James Forrest: Homegrown Fraud
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The last time James Forrest scored a goal (domestically) that won us a match was September 14th 2019, nearly a full calendar year.

Against Top 6 teams, James Forrest has 35 goal contributions in 81 games.

James Forrest has scored one goal from open play in Europe in 49 games. The other goal a penalty. 2 goals in 49 games.

James Forrest gets one goal in Europe every 24.5 games
One assist every 8.1 games.

James Forrest’s average pass completion rate in domestic competitions against Top 6 clubs is 52%.

In the last 25 competitive games, James Forrest has scored 4 goals.

0.7 dribbles per game. This is how many dribbles James Forrest averages per game this season. Absolutely pathetic for a winger as ‘decorated’ as Forrest.

And despite all this James Forrest is the seemingly the first name on the teamsheet every week. Absolutely no competition with Shved sent out on loan and Karamoko still developing. Even Frimpong can’t get into the team when we go 3-5-2 even though he is the superior wing-back.

Frimpong managed more in the 10 minutes he came on tonight than Forrest did in the whole time he was on. And that’s exactly the problem, us spending millions of pounds on players and young talent and instead of playing them players like James Forrest are guaranteeed a place in...

the squad pretty much every week. Christie getting a game up front tonight over Klimala and Ajeti who we spent almost £9m on combined. Bolingoli hounded by Celtic fans for dragging Celtic through the mud, and rightly so. We won’t see the same contempt for Leigh Griffiths who...

has made an absolute mockery of the club in the past few weeks and could have been vital tonight. 3 seasons we’ve missed out on Champions League group stages and the near £100m that goes with it. We can’t keep players like Edouard and Ntcham if we continue to ignore issues...

I’ve highlighted about players that can’t seem to do any wrong for some reason. After 10 in a row what are the goals for the club? If we want to compete in Europe we need to address these problems but tonight proves that we have no ambition to solve these problems any time soon.