Complete Hogwash, Celtic are a mid table Championship team, at best, playing teams from league 2/ National league

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If Edouard wants and is given the sole responsibility of scoring goals I am sure he'll produce however given the size of our club and the league it competes in, he will always be asked to do more and I am certain he has no intention of doing so.

If the argument is therefore 'that's not his game/style/how he plays or best operates', so be it, that's fair enough, but he should probably be plying his trade elsewhere.

That'll work nicely at Celtic and the opposition they play however won't cut it in a 'Big League'. If he adapted, sought improvement and stepped up a level he'd be a superstar for us but similarly to Benteke, again, I don't think that's going to happen.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Who was it who said “You’re all entitled to your own ridiculous opinions”?

In terms of facts , Celtic have played English PL teams in Europe 20 times, won 7, lost 7, drawn 6 including their last 2 results in the Champions League against Pep’s Man City where they drew 3-3 at home and 1-1 at the Etihad. Ange’s Celtic of last season would have given most PL teams a run for their money. Unfortunately they replaced him with Brendan Rogers and the current Celtic side would be in the PL relegation tussle for sure.

To try and be fair the position of striker is one of the most difficult to recruit and in my 50 plus years of supporting Palace we’ve had our share of duds.
Langley, Aylott, McCullough, Mahoney, Possee, Easter etc. spring to mind.
We even experimented with a centre half, Coleman, as a striker.
The good ones you could count on one hand - Bright, Wright, Johnson and Murray.
Others have had limited success -Queen, Swindlehurst, Walsh, Bourne and Shipperly.

So on to Edouard.
To my mind he’s not the answer to our striking needs.
There have been spells where he has scored a few goals in batches and some extrapolate this to suggest that he’s a 15 goal a season striker.
Problem is , it never happens and is unlikely to.
How many on here would offer him a new 3 year contract?
In all his time here I don’t think I’ve ever seen him outjump , outmuscle or outrun a defender.
His control of the ball is decent (if not under pressure) and on occasions he’s a calm finisher but this almost feels like damning him with faint praise because of the other shortcomings in his game.

I’ve more or less given up on the idea of a 15-20 goal a season striker for us, at least in the Premier League, and would like us to to have a range of options to score from, e.g from midfield, the flanks, corners and set pieces.
It’s evident that for all their flamboyant play, Arsenal score a lot of goals from corners.

Glasner has brought in a set piece coach amongst his team.

If Mateta can turn his game around then you have to hope that Edouard can do the same.

It will be interesting to see what OG does with him and what he can get from him.

In my opinion he doesn't play with the required intensity to be effective at Premier League level. Everything seems a bit half hearted with him.

If he continues in the way he has then I think Palace should try and sell him in the summer.

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