The Donkey
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord Divock in vain.
Man… you’re ruining my set up, for when I point out Lord Divock had a better goals to minutes played ratio in the Premier League for us than the Donkey of Chaos!!!
We all know Darwin can finish. Beside where we not getting the same sort of thing from Salah and Mane?
He popped into the bar for a dump
Definitely from the King Harry.
Darwin has 86 games to score the 8 goals he’s behind Divock in total to equal his record.
175 - 41 Divock
89 - 33 Nunez
What’s that in terms of minutes? Or Champion’s League final goals?
Its 742 minutes this season for Divock and 1 goal/1 assist. That what it is.
This place is gonna go ape shit when he scores an injury time winner against city that helps us win the league and sends Everton down.
Very different, they were two confident forwards who wanted every chance to themselves and were taking them frequently.
He can finish but is he a finisher?
This is partly why I wanted Inzaghi - he plays with 2 strikers and Nunez seems to fit perfectly into the profile of Marcus Thuram/Arnautovic type next to a more clinical/creatve player like Lautaro (which would be Salah/Jota for us).
Amorim does seem to play with one striker and 2 AMs (or a combination of an AM and a pure winger), but this can work too if those AMs are able to score loads. Someone like Carvalho seems like a perfect hybrid of #10 and scorer, so we might not necessarily rely on Nunez to become Harry Kane.
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The 'agent of chaos' stuff is a mask for his deficiencies. I don't want a cult player, that's for Everton, I want a ruthless, world class predatory striker. A top striker for us should be nearly a goal a game with the chances we create. He's 20 in 59 in the League. I don't hate him, he has qualities but he's not good enough. The best players score goals when you need them, not when it's a cherry on the cake.
Like the two against Newcastle away? Or the winner in the 99 minute?
This is correct. We'd run out of ideas by the time he came on.
The bigger issue is why our record signing isn't good enough to start.
I don't know why we keep hanging him on being expensive. Again, Salah is the one who started on name only. He's our most expensive player.
I think it's a little silly to look at any individual player though. We haven't been able to train on how to play for a while now, and it's all fallen apart, and it can't be propped up by our legs now that we are shot.
I think what we are trying to do is flawed and overcomplicated. Maybe it could work, but given that we are never, ever going to find out, I'd like to see something a little simpler.
No, not simpler like hoofing shit in the general direction of whatever striker is up there. Not that simple.
He's played his best coming in from the left. When jota got injured and Cody turned to shite, klopp has almost exclusively played him through the middle, against a low block and its just not been him.
He's had no space or time to get a head of steam up...
He's had no space or time to get a head of steam up...
I dont really know why he gets flack for yesterdays performance. Our idea of attacking was passing it between Macca, Konate and Virgil so Alisson could hoof it from midfield. It was shocking to watch in all honesty. Could have just saved Jota and Nunez for Sunday.
The goals against Newcastle were last August FFS. Let's face it, the striker who came off the bench that day was a blip, we haven't seen that since.
You got to figure at the absolute elite end of the game it’s fine margins between success and failure.
Darwin has, at times, shown excellent composure and finishing, but it’s about doing it consistently.
He’s like a decent keeper that has a regular clanger in his game - and Christ we’ve seen plenty of those - which makes him a liability and makes you appreciate consistently good keepers like Reina & Alisson were/are.
And that’s Darwin, he has all the attributes to reach the highest elite levels… he just hasn’t got the consistency to hit the levels often enough.
Darwin has, at times, shown excellent composure and finishing, but it’s about doing it consistently.
He’s like a decent keeper that has a regular clanger in his game - and Christ we’ve seen plenty of those - which makes him a liability and makes you appreciate consistently good keepers like Reina & Alisson were/are.
And that’s Darwin, he has all the attributes to reach the highest elite levels… he just hasn’t got the consistency to hit the levels often enough.
Stop bigging him up
I think he’s far from the finished article but he’s scored plenty of worldies this season. Look a compilation of his goals and assists this year and you’d think we have a superstar.
So much this.
Newcastle and West Ham are the only teams in the top half that he has scored against this season. The Newcastle game increasingly looks like an outlier.
He’s one of those players that you look at and think “If he could just….. he’d be a world-beater” but I just don’t think it’s going to happen. Don’t get me wrong, I want him to succeed. I want all our players to succeed.
Time for us to move him on and move on. If he stays another season we’ll all be having this same conversation this time next year, but he’ll be a year older with less time in his contract. He’s a headache our new manager can do without.
He’s one of those players that you look at and think “If he could just….. he’d be a world-beater” but I just don’t think it’s going to happen. Don’t get me wrong, I want him to succeed. I want all our players to succeed.
Time for us to move him on and move on. If he stays another season we’ll all be having this same conversation this time next year, but he’ll be a year older with less time in his contract. He’s a headache our new manager can do without.
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