Reply With QuoteGood luck to him. Never worked out here, whoever gave him a two year contract needs their head checking. Always gave 100% just not the quality we need.
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Good luck to him. Never worked out here, whoever gave him a two year contract needs their head checking. Always gave 100% just not the quality we need.
There were odd moments when he was linking up with Rubin and Olly Tanner when he looked (almost) the real deal. But - partly because of injuries - there was no consistency. Then a disastrous loan. Followed by a pre-season where I assume he has trained himself out of BBM's plans.Originally Posted by Underhill1980
Maybe he can form a strike partnership with Jordan Hugill, and come back a serious option next summer. But probably not.
I doubt we’ll ever see him in a Cardiff shirt again, unless we get relegated again haha
Hugill and Etete together will scare a few defences. I always liked Etete - he did seem to be trying, even if his abilities sometimes fell a little short.
I think that’s him done at Cardiff and I expect he’ll be moved on permanently before the 26-27 season.
The good news is, he’s one of the players where his salary would have been included in the financial fair play calculations this season, so hopefully we may finally see some movement on incomings pretty soon.
I like BBM already.
One less to sigh about when seen warming up.
Always gave 100%?!? Was that apart from the many occasions when he was sat on the ground with his arms in the air pretending he'd been fouled while play carried on around him?
Etete very rarely had the stomach for a battle of any kind. His efforts in a City shirt were genuinely embarrassing at times. Shame, as he's a player who has some natural ability, but he's not up to the physical side of the game.
Agreed, he isn't a particularly good player although he's a victim of his body shape as well, lacks strength in the core, couldn't hold the ball up, was bullied easily and has legs that seem to do what they want to do, not what the brain is saying. He's neither a natural striker or wide player, what do you do with a player like him? He's done well to get a hit a Rotherham in my opinion.
When we signed him he had an interesting profile in terms of stats - I can't find the details now but from memory he was very high in terms of tackles/blocks etc for a striker, reasonable at dribbling, but had some very obvious weaknesses too - I think most notably shots, touches in the area (and goals).
Might be more useful to a team playing an aggressive high press- but that hasn't been us for the last several years.
Didn't seem to be able to use his physique as an asset, which is a pity.
I don't think he'll ever be prolific, but in the right setup he could be an asset at this level.
Good luck to him
I think his body shape has helped him, doubt he'd be in pro football if he were 5 ft 10. His "profile" will get him moves his talent maybe doesn't deserve
EXACTLY this.
He tries hard (the bare minimum surely) but just isn’t good enough. And he has had his chances. So WHY did we give him a two year contract last year?
Just bizarre.
EXACTLY this.
He tries hard (the bare minimum surely) but just isn’t good enough. And he has had his chances. So WHY did we give him a two year contract last year?
Just bizarre.
PS. Sorry, I forgot to add that we probably don’t play to his strengths (fill in nearly any City striker here over the last 10 years)
So, that’s fifteen out and none in with the prospect of a fourth senior goalkeeper coming in later today. Did anyone really think we’d have a summer’s transfer dealings like that going into the first league game of the season? Jeez, we need new owners.
Maybe I feel a bit sorry for him as he looked so out of his depth. I don’t hold the distain for him as I do some of the players that have embarrassed the shirt.
Who knows, although if he was 5ft 10 he'd no doubt have a different shape, his legs would be shorter and he'd probably be stronger and a bit quicker. He may have settled at a level, as it stands he's sinking slowly, so maybe from that point of view you're right, although everyone can see that he's no number 9.
His Physique was hardly built around strength, not his fault though. There's an old saying that used to go around for footballers, strength required from the nipple's to the knees, basically the core. Etete has none of that.
I agree - but these are the same owners who signed over 15 first team players under Steve Morison. Those were the days before the act of making a decision became a lost art at the CCS.
We need at least 3 new outfield players.
We also need BBM to live up to our best hopes and to improve a lot of the players already in the squad - not just the ones just promoted from the Academy.
There are signs of that already - collectively and individually. At least for the top of the pitch. I have been impressed by BBM so far on limited evidence (interviews, training videos and the pre-season games) but he doesn't seem to be too concerned about our chronic defensive weaknesses, and he is working with a very underpowered coaching team. Who is responsible for the defensive work is a mystery - maybe Tom Ramasut is'still in the building'?
The Academy is the bright spot though. If we had brought in Dylan Lawlor, Ronan Kpakio and Tanatswa Nyakuhwa from Premier League u21 squads - and seen YouTube videos of their actual performances - I think most of us would have been buzzing. Because we grew our own they somehow don't count when we talk about the squad changes from last season.
It wasn’t even last year, it was the 31st January THIS year, and a full two weeks AFTER our (currently) most recent signing Yousef Salech!!
The mind boggles as to why we are still employing Head of Recruitment Patrick Deboys. It’s now been SIX and a half months since we signed a player for the first team and several weeks after Barry-Murphy threw Deboys’ player targets dossier in the bin.
Unless Deboys is now directly reporting to BBM and following his guidance, I just don’t see the point in his role.
I don't think it's a bad thing that the transfer committee have been on leave over the summer. Martin o Neil once said that he would never criticise Robbie savage for his **** ups with a football, rather the player who gave him the ball in the first place, I see our situation with transfers very similar to I Neil's thoughts......
He was one of those players who always seemed to be reacting a bit later than the action!,his timing never seemed right and I’ve always been a tad impatient with strikers of his size who constantly moan about being outmuscled by defenders, best of luck to him but he’s not someone on the evidence to date,we will particularly miss.
Rotherham gotta be worth a tenner at 10/1 for promotion now
A [very] poor man's Dominic Solanki.
Spot on.
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