MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Fair point re: full seasons vs my point at limited Reading impact.
£6m or £10m, he's banging in the goals which if they get us will make it a bargain.
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Britt Assombalonga
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Fair point re: full seasons vs my point at limited Reading impact.
£6m or £10m, he's banging in the goals which if they get us will make it a bargain.
Heffing Psycho!
Steve Chettle
At the risk of sounding like a broken record he's really surprised me at how good he actually is, never really had him down as a decent striker just a streaky one who would score 4 or 5 in a batch and then go quiet for a month or two and I never really thought he offered any energy or technical ability but he definitely does.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
I think he's enjoying being the main man and having the players he does have behind him. Any striker with Lolley & Carvalho behind them are gonna get joy.
He's a better all round player than I thought he would be too. If he does nothing all game you at least know he's gonna have worked hard and taken care of the ball. A striker that takes care of the ball and scores goals are hugely valuable - usually it's one or the other, especially at this level.
Ravi
Upper Decker
Grabban is really a number ten with good technique and passing ability who can finish. If he had pace as well he’d have been a PL regular.
BringBackJemo
First Team Squad
I suppose my gripe was with "perspective" - I don't think we've done anything wonderful with Grabban, we've just paid fair price.
A Britt type sale where a player goes for almost a league record despite fairly obvious pitfalls in his game and a lengthy injury is unlikely to happen again for a while. It's a bit of anomaly so I'm not sure what perspective you can draw from it apart from sometimes stupid things happen.
I know it’s not a popular view but the Brereton deal is looking like a good bit of robbery too. Plenty of time for him to turn it around but he remains unable to score and Rovers have him on the wing again. He gets a fair old slating on their forums.
Ravi
Upper Decker
I agree. The bottom line is a young player with a bad attitude needed to go. All the diving antics were really beginning to annoy me anyway, but yeah, looking like another pants down deal.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Certainly not outrageous a suggestion as it was three months ago. Hard to deny his stock has fallen significantly but still time for him to recover it.
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FBS
Steve Chettle
I'd still take Britt back. He was the most natural goalscorer we've had for many years. Ok, now we have Grabban but I think Assombalonga would offer a different type of option up front.
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Ricochet
Jack Burkitt
Don't think the Boro fans agree,they have a Britt Assombalonga is shit thread on one of their forums.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Britt is still a very good striker at this level, but the £15m they paid us for him was probably about £5m too much (and that's before we even get to his wages!).
Grabban on the other hand is an absolute bargain at £6m in today's market.
Grabban on the other hand is an absolute bargain at £6m in today's market.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Pulis has absolutely killed him, I have a Boro supporting mate - they are both almost in a standoff.
Pulis plays long balls to him with nobody within 50 yards of him, so the player has a sulk and doesn't bother trying. He will score the odd goal as he always does, but there is nothing from him past that. The end result is he just sits on the bench.
Gestede went off injured yesterday after about 20 mins and they bring on an academy player who is a winger while leaving Britt on the bench.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
The best part about all this is that at that way back when when we were trying to get Britt in it was actually Britt or another striker we were chasing. We went for Britt and paid almost twice as much as we would have done for the other guy.
The striker we decided not to sign got his first England goal a couple weeks ago.
The striker we decided not to sign got his first England goal a couple weeks ago.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Yep.
There was running commentary on here about which one would be the better signing between him and Britt. It was pretty much a 50/50 split in opinion.
Some media reports on Coventrymail about it too.
Yossarian
Viv Anderson
Feel a bit sorry for him ending up with Pulis as manager, never going to be his style of play. When he was here we didn't exactly create many chances for him either. Hopefully he will leave Boro and go somewhere he's more suited to.
Yossarian
Viv Anderson
This makes me sad, he was a fish out of water on the wing, needs to be up front.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
Thread needs moving to Former Players section... he is an ex-player, he has run down the curtain and joined the choir invisibule