Soumare, he makes me happy

[Trigger Blade]

Matos is worse and that’s saying something

His saving grace last night was that he didn’t fall over in our penalty area and pick the ball up

A midfield with either him or Somare in might not be disastrous, both together is head in hands time.

 

[Thrice]

He’s a young lad but has no composure on the ball or positional sense .. if we have the chance to return him in the JTW I would but from the comments on here that option isn’t there . As for Matos .. I do not know it anyway what the recruitment team saw in this kid .. can’t pass , run , no physical presence & looks like a League 1 player at his best .. n fortunately we’re gonna be stuck with him.
Need a ball winner in midfield in the JTW as cover for Reidewald ..more so if there’s a likelihood of him leaving

Wouldn't sending Soumare back in January basically be circumventing the obligation to buy in case of promotion? Can't see that being an option. But I'd like to keep him for the season anyway. I do think he has potential.

 

[Badger Blade]

The biggest difference between him and Riederwald is decision making and speed of thought. There is probably a player in there , but he's a work in progress for sure

It's a case of whether he can ever have the decision making or speed of thought that Riedewald has, some people have the brain for it and others just don't, God knows we've had plenty of footballing dummies through the door over the years.

Bad night at the office for him but he looks a project player who needs regular game time if he's going to improve but I don't think we're the sort of charity case that can offer him that, especially as a club supposedly with ambitions for promotion and being a Premier League mainstay. We've been stung before carrying players like Coulibaly, Chucky and Jeff and others who don't look anywhere near cementing themselves a first team spot.

If we did end up getting promoted and having to take him, he'd be getting shipped off straight away.

The lad will be 23 in the new year, he's not a baby in footballing terms and if he was going to be any good, he'd have shown it before now, especially in the Portuguese league where you'd have thought he'd have had a reasonable crack by now if he had anything about him.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

The Coulibaly comparison works for me. I though Soumare was dreadful last night, and has been patchy in his cameos to say the least.

There is logic in the calls to give him time, that he’s young, and that he has plenty of development potential.

But he’s a year older than Peck and Blaster. Put in that context, you wonder how much meaningful development may be left in him.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Yes, his biggest crime for was not linking up with the front line whatsoever.

 

[Need4speed]

Isn't this what coaches are for. We are never going to get the finished article for the money we are prepared to pay and wages we can offer. I don't agree with the Coulibaly comparison from the simple point of view Wilder never even put him on the bench. This suggests he at least sees something or sees some potential in Soumare.