George Puscas leaving?

[Jackson Corner]

The worst player I have seen with his back to goal. Being striker isn’t just goals it’s holding the ball bringing others in to the game, like Trevor senior and Dave Kitson we’re so good at. Every time we played the ball up to him he would lose it, his first touch was so poor.

[Franchise FC]

The worst player I have seen with his back to goal. Being striker isn’t just goals it’s holding the ball bringing others in to the game, like Trevor senior and Dave Kitson we’re so good at. Every time we played the ball up to him he would lose it, his first touch was so poor.

I was with you right up to the Trevor Senior bit
Jimmy Quinn I’d have given you, but Trevor, brilliant goalscorer that he was, wasn’t the hold the ball up type

[Brogue]

gone

[Royal_jimmy]

Took long enough for the club to announce it

[RG30]

Not sure why they felt the need to tell us the transfer will be paid in installments - every transfer I'd have thought is structured this way.

[Stranded]

Not sure why they felt the need to tell us the transfer will be paid in installments - every transfer I'd have thought is structured this way.

Rules in L1 define that when a transfer is paid it can be included in the turnover calcs for that year. In the Champ, we could have put €4m in to this years FFP but if it is paid across 3 years, we can only include say €1.5m this year.

So just confirming to people, hey, we don't suddenly have €4m we can spend.

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Not sure why they felt the need to tell us the transfer will be paid in installments - every transfer I'd have thought is structured this way.

Rules in L1 define that when a transfer is paid it can be included in the turnover calcs for that year. In the Champ, we could have put €4m in to this years FFP but if it is paid across 3 years, we can only include say €1.5m this year.

So just confirming to people, hey, we don't suddenly have €4m we can spend.

Will we also not be paying off the "last year" of his contract in the accounting books? So he had 1 year left to run on his deal where we originally paid £7.5m (or whatever the figure was) we still have £1.5m to come off our accounting figures for the next 12 months?

So if it is the case where we can only include £1.5m (or Euro's, whatever the currency is) into this year's figures, from an FFP perspective, we will have "broke even" for this year? But as of next year, that will go down as £1.5m (or Euro's) profit?

[JedMaxwell]

I still think we missed a trick with Puscas. The flashes of his talent we saw were enough to show there was a good player in there, but we never played enough to his strengths to get the best out of him. Hope he does well back in Italy.

Always thought it was iroinic that the last game he played for us (I am pretty sure) was at home against Huddersfield when he was up top with Joao. He scored, got an assist and played really well - he looked like a new signing. Then he went out on loan the next day and we never saw him play for us again.

[URZZZZ]

I still think we missed a trick with Puscas. The flashes of his talent we saw were enough to show there was a good player in there, but we never played enough to his strengths to get the best out of him. Hope he does well back in Italy.

Always thought it was iroinic that the last game he played for us (I am pretty sure) was at home against Huddersfield when he was up top with Joao. He scored, got an assist and played really well - he looked like a new signing. Then he went out on loan the next day and we never saw him play for us again.

Not quite true, played the week after at QPR (subsequently subbed at half time whilst 3-0 down)

Just don’t think he was good enough. Think that was evident after his first few months. He had a stronger couple of months each side of lockdown but all in all didn’t have the touch, intelligence, pace, movement, strength or clinical nature to stand out. You mention that we “never played to his strengths”, and to some extent, it may be true but in all honesty, it’s a struggle to list anything he was particularly good at - aside from perhaps a good penalty taker

It wasn’t all his fault but he was a waste of time, money and resources

[From Despair To Where?]

Bad signing rather than a bad player.

Pretty sure we were linked to him when Stam was here.

[JedMaxwell]

I still think we missed a trick with Puscas. The flashes of his talent we saw were enough to show there was a good player in there, but we never played enough to his strengths to get the best out of him. Hope he does well back in Italy.

Always thought it was iroinic that the last game he played for us (I am pretty sure) was at home against Huddersfield when he was up top with Joao. He scored, got an assist and played really well - he looked like a new signing. Then he went out on loan the next day and we never saw him play for us again.

Not quite true, played the week after at QPR (subsequently subbed at half time whilst 3-0 down)

Just don’t think he was good enough. Think that was evident after his first few months. He had a stronger couple of months each side of lockdown but all in all didn’t have the touch, intelligence, pace, movement, strength or clinical nature to stand out. You mention that we “never played to his strengths”, and to some extent, it may be true but in all honesty, it’s a struggle to list anything he was particularly good at - aside from perhaps a good penalty taker

It wasn’t all his fault but he was a waste of time, money and resources

Ah, got my dates mixed up. Last time I saw him play was the game I mentioned in that case.

I do think his movement was quite clever, but in a system where you're the only striker and have very little support coming from wide or midfield you need to be a different type of player to Puscas. You're right - he didn't have the pace or touch to really be a lone number 9, but I think his combination play in tight spaces was something we never got the best of.

There was just never a system which suited him very well and in the end moving on is the best for him and, crucially, the club.