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***Naby Sarr signed on 5 year deal*** (Ed. Gone)

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    MattF said:
    Why would the Huddersfield players have been in Bexleyheath today, surely they didn't use The Marriott?
    They have been reading threads on here & were checking out which is best....... TW records or Cloud 9.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,766
    Breaking news... Football fans incapable of having a change of opinion on a player over the course of their contract/career. More at 10.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Breaking news.....
    Football fans slating a player in the first half of a football thread or at the ground(in the olden days) but loving the same player in the second half after a goal, assist or block, as long as team have won.

    Football fans deciding that players who were once heroes, weren't all that once they leave !

    Naby was a far better player in the last years of his contact that he was at first.
    Still the odd moment of madness but he left in credit and he seemed a gentle giant.

    Ryan Inniss is a scary beast and TBH is probably more suited to the "take no prisoners" of the mediocre League 1.


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    edited November 2020
    HandG said:
    I saw Naby walking through Bexleyheath  with the rest of the Huddersfield players this morning - the moment got to me a bit and I couldn’t help shouting  Naby, Naby Sarr out the window at him as loud as I could and beeping my horn lots. I was so excited that I turned around at the roundabout to drive past him and do it again. I’m pleased to confirm that he looked just as happy as me by it all (albeit slightly bewildered) and I’m thinking that he brought that into his performance today. You’re welcome Huddersfield fans.
    This reminds me when I was in Sidcup and saw our manager Chris Powell walking towards me.
    I was so surprised I shouted out Chrissy Powell far too loud, which really made him laugh.
    If I was him I'd have turned and run, but he carried on and we had a good old chat.
    I love Chrissy Powell.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited November 2020
    J BLOCK said:
    Scoham said:
    J BLOCK said:
    J BLOCK said:
    Sarr was cack for us, I won’t hear anything else.
    Utter nonsense
    Nonsense? How many years out of the 4 (was it?) was he first choice? If he’s so good why was he never playing week in week out over the years 
    It is nonsense because it's not that black and white.

    He wasn't good enough in his first few years at the club.

    He improved and was good enough to play a big part in us getting promoted in 18/19.

    He then did enough last season to win a contract at a Championship club.
    “Big part in us getting promoted” come on man you surely don’t think this.

    and he was pony in the championship. 
    The amount of so called decent players we had last year I’m surprised we didn’t finish top half 
    It was our attack that got us relegated really. We once we had no Taylor, Gallagher or Leko we just couldn’t score enough goals. 

    Sarr had lots of good games for us last season and the season before. Made a few errors too, but so will Famewo and Innis by the time this season has finished.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    J BLOCK said:
    Scoham said:
    J BLOCK said:
    J BLOCK said:
    Sarr was cack for us, I won’t hear anything else.
    Utter nonsense
    Nonsense? How many years out of the 4 (was it?) was he first choice? If he’s so good why was he never playing week in week out over the years 
    It is nonsense because it's not that black and white.

    He wasn't good enough in his first few years at the club.

    He improved and was good enough to play a big part in us getting promoted in 18/19.

    He then did enough last season to win a contract at a Championship club.
    “Big part in us getting promoted” come on man you surely don’t think this.

    and he was pony in the championship. 
    The amount of so called decent players we had last year I’m surprised we didn’t finish top half 
    It was our attack that got us relegated really. We once we had no Taylor, Gallagher or Leko we just couldn’t score enough goals. 

    Sarr has lots of good games for us last season and he season before. Made a few errors too, but so will Famewo and Innis by the time this season has finished.
    It was injuries that relegated us, plus the immoral actions of some heinous ownership
  • Stoke currently 3-2 up at home to Huddersfield, remarkable game - Just shown the latest goal and whilst none of it was Naby's fault I'm glad he's not forgotten that Charlton skill of jumping up and stomping your feet when you concede :)
  • He's scored now... 4-3 to Stoke
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    Good free kick and nutted in nicely. 
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Huddersfield fans have really taken to him. Yes, every few games he makes a mistake, but overall his dominant performances have seen Huddersfield gain a lot of points. Sad that some of our fans couldn't overlook the occasional screw-up. He's not a relegation defender, that's for sure
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    Leuth said:
    Huddersfield fans have really taken to him. Yes, every few games he makes a mistake, but overall his dominant performances have seen Huddersfield gain a lot of points. Sad that some of our fans couldn't overlook the occasional screw-up. He's not a relegation defender, that's for sure
    Let it go, mate 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Never
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824

     “The centre-back was in poor form all game thereafter, letting players breeze past him with ease and looking generally sloppy on the ball, especially in the first half, where he completed less than two-thirds of his passes.

