Damion Downs

[Mboto Gorge]

Johannes Spors upon the signing of Downs…..

Group Technical Director Johannes Spors said: “Damion is a player we have been monitoring for some time who possesses excellent physical qualities and the ability to disrupt defences.

“Strengthening our attacking options was one of our top priorities this summer, and Damion is a player who will add real quality to the group. Despite his relatively young age he is already a senior international, so we are excited to see him thrive in the environment here at Southampton.”
 

im sorry but this is up there with Les Reed saying that Pellegrino was going to bring “high intensity pressing attacking football” to the club 

[Badger]

7 minutes ago, Mboto Gorge said:

Johannes Spors upon the signing of Downs….

im sorry but this is up there with Les Reed saying that Pellegrino was going to bring “high intensity pressing attacking football” to the club 

Closely followed by “Dixon and Speedie will score more goals than Alan Shearer…”

Definitely and ‘cut out and keep’ quote from Mr Spors. Would sell well on a t-shirt in the club shop.  

Edited 13 hours ago by Badger

[Mboto Gorge]

What’s more worrying about that quote from Spors, other than the obvious bit about Downs non existent physical attributes, is that he states that striker was one of our top priorities, which indeed it was. So being that he was well aware of that, this bloke , and this bloke alone, was who he was banking on to solve our striker woes, as the main man this season. Let that sink in

[saintant]

37 minutes ago, Mboto Gorge said:

Johannes Spors upon the signing of Downs…..

 

Group Technical Director Johannes Spors said: “Damion is a player we have been monitoring for some time who possesses excellent physical qualities and the ability to disrupt defences.

“Strengthening our attacking options was one of our top priorities this summer, and Damion is a player who will add real quality to the group. Despite his relatively young age he is already a senior international, so we are excited to see him thrive in the environment here at Southampton.”
 

im sorry but this is up there with Les Reed saying that Pellegrino was going to bring “high intensity pressing attacking football” to the club 

If they'd been monitoring him for some time why the fuck did they buy him?

[Willo of Whiteley]

Because he fits in the bracket of young and higher potential returns. 

Funny right! 🤣

[Mixedkebab]

Looks like Chris Wood has lost his place at Forest. 
Make the call Spors!

Announce it January 2nd

Edited 12 hours ago by Mixedkebab

[Holmes_and_Watson]

4 hours ago, Mixedkebab said:

Looks like Chris Wood has lost his place at Forest. 
Make the call Spors!

Announce it January 2nd

Spors bows to pressure to get in experience, but being SR, gets in ex-Forest player Chris Woods in. Now 65, Woods still ends up as our top scorer for the season.

[Gloucester Saint]

9 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

For a club which prides its self on developing, we're doing a fricking shit job of it as we keep throwing these young players out to dry without anything around them.

That’s because Danny Wallace started with Keegan, George, Ball, Channon etc, ditto Moran. MLT, Shearer, Franny with Jimmy. Later on, Beattie learning from Hughes, Bridge with Marsden, Telfer, Shaw and JWP with Steven Davis and Fonte.

Talented youngsters need both experience and quality around them to reach their potential but Semmens, and then SR, have never understood this fact.

[Whitey Grandad]

45 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

That’s because Danny Wallace started with Keegan, George, Ball, Channon etc, ditto Moran. MLT, Shearer, Franny with Jimmy. Later on, Beattie learning from Hughes, Bridge with Marsden, Telfer, Shaw and JWP with Steven Davis and Fonte.

Talented youngsters need both experience and quality around them to reach their potential but Semmens, and then SR, have never understood this fact.

They also need basic footballing skills such as controlling the ball when receiving it. Even just running around a lot would help. 

[saintant]

10 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Because he fits in the bracket of young and higher potential returns. 

Funny right! 🤣

From what we've seen so far I think he's a better fit in the bracket of young and higher potential loss.

[ally_uk]

In all honesty why didn't we keep Onuahcu? Least he is capable of heading a football. 

So we spent what £7 million who should we of got instead for a similar budget?

 

 

[Turkish]

13 hours ago, Stu Man Do said:

What bothered me the most last night was his general lack of effort when closing down. He continually made “half” an effort, never really exerting himself, never quite getting to his man quick enough to pressure him whilst making an effort to seem like he wasn’t a traffic cone.

 

Pathetic effort. Needs to get a bit of niggle into his game.

What is lazy is the lack of effort jibe given to any player that doesn't running around a lot.

Im no fan of Downs, i think hes been poor so far but this notion that players should be charging down at full pelt and running around alot.

Pressing on your own is pointless for many reasons. It never ceases to amaze me how many times you see and hear a player isn't trying if they're not charging around flying into tackles, especially when it's in the other teams half. 

[Miltonaggro]

11 hours ago, Mixedkebab said:

Looks like Chris Wood has lost his place at Forest. 
Make the call Spors!

Announce it January 2nd

Far too sensible and thinking inside the box.  Spors & Co., are probably 'talent spotting' the Czech second division!

[Miltonaggro]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

What is lazy is the lack of effort jibe given to any player that doesn't running around a lot.

Im no fan of Downs, i think hes been poor so far but this notion that players should be charging down at full pelt and running around alot.

Pressing on your own is pointless for many reasons. It never ceases to amaze me how many times you see and hear a player isn't trying if they're not charging around flying into tackles, especially when it's in the other teams half. 

Downs should be forced to watch videos of Pelle on a loop in terms of what a target man needs to do on and off the ball.  Graziano same size as Damion was a great player for conserving energy to attack, whilst rattling defenders and goalkeepers. 

[S-Clarke]

53 minutes ago, ally_uk said:

In all honesty why didn't we keep Onuahcu? Least he is capable of heading a football. 

So we spent what £7 million who should we of got instead for a similar budget?

 

 

I keep seeing posts like this, but it's probably because he was never going to stay in the Championship due to his wages.

We always needed to get rid of him. 

Let's not re-write history and pretend Onuachu was the second coming of Pelle though, he was absolutely horrific.