Patson Daka

[Sol thewall Bamba]

15 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

Yeh people saying often hes great cos he runs about a lot, like its a great attribute.

hes a striker, his job is to score goals mainly. 1 goal in the last 13 months says hes not a striker but a bloke running about a bit further up the pitch.

The other factor they bleat about is but he doesn't fall over as much as ayew. How about, both are shit, get a striker in that does his job.

 

It's a huge sign of our decline as a club. People are just excited to see our players actually run. 

 

Last weekend the away end was genuinely going mental seeing Daka close down after Ayew got dragged, like we were a 4th division side playing a big club in a cup tie. Embarrassing.

[RoboFox]

 

36 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Worse goals to games ratio than Akinbiyi and significantly more cost. 

 

Worst signing of our history, for me. 

Akinbiyi managed roughly one in five. He was an expensive flop at the time but it’s not that bad.
 

Daka makes him seem like Gabriel Batistuta in comparison.

 

You’d struggle to find a more ineffective striker in our history given what we paid for him. 

 

Edited 21 February by RoboFox

[Richmondfox]

37 minutes ago, dmayne7 said:

Going against the grain here and say that I actually think that's the one area of his game that has improved (not saying much). Never seen somebody who isn't a big lad get fouled so much. Not for a second saying we should keep him by he is infinitely better than Ayew l, which unfortunately is the benchmark outside of the transfer window.

It doesn't help that they constantly play an Enzo ball to him expecting anything other than him not winning a foul or losing the ball, the same with Ayew.  when he got fouled it was from Okoli playing his brain reboot pass to him.

 

At this point in his career, I don't think he can still call himself an attacker.

 

 

[bovril]

10 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

 

Akinbiyi managed roughly one in five. He was an expensive flop at the time but it’s not that bad.
 

Daka makes him seem like Gabriel Batistuta in comparison.

 

You’d struggle to find a more ineffective striker in our history given what we paid for him. 

 

Akinbiyi was just such an immediate and huge downgrade though. We went from Cottee, Heskey, Marshall and Collymore to Akinbiyi, Benjamin and Cresswell in less than a year. That's why Taylor's reign is still by most seen as the worst, because a fantastic team was almost completely replaced in a season with crap players. 

[StanSP]

So deflating seeing the way he plays. He's not conducive to how a #9 should play with his back to goal. 

 

1-2s never come off with the attacking midfielders, he doesn't roll his defender with any guile or pace, he's not strong in the air, he's not actually that agile. He's clumsy and languid. 

 

Oh and he can't finish at all . Just takes swipes at the ball and gets lucky like shit hitting the fan. Some of it will stick, most of it goes all over the shop. 

 

 

He's only marginally better than Ayew, the lesser of two evils so to speak. 

 

 

[Nolucklcfc]

25 million quid. 

[cropstonfox]

Just now, StanSP said:

So deflating seeing the way he plays. He's not conducive to how a #9 should play with his back to goal. 

 

1-2s never come off with the attacking midfielders, he doesn't roll his defender with any guile or pace, he's not strong in the air, he's not actually that agile. He's clumsy and languid. 

 

Oh and he can't finish at all . Just takes swipes at the ball and gets lucky like shit hitting the fan. Some of it will stick, most of it goes all over the shop. 

 

 

He's only marginally better than Ayew, the lesser of two evils so to speak. 

 

 

He's useless but he don't slow the game like Ayew.Just shows how far we've regressed with this pair of very poor journeyman.

Sad sad situation.

 

[HankMarvin]

2 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

while i totally get the feeling towards Daka 

Id still rather him than Ayew

Like the would you rather have no arms or legs conversation.

 

lets not pretend we suddenly win games with Daka playing. Since Ayew signed he has 10 league goals in 2 divisions Daka has 3. 
He runs and smiles though 

Edited 21 February by HankMarvin

[worthosoriginals]

On 11/02/2026 at 22:34, dannythefox said:

Be top scorer in league 1 🤨

Utter nonsense, shit is shit in any potty

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, AKCJ said:

It's him or Soumare. Both genuinely laughable signings and we signed both in the same window alongside Vestergaard and Bertrand.

 

That summer put us back 15 years. Heads should have rolled for it yet here we are, living with the consequences with the same people in charge.

Both signings had this forum buzzing when they were confirmed as well.

[st albans fox]

18 minutes ago, StanSP said:

So deflating seeing the way he plays. He's not conducive to how a #9 should play with his back to goal. 

 

1-2s never come off with the attacking midfielders, he doesn't roll his defender with any guile or pace, he's not strong in the air, he's not actually that agile. He's clumsy and languid. 

 

Oh and he can't finish at all . Just takes swipes at the ball and gets lucky like shit hitting the fan. Some of it will stick, most of it goes all over the shop. 

 

 

He's only marginally better than Ayew, the lesser of two evils so to speak. 

 

 

He’s more mobile than ayew. Ayew is a way better footballer 

However, the bar is scraping the floor !

[worthosoriginals]

12 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

He's useless but he don't slow the game like Ayew.Just shows how far we've regressed with this pair of very poor journeyman.

Sad sad situation.

 

So you mean shit and slightly slower shit? 

 

[HarryDee8]

Surely there's a £1m pound man from the likes of Fleetwood town we could recruit?

