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Post by crouchpotato1 on Aug 2, 2021 15:21:28 GMT
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Post by flea79 on Aug 2, 2021 15:24:09 GMT
a prolific striker to cure our goal scoring issues is what we need, so why would we look at him.....
I'm fully prepared to eat my words and eat humble pie as i did with Super Jon all those years ago, im hoping that by being underwhelmed and maybe even disappointed the lad will surprise me!
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Post by jwhpotter on Aug 2, 2021 15:24:38 GMT
4 goals in 29 games last season - sounds like the perfect striker for Stoke 🤦🏻♂️
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:25:50 GMT
Didn't see that coming.
Wonder what type of fee it is?
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Aug 2, 2021 15:26:30 GMT
Didn't see that coming. Wonder what type of fee it is? He was mentioned yesterday FM in that tweet I put on
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:26:43 GMT
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Post by redstriper on Aug 2, 2021 15:27:11 GMT
left field - i don't think anybody called this one ?
played England u21's so the ability is there... Go Sam!
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Post by liathroid on Aug 2, 2021 15:27:29 GMT
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:27:34 GMT
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Post by werrington on Aug 2, 2021 15:28:15 GMT
a prolific striker to cure our goal scoring issues is what we need, so why would we look at him..... I'm fully prepared to eat my words and eat humble pie as i did with Super Jon all those years ago, im hoping that by being underwhelmed and maybe even disappointed the lad will surprise me! Where do we sign one of those from? If any striker is “prolific” how do you suspect we sign him as the queue will be huge and how could we afford him? The real world is out there if you look
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Post by jezzascfc on Aug 2, 2021 15:29:38 GMT
Didn't see that coming. Wonder what type of fee it is? You'd hope no more than 1.5m. although of course it will be "undisclosed". Not prolific, by any stretch, but still young and a tall lad. I always prefer permanent deals so we can play and develop our own players rather than another club's players. MON and Aldridge must see something in him that we can work with. Let's give him a chance, presumably from the bench to start with as he is eased in.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Aug 2, 2021 15:29:42 GMT
Fee will be interesting.
In fairness Bournemouth do have a dearth of strikers.
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Post by GeneralFaye on Aug 2, 2021 15:30:23 GMT
I've seen him a few times off the bench for Bournemouth and he impressed me more than Keinan Davis did.. thought he had potential.
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Post by ibby on Aug 2, 2021 15:30:42 GMT
Good player
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:30:58 GMT
In the England u21 squad as recently as last autumn
Is that 3 recent u21 internationals we've got now?
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Aug 2, 2021 15:31:07 GMT
a prolific striker to cure our goal scoring issues is what we need, so why would we look at him..... I'm fully prepared to eat my words and eat humble pie as i did with Super Jon all those years ago, im hoping that by being underwhelmed and maybe even disappointed the lad will surprise me! Where do we sign one of those from? If any striker is “prolific” how do you suspect we sign him as the queue will be huge and how could we afford him? The real world is out there if you look You’re wasting your time mate,as per usual fans will make their mind up that he’s shit because they no nothing about him🙄When I’ve seen Surridge play for Swansea and Bournemouth he’s looked quick,lively and a threat for opposing defenders but they know best
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Post by everyoneneedsawhelan on Aug 2, 2021 15:32:01 GMT
No one saw that one coming to be fair. Can’t say I personally know much, if anything, about his style of play.
Has caps for England u21 which is a good sign. Tall lad as well so fits the mould of striker that MON wants.
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Post by etebojan on Aug 2, 2021 15:32:31 GMT
does anyone know anything about him, looks quite tall, is he quick?
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:32:50 GMT
“He just used to score loads of goals for Bournemouth, didn’t he? That’s it, really.”
In many ways, that single quote sums up Sam Surridge the goalscorer as much as it does the man he’s discussing. But more on that later.
Bournemouth fans are yet to truly see what Surridge is all about, although his goal in the midweek Carabao Cup defeat at Manchester City offered a glimpse of his raw ability to find the net.
Surridge, though, wants to be seen now. He wants to score goals now. And he plans on doing both over the course of this most bizarre of seasons.
“I’m here to play games and score goals,” he says. “That’s why I want to be here. I’m not here to be a squad player – I want to be starting games and I’ll keep pushing to do that.”
Point made.
As backstories go, Surridge’s is one of family-related fate as much as it is hard work and that firm decision-making that defies (and defined) his tender years.
