Gone Elsewhere Mcburnie

[Balti Pie]

I've never understood where this myth comes from that Mcburnie is good with his feet?

Yes he has a good physical presence and is strong in the air, but the ball so often bounced 3 meters away from him when he went to control or dibble.

I want to see us build a fluid, quick attacking force as Plan A and I just do not think this is ever going to be the answer.

Interesting! I always thought the opposite to be fair.
He was a cracking player in his Swansea days, very tidy with his link-up play and also a real fox in the box (mostly Billy Sharp type tap-ins).
When we signed him we tended to use him as a target man, pressuambly because he's tall! I don't see that as his game at all. He may be tall but he's like a streak of piss and not particularly strong. He showed that he could link up very well with technical players like Illiman, Gibbs White and McAtee, and he's wasted as a battering ram type, mainly because he has to foul the defender to get anywhere near the ball.
Would I want him back? Nah - too slow, too injury prone, and we'd only lump it up to him if he signed :-(

 

[The Crab]

He also went an entire Championship season without a goal

And how many for Las Palmas?

 

[Shawy24]

No thanks. Clown feet.

 

[Lucky1979]

7 goals from his first 87 league games. Then 19 from his last 59 games. As I said before, if it means we get rid of Moore then I’m fine with it as Moore was a huge downgrade on McBurnie. Just need to find someone to buy Cannon now. Maybe swap him for someone’s dog?

 

[s20Blade]

With Cannon and McBurnie up front, could we be the first team to register a negative xG?

Mcburnie and Sharp pairing achieved that didn't they?

 

[thehet]

Some people on here are just on another planet. McBurnie was generally very good for us, and he would be again.

Generally by which metrics?

 

[LondonBlade89]

Generally by which metrics?

Probably the metrics you’d judge a striker of his skillset by in terms of role in the attacking third, role in build-up play, aerials won, chances created, goals, assists, wider role in the team, the kind of other stuff that isn’t measured by metrics. Also my eyes.

 

[EddieColquhoun]

Mepham and McBurnie seem very much like Middlesbrough/WBA signings, like we are aiming to be in a gaggle between 6th and 12th rather than trying something different to move us foforward.

Mepham and McBurnie both got promotion in their last Championship seasons.

 

[Eric_Brooks]

Mepham and McBurnie both got promotion in their last Championship seasons.

Great, and yet both not playing the premier league or good enough if we get there. I thought we were going to be different. If this is sticking with wilder does, he can feck off.

 

[FredZeppelin]

Whilst ever Wilder is in charge this is the sort of signing we can expect, time after time.

I though we were supposed to be bringing in players by using modern data-driven methods? He was/is a useless cart horse with little natural ability whose primary aim is to fight with the opposing centre halves.

This signing would be the end of the line for me with Wilder. For God's sake, get him sacked and move forward.

utb

 

[MayorOJC]

Wouldn't be surprised if Russell Martin goes for him at Rangers

 

[Toronto Blade]

1 Goal in every 5.6 Games for us. He averaged 5 goals a season, across 5 seasons

That's OK if you fail as a striker Wilder moves you around look at Brewster 8 goals in 5 years yet Wilder just moves him around instead of off loading and improving

 

[FTPE]

Whilst ever Wilder is in charge this is the sort of signing we can expect, time after time.

I though we were supposed to be bringing in players by using modern data-driven methods? He was/is a useless cart horse with little natural ability whose primary aim is to fight with the opposing centre halves.

This signing would be the end of the line for me with Wilder. For God's sake, get him sacked and move forward.

utb

Jesus mate
Its only a rumour.

 

[EddieColquhoun]

Great, and yet both not playing the premier league or good enough if we get there. I thought we were going to be different. If this is sticking with wilder does, he can feck off.

On a Championship budget it's not easy to sign 22 players guaranteed to take the PL by storm.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Mcburnie and mepham… is it 2019?

 

[DeanLearner'sCat]

Mepham and McBurnie both got promotion in their last Championship seasons.

Let's not let facts get in the way of a good meltdown.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Meh

 

[MojoMuffin]

I do understand that this is looking more behind than forward, however, it'd be difficult not to assume the board are at least considering the end of parachute payments if we fail to win promotion and McBurnie is a decent asset at this level without having to pay a penny in a transfer fee.

He was involved in 25% of our dismal record of 35 goals last season at Premier League level, scoring 3 and assisting 6, in 21 appearances. The season prior at this level scoring 13 and assisting in 2, in a season primarily around getting the ball to, or creating space for Ndiaye.

