Thing with Dessers is, at 29 years of age, you’re probably not going to coach him to be a better player.
What we get from him is what we’re likely going to continue to get - lots of goals, but also lots of missed sitters, poor hold up play, indecisiveness in front of goal and a general clumsiness.
At £4.5m, most of us expected better, but perhaps we need to accept that in the market we find ourselves having to shop in, the out of the box quality we’re looking for probably isn’t there at that sort of price and imperfect players like Dessers are what we’re largely going to end up with.
I think he can hold his head up. He took dog’s abuse but never hid.
Give us a cup final winning goal, Cyriel, and you might just win over most of the support yet.