Current Player Thread Jin Woo Jeon

Was glad to be able to wear the custom 3rd kit the club released with 전 진 우 on the back today. I was mildly worried the season might end without him actually making an appearance in that kit!

Liked what I saw, some good runs and positive attacking play. Could have pulled the trigger a little earlier on one of his chances, but very promising.
 
OX14 said:
Especially when Placheta is better playing on the right wing.
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I feel like Jinwoo might also be better on the right. Based on what we saw before Christmas if Shemmy and Mills are both on the pitch then Shemmy should go left.
 
For me after today the pecking order for wingers is Mills, MPH, Shemmy, Jinwoo, Emakhu, Harris, Romeny, Dembele.
I don't think left or right even matters any more. Can they get up the pitch and hold onto the ball is my defining factor.
 
I thought Shemmy was decent when he came on, a bit more experienced than the Korean lad and keen to get going again. Really it’s not a biggie either way.
 
The Voice Of Reason said:
Why oh why oh why
Is he not being played?
He's looked good when on for his cameos
I expected him to replace Emakhu not Placheta
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He wasn't great during his last appearance and looked a bit weak. I think given he is so new to the Championship, MB is probably putting on more experienced Championship wingers ahead of him after his last appearance. Having said that Emakhu has really not looked great so far and he has Championship experience. Millwall fans stated he is quite inconsistent but is rapid. He hasn't looked that rapid so far so I'm not sure if he is carrying something or if it is just confidence...
 
werthersoriginal said:
I'm more bothered that we've wasted half a season with him rather than a player who could have helped us in our relegation struggle.
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It's yet another odd one.

If he's good enough - play him.
If he's not - why have we signed him?

I'm sure people will cite cultural differences/getting up to speed and all that nonsense, but you only need to look at comparable Korean imports at this level (Bae Jun-ho at Stoke, Eom Ji-sung at Swansea) to see something isn't right.

Similar type of players, similar fees, actually significantly younger (so arguably should have been harder for them) and yet both have been regulars straight from being signed.

Is it too much to expect that when we sign a player for a significant fee, at a mature age, that they can come and impact proceedings in the same season?

Too often at this club it seems to be 'they're nursing a long-term injury' or 'they need time to adjust' or 'they're one for the future' or 'we're managing his minutes'.

And we end up, once again, relying on loans and the old stalwarts.
 
tatabanya said:
he has looked like he has something to offer every time he plays and I can’t really understand why he hasn’t been given more of a chance
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He moves like a player that has played at a good level. I'm actually staggered we've not seen more of him given our lack of quality in the final third. I'd have personally started him weeks ago.

It's easy for me to say that, perhaps there are some obvious reasons we can't see. On the face of it I'd be starting Emakhu, Jin-Woo centrally and Mills behind Lankshear.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
It's yet another odd one.

If he's good enough - play him.
If he's not - why have we signed him?

I'm sure people will cite cultural differences/getting up to speed and all that nonsense, but you only need to look at comparable Korean imports at this level (Bae Jun-ho at Stoke, Eom Ji-sung at Swansea) to see something isn't right.

Similar type of players, similar fees, actually significantly younger (so arguably should have been harder for them) and yet both have been regulars straight from being signed.

Is it too much to expect that when we sign a player for a significant fee, at a mature age, that they can come and impact proceedings in the same season?

Too often at this club it seems to be 'they're nursing a long-term injury' or 'they need time to adjust' or 'they're one for the future' or 'we're managing his minutes'.

And we end up, once again, relying on loans and the old stalwarts.
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Definitely a question I’d put to Bloomfield if I could.

I was actually really excited by this signing. Asian players that have come in to the championship in recent years have been excellent. They have a low centre of gravity and an excellent work ethic which you could see in Jin-Woo’s little spells. But what opportunity did he really have to push out MPH or Mills? None whatsoever. Bloomfield created competition in January and killed it in February.

Bloomfield stuck so rigidly with a particular group of players that he completely snookered himself for answers to the next rot, which is where we are now at the worst time.

That now means Emakhu, Jin-Woo and Prelec, for example, feel like risks in our search for answers because they are untested beyond <10 min spells in dead rubber stages in games. And yet, he’s more willing to stick Brannagan in the 10!
 
Dembele, Romeny, Emakhu, Jin Woo.

What's that? Best part of £6m on wingers or attacking midfielders at this level?

None of which are starting, none of which have contributed a goal or even an assist this season, one is barely making the bench and another is not even registered.

Either they're not good enough, or the management are underutilising them - in which case there is a clear misalignment between recruitment and said management.

Either way it's a really damning indictment of our ability to spend fees on attacking players in order to try and keep us at this level.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
Dembele, Romeny, Emakhu, Jin Woo.

What's that? Best part of £6m on wingers or attacking midfielders at this level?

None of which are starting, none of which have contributed a goal or even an assist this season, one is barely making the bench and another is not even registered.

Either they're not good enough, or the management are underutilising them - in which case there is a clear misalignment between recruitment and said management.

Either way it's a really damning indictment of our ability to spend fees on attacking players in order to try and keep us at this level.
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The first two are rubbish, the second two show a lot of promise… but really need to be given more time to shine.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
Dembele, Romeny, Emakhu, Jin Woo.

What's that? Best part of £6m on wingers or attacking midfielders at this level?

None of which are starting, none of which have contributed a goal or even an assist this season, one is barely making the bench and another is not even registered.

Either they're not good enough, or the management are underutilising them - in which case there is a clear misalignment between recruitment and said management.

Either way it's a really damning indictment of our ability to spend fees on attacking players in order to try and keep us at this level.
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First time to call for heads to roll. When it’s written like this it shows a big problem and a break down at some point during the process and a post mortem is needed if we are serious as a club.
 
Recruitment is certainly an area that has to be addressed over the summer (hopefully at the start of it!). So many players that haven't made any sort of impact at all - and when you are a club with a limited budget compared to many of the other clubs in your division, you need to be really clever about spending what you have.

I don't know if we actually still have scouts that go out and about to look at players or whether we rely on bought-in reports, videos etc. But I have been fairly aghast at the lack of basic skills and footballing nous shown by many of our players. If players aren't as fit as a butcher's dog, can't take a dead ball kick without consistently hitting the first player, control the ball or pass it reliably then we shouldn't even be looking at them. I suspect that bought in reports or carefully edited videos may not give the whole picture.
 
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