Divock Origi

[Jennings]

He was just a different option. I don't think he will ever be the player we need in our first eleven.

[Red Shift]

7 hours ago, SilverSong said:

79 appearances but just 3746 minutes. 22 goals. Around 170 mins per goal.

Salah on 7 goals, around 171 minutes per goal. Mane on 6 goals, 192 minutes per goal.

 

Divorigi surely another striking option fir us, especially if we make it out of the CL groups, and have a good FA Cup run.

 

The Divorigi-Shaq Attack might be a blistering occasional combo.

[magicrat]

2 minutes ago, Red Shift said:

Salah on 7 goals, around 171 minutes per goal. Mane on 6 goals, 192 minutes per goal.

 

Divorigi surely another striking option fir us, especially if we make it out of the CL groups, and have a good FA Cup run.

 

The Divorigi-Shaq Attack might be a blistering occasional combo.

 

I would give it couple of games and the knives would be out for them

[Bjornebye]

He scored a scrambled weird fluke of a goal. Ok it was the winner in the Derby but he is still only as good as he was before he was brought on and a lot of people would have been happy to see the back of him. There was an audible groan in the pub when he was coming on and one fella even shouted "Who the fucks that?". I'd love to see him kick on and do well here but i'm not counting my chickens. Same as when Sturbridge scored that belter against Chelsea. I wanted to suck him off but still woke up on the Monday morning knowing we need someone better. 

[Lee909]

He's not being given enough time for me post the injury. Last year obviously him not wanting to sit on the bench in a world Cup year. It didnt work out obviously. Prior to that injury he was on great form. Hearing people say don't write off Solanke he only 21. Well Origi is 23 and at 21 had shown far more than Solanke has. If we let him go on the cheap he will score elsewhere imo. 

I would bet had he gone to Wolves in the summer people would be saying we should have kept him over Sturridge and he could have been useful. 

 

We have little depth up top and he can play wide or cover the front man. Far better than Sturridge, Lallana or anyone else we have. Can't teach pace power

[3 Stacks]

Unfortunately will probably never reach his potential, but at the end of the day he was a 10m punt and he's scored a decent amount of goals considering how little he's actually played for us minutes wise. I think he's dangerous enough to be an option off the bench until his contract runs out or someone takes him, although I doubt we'll be seeing much more of him. 

 

Not a failure by any means and I'll personally look back fondly on his time here when he goes. He really did look like he was becoming a really good player in 15/16. 

[Captain Turdseye]

I was one of, if not the first to be championing Origi over Solanke a while back. A whole host of you blerts lined up to disagree with me. 

 

Apologise, please. 

[TheHowieLama]

The Belgian Benteke

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

The Belgian Benteke

Belgian as in from Belgium? 

[TheHowieLama]

The chance he created at the end for Mane was one of the best of the match -- Coleman done quite well on that

[TheHowieLama]

14 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Belgian as in from Belgium? 

Are you saying he is not???

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Are you saying he is not???

Benteke? Belgium

Origi? Belgium

 

The Belgian Benteke? No idea.

[Aventus]

Even discounting the goal he had a good game, created some chances and hit the post himself. 

 

Deserves a fair crack off the back of that. 

[A_S]

7 hours ago, Aventus said:

Even discounting the goal he had a good game, created some chances and hit the post himself. 

 

Deserves a fair crack off the back of that. 

 

Yep, he got into three good situations in what, 12 minutes? If he's going to be part of any rotating of players in a busy time of year, now is as good a time as any to do it. Strike while the iron is hot and all that. 

[LFC 6 Times]

Cult status for the rest of time for big Divvy.

[RazorBack]

14 hours ago, Lee909 said:

Can't teach pace power

 

You can actually, much easier than technique and/or tactics/game intelligence. Just the thing is it is kind of a late at 23 adn being a pro. Time is very limited here. But in youth, for sure you can..

[an tha]

Looks like Mane is fucked for tomorrow.

 

Step up big Divvy!!

[ZonkoVille77]

1 hour ago, an tha said:

Looks like Mane is fucked for tomorrow.

 

Step up big Divvy!!

 

Mané has been our only decent attacking player in the last few months. That's a loss.

[TheBitch]

Can we all agree that he's a man for the last 10 minutes and not a man to start a game, even against Burnley. 

[Grinch]

Ten minutes longer than Sturridge should be getting

[Paulie Dangerously]

Welcome back to the party lad. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Was hugely frustrating to begin with and was very lazy in the defending aspect of his wide role early on. Grew into the game and made a real contribution as the game got stretched more and more. I've always liked him but still not sure if his style of play suits our game. Would have been a better early sub than Sturridge on sunday too.

[Barnesey]

Unlike most of our squad, he has got a goal in him

[Paulie Dangerously]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Was hugely frustrating to begin with and was very lazy in the defending aspect of his wide role early on. Grew into the game and made a real contribution as the game got stretched more and more. I've always liked him but still not sure if his style of play suits our game. Would have been a better early sub than Sturridge on sunday too.

Agree he grew into the game. I would start him on Sunday. He loves a goal against the bloos

[A_S]

Is he worth keeping around beyond this season? He's got a goal per 101 minutes this season, which is good going. Even his 3 goals from 9 appearances in total is very solid for a guy making sub appearances twice as often as he starts. 

 

Aside from the goals scored, his performances in the Everton and Watford games were pretty decent (I didn't see the Wolves cup game, so can't comment).

 

He's still only 23, has the nice combination of good acceleration (as opposed to 'just' pace) and power, and perhaps most crucially, played in a 3 replacing one of the starters and combined well with them.