No idea how mature he was as a 19 year old but maybe hes never felt settled away from Nottingham?
Get him back in familiar surroundings, some homecooked food in him, a manager who knows how to nurture talent and we could rediscover a player.
Who knows, maybe sell him in 3 years for another 13m.
These threads are like having a memory wank over the ex bird...yeah she gave a good nosh but shes the ex for a reason and that should never be forgotten.
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You only have to look at McGoldrick to realise that assessing footballing talent is not an exact science.
Sometimes in life you have to take a chance. Well, you don't have to, but if you don't life would be terrifically dull.
Did we?
Apart from 4 goals at the beginning of the Montanier reign, his record is played 21, scored 2.
Every player has purple patches where it seems to click, but Burkes underlying form was nowhere the expectations of a top notch player.
£13m! We arse raped RB Leipzig.
He hasn't done anything since because apart from undoubted pace, he doesn't have anything else in his locker. That alone might look impressive in the Championship, but counts for fuck all in the Bundesliga, or Premier League.
Luckily for him, a good agent should have ensured that he never needs to work again when he retires from the game at 25!
Another + point for Burke. He's already spent years playing alongside the likes of Cash. If he did return, there's no waiting round to strike up an understanding. There's a player who's got years worth of understanding with half his current team mates already under his belt.
Hell, a Burke-Walker partnership might be last year's Carva-Grabban
If's & buts of course, just summat else to chuck into the mix.
Yeah the interview I watched he just said he was out of contract, didn't realise he meant the loan, but he was talking like he wasn't wanted at West Brom so assumed he was on his way out.
Ex player or not - he has certain attributes which we lack and I tend to think Forest are one of the better clubs for coaching and improving players, especially youngsters. It's a bit like asking whether you'd take Antonio back?
Wouldn't pay a lot of dosh for him mind.
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Wouldn't be a bad signing but it's all about wages for me. He's on a fair whack at West Brom so wouldn't want to break the bank bringing him back.
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He just needs the right raw ingredients to work his magic. In this case, pace, strength, & goals.
The raw young Burke that was here has had his natural talent coached out of him. Should have stayed here.
Just another shit Scottish player.
This. If he'd have stayed here a bit longer he could have been something special. Now he's not even a shadow of the player he was when he was here, and after such a long period of stagnation (during what should have been the years he develops as a player) I just don't see him ever getting that spark back.
He'll sit out the rest of his WBA deal (with a few unfruitful loans here and there) before dropping down the leagues (again, much like Zach Clough here).
In the interview posted further up this thread he says what he really hopes for is to become the first name on the team sheet at his club.
Which is what he wasn't too far off before he was signed and taken away from the best level he could have been playing at to develop as a footballer three years ago. And the same goes for hundreds of talented British footballers signed by clubs with too much money with a policy of hoovering up talent in case rival clubs get them first.
Now, three years on he's hoping to just get back more or less to where he was. Prime example about how the current system fails, and how failure to curb the stockpiling results in wasted talent.
West Brom are never going to sell to a promotion rival. They might want to offload when they go up in May...
He looked good for a month 4 years ago. He's done nothing but fail to adapt and bounce around clubs. Burke has done nothing to justify us spending a fee on him as he's another promising player who just proved to not be good enough as he developed. On a free transfer, possibly, but spending money on a player who has flopped so badly and consistently would be crazy.
"I've been blessed with many things in this life: an arm like a damn rocket, a c**k like a burmese python, and the mind of a f**king scientist" - Kenny Powers
Just use his career as a lesson for Forest Academicians:do not be lured away by the prospect of big money... learn your trade with Forest, embrace the Club and have a career at the end of which you feel proud to say "I achieved my best with the best Club in the World!".
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