Julián Carranza joins on loan - Official

[sdb]

He's the worst of our 3 abysmal strikers. I'd genuinely send him back asap and not give him another minute. Total waste of time. He IS that bad.

[Phild]

11 minutes ago, enmac said:

Took his disallowed goal well. Didn't look offside if you watch the replay. Needs some upper body work. 

Goalkeeper had seen the flag and stopped playing so even thats not a positive for him im afraid but nice try 

[jonny_wright]

Our strikers don’t touch the ball, that’s the main problem

[StanSP]

3 hours ago, VLC86 said:

He’s is genuinely the worst striker we have ever had. No idea if he has any ability because he just can’t be ****ed to even pretend to want it.

Behave. 

[lgfualol]

Thought he was shite and ran around without a clue as to what to do, but also, our service to our strikers is in general a complete horror show. 99% of the time it’s a shite cross to the first CB to kick away or a long ranged effort.

[The Doctor]

loathe to criticise when our style of play is designed to make strikers look shit but he's pretty crap isn't he?

[VLC86]

8 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Behave. 

Maybe an exaggeration,  but im struggling to remember a single striker who looked less interested and therefore think he absolutely stinks.

[Stadt]

I think he is probably sub-Bednar level. Nothing to his game at all 

[lanefox]

2 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

Maybe an exaggeration,  but im struggling to remember a single striker who looked less interested and therefore think he absolutely stinks.

De Vries , Elvis Hammond 

 

People have a blind spot for the Levein years , the genuine pits of the club 

[Edingleyfox]

Huge risk getting player with no experience of English game when we know Daka is struggling as well. Why has the striker situations has  not been a priority more of an afterthought I don’t know. Other Championship teams look a lot stronger I can’t remember a situation like this where the manager has been rotating 3 forwards in the hope of finding a goal somewhere and nothing is working 

[Bezzanator89]

Physically weak, borderline static out of possession, spent more time on the floor than moving for the ball. It is just like having another Daka and playing with 10 men from the kick-off. Send the passenger back to Feyenoord. ❌️ 🛫 

[VLC86]

8 minutes ago, lanefox said:

De Vries , Elvis Hammond 

 

People have a blind spot for the Levein years , the genuine pits of the club 

Both of them looked better than Carranza IMO, I unfortunately remember the Levein years very well.

[adam]

12 minutes ago, lanefox said:

De Vries , Elvis Hammond 

 

People have a blind spot for the Levein years , the genuine pits of the club 

De Vries about twice the player of carranza. 

[StanSP]

20 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

Maybe an exaggeration,  but im struggling to remember a single striker who looked less interested and therefore think he absolutely stinks.

Odsonne Edouard. 

[Slab Edd]

Some of you saying stuff like he is an awful striker etc etc but I cannot even agree or disagree with you because he's gotten zero actual chances, like we have 3 different type of strikers in this team and we cannot create for either of them, that is a coaching problem, its not like Daka in the promotion season where he was missing chances, now he's getting ZERO chances to even miss. That is alarming

[Corky]

Very good at standing around, getting nowhere near the ball.

[whoareyaaa]

I'd rather play Faes up front.

[inckley fox]

19 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Behave. 

My immediate thoughts were of De Vries, Cort, Hammond, Wayne Clarke, Akinbiyi...

 

That said, I'm not at all convinced that Carranza is even a professional standard footballer. From what I've seen, it's amazing that someone like that gets a game at this level. No strength, flair, pace, touch, work-rate, finishing. If he isn't an example of an agent getting on the phone to a club that he/she knows to be desperate, and to have no meaningful recruitment network, nor any knowledge of how rubbish their client is, then I don't know what is.

 

An utter joke, and a depressing, predictably-useless symptom of how appallingly run this club is right now. And while I'm not baying (too much) for Cifuentes' blood when he's such a tiny part of a hulk which is so monumentally, immensely crap as the club these days, I also think that it's damning, on his part, that he'd select an obvious amateur ahead of literally anything else. A youth player. A converted winger. Anything, anyone who has a chance of succeeding would make infinitely more sense.

 

Seeing Carranza in the side only adds to the sneaking sensation that my worst fears are being realised. Marti is another of Top's men. And no-one with a mandate to do Top's bidding could ever conceivably be a healthy thing for the club.

[VLC86]

13 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Odsonne Edouard. 

Better than Carranza.

[Paninistickers]

He's dreadful. Just a poor poor player. To the extent I feel a little sorry for him. Pity is worse than anger. In every sense a pitiful player. 

 

But as always, like Thomas, Ward, BdcR, Coady, ...you don't HAVE to play these players. Responsibility lies with the manager. 

[Edingleyfox]

18 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

I'd rather play Faes up front.

I can remember Steve Walsh being used as a striker and we have Souttar coming back he has scored a few in Internationals

[StanSP]

23 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

Better than Carranza.

Not when he was with us! 

[justfoxes]

1 hour ago, sdb said:

He's the worst of our 3 abysmal strikers. I'd genuinely send him back asap and not give him another minute. Total waste of time. He IS that bad.

I take it you’re too young to remember Ade Akinbyi ? 

[ronnup]

Manure. Plain and simple

[justfoxes]

Felt sorry for carranza today made some great movement and space but they kept bypassing him for Abdul, decent ball passed through reconned he could have possibly popped in one or two how can he score if he’s not getting the service think people on here are being hard on him !

Edited 1 November 2025 by justfoxes