| Samba Diakite 09:37 - Mar 5 with 4258 views | NoRway |
Where is he now? No mention, not on the bench since Africa. |  | | |  |
| Samba Diakite on 13:13 - Mar 6 with 993 views | baz_qpr |
Diakete has only been a pro for 18 months / 2 years.
He had an absolute shocker / embarrassing against Liverpool. But if the right coach can get hold of him and get his head right he could be some player |  | | |
| Samba Diakite on 14:27 - Mar 6 with 953 views | gobbles |
| Samba Diakite on 12:11 - Mar 6 by Antti_Heinola |
I do see your point, but that is the kind of short term thinking that has got us into this mess. Plus, plenty of players look great when they first come to a new league and then fizzle out - Gylfi Sigurdsson being one of the most recent examples. Once people spotted that his main threat was his long range shooting, they made sure to close him down near the box and he has become less successful.
I'd like us to do more coaching of players we have rather than just buying and selling the whole time. That's what management is all about - or at least, it should be. |
Faurin and Diakite are two completely different cases. Didn't we spend £3.5million on Diakite, yet people were making excuses for him when he was on loan - reckless on the pitch, then went missing for out last run of games from a mystery illness. Diakite seems the classic case of we signed him because we had made a promise to an agent. How we signed him and not Taiwo is beyond me |  | | |
| Samba Diakite on 16:08 - Mar 6 with 907 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Samba Diakite on 14:27 - Mar 6 by gobbles |
Faurin and Diakite are two completely different cases. Didn't we spend £3.5million on Diakite, yet people were making excuses for him when he was on loan - reckless on the pitch, then went missing for out last run of games from a mystery illness. Diakite seems the classic case of we signed him because we had made a promise to an agent. How we signed him and not Taiwo is beyond me |
The Taiwo thing was bizarre to say the least. I have no idea whether we signed Diakite because we promised the agent or what, but i think most fans really wanted us to sign him. |  |
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| Samba Diakite on 16:18 - Mar 6 with 895 views | Northernr |
Diakite has very little experience in professional football. He's come into it late. We've seen enough from him to suggest there is potential there, and £3.5m isn't bad for an international footballer with potential - Jordan Rhodes cost £8.5m and he didn't have the six months of decent performances in the Premier League that Diakite had. He's clearly had a few issues at the start of this season and he's played poorly when called upon this season, nowhere near what he managed last year.
So there's the situation with Diakite - you go one of two ways from here:
1 - You can take him out of the team, maybe send him somewhere on loan, coach him, work on his weaknesses, get him fitter, build his confidence up, teach him, work with him, coach him and see if that potential can be realised. If it can, you've got a great player for free because he's already here - and he's a good age too. What Spurs did with Gareth Bale - for instance - when he didn't start well for them, with a much better grounding and far more ability than Diakite has.
2 - Write him off. Give up. Watch the clock until the next transfer window when another chance to bring in another seven players is presented to us and we can go out and sign somebody else who we know for definite is really terribly good because he's been really terribly good forever and we've heard his name a lot before. Somebody like Ji Sung Park or Jermaine Jenas.
As it's QPR it will almost certainly be number two. More blood. Always more blood.
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| Samba Diakite on 16:23 - Mar 6 with 879 views | YorkRanger |
| Samba Diakite on 16:18 - Mar 6 by Northernr |
Diakite has very little experience in professional football. He's come into it late. We've seen enough from him to suggest there is potential there, and £3.5m isn't bad for an international footballer with potential - Jordan Rhodes cost £8.5m and he didn't have the six months of decent performances in the Premier League that Diakite had. He's clearly had a few issues at the start of this season and he's played poorly when called upon this season, nowhere near what he managed last year.
So there's the situation with Diakite - you go one of two ways from here:
1 - You can take him out of the team, maybe send him somewhere on loan, coach him, work on his weaknesses, get him fitter, build his confidence up, teach him, work with him, coach him and see if that potential can be realised. If it can, you've got a great player for free because he's already here - and he's a good age too. What Spurs did with Gareth Bale - for instance - when he didn't start well for them, with a much better grounding and far more ability than Diakite has.
2 - Write him off. Give up. Watch the clock until the next transfer window when another chance to bring in another seven players is presented to us and we can go out and sign somebody else who we know for definite is really terribly good because he's been really terribly good forever and we've heard his name a lot before. Somebody like Ji Sung Park or Jermaine Jenas.
As it's QPR it will almost certainly be number two. More blood. Always more blood.
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so cynical....  |  | | |
| Samba Diakite on 17:13 - Mar 6 with 844 views | Hunterhoop |
| Samba Diakite on 16:23 - Mar 6 by YorkRanger |
so cynical.... |
So right.
Build a central midfield around Diakite, Faurlin and Mbia. All the right age. All shown at times in the Prem they can cut it, especially in a 3 man midfield.
All better, on their day, than anyone we could sign without paying MONSTER money.
So, why buy anyone? Train what you have got to get the best out of them.
Don't just throw two of the most promising young players we've had in years on the scrap heap because they had 4-5 poor months. Madness. |  | | |
| Samba Diakite on 18:34 - Mar 6 with 808 views | gobbles |
| Samba Diakite on 16:18 - Mar 6 by Northernr |
Diakite has very little experience in professional football. He's come into it late. We've seen enough from him to suggest there is potential there, and £3.5m isn't bad for an international footballer with potential - Jordan Rhodes cost £8.5m and he didn't have the six months of decent performances in the Premier League that Diakite had. He's clearly had a few issues at the start of this season and he's played poorly when called upon this season, nowhere near what he managed last year.
So there's the situation with Diakite - you go one of two ways from here:
1 - You can take him out of the team, maybe send him somewhere on loan, coach him, work on his weaknesses, get him fitter, build his confidence up, teach him, work with him, coach him and see if that potential can be realised. If it can, you've got a great player for free because he's already here - and he's a good age too. What Spurs did with Gareth Bale - for instance - when he didn't start well for them, with a much better grounding and far more ability than Diakite has.
2 - Write him off. Give up. Watch the clock until the next transfer window when another chance to bring in another seven players is presented to us and we can go out and sign somebody else who we know for definite is really terribly good because he's been really terribly good forever and we've heard his name a lot before. Somebody like Ji Sung Park or Jermaine Jenas.
As it's QPR it will almost certainly be number two. More blood. Always more blood.
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Can't the the comparison with Bale. I remember watching him single-handedly tear apart Sunderland at the Stadium of Light as a 17-year-old with Southampton. With Diakite, all we have ever seen is flashes of brilliance with tons of baggage. | | | |
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