Cyle Larin

[Miltonaggro]

Goal every two games for us. Scores all sorts, unbullyable and doubles up as a centre half! Top fucking target man! 

What we’ve been missing since Pelle! That long…

Edited Monday at 13:41 by Miltonaggro

[ant]

Cyle's goals per 90 mins is 0.84 in the league, which is best in the Championship for those that have played 800+ mins.

Stewart second on the same criteria at 0.73. Simms was 0.72 and Vipotnik 0.7.

Not to claim Larin's stats would've definitely extended across a full season. But what an impact.

[pimpin4rizeal]

Anyone else starting to come around to the idea that Cyle can do well at premier league level ? I honestly couldn’t be much more impressed at the moment he may lack a bit of first touch bit he just gives you so much and most of his attributes look like they would also give prem defenders a problem too . We do need to make some striker signings shoukd we go up but at the kind of 20m budget we usually seem to stick to I’m not sure that’s even guaranteed to get better then Larin 

Edited Wednesday at 13:03 by pimpin4rizeal

[saintant]

33 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Anyone else starting to come around to the idea that Cyle can do well at premier league level ? I honestly couldn’t be much more impressed at the moment he may lack a bit of first touch bit he just gives you so much and most of his attributes look like they would also give prem defenders a problem too . We do need to make some striker signings shoukd we go up but at the kind of 20m budget we usually seem to stick to I’m not sure that’s even guaranteed to get better then Larin 

He'd certainly make a good squad player who will do a job when needed or off the bench. As a first choice starter I think we need better and obviously would have to see who is available that we can afford.

[St. Ciervo]

He is a powerful player that puts himself in dangerous positions. Instinct cannot be taught. Or luck for that matter.

reminds me of Che Adams...but without the allergy to scoring. 

[HnycS]

Also he is playing himself into the world cup, before he joined Saints his chances looked remote. Now the first choice for Canada is crocked. Can any player have any more motivation that? 

[Saint_clark]

23 hours ago, HnycS said:

Also he is playing himself into the world cup, before he joined Saints his chances looked remote. Now the first choice for Canada is crocked. Can any player have any more motivation that? 

I don't think his chances were that remote, he's played 88 times and scored 30 goals for them. 

[Convict Colony]

Yeach Jesse Marsch was giving him lots of praise in the last call up and said he just needs to keep doing what he is doing.  He's probably been even better since then, i expect him to defo be in the squad.

[Stud mark of doom]

He’s in my son’s panini World Cup album 🙂 

[Suhari]

He really had an off day today.

I'll forgive him though, given how brilliant he's been for us.

[Harry_SFC]

51 minutes ago, Suhari said:

He really had an off day today.

I'll forgive him though, given how brilliant he's been for us.

Yep. He was terrible. It happens. Although tbf we were just pumping pretty aimless balls up to him with little or no support around him, which didn't help matters.

[Miltonaggro]

Back him to deliver Tuesday night at some point. 

[Saint86]

6 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

Yep. He was terrible. It happens. Although tbf we were just pumping pretty aimless balls up to him with little or no support around him, which didn't help matters.

He wilts under pressure imo 🤷

[Harry_SFC]

6 hours ago, Saint86 said:

He wilts under pressure imo 🤷

Not sure about that, he's put in some pretty good performances in big games. Coventry away, Wrexham away, Ipswich home for example. And has generally held the ball up better than Stewart since he's been here. That wasn't the case yesterday though. 

[Saint86]

1 hour ago, Harry_SFC said:

Not sure about that, he's put in some pretty good performances in big games. Coventry away, Wrexham away, Ipswich home for example. And has generally held the ball up better than Stewart since he's been here. That wasn't the case yesterday though. 

Was the exact same situation at city, just a complete non event despite coming on fresh. 2 biggest games of the season and he's gone into his shell utterly. It's a question mark against him.

As for Wrexham, we should be beating those - and we won 5-1, but Larin missed 3 big chances and had a xA of 0.02. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy and think he's been very good for us in the champ, but he isn't a big game player and I sadly don't think he is going to cut it in the prem (although I hope he gets the chance and proves me wrong - obviously).

He's also perpetually offside.

Edited 34 minutes ago by Saint86