Yousef Salech

[J R Hartley]

He took a heavy knock on the first minute last night and soldiered on but he wasn’t himself.
Plus the service was absolutely shocking.
He needs crosses and if ever there was a display of poor crossing it was last night.

[The Prophet of Doom]

OK, seems it is just me then !

No it is not just you. But he is still one of those players who we are not allowed to criticise.

[The Prophet of Doom]

Salech scored eight goals last season in a really poor Championship side and was often a serious handful for experienced defenders. He's aggressive and fully committed to physical battles with the opposition - everything Etete wasn't. And he definitely has the knack of getting himself into decent scoring positions.

Salech's only 23 years old and has started just 40 games in total at senior level, so there is plenty of room for improvement as he grows in experience. He's definitely a bit raw and I didn't think he had a good game on Saturday, but I'm confident he'll score plenty of goals at this level if provided with enough chances. In my view, he's a really promising talent.

Only 23? Why do people on this board think that 23 is young for a footballer. You should be approaching your prime in your mid twenties.

[The Lone Gunman]

Only 23? Why do people on this board think that 23 is young for a footballer. You should be approaching your prime in your mid twenties.

Maybe, but he’s not in his mid-twenties. He’s 23.

[Underhill1980]

Salech took up his usual brilliant positions in the box but Willock and Tanner decided they’d prefer to either play a ball to a man in white or just boot it off the field. We could have had Haaland up front yesterday and he would have struggled

[The Lone Gunman]

Only 23? Why do people on this board think that 23 is young for a footballer. You should be approaching your prime in your mid twenties.

As a matter of interest I've just taken a quick look at the ages of the top six scorers in the Championship and League One last season. They were:

Championship - 26, 24, 29, 25, 31 and 23

League One - 23, 22, 27, 21, 27 and 34

Our top scorer was 30.

I appreciate what you're saying and agree to a degree, but 23 is a relatively young age for a striker at senior level and especially one who is regarded as a club's main attacking threat. I think we'd agree that Peter Thorne was a pretty decent striker at this level. He'd started fewer senior games and scored fewer goals than Salech at the same age.

[Trigger]

Have to be able to give him a chance to attack the ball.

Willock at times just takes about 10 touches too many, both he and Tanner extremely wasteful las night. I'd like to sometimes see the full backs crossing, you can't always get to the perfect position and it's important to keep Salech involved, give him the odd ball to at least fight to get on to.

[B. Oddie]

Salech took up his usual brilliant positions in the box but Willock and Tanner decided they’d prefer to either play a ball to a man in white or just boot it off the field. We could have had Haaland up front yesterday and he would have struggled

Spot on.

[Don Corleone]

Salech took up his usual brilliant positions in the box but Willock and Tanner decided they’d prefer to either play a ball to a man in white or just boot it off the field. We could have had Haaland up front yesterday and he would have struggled

Agree, he was so isolated too, Willock and Tanner were very wide and not playing the ball in to him and nobody joined in to support so he had the full attention of both their centre halves all game

[City123]

Only 23? Why do people on this board think that 23 is young for a footballer. You should be approaching your prime in your mid twenties.

You've kind of answered it yourself there

[City123]

Have to be able to give him a chance to attack the ball.

Willock at times just takes about 10 touches too many, both he and Tanner extremely wasteful las night. I'd like to sometimes see the full backs crossing, you can't always get to the perfect position and it's important to keep Salech involved, give him the odd ball to at least fight to get on to.

Exactly

There are certain positions where you are especially reliant on others getting you the ball, but fans seem to ignore that for some reason

[tforturton]

New team new ideas, it's very early. BBM is working with him, he'll get it and improve and he will score, provided Robinson doesn't keep him out of the team, or Davies. Although it looks like we will be playing the wingers very wide and getting crosses in, if so he should really thrive.

Looks like we need to work on your last point.

[Boanagers]

For me, Tanner doesn’t look as if he knows how to cross a ball??,he doesn’t look balanced, extremely flat footed without any consistency, Willock just doesn’t seem interested,perhaps Isaac Davies might be a better starting option,at least he has the pace to get past a defender and then hopefully pick out Salech or someone coming into the box.

[Des Parrot]

He’s not going to get much change if he’s marked by 2 centre halves and is as isolated as he was last night. Ball to chest & below, back to goal he’s competent but balls at headheight, the CH wins it every time

[splott parker]

Any ‘spies’ from clubs watching us in advance of playing us just have to report back that we have two blokes who hug the touchline, do bugger all when they get the ball enabling us to outnumber Cardiff over the rest of the pitch.

[Bald Barry Bastad]

Any ‘spies’ from clubs watching us in advance of playing us just have to report back that we have two blokes who hug the touchline, do bugger all when they get the ball enabling us to outnumber Cardiff over the rest of the pitch.

Any spies last night i.e. everyone, will know to play their most physical players against us as we have no defenders who have enough height or physicality to deal with it.

[Coyote]

We need a few League One veterans who can scrap, particularly in the CB and wing-back role.

CB, LWB to cover Bagan and replace Collins/Rinomhota and another winger.

[ToTaL ITK]

OK, seems it is just me then !

nope...me too ..if he doesn't start knocking in a goal a game, he can feck off back to Sirius in the Swedish allsvenskan

[NYCBlue]

You've kind of answered it yourself there

Why can't 23 be mid twenties?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

We need a few League One veterans who can scrap, particularly in the CB and wing-back role.

CB, LWB to cover Bagan and replace Collins/Rinomhota and another winger.

They are veterans of League One for a reason - they're not good enough to play in the higher divisions.
If we want to get out of this division, we need players who can take us out, not players who are in a comfort zone of staying in League One.

[The Lone Gunman]

Why can't 23 be mid twenties?

I reckon:

20 = twenty
21, 22 and 23 = early-twenties
24, 25 and 26 = mid-twenties
27, 28 and 29 = late-twenties

But if you want 23 to count as being mid-twenties, that’s your choice I guess. Time is an abstract concept.

🤣😂🤣

[The Lone Gunman]

They are veterans of League One for a reason - they're not good enough to play in the higher divisions.

It’s very rare for a team to get promoted without it containing a number of players who are fully established at that particular level but not really good enough to play (or at least be successful) at the next level. For example, the City team that was promoted under Warnock was littered with decent Championship players who weren’t good enough for the Premier League.

Horses for courses.

[Tuerto]

From one Danish striker to another......Ken Zohore is now playing in the Danish 3rd tier, he's scored 1 goal in 11 games for his club Fremad Amagar.

[City123]

Why can't 23 be mid twenties?

Even if we take 23 to be mid-twenties, Prophet described that as "approaching your prime", so still young for a footballer if they haven't hit their prime yet as they have room to grow according to their own post

Therefore answered the point themselves

[City123]

It’s very rare for a team to get promoted without it containing a number of players who are fully established at that particular level but not really good enough to play (or at least be successful) at the next level. For example, the City team that was promoted under Warnock was littered with decent Championship players who weren’t good enough for the Premier League.

Horses for courses.

Knowing us we'd give them long contracts and fail to win promotion. The same logic of "get in tough Championship players" was followed on relegation from the Premier League and is a large part of why we've declined so rapidly

It may be painful at times, but I think the youth are the way to go