You've missed the point again. All the other poster said was that Itten was our best player during pre season and you reacted with:
At no point did anyone say Itten was our best player. But he was our best player in pre season and Gerrard kinda alluded to that as well.
Some folk like to make out like Itten is a complete donkey when the fact is he's been capped for Switzerland who are no mugs and he had a decent goalscoring record before us.
Far better players than him have made moves that don't work out, that's football.
You are a switched on guy I'm surprised you've missed the point I'm making.
I can't remember how many games Itten started preseason but my point is to suggest that is a measure that the manager didn't factor in when he made his decision to loan him out is nuts. To suggest it's an important measure or indeed that preseason showed he had stepped up a level and we let him go... is again nuts.
But it ties into both the short term mentality of a section of our support who always want changes/know better and a fact that anyone watching football for any amount of time will know football supporters as a mass don't always understand the details of player's ability or football at all-every week you hear the craziest criticism or advice shouted at the players.
This thread cements it, Itten as a striker who if played would score 20+ goals but the manager has missed this, we don't do crosses, we don't score enough headers, he's a target man, goals in games that are either friendlies or lost when he scores means his CV has been bolstered to a meaningful extent....all this stuff is just short term reactionary nonsense to a single goal from a player who is still not getting a start/holding down a place after being loaned presumably to get more games.
Itten is a Brattbak, Bo Anderson style striker likes the ball in front of him and at the right team/level will do well. He's clearly a very professional guy who HAS improved but simply is not the type of player who will fit into our system, the fact that I think Sakala has the same potential problem for different reasons is neither here nor there. On paper you can see why we bought him, right age, good scoring record but ultimately a bad scouting failure as he clearly doesn't fit our style of play and despite working hard to fit in is still seen as the manager as surplus no doubt balanced out by the player quite rightly wanting game time.
In short the thread is a bit mental.
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