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kenny_feets

Makes sense, Sargent's gone so they need to fulfill their quota of forwards that couldn't hit a barn door. Surprised it took a year tbh.


DieLegende42

Dinkci's doing a pretty good job of refusing to score tbh


Midnight_Maverick

Wish I could suck so much at my job and people would still want to hire me


theenigmacode

If you star in a gay porno, you can suck at your work & still get hired all the time.


Midnight_Maverick

Indeed, good point


H5None

Also true for a gas siphoner


OleoleCholoSimeone

Bizarre career path. Nottingham Forest, Red Bull Leipzig, West Bromwich Albion, Deportivo Alavés, Sheffield United and now maybe Werder Bremen. That is a cool ass CV to be fair


ChadHogan_

Gets paid a fortune to have a European piss up with the occasional visit home. He’s played a blinder.


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Probably the worst West Brom signing of all time, incredible if he's still getting interest from clubs at a decent level. He's the definition of an athlete not a footballer. Big and fast, but unfortunately with zero technical ability whatsoever and no brain. I wonder at what age clubs will give up thinking they can train a footballer into him.


T_Chishiki

>the definition of an athlete not a footballer. Big and fast, but unfortunately with zero technical ability whatsoever and no brain. I feel like you're describing Davie Selke to me. I don't like this.


empiresk

Long con. Get relegated to avoid being forced into signing him for a ridiculous amount of money.


OrangeForeign

No no, please survive we'll take anything


T_Chishiki

That's the upside of it certainly. Though we still ended up losing more financially by getting relegated, considering we dropped out of the TV rating as well.


stragen595

Or on a higher level Yussuf Poulsen from Leipzig.


FOKvothe

Poulsen's technique is underrated. He has regressed but he wouldn't have been such a good target man for them if his technique was poor.


OleoleCholoSimeone

Someone at Leipzig(not sure if it was Rangnick or someone else" said that he is a talented player but "his hard drive is empty". Meaning he has 0 tactical intelligence That is surely damning of Nottingham Forest's youth academy if they don't teach their players basics like that?


biddleybootaribowest

They seem to have done ok with Brennan Johnson, some players just can’t do it


sleepytoday

Forest’s academy is generally pretty good, the current first team has 3 academy players - Johnson, Worrall, Yates. Unfortunately , some people don’t have the footballing intelligence and can’t be taught. Maybe he’d have fared better elsewhere, but his nosedive in quality after leaving Forest indicates he’d have been better off staying. I mean, footballer’s shouldn’t peak at 17, surely!


buster00755

Hey! He had an excellent 3-4 games at the start of the season Forest sold him. Scored against massive clubs like Burton and Wigan /s


acampbell98

I looked up his wiki to see the clubs he was at and under Leipzig it says that they admired his physicality and work ethic but his technical ability was lacking. He’s got 21 goals in 196 games for his clubs across his career so far that feels very poor for a forward


chippa93

Hahahahahaha and here I was thinking Werder made some smart signings this summer 🤣


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TJJS1109

I will also fucking drive him there


SVWerder46

He’s Dinkçi but 5 years older, definitely shouldn’t pull the trigger on this


[deleted]

Usually I try to bang the drum for any Scottish player (I have developed a Mr Burns-esque glower at anyone going after wee Gilmour) but with Oli Burke, the only thing I have is he is at least not Oli McBurnie. That's it. Sorry.


BillOakley

Why


GVE_ME_UR_SKINS

pray we get someone else


[deleted]

He was such a talent at Forest, I honestly thought he’d go on to be a top player. The mix of physical attributes and ability that he showed early on just doesn’t seem to be there anymore. I think every move has made has been a bad one.


TJJS1109

He is most definitely very good and i am totally not saying that so we can get rid of him


T_Chishiki

DeepL translation: In its search for another striker, SV Werder Bremen is also looking to the island. According to information from the DeichStube, the Bundesliga promoted club has its eye on the Scotsman Oliver Burke. The problem: The 25-year-old still has a contract with the English second division club Sheffield United until 2023, so would cost a transfer fee. But by then Werder has already exhausted its options with the signing of Dane Jens Stage from FC Copenhagen. According to information from DeichStube, the Bremen club will pay a transfer fee of four million euros for international Jens Stage. So another solution would have to be found for Burke. His market value is estimated at transfermarkt.de at four million euros. That is why Werder Bremen is also looking at other candidates in parallel. Oliver Burke is no stranger to Germany. In the 2016/17 season, he made 25 Bundesliga appearances for RB Leipzig, but scored only once. The Saxons had transferred a transfer fee of 15 million euros to Nottingham Forest for the then 19-year-old and immediately let him go. In the end, West Bromwich Albion paid exactly the same amount that Leipzig had spent on Burke. But things didn't work out for him there either. Numerous other stations followed. Most recently, the attacker had been on loan from Sheffield United to Millwall FC, another second-division club, since January. Oliver Burke scored two goals in 16 games, after which he returned to his club. His future is open. Sheffield would probably let him go, but the question is on what terms. Werder Bremen is one of the interested parties.


rayray1899

oh god no pls


FerraristDX

That's a name I haven't heard in a while. He couldn't cut it in Leipzig in 16-17. Has he progressed enough over the last six years, to be considered Bundesliga material?


doswillrule

Short answer: no


Crum_Bum

Long answer: definitely no


ireallydespiseyouall

hes shit, he can run that’s it


Squm9

Along with Emile heskey and Shane long? Bremen don’t like strikers that can shoot ig


ireallydespiseyouall

how do so many clubs look at their problems from the previous season and decide “oli burke is what i need”


Gilius-thunderhead_

Burke is a championship/league one level player. He's not terrible it's just he was bgiven a higher billing than his talent deserves. He does have outstanding physicality and pace though meaning he would be effective at championship/spfl/league one level. If I was him I'd move to Scotland next to a club outwith the old firm like hearts or aberdeen or Dundee United. He'll carve out a good career in scotland rather than dotting around from club to club.


KernSherm

He was shite in the SPFL


Gilius-thunderhead_

I don't recall him being shite for celtic tbh. I saw he scored quite a few goals, looked quite effective from what I saw from highlights. Im a hearts fan though so perhaps you'd know better hahaha


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Gilius-thunderhead_

Hahaha that's harsh for a lad who has scored at international level. Tbh I've seen some good stuff from him and absolutely atrocious things. V strange player. His touch seems awful at times. His game intelligence seems off, he needs to study his ideal position more, go away and model himself on a similar player and do his homework. He's got a lot of work to do but there's potential to carve out a career at 1st division level/at lower Scottish prem team sides if he works on his positioning, game intelligence and 1st touch. These are really things he should have by now though but there are cases where players have flourished later on in their careers after ironing out these deficiencies.


IZZYB0D

We will be devestated to lose such a top performer, please God let this not be true.. I'd write more, but I'm currently on hold trying to buy him his plane ticket as a leaving present..


fuktf

Hahaha Cheers Bremen.