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Re: Callum Robinson
Robinson is at age where the received wisdom has been that he should be at his peak. Before he signed for City, Robinson was probably Preston's best attacker for a few years and his form earned him a move to a better club in West brom where, again, he looked a good Championship plsyer, even if he probably didn;t quite make the grade at Premier League level.
Given how poor we have been in attack in recent times, someone with Robinson's CV should be our best forward and I'd say he was in his first year with us as long as he wasn't taking penalties! However, 22/23 ended a couple of months early for Robinson as he suffered a hamstring injury which kept him out for the rest of the season. Normally, hamstring injuries mean around a month out, but it czn be longer with more serious ones and it seems this one fell into that category because I can remember him being eased back into pre season friendlies for 23/24 and, even then he didn't seem right in the early months of the season before disappearing off the radar almost completely after the turn of the year amid vague stories about him being ill.
The Twitter poster called Henry Saye who puts himself forward as being in the know when. it comes to transfers (his record is better than many who claim the same thing) is adamant that Sabri Lamouchi was responsible for Robinson's hamstring injury because, much like Steve Morison did wuth Isaak Davies, he played Robinson when he wasn't fully over another injury.
Whatever the truth is, I'd say that 23/24 was Robinson's worst season in the game since he signed for Preston from Villa as a youngster and, given that he didn't seem unhappy here in his first season, I think it's possible that frustration with how he was finding it hard to fully shake off his injury could have had something to do with the way the season developed for him.
Having a manager who did not come across in public as being sympathetic with Robinson's problems probably didn't help things - I'm guessing that, if he had known anything about the player before he became City manager, Erol Bulut would have been disappointed to be getting performances from him that were some way short of what he would have been expecting.
It's easy to see how things could then have deteriorated then to the stage where Robinson was missing for all but the occasional sub appearance in the second half of the season, but, hopefully, Robinson is now fully fit and both partires have opted to make a fresh start - to have Robinson back the level he's been at through most of his Championship career would be almost like having a new player and I'd say that we could forget about needing to sign two strikers, one would do and the money saved could be spent elsewhere.
Robinson is at age where the received wisdom has been that he should be at his peak. Before he signed for City, Robinson was probably Preston's best attacker for a few years and his form earned him a move to a better club in West brom where, again, he looked a good Championship plsyer, even if he probably didn;t quite make the grade at Premier League level.
Given how poor we have been in attack in recent times, someone with Robinson's CV should be our best forward and I'd say he was in his first year with us as long as he wasn't taking penalties! However, 22/23 ended a couple of months early for Robinson as he suffered a hamstring injury which kept him out for the rest of the season. Normally, hamstring injuries mean around a month out, but it czn be longer with more serious ones and it seems this one fell into that category because I can remember him being eased back into pre season friendlies for 23/24 and, even then he didn't seem right in the early months of the season before disappearing off the radar almost completely after the turn of the year amid vague stories about him being ill.
The Twitter poster called Henry Saye who puts himself forward as being in the know when. it comes to transfers (his record is better than many who claim the same thing) is adamant that Sabri Lamouchi was responsible for Robinson's hamstring injury because, much like Steve Morison did wuth Isaak Davies, he played Robinson when he wasn't fully over another injury.
Whatever the truth is, I'd say that 23/24 was Robinson's worst season in the game since he signed for Preston from Villa as a youngster and, given that he didn't seem unhappy here in his first season, I think it's possible that frustration with how he was finding it hard to fully shake off his injury could have had something to do with the way the season developed for him.
Having a manager who did not come across in public as being sympathetic with Robinson's problems probably didn't help things - I'm guessing that, if he had known anything about the player before he became City manager, Erol Bulut would have been disappointed to be getting performances from him that were some way short of what he would have been expecting.
It's easy to see how things could then have deteriorated then to the stage where Robinson was missing for all but the occasional sub appearance in the second half of the season, but, hopefully, Robinson is now fully fit and both partires have opted to make a fresh start - to have Robinson back the level he's been at through most of his Championship career would be almost like having a new player and I'd say that we could forget about needing to sign two strikers, one would do and the money saved could be spent elsewhere.
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