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Painter Flag Croydon 29 Oct 20 9.17am

Originally posted by taylors lovechild

Looking at the RB Leipzig forum their fans seem amazed that their club paid 20m for him. Talk of him having no positional sense and looking lethargic. It all sounds very familiar. Apparently he was criticised by their youth team coach after only a week at the club too! The Norway situation is bizarre too for such an inexperienced player to come out like that.

He's not had much time at Leipzig to be fair, but it is starting to suggest that possibly the Turkey adventure was misleading and that perhaps he is as bad as many of us thought, and possibly a bit of a d!ck to boot.

Luckily we got our money back for him, before the Germans found out, what we all knew!

 

topcat Flag Holmesdale / Surbiton 29 Oct 20 10.24am

The Norway national team situation is strange. They seem to have asked for criticism and then got upset when they received criticism. Be interesting to see if he plays for his country again under this management.

 


It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

RyWa Flag Beckenham 29 Oct 20 12.31pm

We all saw with our own eyes that he wasnt good enough for the top 4 European leagues, he even proved how bad he was when on loan in Belgium where he was also well below average.
His spell in Turkey made us second guess ourselves, but we have to remember the Turkish league is essentially a pub league minus 1 or 2 teams who are Championship standard at best.
Leipzig will offload him next summer and he will vanish into obscurity, probably in Turkey.

Edited by RyWa (29 Oct 2020 12.32pm)

 

eagleman13 Flag On The Road To Hell & Alicante 29 Oct 20 12.50pm

Originally posted by RyWa

We all saw with our own eyes that he wasnt good enough for the top 4 European leagues, he even proved how bad he was when on loan in Belgium where he was also well below average.
His spell in Turkey made us second guess ourselves, but we have to remember the Turkish league is essentially a pub league minus 1 or 2 teams who are Championship standard at best.
Leipzig will offload him next summer and he will vanish into obscurity, probably in Turkey.

Edited by RyWa (29 Oct 2020 12.32pm)

Which means we will buy him back to replace Wickham for about £18m payable over 6 months

 


This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Ali_Campbell Flag New Addington 22 Nov 20 8.15pm

Early days, but 8 games in. No goals and no assists. What’s a reasonable time before we can tell if this was a Palace masterclass or a gem that was never given a chance.

Are Leipzig playing to his strengths?


 

orpingtoneagle Flag Orpington 22 Nov 20 10.10pm

There were some on here who saw him as the answer to all our scoring problems as 'all he needed was a chance and a run in the team' Maybe they were deluded maybe they simply didn't realise that the undoubted passion of the Turkish league, its standard would probably not trouble League 2.

He has now stepped up and been found out. Thank god there was another team daft enough to enable us to get our money back!

 

doombear Flag Too far from Selhurst Park 22 Nov 20 10.11pm

Originally posted by Ali_Campbell

Early days, but 8 games in. No goals and no assists. What’s a reasonable time before we can tell if this was a Palace masterclass or a gem that was never given a chance.

Are Leipzig playing to his strengths?


Are Leipzig even playing him other than off the bench? I don't know as I don't follow German football.

 

EddieMac Flag 22 Nov 20 10.15pm

Hauled off at half time yesterday. Looks like the manager never wanted the stocking of piss in the first place.

Edited by EddieMac (22 Nov 2020 10.16pm)

 

chris123 Flag hove actually 23 Nov 20 6.39am

Originally posted by EddieMac

Hauled off at half time yesterday. Looks like the manager never wanted the stocking of piss in the first place.

Edited by EddieMac (22 Nov 2020 10.16pm)

Why start with him then?

 

Eaglecoops Flag CR3 23 Nov 20 7.59am

Why can’t we just all be happy that we got our money back and a bit extra and draw a line under this sorry affair. He is clearly a decent player, just not at the top level of the game. We knew that, our management knew that and so it appears does his new manager.

