He's much better with space in front of him including the outlet to another player. How often do we have that now?
Forest sans Elanga and Wood are the single reason we're 17th this season
Wood probably more so than Elanga, although tail end of last season it was clear that tactic had been found out anyway.
The tactic was "found out" circa gameweek three or four I'd imagine, if not before
They had 15 assists and 26 goals between them last season. Incredible partnership.
It's one of those where I think it would give us even more than the player itself. I could envisage it being a signing that would just lift the entire squad.
They signed the wrong player, Hutchinson would've been much closer to the type of winger that suits their style.
It’s a good point, but I wouldn’t swap.
Not swap plus £20 million for Gunn.
It's one of my biggest bug bears when you have a player that's all power and pace and a direct runner - then some dickhead thinks they gentrify them and turn them into some technical player. The same thing happened with Ollie Burke - totally ruined him as a footballer. Players like that do things at a million miles an hour, they make mistakes, bad decisions at times, and are typically inconsistent, but when it works it's spectacular. I honestly don't know why Newcastle signed him.
You are right, I've seen a fair bit of young "Ollie" on his adventures here in Germany, and he is best deployed as a "blunt instrument" of a player, sent out there to just run at opponents, terrifying them with his power and pace, and - in the Bundesliga - he has carved a fine career out of that style of play, and it works.
For all of us wh were at both matches I don’t think they’ll ever be forgiven