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Nmecha

Nmecha

Lee Trundle said:
To be fair to the lad I think we’d all be a bit confused to go from training with Aguero as your strike partner to being introduced to Louis Moult.

A step up in quality he probably wasn’t ready for
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He probably needs some counselling now to deal with that shock.
 
Henry Weston said:
“The idioms pig in a poke and sell a pup (or buy a pup) refer to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce, but cats and dogs were not. ... The bag, sold unopened, would actually contain a cat or dog, which was substantially less valuable as a source of meat.”

Curious about that phrase myself so looked it up!
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So in terms the owner can understand, we bought a Beef Lasagne and it turned out to be Horse meat and not beef.
 
Ando60 said:
He reminds me of Danny Wellbeck when he was here... he didn't give a sh#t

Thought he was too good for little Preston...
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The other players were the problem for Welbeck. They all resented Irvine being sacked and had an awful attitude under Darren Ferguson. This attitude included not passing to Welbeck during games. Given that this happened during games I expect that he got even worse treatment off the pitch.

Not surprising that Welbeck didn't perform well while he was at PNE.
 
Nmecha is perfect proof of Neil scrambling to find our perfect team in the absence of Maguire and Bodin. Starts 3 games in a row with almost no time with the squad, to then be dropped almost without a trace (not convinced by that knock).
When he's played, he's looked lost unsurprisingly, but when the ball's actually been played to his feet he's looked much more comfortable. The issue with him and Moult is that we simply haven't played to their strengths. They're not without blame themselves of course, but you can't play strikers like this and keep hoofing balls up to them, it just doesn't work.
 
Its not too late for Nmecha to turn things around, if he gets into swing of things and things start to click then he could be effective. Would give him a few runs off the bench to see whats going on ,without having to risk playing him from the start. If theres no progression by xmas then would imagine he'd go back.
If AN goes ,maybe another manager would be able to get more out of him.
Suspect he has been overrated but haven't given up on him fully.
 
I said at the time when both him and Barker arrived, some people were expecting too much just because he came from City.
The reality is Championship football with its competiveness is much more difficult than U23 level

I suspect Pep had decided it was time both these Lads needed to see the real world and to see what they could make of it outside their protected environment
Barker looks at the moment to have taken to it more than Nmecha. I suspect if he wants to progress his career he will have to improve and learn Football is not a ‘bed of roses’
 
Schemer said:
Exactly. In truth, has he looked any better than Moult?
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Just from the looks of general play Moult looks a lot more comfortable. But when he plays he drops so deep he isnt going to have more than 2/3 shots a game.

At least Nmecha stands sort of close to where he should be
 
What I can't understand about this lads signing is that someone (hopefully a scout) has watched him and thought, yes he's the answer to our striker problem.

What in the world can they have seen that brought them to that conclusion baffles me.

He's not that quick, runs directly into players and hasn't really shown anything in any attribute that makes me feel he can come good.

If we could send him back, I reckon we would have done it by now.
 
GloucesterPete said:
What I can't understand about this lads signing is that someone (hopefully a scout) has watched him and thought, yes he's the answer to our striker problem.
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I think it was probably more like thinking he'll do after being told we couldn't afford the answer to our striker problem. For what it's worth I thought he looked decent against Reading and would put him above Moult in the pecking order. If he was first choice off the bench behind an established first choice striker I'd say he'd be a decent signing.
 
GloucesterPete said:
What I can't understand about this lads signing is that someone (hopefully a scout) has watched him and thought, yes he's the answer to our striker problem.

What in the world can they have seen that brought them to that conclusion baffles me.

He's not that quick, runs directly into players and hasn't really shown anything in any attribute that makes me feel he can come good.

If we could send him back, I reckon we would have done it by now.
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He may have looked good in academy football but this is the real thing.He needs to step up to the plate tonight.
Edit.He did. Well done lad.
 
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Delaney said:
I think it was probably more like thinking he'll do after being told we couldn't afford the answer to our striker problem. For what it's worth I thought he looked decent against Reading and would put him above Moult in the pecking order. If he was first choice off the bench behind an established first choice striker I'd say he'd be a decent signing.
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Exactly this ^
 
Finally came to life tonight in the second half....Young and inexperienced but created problems and looked like a handful at last...and quick. Needs a run of games now.
 
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