Cornelius scores for his country

Andreas Cornelius scored in Denmark's emphatic 4-0 win over Poland in the World Cup qualifiers.
Was Malky right after all?
The fee was inflated, as we're his wages, but he seems a very good player now doesn't he?

Does he?

We needed a striker for the season in the Premiership who could do the business, not someone who might be able to do it many years later.

That's true, but he has proved to be a tidy player.

Think Zohore will go on to be a much better player than Cornelius.

Andreas Cornelius scored in Denmark's emphatic 4-0 win over Poland in the World Cup qualifiers.
Was Malky right after all?
The fee was inflated, as we're his wages, but he seems a very good player now doesn't he?

was Malky right.?
erm by now we would have paid him £9 million in wages. and his value is 3.5 euros.

That's true, but he has proved to be a tidy player.

Really ? He's got a couple of high profile goals recently but does that make him a "tidy player " ? Not by my reckoning and he's certainly not a £10m+ player even now never mind 4 years ago !!!

f*cking useless one of the many reasons why we went down

Unfortunately he joined a circus. He got injured straight away, then when he got fit it in the middle of the malky sacking and the rebrand shit. We missed out on a good one there due to off the field drama.

He is only 18 months older than Kenny !!! Target men don't get going until they are mid 20's....

It was fcuking mental to pay that much, at that time, for a novice..... Incompetence or corruption, we'll never know ?

One million for a 21 year old is a project, eight million needed to be the finished article for a club back in the majors for the first time in generations.

He is only 18 months older than Kenny !!! Target men don't get going until they are mid 20's....

It was fcuking mental to pay that much, at that time, for a novice..... Incompetence or corruption, we'll never know ?

One million for a 21 year old is a project, eight million needed to be the finished article for a club back in the majors for the first time in generations.

Exactly this - put it this way - Teves only went for 10M the same season and for the money we spent on Corneilus we could have signed Parker, Elmohamady, Arnautovic and Jack Hunt (who for me is one of the most underrated full back in the game plus has a hilarious name) and still got change!

Terrible signing for where we were at the time - we needed someone to score the goals to keep us up not someone who was 'one for the future' no matter how much potential - him fulfilling it now some four years later doesn't change the fact we finished rock bottom of the premier league with our our strikers scoring only a quarter of our goals all season.

The fact that Jordan Mutch and Caulker scored 40% of our goals between them that season shows just how desperate we were for a striker that could hit the ground running.

I agree with most of this, but he doesn't get picked for a good Danish side for nothing. I have watched him play and rated him. Ken has obviously got much more to his game.
My point is that some on these boards slay off Malky, but what about Tan's signing of Velikonja.
He turned out to be a pretty average player.

I agree with most of this, but he doesn't get picked for a good Danish side for nothing. I have watched him play and rated him. Ken has obviously got much more to his game.
My point is that some on these boards slay off Malky, but what about Tan's signing of Velikonja.
He turned out to be a pretty average player.

Tans signing velikonja? Malky said he tracked him at Watford

I agree with most of this, but he doesn't get picked for a good Danish side for nothing. I have watched him play and rated him. Ken has obviously got much more to his game.
My point is that some on these boards slay off Malky, but what about Tan's signing of Velikonja.
He turned out to be a pretty average player.

The way I see it is with Malky beyond all the circus crap that went around us that season, I could see the logic of his signings, he essentially was building a spine of a team by investing heavily in a centre half, a centre midfielder and a centre forward.

It was a sensible approach but of those three signings Caulker wasn't bad but certainly wasn't worth what we paid for him and wasn't really that dramatic an improvement on what he had at the time. Medel is possibly one of the best players to have graced a city shirt in my lifetime - but we still paid over the odds for him and when we needed leaders the 'pitbull' went missing, and Cornelius played for probably less than 90 minutes all season.

When you look at it away from the madness that as the crap floating around with him and Tan and the rebrand and everything else ultimately he put his plan in place and it failed, he gambled on a kid to lead the line and he called it wrong. For that alone he had to go.

As for Veronika - he cost us less than €2M euros so it's not a fair comparison.

I think most people would accept that Cornelius was a decent prospect and he is starting to flourish now perhaps but what most people are/were pissed off at is that Malky made him our record signing and in doing so essentially placed our fate in the hands of a lad that in January he then changed tack and described as one for the future (who was earning £45K/week)

I agree with most of this, but he doesn't get picked for a good Danish side for nothing. I have watched him play and rated him. Ken has obviously got much more to his game.
My point is that some on these boards slay off Malky, but what about Tan's signing of Velikonja.
He turned out to be a pretty average player.

the whole thing about Cornelius was not about whether he could play football..it was all to do with value.

he went back to Copenhagen..scored goals,played well, got more caps and has now moved to serie A.
FOR ONLY 1/3 rd of what Malky payed for him.
if that makes any sense to you .well
also..if Velikonja is a Tan signing is Ken also a Tan signing.? because one things for certain Slade didnt pick Ken up having seen him doing keep ups on Scarborough beach.