Botti Biabi has signed a new one year contract and immediately been sent on a season long loan to Macclesfield, under manager Sol Campbell. Should be good experience for the lad.
Yes, give him a few games next year then sell him cheap.Botti Biabi has signed a new one year contract and immediately been sent on a season long loan to Macclesfield, under manager Sol Campbell. Should be good experience for the lad.
This ^^^let another team take a chance on his fitness
I wouldn't take that risk. Dyer and Routs can easily score 5+ goals and have 5+ assists per season each. Montero has scored 5 goals during 8 years of his European career. Less than one goal per season is a criminal stats for a winger. I wouldn't criticise him for not scoring goals if he was durable and if he could provide 15-20 assists per season. Get rid. We can't afford a player who plays 300 minutes of football per season.Knowing our luck and him being under a different physio he'll probably be game fit for the season.
I agree CJ, just putting a little emphasis on things that come back and bite us on the arse lately.I wouldn't take that risk. Dyer and Routs can easily score 5+ goals and have 5+ assists per season each. Montero has scored 5 goals during 8 years of his European career. Less than one goal per season is a criminal stats for a winger. I wouldn't criticise him for not scoring goals if he was durable and if he could provide 15-20 assists per season. Get rid. We can't afford a player who plays 300 minutes of football per season.
There's little doubt that a fit Montero would be a hell of an asset to us this season but that word "FIT" is the killer.The stats are depressing. But you can touch the crowd's expectation when he gets the ball. When he's playing he's always a guaranteed outball for the creative midfielders. Celina loved him and I reckon he would lap up the kind of passes Grimes fed to Dan James last term. It would make my day if the manager takes a shine to him (and the staff can keep him fit).
No doubt about it.But you can touch the crowd's expectation when he gets the ball. When he's playing he's always a guaranteed outball for the creative midfielders.
Too many have tried and failed to keep him fit. He can't even last for 20 minutes x 46 games. If he could I would be first to say keep him as an impact sub.It would make my day if the manager takes a shine to him (and the staff can keep him fit).
I think we've been here before CJ.and would seem our definition of a winger are miles apart. I think the word 'winger' speaks for itself, as does the word striker. To me a winger has one job to do. Draw defenders and put in a cross, we have 4 or 5 infield players to do the scoring and if he's in there as well who supplies them. His job is to stay wide and drag defenders out of the box, when fit a job Montero does remarkably well, being 2man marked 90% of the time.I wouldn't take that risk. Dyer and Routs can easily score 5+ goals and have 5+ assists per season each. Montero has scored 5 goals during 8 years of his European career. Less than one goal per season is a criminal stats for a winger. I wouldn't criticise him for not scoring goals if he was durable and if he could provide 15-20 assists per season. Get rid. We can't afford a player who plays 300 minutes of football per season.
I agree Ivor, he was more of a goal scorer, but worth remembering he was not always a winger,his early days saw him play as an inside forward, he actually played in all five forward positions for Preston, and in 1957 a new manager relieved him of his winger duties to play a deep lying centre forward role, and scored some 70 goals in the preceding two and a half seasons, a period when Finney himself said he played the best football of his career.Some good debate here with sound opinion on both sides. But I have to say that Tom Finney was more in the mould of what @CroJack likes from his wingers in that he scored a lot of goals often coming inside to do it. He got 187 goals in 433 league games and 30 international goals in 76 games. Stanley Matthews was no less effective but an entirely different animal to Finney in that, as @Jackflash said, he was a creator of goals par excellence and will be revered as one of the all time greats of football despite not scoring that many goals. You pays your money and all that but, as much as I like Montero, he's nowhere near their class. That said, he is obviously more Matthews ( remember that fabulous 'Matthews' cup final Blackpool v Bolton?) than Finney. Enjoying your posts and opinions on this, guys.
I thought Jimmy the Hunch played more on the right wing. But I certainly remember them both particularly Jimmy who scored a few goals for us including one in the semi final of the FA Cup. But I'm sure that all who saw them would vote for Cliff Jones and Lenny Allchurch as our best ever wing pairing. Because of Ivor, Len was frequently undervalued but he was so good that Terry Medwin, a specialist right winger who went on to play in the Spurs double winning team, had to play at centre forward for us. Good enough for Spurs but not good enough to get in our team on the wing.Talking of wingers, anyone remember Willie Humphries on the right and Jimmy McLaughlin on the left.