HarlHM":xry2hoi9 said:
X Isle":xry2hoi9 said:
HarlHM":xry2hoi9 said:
In League Two potentially, but better must be available.
Better is available, but not to us, we're not p1ssing away money we don't have.
We must go for best available, and Jamille might just be that.
If he is I'd be extremely surprised. I didn't rate him as highly as most people on here though - yourself included I assume.
I'd liken signing him to signing Wylde. If we had done it last year, fine, but we're in a better league against cleverer defenders this time round and need more than
decent League Two signings.
There'll be a lot of Premier League and Championship teams eager to give game time to fringe players for minimal wage contribution. The risk is that most of those will be young and unproven, but I'd
much rather that than Jamille Matt. Loans are incredibly effective for sides like us; some of our best players in recent times have been....
I didn't actually rate him that highly as an individual Harl, no.
But he fitted DA's preferred tactics and formation like every other player we have to Google when they first arrive. Unspectacular previous records as they often have, off the radar of most, DA has a habit of finding a square peg for a square hole. Matt was just that.
I'm not going to pretend I am a great fan of his somewhat inflexible formation and tactics, I'm not going to pretend that I think Jamille Matt is a worldly of a forward. But combined, and as a fully paid up member of the sustainability set, I can see a great deal of sense in signing him...subject to fitness etc. , an undoubted question mark.
If a player makes a system work in one place then what he's done, or not done, somewhere else matters very little. I was disappointed with him that he didn't come back last season and chose Blackpool. But he was living up there and it was much closer to home so I can perhaps forgive that perhaps perceived slight to Argyle, especially if in so doing he's learnt the importance of what a specific manager and a specific system can do to benefit him.
So long as another striker, someone in another mold, can also be added I would see Matt as a good acquisition. Right now any injury to Blissett will leave this system without a fulcrum, a vital part of the jigsaw. And like it or lump it that is our system.