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Why did we sell ayew??

Personally I was a fan of his industrious hard working style, you could always reply on him to put a shift in, break up play & win free kicks, chipped in with the odd goal but many on here were saying that they expected more from a forward positioned player -

But - He was 32 when we sold him & Leicester were prepared to pay good money (Someone said £5 Million, I thought it was £8 Million) In any event I don't imagine that there were many comparable, alternative offers for him & I wouldn't have expected that situation to change - Come the start of next season (Sept) he will be 34 & worth ?

How often on here have posters complained that we have kept players too long & when we put them out to pasture they have no resale value ?

How often would he be a starter in our current set up ?

I could 100% live with him being a last 20 minute sub, being brought on to ensure that we see a game out but would that be OG view ? Has that job been filled with other squad players ?
 
I really liked Jordan on a number of levels. He was hard working and rarely injured. I did however think it was good business to sell him at around the prices talked about. I was wrong.
Even from the bench he at least offers hold up play and free kicks. Yesterday I'd have subbed Eze for him half way through the second half. Any comparison with Kamada is an insult.
However I sensed OG didn't fancy him, I guess because he didn't move the ball on quickly enough for his style of play - at that time. We are not that team at the moment.
 
Dubai Eagle said:
Personally I was a fan of his industrious hard working style, you could always reply on him to put a shift in, break up play & win free kicks, chipped in with the odd goal but many on here were saying that they expected more from a forward positioned player -

But - He was 32 when we sold him & Leicester were prepared to pay good money (Someone said £5 Million, I thought it was £8 Million) In any event I don't imagine that there were many comparable, alternative offers for him & I wouldn't have expected that situation to change - Come the start of next season (Sept) he will be 34 & worth ?

How often on here have posters complained that we have kept players too long & when we put them out to pasture they have no resale value ?

How often would he be a starter in our current set up ?

I could 100% live with him being a last 20 minute sub, being brought on to ensure that we see a game out but would that be OG view ? Has that job been filled with other squad players ?
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Depends if the player in question can add any benefit to the squad - in Ayew's case I think he could have. Certainly compared to other players that the club has retained, and who look unlikely to make an appearance and even more unlikely to command any sort of worthwhile fee. And in the end, let's not kid ourselves, Parish saw the £££ signs and went with it. A pity then that whatever he got for Ayew has been totally wasted on the hapless Kamada.
 
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Good business at the time, but now, would you want him or Kamada - enough said!
Massive error by Glasner and make no mistake, this one is on him!
 
I did think at the time it was a strange one in selling him as he went for a small fee. There were more pros to keeping him than selling him put it that way. So here are the pros, gets the odd goal here and there, holds up play well and wins free kicks, hardly got booked and more telling and this is the big plus, was never injured!!!

Our season is f***ed because of injuries and not signing enough players. I would happily have kept Ayew over Kamada all day long. This was a really poor decision and gets worse by the day as he scores for Leicester against Liverpool… FFS!
 
Jordan Ayew was approaching 33 when he was sold to Leicester for a fee which could reach £8 Mill.
He departed in August 24, his last goal for our club was back in Feb 24.
Perhaps he was deemed not a good 'Fit' for 'Glasner Ball'.
 
Badger11 said:
I think the issue is not selling Ayew but buying his replacement.
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The issue has been the players we've brought in not the ones we sold.
  • Olise was out of our hands
  • Andersen was good business for a player who's 28 and wanted a long contract on too high wages
  • Ayew was unexpected as we probably didn't think anyone would come in for him and we expected the incoming players to be better.
  • Johnstone was good business and has hardly covered himself in glory at Wolves
IMHO, of the ones we've brought in, only Lacroix has, so far, shown his worth and the more I see of him, the more he is an upgrade on Andersen, at least as a defender.
  • Sarr is beginning to adjust back to the PL and will probably prove to have been worth what we paid for him.
  • Riad showed promise before he was injured
  • Kamada has shown nothing to suggest he's going to adjust to the cut and thrust of the PL. Some players simply don't function in the PL despite doing well in other top European leagues.
  • Nketiah is an enigma and yet to show he's worth anything like the amount we paid for him
  • Chalobah has been an OK loan but is suspect defensively (or perhaps just naive).
Add to that a missfirng Eze and an injured Wharton, and we are a shadow of the team that finished last season so strongly.
 
Jordan certainly silenced Anfield yesterday.

Fortunately my nasty feeling, that he and Edouard would combine to sink Palace, looks unlikely now, mind you we are still not half-way through the season.

The Palace bench does not look as strong as it needs to be imo.

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The Dolphin said:
Good business at the time, but now, would you want him or Kamada - enough said!
Massive error by Glasner and make no mistake, this one is on him!
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I would Still take Kamada. More potential. I’m hopeful he comes good. He is a longer term play for the team. I trust OG.
 
