Gassan Ahadme - Aug 2025 gone on a season long loan to Stevenage

First time seeing him today and thought he'd have a bit more of a presence about him. How much did we pay for him? 

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

Campbell is a rookie front man and drifted way too far from Ahadme to form a strike partnership. 

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

Campbell is a rookie front man and drifted way too far from Ahadme to form a strike partnership. 

Maybe Campbell needs a new partner 

Maybe Campbell needs a loan, or to go back to being brought on late on where his pace can hurt teams. He's not offering enough as a starting striker and I think
It would be good to see Godden and Ahadme start against Bolton. 

wmcf123 said:

Croydon said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

Campbell is a rookie front man and drifted way too far from Ahadme to form a strike partnership. 

Maybe Campbell needs a new partner 

Maybe Campbell needs a loan, or to go back to being brought on late on where his pace can hurt teams. He's not offering enough as a starting striker and I think
It would be good to see Godden and Ahadme start against Bolton. 

Maybe we shouldn’t assume Ahadme starts . 

I think it’s unlikely that he won’t be starting games this season. As big and physical as he is, Leaburn hasn’t looked good as a hold up striker so far so don’t expect him to start of Ahadme when he’s fit

Smithy said:

wmcf123 said:

Croydon said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

Campbell is a rookie front man and drifted way too far from Ahadme to form a strike partnership. 

Maybe Campbell needs a new partner 

Maybe Campbell needs a loan, or to go back to being brought on late on where his pace can hurt teams. He's not offering enough as a starting striker and I think
It would be good to see Godden and Ahadme start against Bolton. 

Maybe we shouldn’t assume Ahadme starts . 

I think it’s unlikely that he won’t be starting games this season. As big and physical as he is, Leaburn hasn’t looked good as a hold up striker so far so don’t expect him to start of Ahadme when he’s fit

Leaburn will most definitely start ahead of Ahadme when fit!

wmcf123 said:

Croydon said:

wmcf123 said:

Croydon said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

Campbell is a rookie front man and drifted way too far from Ahadme to form a strike partnership. 

Maybe Campbell needs a new partner 

Maybe Campbell needs a loan, or to go back to being brought on late on where his pace can hurt teams. He's not offering enough as a starting striker and I think
It would be good to see Godden and Ahadme start against Bolton. 

Maybe we shouldn’t assume Ahadme starts . 

Who's your starting pair then?

Don’t know yet .  But Ahadme doesn’t have that position nailed on .  At a guess , I’d say Leaburn with Godden.  

I meant out of who we have available now tbf. With Leaburn injured and Chuks unable to start, I'd probably go Ahadme and Godden. Would even rather see Kanu and Ahadme based on what we saw of DK last season.  

supaclive said:

Smithy said:

wmcf123 said:

Croydon said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

wmcf123 said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Until he gets a proper strike partner with no disrespect to Tyreece Campbell, that plays closer to him, I suspect he’s going to struggle to make an individual impact. Having said that his work rate and ability to occupy the defenders makes me think that when Godden and then Leaburn start with him he’ll be very effective. 

Maybe it’s not his partner’s fault .. 

Campbell is a rookie front man and drifted way too far from Ahadme to form a strike partnership. 

Maybe Campbell needs a new partner 

Maybe Campbell needs a loan, or to go back to being brought on late on where his pace can hurt teams. He's not offering enough as a starting striker and I think
It would be good to see Godden and Ahadme start against Bolton. 

Maybe we shouldn’t assume Ahadme starts . 

I think it’s unlikely that he won’t be starting games this season. As big and physical as he is, Leaburn hasn’t looked good as a hold up striker so far so don’t expect him to start of Ahadme when he’s fit

Leaburn will most definitely start ahead of Ahadme when fit!

My point is that he’s not a hold up striker like everyone seems to think he is purely because of his height. 

I bet Alfie wishes he could’ve played with him


(ducks for cover) 

The issue for me is that he's a £1 million target man, but hit the ball up to him, and it doesn't stick.

I don't think it requires much more analysis than that. 

He was against Leyton Orient CBs today. Not sure what hope he'll have against Santos next week.

Compare to when Chuks came on. Suddenly those long balls were sticking. 

If we'd got him on a free i'd say decent business, guy works hard and while he might not have a striker's instinct, he gets in defenders faces. But we've paid top dollar for this league and he just doesn't seem worth it.