If we got promoted, we'd be nowhere near him but we are where we are. I'd have no issues with going for him on a 2 year deal with an agreeable salary. He's useful and would be useful to us in both boxes this coming season, whether he starts or comes off the bench. The board have already given a bumper fee of 10m which, at this point, looks to have missed the mark. A sensible bit of spending here adds someone to the squad that, whether you like him or not, would score, assist and defend for Sheffield United this coming season.

 

[dn5 shaun]

I’ve heard double signing incoming.

McBurnie and Lundstram.

Wrong......Dearden & Salmons

 

[robbiez666]

Some people on here are just on another planet. McBurnie was generally very good for us, and he would be again.

I feel this isn't right

He has a couple of good patches for us and a couple of bad ones. One in the EPL under Wilder and one in the Championship when he sorted himself out under Hecky.

At no stage has he looked like the player he did when we signed him.

How much is he? If he's a couple of million then he's a decent punt but it worries me that he's a player Wilder struggled to use well previously and also a player with huge fitness issues. We can't have two of our four strikers unable to play full games or every game And that's without including Moore in the equation.

 

[Varkanoid]

Bladesballer can you please sign for someone shit like Blackburn instead please

Last seen at 1.44pm today so ol McB has been reading the forum again.

 

[robbiez666]

BREAKING: I'm hearing the takeaway owners of SW Sheffield are lobbying for the return of the Mousse

 

[thehet]

Probably the metrics you’d judge a striker of his skillset by in terms of role in the attacking third, role in build-up play, aerials won, chances created, goals, assists, wider role in the team, the kind of other stuff that isn’t measured by metrics. Also my eyes.

Ok so which of the things you identify would you say he was “generally very good” at, because goals, assists, chances created he objectively wasn’t.

 

[loyalblade95]

Great, and yet both not playing the premier league or good enough if we get there. I thought we were going to be different. If this is sticking with wilder does, he can feck off.

Fair enough about players not being good enough for the PL, but we have to get there first.

While it would be nice to exclusively sign players that can make the step up to the PL, we won't be able to sign a full team of players like that.

We have to get promoted first, and if players like Mepham, Mcburnie, Emil Riis etc are good enough to help us get promoted, then we should sign them as they are ready made players for the here and now.

Take Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland, how many PL ready players do you think they actually have in their squads?

 

[Lucky1979]

Great, and yet both not playing the premier league or good enough if we get there. I thought we were going to be different. If this is sticking with wilder does, he can feck off.

Most of our first team aren’t good enough if we get there. So what’s the issue with signing players that have already got promoted from this division? Even if it means moving them on or demoting them to squad players? We did it with Norwood and that worked out alright.

If we’d gone up do you seriously think the likes of Robinson, Moore, Cannon, Brooks, Seriki, o’hare etc etc would be good enough to keep us up?

You either go up by having a premier league team (like Leeds) or by having players that fit somewhere between bottom 2/3 of the prem and top 1-3 of the championship. And unless we’re about to drop £60-80m this summer on real quality (and convince them to drop to this level) it’s the second group of players we need to look at.

 

[FredZeppelin]

Jesus mate
Its only a rumour.

I sincerely hope it it but there has been at least a couple of social media postings regarding him from the SUFC media team over the last 24 hours (I've seen at least two on FB) which might indicate that the 'rumours' might just have something in them.

Coincidence?

utb

 

[Uganda Blade]

He’s been fit the last year.

Moore, McBurnie, Cannon, Campbell and Brewster/One and you’ve one department not to worry about.

Get Dunne and Mepham and that’s two.

The midfield is already very good.

Just need to decide on a system and perhaps add a winger or two.

Keep it simple.

How much time has McBurnie spent on the bench last season? Has that got any bearing on his fitness?

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Wrong......Dearden & Salmons

Aye
But I’m calling bullshit
No way we could afford a player of Salmons calibre in this day & age.

 

[LondonBlade89]

Ok so which of the things you identify would you say he was “generally very good” at, because goals, assists, chances created he objectively wasn’t.

I’ve literally just given you the whole package. Why don’t you give an informed view on why he wasn’t very good? Bearing in mind how much he contributed to how the team played beyond just goals.

 

[PrestwichBlade]

I’ve literally just given you the whole package. Why don’t you give an informed view on why he wasn’t very good? Bearing in mind how much he contributed to how the team played beyond just goals.

He can't run very well and couldn't trap a bag of cement