    As hair enthusiast Matt Shaw of podcast And He Takes That Chance has observed, Sarr has formed a habit of having two good performances followed by an atrocious one, and that the bad ones tend to coincide with Town’s poorer performances as a team. Right on cue, then.”

  • Breaking news.....
    Football fans slating a player in the first half of a football thread or at the ground(in the olden days) but loving the same player in the second half after a goal, assist or block, as long as team have won.

    Football fans deciding that players who were once heroes, weren't all that once they leave !

    Naby was a far better player in the last years of his contact that he was at first.
    Still the odd moment of madness but he left in credit and he seemed a gentle giant.

    Ryan Inniss is a scary beast and TBH is probably more suited to the "take no prisoners" of the mediocre League 1.


    wmcf123 said:
    Leuth said:
    Huddersfield fans have really taken to him. Yes, every few games he makes a mistake, but overall his dominant performances have seen Huddersfield gain a lot of points. Sad that some of our fans couldn't overlook the occasional screw-up. He's not a relegation defender, that's for sure
    Let it go, mate 
    Why let it go...we are in League 1 and he is in the Championship.  Same with Simon Francis who went on to have a successful career in the Premiership and Championship. There are others our fans have scape goats too. Same result every time.  They go to a better team

    Then after it is a banned subject.  Why ? Wrong almost every time. 

    Now it is Bogle.  Deary me.
    I get Francis and I get Sarr but I would have to draw the line at Bogle playing at a higher level. He's 28 now, scored 5 goals in 34 appearances at that level and no one wanted him this season 'til we stepped in. In 13 appearances for us he has scored a tap in from two yards and fallen over the ball for another.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    wmcf123 said:

     “The centre-back was in poor form all game thereafter, letting players breeze past him with ease and looking generally sloppy on the ball, especially in the first half, where he completed less than two-thirds of his passes.

    As hair enthusiast Matt Shaw of podcast And He Takes That Chance has observed, Sarr has formed a habit of having two good performances followed by an atrocious one, and that the bad ones tend to coincide with Town’s poorer performances as a team. Right on cue, then.”

    The flipside of that, of course, is that most of the time, both he and Huddersfield are good
  • Watched Naby's goal 3 times and the tingle gets stronger with every viewing.

    SO miss away days ! 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    I watched him the other night in  live game.

    A fairly typical performance, fairly calm and assured playing the ball around at the back, the odd probing pass forward. Then a complete rabbit in the headlights moment where instead of just hoofing it he inexplicably decided to play it straight to the onrushing forward which nearly led to a goal. Then later on he makes a lame challenge and ended up hitting his own post.

    Standard Sarr. 
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,595
    edited December 2020
    Off_it said:
    I watched him the other night in  live game.

    A fairly typical performance, fairly calm and assured playing the ball around at the back, the odd probing pass forward. Then a complete rabbit in the headlights moment where instead of just hoofing it he inexplicably decided to play it straight to the onrushing forward which nearly led to a goal. Then later on he makes a lame challenge and ended up hitting his own post.

    Standard Sarr. 
    Sarr was a quality player, and by that I mean he had a stupendous left peg. His issue, like so many who don't quite make it at the Premier/Championship level is the footballing brain side, he just doesn't have that, too often his decision making is poor, some things you just can't teach, you've either got it or you haven't.

    You get other players who have the footballing brain but not quite the ability to back that up. And others who have it all. Jackson was one who absolutely had the footballing brain, decent ability as well just probably not quite enough (and pace) for the premier league.

