30 Sep 2025 16:09:13
What are your views on Beto and Barry? Do you think they are any good? Not really seen them mentioned on here much.
30 Sep 2025 16:30:36
Funny but I do find the Barry thing really weird, has he been great? No, but he’d barely played and people have already decided he’s a diet version of Niasse.
Start him, give him a run of games and actually see what he can do. New league and he’s being switched out and expected to win us games off the bench when everyone (including the manager) said he’s not ready. Villareal fans said he’s not ready. He’s not ready and our fans act shocked that he’s not ready.
But this is a fanbase that was calling for Jelavic to start ahead of Lukaku at points because “he’s got a bad first touch and he’s lazy and that”.
30 Sep 2025 18:09:07
Any idea when he might be ready?
30 Sep 2025 19:16:13
No, that’s for the manager to decide.
30 Sep 2025 19:23:12
Villareal fans said he was raw and we overpaid for him.
Ekitike is a few months older than him and has played the same amount of football, yet look at what he is doing. Doesn't look like he has needed time to adjust to a new league.
Nobody is asking for Barry to be scoring goals every game but he has shown absolutely zero ability in any aspect of the game.
As for the Jelavic shout, he literally played 9 games in the season that Lukaku joined us on loan and then went to Hull. Lukaku's all-round play may have been unpolished but nobody would deny that he was an out an out goal scorer. Comparing Barry to Lukaku is actually hilarious.
30 Sep 2025 19:53:02
Who mentioned Niasse?
30 Sep 2025 20:05:15
I’m not comparing the 2, I’m saying our fans seem to have an issue with ungainly players. Lukaku, Mina, both called garbage numerous times by our fans.
Ekiteke is better than Barry and playing in a better team. It’s also not always just age related, it can be coaching related too.