Born in Slough, his family moved to Ferndown, eight miles north of Bournemouth, when he was seven or eight.
“You don’t really get affected by moves at that age, I don’t think,” he adds. “I don’t even remember living in Slough, really, and my parents wanted to move to a nicer area. Bournemouth is definitely that and I absolutely consider myself a Bournemouth boy.”
Football is in the Surridge blood and it was his father Phil, a personal trainer, who encouraged and backed his son when he joined the Bournemouth academy as a kid with dreams.
But chasing dreams is one thing, happiness is another.
Surridge’s happy place wasn’t in the Bournemouth academy – it was on the rutted pitches of Bournemouth Sports Club, close to the town’s airport.
“I was in the Bournemouth academy when I was really young but I ended up leaving when they were in League Two,” he admits in a chat with The Athletic after training. “The academy wasn’t as good as it is now and there were a few things that weren’t working for me.
“We weren’t allowed to play in any tournaments and when you’re younger that’s a big thing. You want to play in those kinds of games. So, I used to go and play for Sunday League teams in tournaments on the sly, but always got found out and got a bit of a telling-off from the coaches at Bournemouth.
“But I needed to do it because it made me happier playing with my mates in proper games like that. I wasn’t supposed to be doing it, but I just couldn’t help myself. I was still young and I wasn’t really enjoying being part of the academy at that time. It was nowhere near where it is now and football needs to be about enjoyment, doesn’t it?
“So I left the academy and I went to play with my mates in Sunday League. That helped me really start to enjoy the game again.”
Despite that youthful disregard for the rules at age 10, there’s an old head on Surridge’s 22-year-old shoulders. His answers are thoughtful, yet concise. Why use two words when one will do? Or take two touches when you can take one, turn and fire the ball into the back of the net, as he did at the Etihad on Thursday night.
The simplicity of that strike was reminiscent of Brett Pitman, the Channel Islander who scored 102 goals for Bournemouth during two spells between 2005 and 2015, playing his part in propelling them from near extinction to the Premier League inside seven years.
It’s Pitman that Surridge is talking about at the top of this piece and the similarities between their mindsets are stark. Pitman is still doing it for Swindon Town at almost 33 and the same dogged, single-minded approach to scoring goals exists in Surridge.
Surridge could have chosen any of Bournemouth’s post-millennium homegrown production line of strikers to admire – Sam Vokes, Josh McQuoid, Danny Ings. But it was Pitman’s intuitive, natural instinct for a goal that caught his eye.
“Brett Pitman was the player I really admired,” says Surridge. “I remember Danny Ings coming through the development side and playing for the first team when he was still really young, but Brett Pitman was the one I really used to watch and learn from.”
Surridge looked on as a Dean Court ball boy as Pitman toiled in the lower leagues and then the Championship for Bournemouth.
Reconnected with the essence of football, Surridge returned to a very different Bournemouth youth set-up as a 14-year-old in 2012. Backed by owner Maxim Demin’s money and with Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall having returned from a brief spell at Burnley, Bournemouth’s days of skirting around the Leagues One and Two relegation trap doors were over.
Howe and Tindall knew they had a good one on their hands in Surridge. They also knew his positive, forward-thinking mindset was backed up by the kind of confidence that’s on the right side of that fine line between bravery and bravado.
“I went to Weymouth on a youth loan and I was still playing for Bournemouth Under-18s at that point,” says Surridge. “Going out on loan to Poole Town was where I really took on men’s football for the first time and I learned a hell of a lot.
“It was in the Conference South, so a really good level for a young lad, and I learned how to use my body more effectively. I was coming up against players who were much stronger than me and far quicker than I was at the time, too, so I learned how to use my body to keep them away from me and hold the ball up better.
“A lot of younger guys struggle when they go into men’s football for the first time, not because they’re always weaker than the people they’re coming up against, but because they don’t have the know-how. Playing for Poole gave me that know-how and so much more.”
A loan move to League Two side Yeovil Town was next for Surridge, but it was moving north to the same division’s Oldham Athletic in 2018 that added some mental toughness to the physicality he had developed in non-league with Poole.
“I scored a lot of goals at Poole and at Yeovil, but there was a hell of a lot I didn’t enjoy too,” Surridge says with a laugh. “That’s what you have to go through, though, and once you get through being kicked every week, like I did, there’s nothing you can’t deal with when you start playing professionally.
