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Gassan Ahadme - Aug 2025 gone on a season long loan to Stevenage

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  • balham red
    balham red Posts: 1,281
    wmcf123 said:
    1 in 6.  Hopefully number 2 follows soon and we keep winning .  And that a fully fit Leaburn takes his place soon .  
    Really don't think Leaburn is being earmarked for Ahadme's role. Despite his size he doesn't really play like a target man. I think its more likely they'd play together, and frankly I think Leaburn would be the best partner for him out of all our strikers.

    I'm not keen on Campbell being our first choice striker at all. Surely it should be Godden for now.
  • wmcf123 said:
    1 in 6.  Hopefully number 2 follows soon and we keep winning .  And that a fully fit Leaburn takes his place soon .  
    Really don't think Leaburn is being earmarked for Ahadme's role. Despite his size he doesn't really play like a target man. I think its more likely they'd play together, and frankly I think Leaburn would be the best partner for him out of all our strikers.

    I'm not keen on Campbell being our first choice striker at all. Surely it should be Godden for now.
    TC has been brilliant the last few games, his pace scares defenders and his pressing causes mistakes…he hasn’t got the goal his performances have deserved imo 
  • wmcf123 said:
    1 in 6.  Hopefully number 2 follows soon and we keep winning .  And that a fully fit Leaburn takes his place soon .  
    Really don't think Leaburn is being earmarked for Ahadme's role. Despite his size he doesn't really play like a target man. I think its more likely they'd play together, and frankly I think Leaburn would be the best partner for him out of all our strikers.

    I'm not keen on Campbell being our first choice striker at all. Surely it should be Godden for now.
    TC has been brilliant the last few games, his pace scares defenders and his pressing causes mistakes…he hasn’t got the goal his performances have deserved imo 
    TC is a useful player definitely but he’s a winger. He just doesn’t look like scoring, he doesn’t take up the positions doesn’t have the instinct or the urgency/ confidence to be trying to get quick shots off at any opportunity. 

    The points he looks dangerous for us are in the one one situations by the byline where he can potentially beat someone and flash something across the box. He doesn’t look like scoring and when he’s playing with ahadme who needs to handball it in from the goal line to get on target… we need some goal threats. 
  • balham red
    balham red Posts: 1,281
    wmcf123 said:
    1 in 6.  Hopefully number 2 follows soon and we keep winning .  And that a fully fit Leaburn takes his place soon .  
    Really don't think Leaburn is being earmarked for Ahadme's role. Despite his size he doesn't really play like a target man. I think its more likely they'd play together, and frankly I think Leaburn would be the best partner for him out of all our strikers.

    I'm not keen on Campbell being our first choice striker at all. Surely it should be Godden for now.
    TC has been brilliant the last few games, his pace scares defenders and his pressing causes mistakes…he hasn’t got the goal his performances have deserved imo 
    TC is a useful player definitely but he’s a winger. He just doesn’t look like scoring, he doesn’t take up the positions doesn’t have the instinct or the urgency/ confidence to be trying to get quick shots off at any opportunity. 

    The points he looks dangerous for us are in the one one situations by the byline where he can potentially beat someone and flash something across the box. He doesn’t look like scoring and when he’s playing with ahadme who needs to handball it in from the goal line to get on target… we need some goal threats. 
    That's right, it's not really working as a combo, and we need at least 1 striker who is going to score alot. Neither will.

    But in fairness, we need to change our pattern of play to give either of them workable service. Either have 1 of the CM higher up to support, or stop pumping it up front before we can get more players up the pitch. Hoofing it up to 2 outnumbered strikers isn't working.
  • fenaddick said:
    Great to see from the pair of them... Would Jones' effort have gone in without intervention?

    Or would it have been just about cleared by a Shrews player on the line?
  • I think it was probably just about dropping inside the post but it would’ve been dreadful play by Ahadme if he’d left it and it didn’t in. He was absolutely in the right to make sure we scored. 
  • fenaddick said:
    Great to see from the pair of them... Would Jones' effort have gone in without intervention?

    Or would it have been just about cleared by a Shrews player on the line?
    I think the defender  would have cleared it 
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,406
    edited September 2024
    It's too hard to tell from a single angle, but I feel the defender would have cleared it.  

    During the game it was being made out as if Ahadme effectively nicked somebody else's goal. He needed to ensure it hit the net.

