Player Suggestion Demarai Gray

[gaffablade]

Lets stop all the talk and go get this lad.

Ticks all the boxes and some.

 

[SufcBilly]

Have we started playing with wingers?

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Lets stop all the talk and go get this lad.

Ticks all the boxes and some.

You mean like;

Players we don't need = Tick

 

[Torrix1889]

29 appearances for Leicester last season suggests they see him as a regular squad player. would be a fantastic signing but i can't see them letting him go....and surely they would be looking for £20m plus.....

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

29 appearances for Leicester last season suggests they see him as a regular squad player. would be a fantastic signing but i can't see them letting him go....and surely they would be looking for £20m plus.....

And surely we dont 'spunk' money on a winger.

 

[OrderOfStGeorge]

Have we started playing with wingers?

Some of the best strikers started out as wingers just saying.

 

[nopigfansintown]

Speedboat - no driver.

 

[Bladesman]

What boxes?

 

[Torrix1889]

He would certainly offer us something that we haven't got much of in pace but I just couldn't see Leicester being willing to off-load him.

 

[Joshp]

What boxes?

High wage demands - Tick
Winger - Tick
Young inflated Englishman price - Tick

 

[Wooden Blade]

There are good reasons why he does not start many games for Leicester, will never be the player he thinks he is.

 

[itsinyerblood]

There are good reasons why he does not start many games for Leicester, will never be the player he thinks he is.

Good point.....self-belief counts for so much, and I'm not taking about an exaggerated sense of your own ability but understanding what you can and cannot achieve.
If you look at Vardy, he's been consistently good ever since he signed for Leicester. His game is based on several things, but mainly his pace, knowing he can beat an opponent and that he's able to convert where other players might waste an opportunity. At times Gray impresses, but it happens in flashes so there's still a lot of work to be done.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

There are good reasons why he does not start many games for Leicester, will never be the player he thinks he is.

Know him personally do you ?

 

[gaffablade]

What boxes?

speed, goals, speed, skill, speed, can drop a shoulder, speed, young and on

 

[Chabuddy G]

speed, goals, speed, skill, speed, can drop a shoulder, speed, young and on

And a winger

 

[The Hobott]

Watford fan I know just laughs at him

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

And a winger

So was Thierry Henry when he arrived at Arsenal, just saying

 

[Chabuddy G]

That doesn't mean every winger can play as a striker

Demarai Gray is an out and out winger

 

[Blade56]

and surely they would be looking for £20m plus.....

And because they bankrupt themselves to ditch their debt they could afford silly wages. Shame their local business suppliers became their creditors.

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

That doesn't mean every winger can play as a striker

Demarai Gray is an out and out winger

The point I’m making is that just because someone has been a winger all his career doesn’t mean he won’t turn into a successful striker. If he has the skill set to score goals then he can be converted. The ruling out of people solely using this narrative is potentially short sighted.
Basham and Jagielka were midfielders converted to successful centre backs, going back there were loads of examples of players developing into new positions very successfully. Dion Dublin was a CB who converted to a striker.
Now say he’s too expensive on too much money for our wage structure not got the skill set to play a different position fair enough but this obsession with pigeon holing players into just one position in itself with no other reasons, not so fair enough in my opinion.

 

[Chabuddy G]

The point I’m making is that just because someone has been a winger all his career doesn’t mean he won’t turn into a successful striker. If he has the skill set to score goals then he can be converted. The ruling out of people solely using this narrative is potentially short sighted.
Basham and Jagielka were midfielders converted to successful centre backs, going back there were loads of examples of players developing into new positions very successfully. Dion Dublin was a CB who converted to a striker.
Now say he’s too expensive on too much money for our wage structure not got the skill set to play a different position fair enough but this obsession with pigeon holing players into just one position in itself with no other reasons, not so fair enough in my opinion.

I agree, but Demarai Gray is definitely a winger. And that's who was suggested.

 

[bertieblade]

Anyone remember Colin Franks ?
Centre back converted to a centre forward who was v fast but terrible in both positions.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

I’d take him every day as a winger

Could play up front though he’s rapidooo

 

[AnstonBlade1]

Definitely take him

 

[Mouth of the South]

I’d take him every day as a winger

Could play up front though he’s rapidooo

I like him as a player as well but when was the last time Utd played with wingers FB?

Playing him up front would likely be a case of square peg, round hole

 

[AnstonBlade1]

I like him as a player as well but when was the last time Utd played with wingers FB?

Playing him up front would likely be a case of square peg, round hole

We need a plan b, instead of banging it up to Oli, or banging it into channels.

 

[Mouth of the South]

We need a plan b, instead of banging it up to Oli, or banging it into channels.

Surely the plan b should be reverting to a diamond or 3-4-1-2. Not sure how Gray would fit either of those.

 

[AnstonBlade1]

Surely the plan b should be reverting to a diamond or 3-4-1-2. Not sure how Gray would fit either of those.

Just a different option to come on with some pace, with moose being injured.

 

[Mouth of the South]

Just a different option to come on with some pace, with moose being injured.

More pace is definitely needed but he'd be an expensive plan b option - think he's another one heading to Spurs anyway