Leo Scienza

[benjii]

I love him.

Proper player and a bit of a stud.

[Saint Scott]

Me too. Plus he is one of the few players showing they care at the moment

From his Instagram story this evening:

[Harry_SFC]

Meanwhile Stephens and Armstrong the supposed "captains" have nothing to say. The lack of real leadership at this club is staggering. 

[Osvaldorama]

Love him already. Great player. 
 

more character and bottle than the rest of our squad. Disgrace that he’s the only one that cares. He’s only been here a few weeks

[James]

6 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Meanwhile Stephens and Armstrong the supposed "captains" have nothing to say. The lack of real leadership at this club is staggering. 

The fact that Capt’n Jack came on and we conceded twice tells you all you need to know. He’s a player that goes missing in the big spots. How he is captain and how he was rewarded with a new contract after his behaviour and performance in the PL I will never know.

[RedArmy]

I could watch him receive the ball and run at people for days. 
 

 A real bright spark in a shit season. 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, James said:

The fact that Capt’n Jack came on and we conceded twice tells you all you need to know. He’s a player that goes missing in the big spots. How he is captain and how he was rewarded with a new contract after his behaviour and performance in the PL I will never know.

Doesn’t need the benefit of hindsight to know that his summer three year extension was a massive red flag about Spors judgement. 

[imadirtyurchin]

4 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Doesn’t need the benefit of hindsight to know that his summer three year extension was a massive red flag about Spors judgement. 

Not three years - surely??? I think it was one year extension. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, imadirtyurchin said:

Not three years - surely??? I think it was one year extension. 

Jack had 12 months left and the extension was for another 24 months so yes, three years in total I’m afraid.

[Colinjb]

A shining light in a turd of a season.

[HarvSFC]

This is all well and good, but we were told by a "German football expert" that he had a bad attitude.

 

[Turkish]

Head and shoulders the best player on the pitch today and the only one who properly fronted up to the fans which says a lot about the bottle jobs we’ve got 

[ant]

Not sure what he was saying to Welington after his red card, but the body language appeared that of a mentor. 

He's enigmatic, but with the talent to back any swagger; passionate, but appears level-headed with it.

Going by SR's record, a capture of blind luck.

Enjoy him for the season.

[Football Special]

4 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

Meanwhile Stephens and Armstrong the supposed "captains" have nothing to say. The lack of real leadership at this club is staggering. 

To be fair if I was them I wouldn't be posting on social media either, assume that's Scienza's personal account not written for him by an agent which makes a change nowadays 

[CB Fry]

4 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

Meanwhile Stephens and Armstrong the supposed "captains" have nothing to say. The lack of real leadership at this club is staggering. 

Not sure that posting some platitudes on Instagram is "real leadership" in any way shape or form.

Plenty to complain about but that isn't one of them.

[St. Ciervo]

Will be wearing Liverpool Red next calendar year.  Until then, can he also be a player-coach? Is he any good at FM26?

[rooney]

That clever step over before he shot for goal was great. It showed quality in trying to make the goal keeper go the other way to put him off balance. before he scored.

[Killers Knee]

As we are very much a one man team, maybe ´oh when Scienza, goes marching in’ is fitting?

[Turkish]

8 hours ago, CB Fry said:

Not sure that posting some platitudes on Instagram is "real leadership" in any way shape or form.

Plenty to complain about but that isn't one of them.

It wasn’t just that. He came over to the fans at the end who were giving the players loads of shit, rightly so. Looked like he was trying to say something about sticking together. The rest of them didn’t even get past the penalty area and turned around quickly once they realised they weren’t getting polite applause for their “efforts” for once 

[Patches O Houlihan]

9 hours ago, ant said:

Not sure what he was saying to Welington after his red card, but the body language appeared that of a mentor. 

He's enigmatic, but with the talent to back any swagger; passionate, but appears level-headed with it.

Going by SR's record, a capture of blind luck.

Enjoy him for the season.

Someone on here just after the end of the window suggested that he was a Will Still pick - SR had bought their ‘investments’, Still couldn’t see a match winner and was persuasive enough to push the deal through. 
I don’t know the source for this. 
 

He definitely seems to be the type to take responsibility, roll his sleeves up and get stuck in - but because he is talented it is often very positive. Have loved watching him since I was first told we were just watching another Steve de Ridder video against shit oppo.

[BarberSaint]

2 hours ago, rooney said:

That clever step over before he shot for goal was great. It showed quality in trying to make the goal keeper go the other way to put him off balance. before he scored.

Wasn't a step-over, but dragged with the sole of the boot but it did what you said: made the keeper change slightly to open up the angle which is what Leo wanted (some people in the match thread questioned why).

[chiknsmack]

5 hours ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

Someone on here just after the end of the window suggested that he was a Will Still pick - SR had bought their ‘investments’, Still couldn’t see a match winner and was persuasive enough to push the deal through. 
I don’t know the source for this. 

That sounds plausible; Scienza is a bit of a stat nerd/computer game favourite. I think MLG was posting graphs on here before he signed showing that he was an extreme outlier in some attacking stats, and the YouTube channel Sincere FC has a couple of videos applying the NBA metric usage rate (how often your team's possessions end with you) to football, where Leo stood out. When comparing "end product" (goals, assists, and shot-creating actions) to this usage rate (both stats being per 96 minutes played and adjusted for team possession stats), he was amongst the highest in Europe for both stats last season. For CAMs he's in the same region (but ahead of) players like Bruno Fernandes and Eberechi Eze. That is, his teams possessions end with him a lot, and he creates a lot with the ball.

Paul Onuachu also got a special mention in one of the videos. His usage rate last season was higher than players like Mbuemo and Saka, but his end product was practically non-existent (ie. his high usage rate came from him losing the ball a lot as the only target man for a shit team, as opposed to Mbuemo/Saka/Scienza getting theirs from attacking and shooting a lot).

[Saint86]

No question that he is one of our best attacking players, up there with AA for effectiveness and more skilled and enjoyable to warch (re AA before someone tells me of - I mean for this level and when used properly he is a very good attacker, whereas scienza I think can step up to the prem ability wise). Scienza, Charles, and AA should all be the first names on the teamsheet. Sadly charles is now injured. Rotten game yesterday 😭

Edited 18 hours ago by Saint86

[Challenger]

SR,s attention is probably not on the manager or crap results but on how much profit they can make on this bloke.

[SW5 SAINT]

1 hour ago, Challenger said:

SR,s attention is probably not on the manager or crap results but on how much profit they can make on this bloke.

Sadly that’s all we are now, a business of buying and selling players, and SR with a few exceptions, like this chap, are pretty crap at that…..

[Paul_B]

He definitely seems to have a bit about him on and off the pitch. Just a shame we can't fully enjoy having him here as our monumental shitness overshadows anything remotely good. He will 100% be gone in the summer and fair play to him! SR will be very proud of themselves for making a few million as well.....great success!

[aintforever]

He does look quality, the fact that we have a player of his quality and we are still sat below Oxford and Portsmouth in the table says all you need to know about the manager.

[AlexLaw76]

1 hour ago, aintforever said:

He does look quality, the fact that we have a player of his quality and we are still sat below Oxford and Portsmouth in the table says all you need to know about the manager.

And we have Fellows and Azaz plodding around in the wrong position or not on the pitch at all.

Fucking criminal