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10 minutes ago, bris red said:

Bit of a waste of space is Sturridge im afraid, far far too injury prone for my liking.. Also what kind of a move was that to WBA? Shows the ambition of the lad dosn't it really.

I don't think a loan move to WBA means a lack of ambition. He needed First Team Football and wasn't gonna get it at his parent club. There wasn't exactly a queue for his services (due to his injury record), but he had to demonstrate he was fit enough to go to a World Cup somehow (epic fail with that one).

Sadly I believe his injury record will prove his ultimate downfall. Worth millions when fit. Worth about as much as me when crocked... and that's far too often

 

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5 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

He had one brilliant season at Liverpool when he was playing with probably the best out and out striker on the planet. Confidence player if I've ever seen one. Poor first touch, slowed right down, real shame for him.

Quite-alongside Suarez even I might look ok..the guy has enough movement for the both of us!

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12 minutes ago, bris red said:

Bit of a waste of space is Sturridge im afraid, far far too injury prone for my liking.. Also what kind of a move was that to WBA? Shows the ambition of the lad dosn't it really.

Nothing to do with ambition. Everything to do with who bid for him. I’m sure if Barcelona had come in he’d have gone there.

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Trouble with him is that while he wasn’t getting much game time at Liverpool & his injury record was / is horrendous, he still expected clubs to pay him obscene amounts of money to do nothing for them!! If he really wanted to play that much then he could of afforded to wave £40,000p/w off his wages.

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Shame for him.  A striker, who when fit, and in his head, believing he’s fit, is very, very good.  A ‘no-back-lift" shot on him.  Don’t think he trusts himself anymore.

Young Iheanacho reminds me so much of him from that first half season at Liverpool and the following one.

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1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

He also got a rating of 6 out of 10 for his three minute performance last night from one national newspaper! And that was a higher rating than was given to three of his team-mates who played the whole game! Proves these lazy, lazy journos don’t actually watch the matches....

I didn’t watch it....did he do anything in those 3 minutes to justify it going down or up from a 6.  You don’t start on 0, it’ll be based on the contribution for the time you’re on the pitch not weighted in favour of those that play 90 minutes.  

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1 hour ago, Super said:

Always get the impression he never makes any effort to play through the pain barrier, any niggle he either doesn't play or goes off injured. 

Some players can’t.  Heskey was another.  When 100% fit in his head, he was a fine CF.  When he had doubts he wasn’t.  

I wish I’d said I wasn’t fit when I was less than 100%.  Strained right ACL become a ruptured ACL because i tried to play the week after. Double hernia (Gilmore’s groin) because I played on for weeks with one side damaged.  Had to stop at 30/31, to find my left knee was bone on bone, zero cartilage, and specialist asked if I could put off a knee replacement for 20+ years.

So not a straightforward problem for Sturridge.   Suspect most pros want to play, Bogarde excepted.

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24 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Some players can’t.  Heskey was another.  When 100% fit in his head, he was a fine CF.  When he had doubts he wasn’t.  

I wish I’d said I wasn’t fit when I was less than 100%.  Strained right ACL become a ruptured ACL because i tried to play the week after. Double hernia (Gilmore’s groin) because I played on for weeks with one side damaged.  Had to stop at 30/31, to find my left knee was bone on bone, zero cartilage, and specialist asked if I could put off a knee replacement for 20+ years.

So not a straightforward problem for Sturridge.   Suspect most pros want to play, Bogarde excepted.

Mad bastard.

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54 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Strap it up, it’ll be alright.  Wrong!

That’s the difference between those that play the game because they love it & those that play the game because they get paid too much money to!

It was never an issue to play week-in, week-out with knocks & injuries while playing on mud baths, now it only takes a player to have a twinge & they’re out for 8 weeks & local football is called off if it’s rained for a day or so before a game because of fear of there being no grass on the pitch! It’s all to pussified for my liking nowadays!

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9 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I didn’t watch it....did he do anything in those 3 minutes to justify it going down or up from a 6.  You don’t start on 0, it’ll be based on the contribution for the time you’re on the pitch not weighted in favour of those that play 90 minutes.  

Touched the ball once I think, do you really think he can be rated higher than guys who played the whole game, based on one touch?!

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I have always through he was a good striker, but I can only mirror those above with regards to his injury record.

Got his first chance playing as an out and out striker when on loan at Bolton where he had a great goal scoring record when they were in the premier league. At Man City and Chelsea, we was played on the wing of a front 3.

Thus getting his move to Liverpool, playing up front and his goal scoring record is still good, but he just never plays.

I say fair play to him for going to WBA, he's be almost guaranteed to start every week as other than Rondon, they have nobody else. Plus if his goals keep them up, it'll be a foot in the door for the England squad and may even play more when back at Liverpool or get him a more suitable move away.

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10 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I didn’t watch it....did he do anything in those 3 minutes to justify it going down or up from a 6.  You don’t start on 0, it’ll be based on the contribution for the time you’re on the pitch not weighted in favour of those that play 90 minutes.  

But don't players who are brought on as a sub for 3-4 minutes usually get excluded from ratings as they aren't on the pitch long enough to have any meaningful influence.

Should be the same here.

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3 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Touched the ball once I think, do you really think he can be rated higher than guys who played the whole game, based on one touch?!

If the guy who played the whole game conceded a penalty and gifted the opposition a goal, then yes.

I'd say everyone starts on a 6 and can move up or down based on performance while you're on the pitch.  So if you start the game and have a shocker, you can get a lower score than someone who played for five minutes and did nothing of note.

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16 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

If the guy who played the whole game conceded a penalty and gifted the opposition a goal, then yes.

I'd say everyone starts on a 6 and can move up or down based on performance while you're on the pitch.  So if you start the game and have a shocker, you can get a lower score than someone who played for five minutes and did nothing of note.

So a player’s performance can be rated 6 out of 10 before he’s even touched the ball and before the game has started?! So if Sturridge’s only touch before he went off injured had been a successful tackle then presumably you’d have agreed with a 10 out of 10 rating for his three minute appearance - as everything he did in that three minute period was 100% successful?!

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14 minutes ago, Redstart said:

Feel for him but I really hope we don't end up with this guy in the England squad for the World Cup - such a lack of English Strikers outside of Kane and Vardy though.

I'd honestly rather Defoe or Crouch went than Sturridge.

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