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    A goal from a set piece is a refreshing happenstance.
    I predict we will score at least one this season following an Edwards long throw.
    I still think Coventry can improve his dead ball kicks, but yesterday signs of improvement were there.
    Ahadme is quite handy in those situations.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,154
    As one of his biggest critics I though he had his best game so far. He was effective at both ends of the pitch. 

    Let's hope he can push on and prove what we paid for him. 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,827
    wmcf123 said:
    1 in 6.  Hopefully number 2 follows soon and we keep winning .  And that a fully fit Leaburn takes his place soon .  
    Really don't think Leaburn is being earmarked for Ahadme's role. Despite his size he doesn't really play like a target man. I think its more likely they'd play together, and frankly I think Leaburn would be the best partner for him out of all our strikers.

    I'm not keen on Campbell being our first choice striker at all. Surely it should be Godden for now.
    Leaburn played up front on his own for virtually a whole season 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,015
    I've watched our goal a number of times and whilst it's not clear, it looks to me like the ball goes in the net off Ahadme's bicep, so would have been disallowed if spotted.
    #just an observation and if it did so much the better.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,380
    I've watched our goal a number of times and whilst it's not clear, it looks to me like the ball goes in the net off Ahadme's bicep, so would have been disallowed if spotted.
    #just an observation and if it did so much the better.
    I came on this thread to say exactly the same thing. Off his arm, i reckon. 
  • Fraid the jury have now reached their decision, the geezer is absolute toilet. Should be looking to shift him in Jan as a priority. 
  • ElliotCAFC
    ElliotCAFC Posts: 2,553
    Useless. Not even good at his supposed strengths, even worse in every other department. 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,736
    Chuks shows you what a big front man should do. For all Gas' hard work, he's largely ineffective
  • Showed more technique with the own-goal than the goal he actually has scored for us. 

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  • Lloyd Jones today showed that he is a better centre forward than this guy. No question. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,386
    Actually had some decent moments of hold up play in the first half which would have been noticed had we won. Own goal is always going to stand out though.

    Can’t wait until Leaburn’s fit to start and Ahadme has to really step up to get that spot.
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    Good that he's kicked on from that all important first goal.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,356
    Christ. You say give them time but this is competitive sport. You have to take your chances. He's started how many games? He's been absolutely woeful. Even Lloyd Jones up front in the last 15 did more than him.
  • I really do hope that Leaburn matches the expectations of the fans, and of course doesnt have a recurrence of his injury (e.g. hasn't turned into Aneke mk2) - Just feel that there is a huge weight of pressure being put on Miles' shoulders given his First Team experience, and age.

    Reminds me of when I used to say that we'd be a different beast back in 2019-20 the moment we had Inniss and Famewo back from injury... Players are always better when they're not playing.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,786
    edited September 2024
    He wasn’t the problem today. Got zero help from Kanu and A. Campbell who were meant to be his supporting cast in the first half.

    There wasn’t a massive amount of difference between how we controlled the start of the second half when Ahadme was up front compared to how we finished the second half with Aneke up front.

    Obviously we looked dangerous when Blackpool shut up shop and camped in their 18 yard box lol
  • He clearly isn't a large target man. If that is the job we bought him to do we should look at the recruitment which has failed again. Aimless long ball punts to him are illogical but we continue to persist.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,549
    He was ok in the first half, offered more than Kanu. It is obvious that we've overspent on him though, not his fault that but people are gonna hold him to expectations that i doubt he will reach 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,470
    edited September 2024
    He's not the problem with our performances at all. He's just not a very good player either.

    Both can be true. 
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    I really do hope that Leaburn matches the expectations of the fans, and of course doesnt have a recurrence of his injury (e.g. hasn't turned into Aneke mk2) - Just feel that there is a huge weight of pressure being put on Miles' shoulders given his First Team experience, and age.

    Reminds me of when I used to say that we'd be a different beast back in 2019-20 the moment we had Inniss and Famewo back from injury... Players are always better when they're not playing.
    Ahadme is older and has more experience so gets given a lot less leeway and deservedly so. If it's another shit season then fans will turn on Leaburn eventually if he's poor 'cause that's the nature of the beast. Ahadme has had enough time and has shown nothing of value other than maybe work rate . Even his goal last week was shit. Is it his fault he was bought to play a role he is clearly no good at? That's a separate arguement.