Daniel Kanu - season long loan to Walsall (p21)

Scoham said:

sam3110 said:

Good chop back to lose the defender before tucking it away 

0:58 here https://www.skysports.com/football/video/30998/13435090/walsall-4-2-tranmere-rovers-league-two-highlights

Lovely movement and finish

Great finish 

MarcusH26 said:

I assume because he's already played for us and it's a season long loan we can't recall him at all? Which is for the best really. 

Well we can but only to play for us which seems pointless 

Cracking goal by young Daniel. Oozing confidence with that one

ForeverAddickted said:

MarcusH26 said:

I assume because he's already played for us and it's a season long loan we can't recall him at all? Which is for the best really. 

Would have a small amount of sympathy for Walsall if that happened, after last season with losing Nathan Lowe after January.

Nathan Lowe was the exact scenario I was thinking. Would be shit to have to do it, would rather he went for the Golden Boot at that level than come back and bench warm for us. 

ForeverAddickted said:

MarcusH26 said:

I assume because he's already played for us and it's a season long loan we can't recall him at all? Which is for the best really. 

Would have a small amount of sympathy for Walsall if that happened, after last season with losing Nathan Lowe after January.

Let him stay and build his confidence, can only be good for us in the long-term

Daniel was ridiculously prolific against his peers whilst coming through the ranks (like Patrick Casey has been actually), and sometimes it takes a while to be playing against age group peers in first teams.
As always, and as Steve Brown said on our commentary yesterday, the hardest leap of all is youth to first teamer.
However I know it is stating the obvious, but every good player was a youth player initially, I mean good players have to start off somewhere don’t they?
Daniel Kanu is on that path.
I notice with interest that Mason Burstow scored a banger yesterday, and of course our Micha.
It is without a doubt in my mind that nurturing a great academy is both our USP and the way to go if you can’t spend millions on signings. Right now credible players that have come through and are ready for first team action somewhere decent are Mitchell, Maynard Brewer, Asiimwe, Kanu, M’bick, TC, Miles, Fullah and Anderson (who am I forgetting?).
Kanu coming through was a goal machine, and he will be a very good credible goalscorer in the future.

fenaddick said:

Addick Addict said:

I want him to see out the season because I think that it will do him so much good in the way it did Grant at Crawley (but also, selfishly, for the bets I've had on him).

Is there one scenario, though, where he could leave Walsall in January? One where at the turn of the year we are struggling to find the net and/or Godden and another striker is out injured and we feel we need him to become part of our match day squad. He also offers us something a bit different to the others we have on the books. Clarification re the possibility of that happening would be handy. 

Yes it’s possible he comes back here but it’s unlikely. It’s what Walsall fans are concerned about after what happened with Stoke last year

In which case it's still a bit of a head scratcher as it why he remains do under the bookies' radar. Only BetVictor have re-priced their book but they have him now at 25/1 (1/4 odds 1-4). They have Cheek at 3/1.

Cheek's record at that level is there for all to see. However, at the same stage, after Walsall's 9th league games last season Nathan Lowe had 2 goals whereas Cheek had 6 goals. Cheek would probably have been 3/1 again and Lowe probably 50/1 - Cheek finished with 25 goals whereas at the time Lowe left, following Walsall's game on 11th January, he had 15 goals in 22 games with Walsall still having another 22 matches to play. 

There are a couple of advantages that Kanu has over Lowe too. Kanu is a year older and has more experience of playing and scoring goals whereas Lowe had just 2 league goals to his name when he arrived at Walsall last season. 

Weight of money does also have a factor but the fact remains that Kanu is a single goal behind Cheek and is more than 8 times the price. If you had £20 at 3/1 on Cheek and £10 EW at 25/1 on Kanu, you will get almost as good a return for Kanu finishing 4th as you will for Cheek winning it. Betting is all about doing so at the right price and recognising when the traders have it wrong. They don't do it often and will rarely do so on a Premier League market because so much information is out there. The lower you go, the less they know.  I have already been in twice at 50/1 but will wait to see what the others now offer once they've re-opened their books. 

DK shortened to 33/1 on bob's lot

clive said:

https://www.charltonafc.com/news/daniel-kanu-wins-ea-sports-fc-young-player-month-award

Following Daniel winning this he’s been interviewed by NTT20 

NabySarr said:

Interview with Kanu on the NTT20 podcast talking about his award. Comes across really well as you’d expect 

I thought the same in his interview when he joined Walsall, speaks so well for his age.

One of those players I think will make the most of his ability, I imagine he puts in the same effort off the pitch as he does on it.