1. No one said he was rubbish. They were saying his finishing last year for Liverpool was. And it was.
2. He was a poor finisher for Liverpool last year despite some wonder goals.
I don't care if he's banging them in for his country or if he did for his club prior to Liverpool. The discussion was his finishing last year for Liverpool. Which was poor.
I know, I was referring only to his finishing. And no I don't think he was poor. But this goes back to the same argument I've had with you and others. I don't think we had that many good chances, despite what the stats say, and I don't think he was poor at finishing either. I don't believe in coincidences, and everyone being poor at finishing for this club indicates that it wasn't really that Suarez was poor at finishing, but the way we played.
I stand by what I said. He's a good finisher, and I think we'll see that this season.
I also think he's a good finisher. You can see that for previous club and country. I also think he should be better this season. But I think you need to re watch some of the sitters he missed. He had a massive step up in terms of keepers from dutch league to our league (I personally think whilst Spain and Italy have top keepers at top clubs, when comparing the rest of the teams in our league with the rest in theirs, the keeper standard is far superior). Honestly he missed so many GOOD chances. Not just things he created for himself and speculative shots from a distance. In fact it was well reported after nearly every game how he spurned chances (obviously at times he finished well, but over the course of the season he missed absolutely way too many good chances).
Well this is fair point, and I'm not saying he didn't miss chances. I just have a different view on it to most. I agree the popular perception as that he was missing chances.
Thing is with reporting and fans and the view of spurned chances. Case A, Suarez gets one good chance a game, and he scores 50%. Then in all those games where he didn't score and we lost or drew, they will talk about spurned chances and fans will think that too, what if he'd took that chance etc. Fans don't think that when you create loads of chances and win 4-0, it's only when you're struggling, which we were all season. Case B, he gets 2 good chances a game, and still scores 50% of them, suddenly now, he's scoring all the time and the view is that he's not spurning chances. This view is even stronger if we're winning most of the time. But his finishing hasn't changed. He's taking exactly the same number of chances.
I know perhaps this isn't the best explanation of my point, but I feel general perception is really dependent on the overall team results, and not actually on the real performance of the player. People see us struggling to score, they look at who has the most chances, and that's the target. IN reality he was one of our best players last year.
