 mil - he is really working out. 

Some of you act like it was all rainbows and butterflies with previous ownership and strikers. Aside from Costa, we haven't had a striker banging in goals. That was largely due to being carried by Hazard who is one of the best to ever touch a football and underrated. 

Drogba wasn't banging in goals for fun. Link up play by JP is apparently glossed over when you aren't looking at things with rose tinted glasses. Our attack is fine and we score - but we look like shit when we have players out of position at the back and generally shit players like Tosin which results in shit build up play from the back. 

Strikers can't score when the build up is dog shit to begin with. 

[Thor 2,779]

On 04/12/2025 at 18:47, Special Juan said:

Bullshit, absolute bullshit he is a 30M championship striker who's second touch is a tackle

He's fucking rubbish and needs to be put in the same bracket as the other average shite we have here

Tosin, Badiashille, Gittens, Chalobah and Joao Pedro

lol you overreact so hard. Get a diary and write in it. 

Binning off JP after a solid start and for most games great build up and all around game is hilarious.

[Special Juan 28,404]

10 hours ago, Thor said:

lol you overreact so hard. Get a diary and write in it. 

Binning off JP after a solid start and for most games great build up and all around game is hilarious.

If I had a diary it would be full, for every bit of bullshit you post

[Blue Armour 4,594]

Has more yellow cards than goals + assists.

Must be some kind of Stoke city heritage.

[TheHulk 2,597]

I hope we don't wait another season with him to see if he does anything, he is fucking shit and needs to get rid this summer, terrible player.

[DDA 10,065]

I mean i knew he wasn’t our new Costa but this is taking the piss.

[Strike 7,632]

Hard to judge his time when he’s had two separate injuries in his time here and obviously needed time before taking on a starting role at a big club

[Blue Armour 4,594]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

Hard to judge his time when he’s had two separate injuries in his time here and obviously needed time before taking on a starting role at a big club

Both of our strikers struggle in tight spaces, Joao Pedro maybe a bit better in that regard.

Neither of them are strong aerially either. If they had an aerial threat, things would have been better. Even an over-age Giroud would do a better job.

Delap for all his height, strength and being called an old fashioned English forward, can't really convert anything aerially to take advantage of crosses in the box.

Directors didn't look at the qualities each striker would bring when making signings, and instead looked at the most value for money deals on paper.

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,519]

Both were good at Brighton and Ipswich - but their attributes of composure, scoring ability from different situations, and hold up play are not what we have experienced over the last couple of decades from the likes of Zola, Costa, Crespo, Drogba. Back in the day we'd go all out to get the bloke who humiliated us. Now it seems, ''he'll do'' or as @Blue Armour suggests the most value for a certain agreed budget

They also are behind in terms of tactical awareness, and that underated top striker quality -guile, which you cant teach

[Mário César 1,383]

I said that jackson is better than him

out transfer police is a joke

departue of nico, madueke and sancho and we brought gittsen, garnacho, delap and estevao

we downgrade our attack. only estevao looks solid but even him need time to adapt

what a joke

[Fulham Broadway 17,519]

2 hours ago, Mário César said:

transfer police

Keystone cops ?

[Mário César 1,383]

33 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Keystone cops ?

eheeh