“Going up to Oldham was a huge turning point for me, though. It really toughened me up, although moving away from home really didn’t really faze me at all. I really liked the idea of getting away and trying something new, and that’s what I got with Oldham. I was living in Manchester, so I wasn’t stuck in the middle of nowhere, and I met some really good people, too. I enjoyed it up there and I think that’s why I did well. I loved the surroundings and the people.”
Surridge, Oldham (Photo: Marc Atkins/Getty Images) Surridge scored 12 goals in 20 appearances during his five months with Oldham, before being rewarded with his Premier League debut in a heavy defeat at Arsenal in February of last year.
“I didn’t have any family at Arsenal when I made my debut,” he laughs. “I’d been on the bench so many times before that and not got on that they didn’t bother coming, because they didn’t think I was going to play.
“Neither did I, to be fair!
“I was always ready, of course, and luckily I got on. The result wasn’t the best, but I think in a way that made me less nervous because I had nothing to lose when we were already 5-1 down. I was just happy to get out there because it was a culmination of the hard work I’d put in on my loans and I’d been waiting a long time for it to happen.”
Surridge, though, would have to wait another year for his next top-flight appearance, and go through another loan spell, this time to Swansea in the Championship, where he found the net seven times in 23 appearances.
Called back to Dorset in January of this year, however, Surridge scored his first Bournemouth goal in a 2-1 loss to Arsenal in the FA Cup, also featuring from the bench in three of the club’s ultimately ill-fated Premier League restart games.
His equalising “goal” against Southampton in the penultimate game of the season was ruled out by VAR due to Callum Wilson being offside — a hugely controversial moment and one that, ultimately, ended Bournemouth’s five-year Premier League stay.
Again, Surridge’s answer is clear and succinct.
“Scoring for my hometown club to potentially keep them in the Premier League is a big thing, isn’t it? But I’ve moved on, forgotten about it and I’ll take the next opportunity when it arrives.”
Point made again.
It sounds ridiculous to say it given Surridge is 22, but this year feels like a make-or-break season for him after more than 100 appearances out on loan and only 11 for his parent club.
“Yeah, it’s weird because I’ve played a massive amount of games from when I was younger and through my loans at Poole, Yeovil, Oldham and Swansea, but I haven’t played that many for Bournemouth,” he says.
“I’m not a young lad any more. I certainly don’t class myself as one. People will call me a ‘youngster’ because I haven’t played too much for Bournemouth. But I’ve gained a lot of experience and scored a lot of goals away from the club, so it’s now a case of me bringing that to Bournemouth when I get the opportunity.
“Whenever I get the opportunity, I just need to take it. And I plan on doing just that.”
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Post by DC1863 on Aug 2, 2021 15:33:34 GMT
Becomes a very good player in the last few editions of FM 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Post by GeneralFaye on Aug 2, 2021 15:33:37 GMT
does anyone know anything about him, looks quite tall, is he quick? Mobile.
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Post by Fred Merger on Aug 2, 2021 15:33:55 GMT
Just short of 6 foot 3 and only 23 years of age. Fits with MONs younger age profile and will be able to share the load with Fletcher. Sounds ok to me if fee is reasonable.😎
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Post by apb1 on Aug 2, 2021 15:34:34 GMT
a prolific striker to cure our goal scoring issues is what we need, so why would we look at him..... I'm fully prepared to eat my words and eat humble pie as i did with Super Jon all those years ago, im hoping that by being underwhelmed and maybe even disappointed the lad will surprise me! He's made about 138 appearances but averaged 48 minutes per appearance. In that time he's got 36 goals. 186 minutes per goal - or a goal every couple of games. Glass full now?
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 2, 2021 15:39:12 GMT
One of them whose name you see and pay no attention to because they seem so beige.
Very on brand in that respect.
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Post by neddy on Aug 2, 2021 15:39:53 GMT
Wonder why Bournemouth would let him go? They can’t rate him that highly?
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:39:56 GMT
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Post by warringtonstokie on Aug 2, 2021 15:40:23 GMT
£5.5million.
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Post by Gods on Aug 2, 2021 15:40:44 GMT
I must admit I've never heard of him.
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2021 15:40:58 GMT
5.5m?
EXCUSE ME?
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 2, 2021 15:41:38 GMT
5.5m
😂😂😂😂fuck me.
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