So what's happened to this guy. When he first came into the team every shot he had ended up with a goal. Now he simply cannot get a game. Today we bring on 37 year old Adam Le Fondre and Vente stays on the bench. Does Monty not fancy him, or play into his style. Is he simply not good enough? Bizarre for a player we spent £700k on.
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17-02-2024 07:22 PM #1
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17-02-2024 07:28 PM #2
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Money he cost aside, probably 3rd choice for playing up on his own.
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17-02-2024 07:29 PM #4
He’ll be away in the summer imo. Hasn’t worked, being played out of position for three months and is now second fiddle to a guy on loan.
I’d love him to start banging them in but I don’t see where it’s coming from."...when Hibs won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
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17-02-2024 07:32 PM #5
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17-02-2024 07:32 PM #6
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Since NM has come in however he has played literally anywhere but in the penalty box. Surely part of the interview process was how do you plan to use the players we have currently especially if we've forked out a heavy amount for him?
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17-02-2024 07:37 PM #7
Bringing Jair on instead of Vente is absurd and worries me yet further about NM. Jair ran about like a headless chicken and showed zero promise of producing anything noteworthy and not for the first time.
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17-02-2024 07:38 PM #8
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Before Johnson got the bullet, he’d had two shots on goal and both had went in. Then he scored with his first three shots on goal under Montgomery when he came in, you can’t keep doing that.
I just don’t think he’s done enough and we’ve looked more of a threat in the last two and a half games with him out the team. He did score plenty goals for his team in Holland but I think it’s more difficult to score in our league than the Dutch second division. And it’s a totally different way of playing.Last edited by B.H.F.C; 17-02-2024 at 07:41 PM.
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17-02-2024 07:40 PM #9
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People wanted to go with three in the midfield, I get why and we look better that way, the problem is when we do that, we only have one up front. If we’re playing one up front, that doesn’t suit Vente either. If he’d come on, I feel pretty confident he wouldn’t have offered very much either.
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17-02-2024 07:43 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If that’s not part of the interview process it’s no wonder we go round in circles."We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
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17-02-2024 07:48 PM #12
I'm pretty sure he described himself as a striker who likes to play off the shoulder of the last defender when he arrived. Whens the last time we scored a goal from someone slipping a pass through a defence? We're not setting up to play to his strengths
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17-02-2024 07:49 PM #13
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Vente on the other hand has quality. He comes looking for the ball a lot and plays most of his stuff outside of the box. Nothing like the way he played in Dutch football and clearly carrying out instructions by Montgomery.
Vente and Jair both encompass up all that is wrong with Montgomery. Failing to play a quality player in his correct position and not getting the best out of him (Vente). Then handing an imposter a Hibs jersey to wear (Jair).
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17-02-2024 07:50 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-02-2024 07:50 PM #15
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I wasn't wrong.
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17-02-2024 07:56 PM #20
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What we've never really done is identify how we can get him to have about 3 shots a game. Miovski averages 2.8 shots a game, Shankland 3.6. Both can miss a chance because they feel as though, on the whole, another chance is coming round the corner to bury and that's proven in their goal tallies this season. Meanwhile Vente is still averaging just the one all season. It must be dire in his mind to be in a situation where he feels he HAS to take the one chance, whatever it may look like, because he isn't getting anything else.
Perhaps his overall play is to blame for the lack of chances as well, but it's beggars belief that you pay this amount of money in our league for a goalscorer and don't create the ideal conditions in which to score goals. It's football 101 to play to your players strengths or sign players that fit your plan on how to play.
Either we signed him based on just his goal scoring record alone, hired a manager with zero regard to how his philosophy would work with him (including other players we've just spent probably north of £1.5m for if you include Youan and Levitt), or we actually did do all our homework on the compatibility of Vente and Montgomery and we've gotten it drastically wrong, again. Either way it points to horrendously bad joined up thinking and decision makers not capable of making the right decisions.
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17-02-2024 07:59 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-02-2024 08:06 PM #22
He’s nowhere near good enough. Myziane and Boyle haven’t exactly struggled to find the net as of late. A complete waste of money.
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17-02-2024 08:07 PM #23
For all Monty may appear to have weaknesses, he does appear to be decisive. Some players he fancies (Levitt, contrary to all available evidence being one) and some he really doesn’t (Vente and Hanlon being amongst those).
These are big calls, upon which he’ll sink or swim. I’m not convinced I’m on the same page as him at all but fair play to him making these decisions. Our football has been abject for long periods this season and the manager wasn’t going to fix it without ruffling feathers or making big calls on either experienced or expensive players.
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17-02-2024 08:08 PM #24
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I just think his confidence is shot to pieces just now. He needs to have a bit time out to regain his mojo.
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17-02-2024 08:09 PM #25
Vente looked like a 20 goal a season striker when he wasn't actually fit. Surely it's down to Monty what's happened since.
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17-02-2024 08:11 PM #26
He hasn’t even looked like getting an attempt on target lately never mind scoring
The ball isn’t falling for him and he also isn’t creating something out of nothing.
Rightly benched and we look better for it
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17-02-2024 08:13 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I do find it curious that he’s not even had a chance off the bench in the last two games. Maybe a wee falling out has happened.
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17-02-2024 08:14 PM #28
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He's played a lot of minutes for us as we have been so short of option up front. A bit of a rest will do him good now we have a few strikers available.
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17-02-2024 08:15 PM #29
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17-02-2024 08:15 PM #30
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Feel sorry for Vente. Hibs have turned a footballer into a headless chicken. He's best to move away, find a club that values and uses him properly (with a functioning midfield) and put this sorry time at Hibs behind him.
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