[StanSP]

4 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

He’s more mobile than ayew. Ayew is a way better footballer 

However, the bar is scraping the floor !

I'm not sure he's a better footballer. 

 

Ayew seems to do whatever he wants, and to the detriment of the team. Drops deeps, leaves their CBs free to do whatever they want. 

He drops to the floor expecting to win free kicks at minimal contact. He's selfish, takes poor free kicks and corners. 

 

For such an 'experienced' player, he plays like he's totally new to the game and hasn't grasped what professional football is like. 

[worthosoriginals]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I'm not sure he's a better footballer. 

 

Ayew seems to do whatever he wants, and to the detriment of the team. Drops deeps, leaves their CBs free to do whatever they want. 

He drops to the floor expecting to win free kicks at minimal contact. He's selfish, takes poor free kicks and corners. 

 

For such an 'experienced' player, he plays like he's totally new to the game and hasn't grasped what professional football is like. 

So we're  back to the 1 is shitter than the other debate. How about try another option, play some fat bastard out the cop, will the strike rate improve or be similar?

[Joe90]

Watching daka from a good height up (yesterday at stoke) is so infuriating, how an earth is this complete tool a professional footballer, he offers absolutely nothing there was times we were counter attacking and he didn’t give options for the player on the ball no intelligent runs, the blokes dreadful he is absolutely stealing a living here🤬! No I don’t think  Ayew is any better neither!! No one can argue we have the worse strikers in probably the clubs history certainly in my life time! Very concerning as this could be the difference from staying up and relegation 

[Trav Le Bleu]

22 minutes ago, Joe90 said:

Watching daka from a good height up (yesterday at stoke) is so infuriating, how an earth is this complete tool a professional footballer, he offers absolutely nothing there was times we were counter attacking and he didn’t give options for the player on the ball no intelligent runs, the blokes dreadful he is absolutely stealing a living here🤬! No I don’t think  Ayew is any better neither!! No one can argue we have the worse strikers in probably the clubs history certainly in my life time! Very concerning as this could be the difference from staying up and relegation 

We've got the 8th highest goals for in the Championship. Though our strikers are poor, we're getting enough from elsewhere to carry them. Goal scoring is the least of our worries, we've got 4 more than Millwall who are 3rd.

[Joe90]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

We've got the 8th highest goals for in the Championship. Though our strikers are poor, we're getting enough from elsewhere to carry them. Goal scoring is the least of our worries, we've got 4 more than Millwall who are 3rd.

My point is the ball falls to daka or Ayew last minute Blackburn away no confidence in neither bloody hell they won’t be even in a position to get ball 🤣, yes your reply will be we rely on our midfield and that pisses me off

[fox_favourite]

36 minutes ago, Joe90 said:

Watching daka from a good height up (yesterday at stoke) is so infuriating, how an earth is this complete tool a professional footballer, he offers absolutely nothing there was times we were counter attacking and he didn’t give options for the player on the ball no intelligent runs, the blokes dreadful he is absolutely stealing a living here🤬! No I don’t think  Ayew is any better neither!! No one can argue we have the worse strikers in probably the clubs history certainly in my life time! Very concerning as this could be the difference from staying up and relegation 

This is the problem when you only have 1 and half strikers to pick from. Our options are very limited and Daka is the best of a bad pair. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

8 minutes ago, Joe90 said:

My point is the ball falls to daka or Ayew last minute Blackburn away no confidence in neither bloody hell they won’t be even in a position to get ball 🤣, yes your reply will be we rely on our midfield and that pisses me off

No, my reply is, we sort out our defence then we can win games without having to score 3 goals instead of 2.

[sm1]

If we're expecting our striker to play with his back to goal and link up play, we might as well throw Aribo up top. He's a big unit and used his strength to shield the ball well against Stoke.

[jammie82uk]

16 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Both signings had this forum buzzing when they were confirmed as well.

A main issue I don’t think is spoken about often is that nearly every striker we have signed in the last 15 years or so previously played in a 2 striker system before joining us and we ask them to play up front on their own, Vardy has been the only one who has really managed it but arguably even he was better with a partner, Nugent,Okazaki,iheanacho, you could even include Mahrez into that with the little defensive work he did and in turn those partners often had better games when paired with another 

 

Daka came with a decent goal scoring record albeit in what is considered an “inferior” league but that was also part of a 2 man strike force 

[Vestan Pance]

17 hours ago, RoboFox said:

 

Akinbiyi managed roughly one in five. He was an expensive flop at the time but it’s not that bad.
 

Daka makes him seem like Gabriel Batistuta in comparison.

 

You’d struggle to find a more ineffective striker in our history given what we paid for him. 

 

I instantly thought of Elvis Hammond (Ankle)  being the worst I can remember, but looking at his scoring record he was much better than Daka😂

Edited 22 February by Vestan Pance

[Marky mark]

Akainbi is miles better 

he was shit and most of his efforts went over the bar ( remember the Liverpool game ) 

im struggling to think what Patson  brings other then runs a lot 

[shen]

1 hour ago, Marky mark said:

Akainbi is miles better 

he was shit and most of his efforts went over the bar ( remember the Liverpool game ) 

im struggling to think what Patson  brings other then runs a lot 

Daka has often been solid playing one-twos, setting up teammates.