Che

[Blade58]

Anyone know his contract details?

I think we need to tie this fella down long term to help keep the vultures away

Got the winner tonight, with one supporter there saying and I quote:

"pretty average pre-season game. Che's control and finish was stunning, he should have a big season!"

 

[AnonymousBlade1995]

Going on reports from pre season I am really excited about the potential of DCL and Che this season.

 

[Houso]

Agree entirely about Che, just watched his goals against Spurs and Swindon and in those efforts alone, you could see the ability he has.

The question is, where do we play him? On a flank, up front, from centre mid?

 

[boo radley]

Who wasn't excited by him last season?
Looked strong but still developing to the body posture required for the step up he's had. Lookes like he gone way beyond where he came from considering the oposition we've played close season.
The rawness combined with NAs imput could be very exciting this season.

 

[Kenilworth]

Ready for work yet Boozers?

 

[boo radley]

Ready for work yet Boozers?

Should I be at work? Awh fuck it, I'll have today off.
Or if you meant Che, he better be otherwise his college tutor will have something to say.

 

[Kenilworth]

Should I be at work? Awh fuck it, I'll have today off.
Or if you meant Che, he better be otherwise his college tutor will have something to say.

Nah, you just keep telling us in the shout box that you getting prepped for work - normally at some strange hours of the day
Just looking out for your welfare and your life/work balance Boo, me old fruit

Not long now to the season starts - although I'll be in Great Yarmouth on the first date of the season.
Never seen so much shit on one beach, last time I was there.
Good job we had just bought the kids metal detectors and hid some coins in the sand for them to find
Ken Jnr would have been about 10 then and his blister 7-8- He's 22 now and moving up to the land of BornOnShoreham and Maidenhead later in the year
Not sure if he is still finding shit on the beach, though.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Instinctive striker with pace, down the middle for me everytime.

Done, McNulty, Higdon, Adams, Calvert Lewin.

I'm confident there is enough strength in depth to fire us to promotion...Do we really need Billy Sharp?

 

[Deleted member 875]

He is still a young, raw footballer who despite a lot of potential, he has given us a couple of glimpses of what he could achieve but still has got a long way to go.

Nobody knows how things will pan out, he could have a storming season and be footballs hottest property at the end of the season, he could have a stop start season and ended up disappearing off the radar, he could have his head turned by an agent and be gone by September, nobody really knows. I've seen loads of young footballers whose potential has excited me, some made it, some disappeared in to obscurity.

The last thing we need to do is to really build him up this early in this career, just don't expect too much from him because he is a young, raw lad, and if he does well treat it as a bonus.

 

[Deleted member 875]

Instinctive striker with pace, down the middle for me everytime.

Done, McNulty, Higdon, Adams, Calvert Lewin.

I'm confident there is enough strength in depth to fire us to promotion...Do we really need Billy Sharp?

Personally I think under Adkins, Higdon is gonna the player who surprises everyone the most. Last season Clough clearly didn't like or rate him, and he didn't get anywhere near the sort of service he needed to be at his most effective.

 

[itsinyerblood]

I think brownie may be correct. If Adkins is searching for experienced forwards I reckon Adams will be used as a sub, unless he shows spectacular levels of finishing that make his omission from the first eleven impossible. Adkins is right to seek experience though, this, of all seasons, isn't one where we can experiment with youngsters. If Adkins mentors CA, allowing him sufficient playing time so that he can build on his existing confidence, I expect Adams to be challenging for a first team start. It should always be a case of who's good enough, not how much they've cost us. Not sure where all of this leaves Diego, I hope he'll apply himself and make Adkins decision making even harder than it is currently.

 

[SwissBlade]

Personally I think under Adkins, Higdon is gonna the player who surprises everyone the most. Last season Clough clearly didn't like or rate him, and he didn't get anywhere near the sort of service he needed to be at his most effective.

I think last season Higdon never actually got fit, so whilst the service was often there, he wasn't.

Higdon had a good opener and played well away at Preston in the second half alongside Diego. But other than that his decent performances were too few.

Which was the game he got hauled off before half time as the opposition wound him up to get sent off if he wasn't taken off. Think it was Swindon. Chesterfield I heard he played well before jumping in on that tackle and seeing red

I think if he's fit and sharp he'll do alright, but he's not going to give himself a chance unless he's fit.

I think there's a few players with clean slates that had clough still been around they'd have been gone. Players get second chances, managers don't

 

[Zlatan]

Done, McNulty, Higdon, Adams, Calvert Lewin.

I'm confident there is enough strength in depth to fire us to promotion...Do we really need Billy Sharp?

We always say this and then look stupid when we're proven wrong. With the players mentioned above, Adams and Calvert-Lewin could be pre-season flashes in the pan, Higdon could just be as poor as last season and then we're back to square one.

 

[Bladesway]

Personally I think under Adkins, Higdon is gonna the player who surprises everyone the most. Last season Clough clearly didn't like or rate him, and he didn't get anywhere near the sort of service he needed to be at his most effective.

Like Porter with lack of service then?

Lets be fair he wasn't a worldbeater for many reasons last season but under a new manager, with new setup it could be very different. I saw glimpses of a bloke capable of scoring goals but also at times a guy who couldn't control a football for love nor money.

 

[BushBlade]

We always say this and then look stupid when we're proven wrong. With the players mentioned above, Adams and Calvert-Lewin could be pre-season flashes in the pan, Higdon could just be as poor as last season and then we're back to square one.

True, I remember people saying how good McFadz and Whitehouse were. In fact, I remember everyone raving about how good Charlie Hartfield looked in pre-season.
Playing a meaningless match against low quality opponents is a lot different from doing it against clubs of a similar standard, in a high pressure game in front of 20,000 supporters; week in, week out.

 

[jt64]

Instinctive striker with pace, down the middle for me everytime.

Done, McNulty, Higdon, Adams, Calvert Lewin.

I'm confident there is enough strength in depth to fire us to promotion...Do we really need Billy Sharp?

Stick Diego onto that list as well, Woolford can play minutes there as well, definitely as part of a front three (and you can add Flynn, JCR, Murphy as options wide in a three).

But to answer the question - of course we need Billy Sharp, it wouldn't be a recent Blades season if we don't have Nigel signing up all his old boys and ignoring areas where we have critical needs

 

[sheffielder]

Instinctive striker with pace, down the middle for me everytime.

Done, McNulty, Higdon, Adams, Calvert Lewin.

I'm confident there is enough strength in depth to fire us to promotion...Do we really need Billy Sharp?

You can never have too many goal scorers imo

 

[Bartleby]

You can never have too many goal scorers imo

Totally agree. Done has proved himself in this division , Adams and Calvert Lewin are potential talent coming through, McNulty and Higdon have yet to prove what they can do for us IMO, so hardly strength in depth .

 

[BushBlade]

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[cal the blade]

mark my words u play this lad upfront for the majority of the season he will get minimum! 20 goals .
its very likely he will get more ! im calling this one early lads this lad will get us up if played correctly

 

[itsinyerblood]

! Do excuse the use of ! the exclamation mark. I just can't seem to resist ! using ! it. You mark my words ! cos they're good words ! and not the sort of words to be messed about with ! Who needs an alarm clock when we have a player ! who will ! get us up. My worry is ! who will get him up?!?!?