QuoteAZ beaten yesterday. Troy played the full game, but seems to have had a quiet enough game. Perhaps saving it for Thursday v Spurs
Into the Dutch cup final now after beating Heracles in a penalty shootout in which he missed his. They’ll face Go Ahead Eagles in the final, who pulled off an upset yesterday by knocking out PSV in the other semi
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AZ beaten yesterday. Troy played the full game, but seems to have had a quiet enough game. Perhaps saving it for Thursday v Spurs
He was good against Spurs today. Missed his big chance 1v1 which he'll be gutted with but his all round play was impressive. I'm sure they were a few spurs fans would have been thinking that they could have done with him as an option this season with all of their injuries.
Would still make Spurs 80-20 favourites to go through in the tie though.
I thought he done well. He is a good link up player. I reckon he done enough to start alongside Ferguson against Bulgaria; thats if he even makes the squad.
Was very heartened by his performance last night. A lot of the talk pre match regarding attack was surrounding which combination of Parrott/Idah/Ferguson/Azaz would play.
Ended up being Parrott and Azaz - the two with the most goal contributions and most regular football for their clubs.
More chat during the week (Irish Independent podcast) speculating that Ferguson could get the start to support him in his quest for minutes and regain of form. HH took a more pragmatic approach and this proved sensible.
Parrott looked very sharp overall. I think Azaz was good in support. Manning and Johnston did fine but in more "water carrying" type roles and not necessarily creating a pile of chances for Parrott. Parrott's movement and link up was good. His assist for Azaz's goal was splendid really. Quality that everyone knows that he has in his locker so not particularly surprising to anyone. Giving assurances on his suitability for the centre forwad role all around is the bigger thing for him and playing games and developing as a player is bringing him on in that regard.
Assume he will start Sunday and I'm keen to see how he does with a couple of chances which will surely fall to him at home.
I hope he does start on Sunday, has found it very tough to make the step up from underage star to senior international, but I think he's finally cracking it, deserves to be the main man right now, and hopefully he grows with that responsibility.
Still not convinced that he's an out and out 9 to play against better teams, but he definitely has a big role to play for us, either as a support forward or an impact sub.
He's starting to remind me of Tom Rogic.
He's not v fast which makes the traditional 9 job trickyOriginally Posted by Eirambler
But Robbie wasn't fast either tbf
I thought Troy looked like the best footballer on the pitch last night. I do think he can play the 9, but I thought he would have been better in the Manning position yesterday getting on the ball and making space for the CF. Azaz and Parrott in front of the midfield could open up a lot of defenses
Its really not that complicated!!!
A goal and an assist for him so far away against Nijmegen. Ends a run of six domestic games with a goal or an assist. Seems the international window might have done him good
18 for the season now
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Will he attract interest elsewhere in the summer? Surely clubs in Germany and Italy are looking at him and thinking they'll double or triple AZ's outlay on him?
He could do. He has had two years in the Eredivisie now and impressed in both seasons, there will definitely be teams keeping an eye on him. At the same time he has only spent one of those seasons at AZ so they might want to get another year from him before they sell. He'd still only be 24 if he moved next summer.
From interviews with him it sounds like he's in no rush to go back to England, he has probably worked out that the slower pace and more technical style on the continent suits him better. Will be interesting to see if someone will be willing to pay €10-€15m to sign him, I think he's a player that could go well in Germany or France.
Sporting will be looking for a replacement for Goykeres. They could do worse
Its really not that complicated!!!
Are you Troy's agent ?
You might want to work on the selling spiel if you are ! ( wink )
Scored again
He's been brilliant this season. It takes real character after a few terrible seasons on loan in the championship. To be on track to finish in the top three goal scorers in the Dutch league
( ahead of anyone from PSV or Ajax)
Another goal last night. Thats 19 so far. Brilliant to see him doing so well. Second highest scorer now in the Dutch league. It will be interesting to see if another continental club come looking for him although he seems content to stay where he is at the moment.
it may not be up to him if one of the bigger clubs come in. AZ paid e8m, i guess if they doubled their outlay that would tempt them, especially if they don't make europe this season. as it stands i'd like to see him stay another year - he's learning and improving and is guaranteed minutes, along with scoring goals.
Just looking at AZ's striker sales in recent transfer windows, Pavlidis went to Benfica for 18m last summer after scoring 33 goals in the 2023/24 season and Boadu went to Monaco for 17m in August 2021 after scoring 15 goals in 2020/21
Troy is currently on 17 goals, they could easily ask for what they got for Boadu, and get a 13m (minimum) return on the 4m they spent on him last summer
Parrott's on 19 now after his goal last night
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