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Posted January 14, 2013 18:33 · last edited January 19, 2013 23:50

el grapadura wrote:

playwithFire wrote:

Its not like every player in the EPL can bring a ball down like Ronaldinho. Ive seen far worse control from "EPL Quality" players

also he's only 21 - so his touch should get better the more he plays at a high level. 


His best chance of playing in the Premier League is to get promoted up. Even then he'll have to compete against new strikers, as promoted clubs generally try to get forwards with Premiership experience to strengthen when going up. The history of prolific Championship forwards making a successful step-up to the Premier League hasn't been very good in recent years.


I think his best bet is to do a Ricki Lambert/Grant Holt - destroy the championship so that by the time you're going up you're in top form and you can be a real physical threat.  Even then you're only going to suit a certain style of play.  I agree that he just doesn't look like a premiership striker even though he's only young.  Look at the champ golden boot list from the past years and it's not a path to premier league success.  In fact most have failed in the premiership the next season


Even so he got name checked on Goals on Sunday and there was a ten minute discussion of his attributes with Gus Poyet who had him at Brighton.  He wasn't over the top in praise but was really keen to point out that he's been really consistent in scoring goals.  Chris Kamara pointed out that West Brom might regret letting him go for the sake of 1m quid

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el grapadura wrote:
playwithFire wrote:

Its not like every player in the EPL can bring a ball down like Ronaldinho. Ive seen far worse control from "EPL Quality" players

also he's only 21 - so his touch should get better the more he plays at a high level. 


His best chance of playing in the Premier League is to get promoted up. Even then he'll have to compete against new strikers, as promoted clubs generally try to get forwards with Premiership experience to strengthen when going up. The history of prolific Championship forwards making a successful step-up to the Premier League hasn't been very good in recent years.


I think his best bet is to do a Ricki Lambert/Grant Holt - destroy the championship so that by the time you're going up you're in top form and you can be a real physical threat.  Even then you're only going to suit a certain style of play.  I agree that he just doesn't look like a premiership striker even though he's only young.  Look at the champ golden boot list from the past years and it's not a path to premier league success.  In fact most have failed in the premiership the next season


Even so he got name checked on Goals on Sunday and there was a ten minute discussion of his attributes with Gus Poyet who had him at Brighton.  He wasn't over the top in praise but was really keen to point out that he's been really consistent in scoring goals.  Chris Kamara pointed out that West Brom might regret letting him go for the sake of 1m quid