Who wants to keep Uche?

[syd snot]

Not played enough for me to have a real opinion but if he was below the 10m mark I'd say he's worth a punt.

 

[TheBigToePunt]

He's very raw. You can see why they took a punt on him, and there might be a player in there, but even if Mateta goes it's hard to see how Uche gets signed now that they've paid out for Johnson, Larsen, and Pino, having already paid out for Nketiah, and with Sarr being the best performer of the lot. That's without Guessand, and also without leaving a spot in the squad for any of the academy prospects.

He's got no chance of being here next season.

 

[RednBlue Eagle]

If we had a decent striker coach all our strikers, and past strikers, would be better. Uche has the characteristics of a striker as does Mateta, but both are under performing. Some one mentioned Alex Sorloth earlier. He too looked like a good striker but never had the coaching or the chance of a run of games with us. I am not at all surprised that he is one of the top scorers in Europe now. Don't blame the players blame the coaches.

 

[Dogburger]

He's very raw. You can see why they took a punt on him, and there might be a player in there, but even if Mateta goes it's hard to see how Uche gets signed now that they've paid out for Johnson, Larsen, and Pino, having already paid out for Nketiah, and with Sarr being the best performer of the lot. That's without Guessand, and also without leaving a spot in the squad for any of the academy prospects.

He's got no chance of being here next season.

I agree .Though he might turn out to be a player we will kick ourselves for letting go I just dont see where he gets a game . With our recent signings he has been knocked well down the pecking order and as you say will be a road block to any of our kids that show promise .

 

[Palacesince64]

He’s a bit like Franca. Shows signs that he could be a decent player but £20 million was crazy fee. We’re having to make the best of it with Franca but have a fervour with Uche, so unless we can negotiate a cheaper deal in the summer I’m afraid he goes back.

 

[eritheagle]

I think uche was a panic buy when we lost out on guessard to villa.

But now we have him.......

 

[Linford]

I would love to see him make it with us, but it seems like there isn’t a space for him. As much of it is circumstantial as anything else.

He will do it somewhere.

 

[Team of the (20)80s]

Even if we are not starting him as we are worried about the fee, I’d have given him more sub minutes. I’d continue to so, with European games coming up, but he’s clearly down the pecking order now. I’d then want to haggle on the 20 million.

In reality it all depends on the style of the new manager

 

[RubinsCube]

I'm not 100% sure what his best position is. He has not shown he is a number nine, and he hasn't displaced Sarr/Pino in one of the ten slots. We now have Guessand and Brennan Johnson competing for those number ten positions.

Could he operate as an inverted winger? Hard to tell but I have not seen him looking to beat people on the outside in the few minutes he has had. He would therefore be quite predictable in that position.

Depending on the new manager, we might only play with one ten and not two as we do right now.

Taking all this into account, I cannot see how he fits in the team either starting or off the bench.

I have a suspicion the £80m or so outlay on Stand-Larsen and Johnson factored in the purchase option on Uche would not be triggered. He's a likeable guy and has shown glimpses of what he can do in the European games, but for me it is a case of good player wrong time.

 

[Charles]

Uche and Nketiah seemed to have a good mutual understanding against Shelbourne; not admittedly the most taxing of opposition (though we didn't always manage the convincing wins we should have against smaller clubs) but they seemed read each other well; I'd be dsappointed never to see if they could still do it against Premier league defences.