Or it depends on him to convince us if he has a future here. JAT

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I was quite vocal on this thread about how awful his debut performance was against Huddersfield. But I was also willing to say it was just one match and his first competitive game for us.

Tonight he just looks like yet another physically and mentally weak player and an utter waste of £9m. Pathetic attempt at the clearance and then a pathetic 'attempt' to clear up his own mistake. Turns his back and doesn't do enough to block the shot.

Tonight obviously wasn't solely down to him. The likes of PVA, Punch, Kelly, Henneseey and Lee all deserve plenty of criticism too (in fact bar Sako I think they all do). So I am no trying to scapegoat here but to assess one of 2 summer signings. So far, he looks like an awful buy to me.

he was going to turn us into the new ajax

Wouldn't be surprised if he heads back to Holland in Jan, possibly on loan

Absolute garbage

Waste of money. Hopefully Parish chipped in to buy him but I doubt it.

expect him to carve out a career like Valerian Ismael in time :supergrin:

Sako put the effort in, he is just a useless barrel of shite, should be a wrestler rather than a football player. His goal was poor goalkeeping rather than a great strike, the rest of the game he would mess up every forward move.

So many shocking wastes of money over the past 5 years.

I thought he had an excellent first half TBH and was really enjoying the way he played. The mistake for the goal was a dumb one for sure but you seem again to be writing him off again. For me, at least he knows how to play football and there is hope for him. Some of the others look done.

That useless barrel of shite has scored 2 goals this season. P!ss poor having a dig at one of the only players prepared to have a go.

We've a bad history of spending large amounts of money on players.

Absolute bollox. He played well first half. Our best player.

Agreed. He'd be on my 'keep' list in January.

Thats not saying much, once he is fit he could be a decent back up player thats as far as he goes for me. JR looks far to weak/soft to play for us.

Why can’t fans just admit when players aren’t good enough? This guy is pony but he’s not the only one that’s why we’re in this shit!

His mentally once we were struggling is what worries me the most. As you say he is still young and does have some good attributes, so he could well improve. In that sense I am not writing him off.

But so far, and particularly considering the dire need we had (and still have) in other areas of the squad he looks like an awful signing to me. We were desperate for some more characters and leaders in this squad. To blow £9m on a player who will make our bench at best in the PL while we have 2 keepers (neither really PL standard) and play 6 weeks without a centre forward, just seems like a huge mistake.

He's talking about Sako, and I can't see anyway we will sell Sako in January, mainly as he is out of contract in the summer anyway.

No way should we give him a new contract unless he takes a massive pay cut and we are in the championship.