    Thats why Sarr was either genius or villain. I'll always remember him fondly though, he was good for us overall and i'll remember more good times than bad. And to be fair he always put in the effort in my view. I'd have him back in a heart beat.
  • Great game, I'm in that video too with the lads. 
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  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    Watched 5 mins of the Cov v Hudds game and in that time Sarr hit two brilliant cross field balls to the winger's feet. He didn't need half hour to think about it...just pinged it. 
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Simonsen said:
    Watched 5 mins of the Cov v Hudds game and in that time Sarr hit two brilliant cross field balls to the winger's feet. He didn't need half hour to think about it...just pinged it. 
    Yeah, Naby's a baller.

    It's when he hesitates that he sometimes panics. And then he knows he's got a mistake in him.
    And that's his problem.


  • I'm a big fan of us playing 3 at the back with Naby as the left centre back as it gives him license to go forward with the ball, knowing there is a central CB there to protect him and a wing back who can also drop back to cover. I can forgive him a few defensive howlers when he can make passes like his glorious assist for Taylor's winner at Forest, especially as once Gallagher and Leko went we were really short of creativity

    Imagine a back 3 of Sarr, Famewo and Inniss this season...
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Breaking news.....
    Football fans slating a player in the first half of a football thread or at the ground(in the olden days) but loving the same player in the second half after a goal, assist or block, as long as team have won.

    Football fans deciding that players who were once heroes, weren't all that once they leave !

    Naby was a far better player in the last years of his contact that he was at first.
    Still the odd moment of madness but he left in credit and he seemed a gentle giant.

    Ryan Inniss is a scary beast and TBH is probably more suited to the "take no prisoners" of the mediocre League 1.


    wmcf123 said:
    Leuth said:
    Huddersfield fans have really taken to him. Yes, every few games he makes a mistake, but overall his dominant performances have seen Huddersfield gain a lot of points. Sad that some of our fans couldn't overlook the occasional screw-up. He's not a relegation defender, that's for sure
    Let it go, mate 
    Why let it go...we are in League 1 and he is in the Championship.  Same with Simon Francis who went on to have a successful career in the Premiership and Championship. There are others our fans have scape goats too. Same result every time.  They go to a better team

    Then after it is a banned subject.  Why ? Wrong almost every time. 

    Now it is Bogle.  Deary me.
    I get Francis and I get Sarr but I would have to draw the line at Bogle playing at a higher level. He's 28 now, scored 5 goals in 34 appearances at that level and no one wanted him this season 'til we stepped in. In 13 appearances for us he has scored a tap in from two yards and fallen over the ball for another.
    For the record Bogle has 2 goals, the first was not a tap in and 3 assists. He is top of the assists with 3 and our 3rd top scorer with 2
     He only gets to play half a game so considering  he arrived late and unfit that is a good record.
    Aneke has a few tap ins this year but nobody  is complaining about those.

    It's like some people were taking the piss out of Bogle at Swindon, because "he fell over his own feet" and "somehow luckily" the ball ended up in the net.

    When you watch the highlights again, you see that he actually did very well ....... good movement to go round the keeper, who then body checked Bogle, causing him to stumble - and while falling, actually getting a decisive touch to roll the ball into the empty net.

    If he hadn't scored, it was a clear penalty.

    But of course that's not what the Bogle scapegoaters want to hear. Mind you, less said about his next chance, the better! :smile:




  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    The stumble was the pathetic bit, the finish itself was good. He tapped it with his trailing leg with clear intent to knock it in.

    The goal became more laughable with his awful miss and extremely awful range shots thereafter. He suddenly had the confidence to try some of the shots we've been begging for him to take on.

    I've said a few times now, I would not be looking to offload him any time soon.


  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Took a few more games than I thought, but Hudds cult hero status confirmed 
  • Looks like they threw him upfront for the last few minutes?
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    We should have used him as a striker more often tbh
  • Leuth said:
    We should have used him as a striker more often tbh
    Now here's a difficult one for you - Bogle or Naby up top? And you can't have both playing in coming to that answer!