plymouthranger

Watch it back. Theres nothing I can find specifically for the Kilmarnock game, but the below is a screenshot of his stats for passing etc. across all league games this season. He’s in the lowest 10% across the league for passing accuracy, which is fucking brutal. He’s in the 99 percentile for offsides, meaning there’s likely only 1 player in the entire league been offside more than him. His dribble success is in the lowest third of the league. Hes just an utterly dreadful footballer, honestly barring the odd Hollywood pass he offers nothing. Can’t shoot, can’t hold up play, can’t retain the ball, can’t pass, can’t stay onside. We could’ve signed almost any SPFL striker for peanuts and be getting more from them than Dessers.

Good luck, was a Kent sitter from something only 1 other manager has done for us. Disgraceful how he was treated at the end, but sadly didn’t know how to break down sides domestically. But gave us the best European run we’ll likely experience for a while

Nope, I’d love to be proved wrong but it was horrendous. Genuinely has a first touch like a trampoline

Whilst I see the point you’re making (and it’s a valid one), I counted 10 occasions in the first half where Dessers lost possession of the ball. It’s less noticeable on days like today because we win the ball back quickly. But against any half decent opposition, that becomes a massive problem. He’s an utterly abysmal footballer.

It’s genuinely at the point where we need to go back to either “ball to hand, hand to ball”, or anything that hits your elbow or below is a penalty regardless. Every FA is applying their own variation and it’s a fucking mess, even players and refs don’t know what it is these days.

Btw, this is the kind of game we’d have 100% dropped points in under the previous 2-3 managers.

We should use him as an “inside/inverted” full back more.

And Nigerias entire front line get injured meaning big Cyriel gets called up 😂

Really impressive. How you keep track of where the balls gone, land and then get yourself set to go round the man and leather that, such a tough skill set

Get Cantwell off, I’d even give Lammers a shot. He’s been fucking rotten today

It’s like playing someone from the juniors upfront. He’s significantly worse than the striker Killie have

Any working links please gents?

Agreed, even Butland is on massive wages and apparently got a signing on bonus that was low 7 figures. So he’s hardly a gem we’ve uncovered for free… Our signings since January 2021 have been atrocious, when you read through the list of players we’ve had a success rate of about 25%, with almost all of the players commanding any transfer fees such as Dessers, Lammers, Yilmaz, Matondo, Wright, Bacuna, Cifuentes, Danilo, being a waste of money. The players we’ve signed for free like Butland, Sakala, Lundstram have done a job. But it’s fucking disgraceful that in 3 years, we’ve not had any real success when paying fees for players barring Colak (jury’s still out on Cantwell and Raskin).

Reported to have become our highest earner when he joined, apparently Goldsons refusal to sign a new deal was partly down to that (perhaps resentment as JL was useless until February of that season).

Lundstram but only if we’re bringing his wage down considerably. No point keeping him on wages in excess of £30k p/w on a multi year deal into his 30s. Id like us to be actively trying to shift the likes of Matondo, Yilmaz, Davies, Lammers this window. If we could get £7-8million for the 4 of them (which looks fucking unlikely), that could bring in some good quality replacements that’ll actually contribute.

This games of equal importance right now as the last, regardless of the opposition. Anything but a win and we’re struggling to make this a title race.

Let’s be honest, we’re a competent striker and referee away from winning that today. Move onto the next game, win our 2 in hand and there’s 2 points difference, despite us losing twice to them this season. Cyriel Dessers cannot be our starting striker in January onwards, if he is we’ll win fuck all.

I think if we had any strikers on the bench he would’ve been.

Shouldn’t have blown until after the goal then

Fuck sake

He scored more last season than Lammers has combined in his entire career barring 1 season at Hereenveen 😂

Exciting signing, if our manager and DOF both wanted him and he’s played in both their leagues, then he’s got our backing also

Not really, David Edgar from H&H asked the club if we were looking at Van Veen and was told no. Stevie from 4 lads is his pal and they do a lot of shows together, so he’s just repeating what Edgar’s been told.

As a third choice striker he’d be fine for the run in post Xmas. He’s coming over to Scotland for personal reasons, has shown he can do it against the dross of the league and would be on very small wages/minimal loan or transfer fee. We aren’t getting Shankland for under £3-4million as ECL qualification is worth that to Hearts and he’s crucial for their chances. Whilst he’s slightly better than Van Veen, pound for pound Van Veen is a better signing as a backup, as neither should be starting for us. Id be for it, especially if it gives us more money to spend on a better quality of first choice striker. Dessers has already shown he can contribute even if his overall play is limited, so he’s fine as second choice. The question is can you get a player with a better track record than Van Veen here for a spend of under £500k, I’d argue you can’t.

Interesting to hear Arfield say the training sessions by him are the best of his career. Defoe and the likes also all wax lyrical about him. Clearly very good on the training drills, but has no idea how to set up a team or manage during a game. He’s bought into the hype about how clever he is, kept changing things unnecessarily, rather than just settling on a formation and training players how to fit into that.