Just watched Match of the Day, and have seen the travails of Hojlund. On twitter there were the usual “he just needs one to go in and he’ll be away” sort of posts.
But it got me thinking, what examples are there of players that struggled at first, but went on to be really important and effective strikers? Obviously, youth team players that came through the ranks don’t count. Really just big signings at big clubs.
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Henry didn’t score in his first 7 games. Papers had a lot to say, mostly comparing him to Anelka who had moved on, saying we’d made a mistake signing him, etc.
The rest is history.
Berbatov looked useless when he arrived at spurs first few months