 

Ian-VI Flag Vicenza 23 Nov 20 9.51am

Originally posted by Ali_Campbell

Are Leipzig playing to his strengths?

LOL, it's a world full of players not played to their strength.

Edited by Ian-VI (23 Nov 2020 9.51am)

 


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topcat Flag Holmesdale / Surbiton 23 Nov 20 4.44pm

Originally posted by Eaglecoops

Why can’t we just all be happy that we got our money back and a bit extra and draw a line under this sorry affair. He is clearly a decent player, just not at the top level of the game. We knew that, our management knew that and so it appears does his new manager.

I think we can but there were quite a few people on here having a go at the management for letting him go.

 


It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

chris123 Flag hove actually 23 Nov 20 4.58pm

Originally posted by Ian-VI

LOL, it's a world full of players not played to their strength.

Edited by Ian-VI (23 Nov 2020 9.51am)

4th in the Bundesliga - really struggling to play to strengths I guess!!

 

glazedallover Flag Allier 23 Nov 20 5.16pm

Originally posted by Ali_Campbell


Are Leipzig playing to his strengths?


Yes. They are substituting him as soon as possible .

 

palace99 Flag New Mills 24 Nov 20 4.17pm

Originally posted by Eaglecoops

Why can’t we just all be happy that we got our money back and a bit extra and draw a line under this sorry affair. He is clearly a decent player, just not at the top level of the game. We knew that, our management knew that and so it appears does his new manager.

agree 100% - but doubt we got our money back.

£22m fee (of which we get half) includes add ons and the original £9m we paid also had extra add ons for staying up in first 2 seasons, which we did.

Think we paid nearer £12m and probably have received c£8m back so far

 

Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 24 Nov 20 5.22pm

Don’t care what he did in Turkey, he could make kebabs for all I care.

He was literally one of the worst bits of sh&t we have ever played up front, and that’s saying something.

It wasn’t just the lack of talent, I can forgive that if the effort is there (Like Wilbraham) but there was no effort at all, no sense of awareness, he just jogged around like a one paced donkey.

I don’t wish him anything bad etc, I’m just grateful we will never see him play for us again

 


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cryrst Flag The garden of England 24 Nov 20 7.31pm

Originally posted by glazedallover

Yes. They are substituting him as soon as possible .

 

cryrst Flag The garden of England 24 Nov 20 7.31pm

Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle

Don’t care what he did in Turkey, he could make kebabs for all I care.

He was literally one of the worst bits of sh&t we have ever played up front, and that’s saying something.

It wasn’t just the lack of talent, I can forgive that if the effort is there (Like Wilbraham) but there was no effort at all, no sense of awareness, he just jogged around like a one paced donkey.

I don’t wish him anything bad etc, I’m just grateful we will never see him play for us again

Not your cup of tea then tom

Edited by cryrst (24 Nov 2020 7.31pm)

 

Henry of Peckham Flag Eton Mess 24 Nov 20 8.01pm

Sorloth did a wonderful impersonation of the donkey in a Christmas Nativity play then we got rid of him.

After yesterday's scintillating performance at Burnley we are long overdue for another clear out.

 


Denial is not just a river in Egypt

TheBigToePunt Flag 24 Nov 20 9.39pm

Originally posted by Eaglecoops

Why can’t we just all be happy that we got our money back and a bit extra and draw a line under this sorry affair. He is clearly a decent player, just not at the top level of the game. We knew that, our management knew that and so it appears does his new manager.

The interest in how sorloth gets on post-cpfc comes about because, when he was a Palace player, there was such a debate about whether he was as awful as he looked, or actually a casualty of inappropriate coaching and tactics.

Personally I don't think any failing player is bound to be exclusively one of those two things, but following the players fortunes elsewhere is the best way to put thier time at Selhurst in context.

Sitting here watching sorloth playing in the champions league for one of the top sides in Germany I have to say that the jury is no closer to returning a verdict.

 

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