Richarlison

[parj]

Richarlison

They like busy work. Why have technique when you can run around a lot to no avail?

At no point. In his time here has he been good enough but the litany of excuses and allowances are numerous. I get the idea that you want to support your players and even a degree of myopicness when it comes to evaluating your own players but jeez, he's been brick for the vast majority of his time here no point lying about it. Got him from a relegation battle and now...we are relegation battlers.

Yet he is our top scorer this season, in a team that has been poor.

The issue isn't richarlison. He is our best striker. He didn't sign himself for us, we signed him.

A lot of the strikers ahead of him get a lot more chances created than we do. He isn't going to score with 75% of his chances. According to StatMuse his a chance to goal conversion is 17.9%.... Haaland is 19%. Let's get the striker more chances in the box.

 

[Bishop]

Yet he is our top scorer this season, in a team that has been poor.

The issue isn't richarlison. He is our best striker. He didn't sign himself for us, we signed him.

A lot of the strikers ahead of him get a lot more chances created than we do. He isn't going to score with 75% of his chances. According to StatMuse his a chance to goal conversion is 17.9%.... Haaland is 19%. Let's get the striker more chances in the box.

Our forwards as a whole are brick. The best scorer of a bad bunch is still a bad bunch.

I agree we don't create much, but having a striker who is totally reliant on service is a backwards step. A quality forward is someone you can give the ball to under some modicum of pressure and reasonable expectations them not to lose it immediately. Then add that, that very same striker is not even a reliable finisher or controller of the ball it's a massive problem.

A good amount of why we struggle to create is because our use and possession of the ball in the final third is soooo poor and Richy is a massive part of that. The man man simply cannot control a ball with any consistency nor can he link play or keep attacking plays moving. He actively contributes to our poor use of the ball in the final third, then add we get nothing from the right and basically nothing from the left then yes the lack of chances creation makes sense, but a striker who cannot create for themselves or shift the ball to get a shot off or who has such poor technique is a problem a big problem as we see week after week and at this point year after year.

I'm not interested in settling for mediocrity.

 

[clownfoot]

which EPL team has been and is fearful of Richy at everton?

Liverpool. Their fans hate playing against him

He fights. He will continue to fight. Right now we need that and have no one else. So until he leaves us he will have my 100% support. I actually think he’s playing through injury right now.

As a club who was the last striker of quality we signed that was a success? Defoe returning? Adebayor? Kane coming through the ranks and developing into the best no.9 in world football stopped us spaffing £50m every summer on a new flop

 

[Muttley]

I agree we don't create much, but having a striker who is totally reliant on service is a backwards step. A quality forward is someone you can give the ball to under some modicum of pressure and reasonable expectations them not to lose it immediately. Then add that, that very same striker is not even a reliable finisher or controller of the ball it's a massive problem.

I do like the school of thought seeing the difference between not getting service and not doing anything about it yourself as a striker. There are strikers out there who will constantly be on the move to receive the ball to feet, chest or head. They're happy to take the hits from the big centre halves but never stop finding that clear line between themselves and the man who has the ball. They work on the basis that every pass can be to them as the outlet. It's especially prevalent in this modern PL where physicality is everything. It's sort of why Harry went from being my favourite ever striker to one that I was happy to call out on match days in many key moments. Don't blame him for leaving the PL. As a 27 year old he stopped really doing that early career stuff. The injuries perhaps took their toll and H was scared to take the hits that these big centre halves give you. He started deliberately jumping early and slightly ahead of what is optimal position. He was often on the way back down and a yard in front of the defender as they headed it away easy. He also wasn't on the move any more where he could relieve the pressure on his team mates. That wasn't the Harry I fell in love with from his early career. He had everything apart from perhaps express pace and especially the ability to give as good as he got from the centre halves. Even with the pace thing he hired a sprint coach to optimise what he had. I always respected him for that.

With Richi, he hasn't got an ounce of that first touch ability H had with any part of his body unfortunately. Prime Dom is much closer at playing with his back to goal and feeding others in. However, it's Hobson's choice at this point. Either the team setup has to compromise to Richi in the way we did with H. Alternatively, we have to get Richi to play to the team setup and accept the compromise. The latter is the answer as you would never build a setup around a player like Richi. He's just not at that level. So Richi will accommodate RDZ's tactics as much as he can and it will continue to look clumsy. The good news is that nobody is surprised when Richi, Tel or Muani score. I now believe one of them will score every single game. Kudus to RDZ for that.

It will be interesting how much more physical Lanks has got on his return to the club. He does sort of have that thick set build that we had with Harry. You never know.