Benik Afobe

Let's hope the "what f*cking hell was that" remains permanently replaced with "ooo Benik Afobe"

Probably crying in a carpark in Millwall right now, just for a different reason.
 
...agree that we should have improved him whilst he was with us as he seemed to have a confidence crisis at one point. I do recall Howe played him wide quite often rather than as a central striker...something he did with Grabban too..Beniks goal at Selhurst will always live in my memory from a great night up there when we beat them in our pink strip!
Afobe looked good when he first arrived when played as an out and out number nine. Howe tried to turn him into a deep lying forward and his career went downhill from that point. Howe improved many players, but Benik most certainly regressed under him.
 
Afobe looked good when he first arrived when played as an out and out number nine. Howe tried to turn him into a deep lying forward and his career went downhill from that point. Howe improved many players, but Benik most certainly regressed under him.

sure he used to be an explosive, direct out and out striker prior to joining us, not sure what happened to him.

maybe Neil Moss was training him?
 
sure he used to be an explosive, direct out and out striker prior to joining us, not sure what happened to him.

maybe Neil Moss was training him?
But for a striker he had the scuffiest shot on him, he very rarely hit the ball cleanly. I never understood how he became an acknowledged striker when he rarely had a clean contact with the ball. He was definitely a weird one in my book !
 
But for a striker he had the scuffiest shot on him, he very rarely hit the ball cleanly. I never understood how he became an acknowledged striker when he rarely had a clean contact with the ball. He was definitely a weird one in my book !
100% agree. Even when warming up I can't remember a proper sweet clean connection. The most consistent player at striking the ball sweetly IMO was Scott Malone, if only Afobe had had his timing/technique.
 
sure he used to be an explosive, direct out and out striker prior to joining us, not sure what happened to him.

maybe Neil Moss was training him?
Eddie did what he did to virtually every out and out forward we signed under him, tried to convert them from an out and out number nine into a deep lying forward. In order to fit into his preferred 4-4-1-1 and to accommodate Wilson as the number nine. Afobe, King, Defoe all experienced this. Why he didn’t just try to sign a natural number 10 is a mystery to me.
 
Eddie did what he did to virtually every out and out forward we signed under him, tried to convert them from an out and out number nine into a deep lying forward. In order to fit into his preferred 4-4-1-1 and to accommodate Wilson as the number nine. Afobe, King, Defoe all experienced this. Why he didn’t just try to sign a natural number 10 is a mystery to me.
Forgot Brett Pitman and Yann. Yann’s best individual season for us was when he first signed and played as an out and out forward, he was playing a lot deeper in the promotion season.
 
But for a striker he had the scuffiest shot on him, he very rarely hit the ball cleanly. I never understood how he became an acknowledged striker when he rarely had a clean contact with the ball. He was definitely a weird one in my book !
Beat me to it .
He’d attempt to curl one top right and it would end up been scuffed bottom left.
Coming from Arsenal I assumed he would be technical brilliant .

however scored the 2nd against Saints in the 2-0 win
 
Beat me to it .
He’d attempt to curl one top right and it would end up been scuffed bottom left.
Coming from Arsenal I assumed he would be technical brilliant .

however scored the 2nd against Saints in the 2-0 win
I sometimes wonder if he only scored because the goalie went where a clean strike would end up, only for Afobe to scuff it and for it to trickle in the opposite direction. I suppose that’s a talent of sorts !
:p
 
I didn’t recognise him. From an article in tonight’s Standard. Looks to have lost a few pounds and grown some hair.A50C3D20-7C59-4ADE-8191-5FA847068928.jpeg
 

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