by Victor Meldrew »
26 May 2019 18:10
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Sorry to jump in but this is painful to read. Victor you are right he is a striker but that is very lazy just assume all strikers are the same or any other position has the same type. No one would compare Scholes to Foden for example as they are different midfielders. No one would compare Hudson-Odio to Shearer as they different types of striker. And like others as saying you would not compare Loader to Owen as they are different types of striker.
Certainly for the U23 he plays quite deep and I would say his goal against Boro was the sort of goal he scores quite often. He also gets goals arriving late in the box. He certainly isn't an Owen/ Lineker/Cureton/ ALF type player who plays in and around the 6 yard box.
Whether you would class him as a forward or an attacking midfielder is probably the question, I'd say he is fairy comparable to Gylfi nut comparing him to Owen is pointless in the same way comparing him to Kane would be pointless.
He's worked his way well into the first team despite people putting daft pressure on him by assuming he is something that he is not. He'll get plenty of goals in the first team and he's contributed pretty well so far considering he's basically still a schoolboy. Luckily not everything looks for instant results.....
If I were to draw a comparison I would say he's more of a new category and very close to how Joao Felix of Benfica plays. He naturally transitions between a 9 and 10 during the game but is more instinctively a striker. There aren't many if any players I've seen in my life time, until recently, who play that role. Perhaps it's a new generation of player we are seeing. But just to be clear I am not drawing comparisons of Loader's talent to Felix's as the latter I believe will be in a league of his own in the next few years.
Thanks for the inputs from both of you as I can only judge the player from what I have seen in these first team games-I assumed that he is an out and out striker.
I didn't see enough clever passing to think of him as a link or no. 10 player,nor did I see the quick reactions in and around the box that go with being a natural goalscorer.
As others said before the 'Boro goal it looks as though he needs to spend more time playing, probably at Div 1 level.
Since that goal and rumours of interest from elsewhere and supposedly not signing a contract extension has taken his standing on here to another level.
My view is that he has not shown enough (yet) on the pitch to justify the crazy potential transfer fees put up by other posters.
If he doesn't see his future with us, and taking into account what we have been told about the club's finances, I can see him being sold for not that much but , importantly, with loads of add-ons in case he does turn out to be the new.....Danny Loader.
Ideally he would stay and develop with us and help us improve as a team but that seems less likely as he is apparently one of the few commodities that would bring in the required funds to keep our club afloat.
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