Brief analysis of our recruitment (2016-21)

[Ric Flair]

3 hours ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Hes a defender and we concede less goals with him in the team.

A defender that came here with a good reputation going forward. That's been poor this season, as has some of the mistakes he's made that's led to goals. Hopefully he sorts his injury problems out, he's not had much luck here given how resilient he was before he joined us. But right now he needs to improve to be determined as a success, he's disappointed when played on the left as well.

[Ric Flair]

I'm not clever enough to put it up but in almost every metric I've checked on fbref.com he's significantly worse this season than last. I know defensively we are much worse this season but going forward is where he's also dropped off a cliff.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

6 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I'm not clever enough to put it up but in almost every metric I've checked on fbref.com he's significantly worse this season than last. I know defensively we are much worse this season but going forward is where he's also dropped off a cliff.

As has the entire team / squad / club.

[Dan]

On 26/01/2022 at 10:29, Ric Flair said:

He cost £24m and he's not yet been a success. He started well for about 6 weeks and then got injured. He was then very stop start until a decent spell in April. This season he's been really really mediocre. No goals, no assists and a few errors leading to goals.

 

He's not by any means been a disaster signing and if he puts his injury problems behind him then I'd hope he can become a success here but to date it's in the balance. He's at the age where what we paid for him we won't get back if he doesn't kick on, his injury issues are annoying as he was a very resilient player prior to coming here and that must be annoying for him and the club. Plenty of Italian clubs still want him, like Praet and if they pay what we paid for them then I can see them going. 

I quite like Castagne and I think he's not a bad player but a lot of it's true when you weigh up everything, he seems to be really injury prone, wasn't cheap either. I don't think he's a bad player to have but I don't think it was an exceptional bit of recruitment.

 

Problem is I think only 3 signings in the last 3 years have been better (Fofana, Daka, Justin).

[funkyrobot]

Still think that Perez when playing in the Maddison role has something to offer. On the wings he’s not got the pace or the strength but centrally he can take the ball on the turn and create opportunities. As a back up for Madders he’s fine. I think his issue is his transfer fee was way too high. Castagne has been a success for us. An awful injury during the Euros and subsequent niggles picked up (as well as playing in a team low in confidence) have hit him this season but he’ll be back.