Dnjc said:
I would Still take Kamada. More potential. I’m hopeful he comes good. He is a longer term play for the team. I trust OG.
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So do I, but even the best managers can sign a pup
 
Chelsea signed Mudryk to an 8.5 year contract (Kamada is on a 2 year). I'd be kind of surprised if they have to pay him if he's suspended, but they still spent 70 million on a signing fee (possibly going to 100 million - although I'd be shocked if he hit many of those milestones). And when he comes off suspension they probably have him for quite a few more seasons.

Some other clangers over the years for them, Drinkwater, Barkley (even though he played well last year, was a dud for Chelsea), Werner to name a few.
 
Lanzo-Ad said:
Although everyone appreciates his hard work, and his world class free kick winning technique , i think that 22 goals and 20 assists in 195 games is hardly anything to shout about
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True. However, he was always top for free kicks won - which would have been down the right. Why, oh why did a supposedly professional club (I'm laughing at that) not notice then that we were getting quite literally 70 odd free kicks from the right? Many of them could have been launched into the box - but no, some kind of philosophy to not be Sean Dyche stopped that. I'm not exaggerating to say that really, Dougie and Roy should have been sacked for not practising free kicks from the right into the box. Roy should have been sacked for not working on free kicks at all anyway. Absolutely appalling.
We wasted Ayew the whole time he was here. We ignored the stats, we didn't play to our strengths. It didn't take a genius to notice it - Sky Sports put up frees won figures every day. We didn't even need to analyse it.

So fine that he's gone but we wasted what he was doing. Ultimately suspect that was Roy but when you have a DOF they should have a word. Both failed there.
 
ASCPFC said:
True. However, he was always top for free kicks won - which would have been down the right. Why, oh why did a supposedly professional club (I'm laughing at that) not notice then that we were getting quite literally 70 odd free kicks from the right? Many of them could have been launched into the box - but no, some kind of philosophy to not be Sean Dyche stopped that. I'm not exaggerating to say that really, Dougie and Roy should have been sacked for not practising free kicks from the right into the box. Roy should have been sacked for not working on free kicks at all anyway. Absolutely appalling.
We wasted Ayew the whole time he was here. We ignored the stats, we didn't play to our strengths. It didn't take a genius to notice it - Sky Sports put up frees won figures every day. We didn't even need to analyse it.

So fine that he's gone but we wasted what he was doing. Ultimately suspect that was Roy but when you have a DOF they should have a word. Both failed there.
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Whilst Ayew won (bought) loads of fouls the stats show he lost the ball more times than he won it. In four of his five seasons with us he was in the top four players for being dispossessed (EPL Official Stats). With Zaha there with him it goes some way to explain why we were a bottom half team. For a forward his goal scoring rate was abysmal and on the wing his ability to cross or provide assists disappointing. I always thought he tried to prove he was as good as Zaha by taking on players or shooting when the obvious play was to pass to a colleague in a better position. We all remember the “wonder goal” against the Spammers but these situations were all too rare.

OG gave Jordan a good chance when he joined but I knew his days were numbered after his errors in the 2-4 defeat to Man City. He lost his stamina and any speed he had. However, he has proved a useful sub for Leicester with four goals but that is no guarantee it would have happened with us.
 
ASCPFC said:
True. However, he was always top for free kicks won - which would have been down the right. Why, oh why did a supposedly professional club (I'm laughing at that) not notice then that we were getting quite literally 70 odd free kicks from the right? Many of them could have been launched into the box - but no, some kind of philosophy to not be Sean Dyche stopped that. I'm not exaggerating to say that really, Dougie and Roy should have been sacked for not practising free kicks from the right into the box. Roy should have been sacked for not working on free kicks at all anyway. Absolutely appalling.
We wasted Ayew the whole time he was here. We ignored the stats, we didn't play to our strengths. It didn't take a genius to notice it - Sky Sports put up frees won figures every day. We didn't even need to analyse it.

So fine that he's gone but we wasted what he was doing. Ultimately suspect that was Roy but when you have a DOF they should have a word. Both failed there.
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Last season, in the list i saw, he was No1 at 65 fouls against him, about 20 in front of the second player who i think might have been Salah 🤣
 
Norbury Old Git said:
Whilst Ayew won (bought) loads of fouls the stats show he lost the ball more times than he won it. In four of his five seasons with us he was in the top four players for being dispossessed (EPL Official Stats). With Zaha there with him it goes some way to explain why we were a bottom half team. For a forward his goal scoring rate was abysmal and on the wing his ability to cross or provide assists disappointing. I always thought he tried to prove he was as good as Zaha by taking on players or shooting when the obvious play was to pass to a colleague in a better position. We all remember the “wonder goal” against the Spammers but these situations were all too rare.

OG gave Jordan a good chance when he joined but I knew his days were numbered after his errors in the 2-4 defeat to Man City. He lost his stamina and any speed he had. However, he has proved a useful sub for Leicester with four goals but that is no guarantee it would have happened with us.
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This still doesn't at all address why we didn't make better use (truth be told any use at all) of the hundreds of free kicks he won.
 
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