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Stanley Aborah

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Apparently we have signed him for the rest of the season. He left Notts County so could sign as a free agent.

He is a midfielder - anyone know any more about him?
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Berkshire Blue wrote:Apparently we have signed him for the rest of the season. He left Notts County so could sign as a free agent.

He is a midfielder - anyone know any more about him?
Attacking midfielder according to wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A ... born_1987)

Not sure I'm too excited about yet another midfielder. Cookie seems to be collecting them. We had Milan Lalkovic who seemed a pretty good attacking midfielder so not sure what this bloke brings to the party that Lalkovic didn't.
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Berkshire Blue wrote:Apparently we have signed him for the rest of the season. He left Notts County so could sign as a free agent.

He is a midfielder - anyone know any more about him?
I have heard that he caused us all sorts sorts of problems at County last season.
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He is only on a three month contract, so won't cost us much. He is clearly a talented player, and could be a useful L1 player if he ever gets his head down and puts the work in, both on and off the pitch. A chance for Cook to see if he has reached that point in his career/life where he is ready to do that (not common, but it does happen). A trial for next season more than anything.

However, he is slightly different to what we have at present. Whilst a natural attacking midfielder, he is more robust and defensive than the players we have operating in those roles at present (Bennett, Roberts, Lowe, Baker, Naismith, Chaplin (and Lalkovic)) are all a bit lightweight. I can see a situation where he plays (probably as a sub in place of Roberts) and we almost play a 4-3-3 formation late in games where we want to defend and play on the break.
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Re: Stanley Aborah

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Pompey Penguin wrote:He is only on a three month contract, so won't cost us much. He is clearly a talented player, and could be a useful L1 player if he ever gets his head down and puts the work in, both on and off the pitch. A chance for Cook to see if he has reached that point in his career/life where he is ready to do that (not common, but it does happen). A trial for next season more than anything.

However, he is slightly different to what we have at present. Whilst a natural attacking midfielder, he is more robust and defensive than the players we have operating in those roles at present (Bennett, Roberts, Lowe, Baker, Naismith, Chaplin (and Lalkovic)) are all a bit lightweight. I can see a situation where he plays (probably as a sub in place of Roberts) and we almost play a 4-3-3 formation late in games where we want to defend and play on the break.
Bloomin heck Penguin.... you could almost make a claim that Cookie has done something good with comments like that.
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Re: Stanley Aborah

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uspompeyfan wrote:
Pompey Penguin wrote:He is only on a three month contract, so won't cost us much. He is clearly a talented player, and could be a useful L1 player if he ever gets his head down and puts the work in, both on and off the pitch. A chance for Cook to see if he has reached that point in his career/life where he is ready to do that (not common, but it does happen). A trial for next season more than anything.

However, he is slightly different to what we have at present. Whilst a natural attacking midfielder, he is more robust and defensive than the players we have operating in those roles at present (Bennett, Roberts, Lowe, Baker, Naismith, Chaplin (and Lalkovic)) are all a bit lightweight. I can see a situation where he plays (probably as a sub in place of Roberts) and we almost play a 4-3-3 formation late in games where we want to defend and play on the break.
Bloomin heck Penguin.... you could almost make a claim that Cookie has done something good with comments like that.
Just the sort of low risk, high (but unlikely) reward speculation that teams take all the time. For example, who but an idiot would sign a washed up player who was once talented but just had an awful season for a poor West Brom side? Thanks Kanu!
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