Tekel Towers » Pavol Safranko

Tek · 08/3/2019 8:55 pm

bowers wrote:
cant agree with you on that TEK. Safranko all round much better than Mikkelson imo.

Fair doos.

All about opinions.

TheShed · 08/3/2019 10:12 pm

I don’t particularly rate Safranko but he’s miles better than Mikkelsen.

bowers · 08/3/2019 10:24 pm

Mikkelson scored 12 goals for us in 42 appearances.
Safranko currently has 9 goals in 25 appearances.

Tek · 08/3/2019 10:35 pm

I wasn't actually saying Mikkelsen was a better player than Šafranko. I was saying that he was capable of on his day scoring better goals than Pav (using the goals i mentioned as examples).

But to be quite honest i don't care how they're scored. A goals a goals a goal. And one from 1 yard out has the same bearing as a 40 yarder in the top corner.

I do stick by my opinion though that neither is really good enough for us moving forward. A lot of the arguements i see about keeping Šafranko are 'he works hard'. That for me should be a pre-requisite.

Another arguement is 'he has no service'. Again Scott McDonald scored 16 last season (which is probably about the amount Pav will finish on i think) and his 2 wingers were Billy King and Paul McMullan, who were both roundly criticised (as was McDonald).

For the record i'm not wholly against keeping Šafranko, as i think at Championship level he has some good qualities.

But if we are Premiership bound i need a bit more convincing that he is a starting No.9 at the next level up.

I hope to be convinced otherwise though (starting tomorrow).

SuperMario · 09/3/2019 1:10 am

Speechless

Tek · 09/3/2019 1:13 am

SuperMario wrote:
Speechless

Quality post.

PatReilly · 09/3/2019 1:13 am

Maybe we've been led to this discussion by the Sun mentioning a fee of £1million when his fee was around a quarter of that when he signed for Aalborg.

But I hope he shows his worth today!

09/3/2019 9:59 am

IMHO he is a much better #9 than his goal tally shows.
If only he had a striking partner with him.

09/3/2019 10:10 am

smedDUm wrote:
IMHO he is a much better #9 than his goal tally shows.
If only he had a striking partner with him.

agree.

He's not a lone striker imo (no Ciftci as it were). Away from the box it's all work rate but little product - if we're going to play him need to get Clark (or McMullan ) up alongside him, but whether or not we have the players elsewhere for that type of formation is open to question.

If we go up im not sure if he has enough quality tbh.

09/3/2019 12:23 pm

scarpia wrote:
smedDUm wrote:
IMHO he is a much better #9 than his goal tally shows.
If only he had a striking partner with him.

agree.

He's not a lone striker imo (no Ciftci as it were). Away from the box it's all work rate but little product - if we're going to play him need to get Clark (or McMullan ) up alongside him, but whether or not we have the players elsewhere for that type of formation is open to question.

If we go up im not sure if he has enough quality tbh.

Ditto, his work rate is wasted on us.
Nicki Clark is a penalty box player, theirs, not ours.

Last edited by smedDUm (09/3/2019 12:26 pm)

lifesanocean · 09/3/2019 12:44 pm

Anyone who saw the St Mirren game would not be dismissing Safranko as a threat. Their back 4 (pish as they were) looked like they didn't know what had hit them.

Tek · 09/3/2019 2:50 pm

Good comments from Pavol here.

Seems a nice, level-headed boy.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/3975139/dundee-united-pavol-safranko-wants-aalborg/

Finn Seemann · 11/3/2019 11:50 am

Have left comment on this guy until I had seen him in the flesh. Aye he works hard, but I don't think he's a player. Sow did more, in terms of end product, in his 15 minutes on the park than Safranko did in the remainder (and that wasn't much).
Wouldn't be spending cash on him, but would take as a free and he'd be a squad player.

Tek · 11/3/2019 11:59 am

Finn Seemann wrote:
Have left comment on this guy until I had seen him in the flesh. Aye he works hard, but I don't think he's a player. Sow did more, in terms of end product, in his 15 minutes on the park than Safranko did in the remainder (and that wasn't much).
Wouldn't be spending cash on him, but would take as a free and he'd be a squad player.

The frustrating thing is the short time Sow was on the park, he and Clark were linking-up well.

I think Clark and Šafranko as a partnership don't work as they're quite similiar types of forward.

Finn Seemann · 11/3/2019 12:12 pm

Tek wrote:
Finn Seemann wrote:
Have left comment on this guy until I had seen him in the flesh. Aye he works hard, but I don't think he's a player. Sow did more, in terms of end product, in his 15 minutes on the park than Safranko did in the remainder (and that wasn't much).
Wouldn't be spending cash on him, but would take as a free and he'd be a squad player.
The frustrating thing is the short time Sow was on the park, he and Clark were linking-up well.

I think Clark and Šafranko as a partnership don't work as they're quite similiar types of forward.

Yip, you could see that Clark and Sow could work together. Most depressing thing was getting cut open twice by two young lads who Gary Caldwell talked through with them their whole time on the park. The one they should have scored 5 mins before the one they actually scored should have been enough warning to us. Robson, who I thought was our best player until that point, should have taken a yellow and stopped the lad who got the cross in.