Irish soccerball nil - That boy Jinky will save us (Part 2)

[Aertel220]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

This fella isn’t 19 or 20. Hes 27 going on 28. He’s having a great season but little to suggest he’ll repeat it.

He’s actually 28 going on 29. Plenty of late bloomers in Association Football though. Ian Wright the prime example. Or more recently lads like Luca Toni, Jamie Vardy, Jose Fonte, Rickie Lambert and even Wataru Endo at Liverpool.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Perez2017

Technically Szmodics looks excellent. I think he will get a decent move in Summer.

I decent move to where? Blackpool?

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Aertel220

@BruidheanChaorthainn

This fella isn’t 19 or 20. Hes 27 going on 28. He’s having a great season but little to suggest he’ll repeat it.

He’s actually 28 going on 29. Plenty of late bloomers in Association Football though. Ian Wright the prime example. Or more recently lads like Luca Toni, Jamie Vardy, Jose Fonte, Rickie Lambert and even Wataru Endo at Liverpool.

There isn’t. There’s very very few.

Your man is a mid table championship player. Nothing to suggest he’ll improve on that. He’s small and not the quickest of players either.

[Julio_Geordio]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

I decent move to where? Blackpool?

Brentford want him supposedly

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

You can see with Evan Ferguson already. He’s a superb footballer but slow as a wet weak in tramore and defences have figured that out.

I wouldn’t mind seeing him play slightly deeper in the Francesco totti type role with a striker who’ll stretch the defence and run into the corners.

We are wasting our time with Ferguson up top on his own anyway.

[Aristotle]

He’s a decent technical player and we don’t have so many that we can afford to pass up what we have. He has a good eye for goal (and can take a set-piece) and is tidy around the box.

But he’s not a player who is going to dominate games.

[Perez2017]

He’d start over Ferguson at the moment.

[Bandage]

Szmodics’ two finishes at Sunderland were wonderful - taking the first one in his stride & firing it in with little back lift & opening up his body & directing the cut back into the far corner for the second. Other than such goal clips, I’ve never seen him play apart from those two Ireland games & I was mightily impressed in a @Perez2017 type manner.

[neilld]

Je suis Smodicks

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Idah > Fergusson

[neilld]

Why not have both?

[Juhniallio]

Cos Idah is shit.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Gaffney & Idah would be a better partnership

[Juhniallio]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Gaffney & Idah would be a better partnership

If they set up a bespoke cafe or plumbing business maybe.

[neilld]

He just needs to put it all together…like a Lego

[myboyblue]

Can someone change the thread title to Szmodic please?

[neilld]

An Idah and Ferguson front two with Smodickz probing between the lines.

[Mac]

Ferguson in the Totti role and Szmodic being the next Luca Toni are 2 of the funniest things I’ve read on here in a while

[neilld]

This is potentially the most exciting Irish attacking combination since Trapp deployed Shane Long and Simon Cox

[Aertel220]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Gaffney & Idah would be a better partnership

A near 37 year old Gaffney leading the line is exactly what we need for USA 26’.