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Natasha Whittam wrote:wanderlust wrote:
Wrong. The last season Beckford actually played for his club i.e. wasn't sent out on loan he scored 9 goals in 43 games. Last season Ngog scored 8 in 33 games for us.
Ngog is clearly the more prolific goalscorer despite not being played as a striker.
Beckford was the leading scorer in the Championship in 2013.
His PL stats also stack up. He only started 9 games for Everton. 9 goals in 9 starts. So not a bad record overall really.
Ngog has scored 21 goals in 145 games with a goal ratio of a goal every 6.9 games.
Beckford has scored 106 goals in 246 games with a goal ratio of a goal every 2.3 games.
You are an idiot if you're trying to convince me Ngog is a better player. And before you go down the road of "assists", Beckford has just under four times as many as Ngog during the last two seasons.
So what does Ngog actually do. Doesn't score, doesn't create.
Beckford didn't even make the top ten scorers in the Championship last season despite being Huddersfields' main striker:
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Glenn Murray Crystal Palace 30
2 Jordan Rhodes Blackburn Rovers1 29
3 Charlie Austin Burnley 25
4= Matěj Vydra Watford3 22
4= Chris Wood Leicester City 22
6 Troy Deeney Watford4 20
7 Tom Ince Blackpool 18
8 David Nugent Leicester City3 16
9 Luciano Becchio Leeds United 15
10 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake Wolverhampton Wanderers 14
Not sure where you got these dubious stats from but I'm guessing you're including Beckford's early days at Wealdstone and Uxbridge where he was scoring for fun in the amateur leagues at the same time that David was serving his apprenticeship at Paris St Germain?
However the fact is that Beckford is 5 years older than Ngog and whilst David was playing in the premiership, Beckford was playing for lower league clubs against shit opposition. More importantly Beckford has done nothing in the last 3 years - which is not surprising as at 29 he's past his best and probably got as far as he could get on the talent he has.
It's true he's scored more goals, but then you'd expect him to as he plays as a striker more than Ngog who is usually deployed as an attacking midfielder. Since he made his (brief) breakthrough in 2010 when he signed for Everton, Beckford has played 98 league and cup games scoring 25 goals. That's 25 goals in the last 3 seasons. He got 8 of those when he was loaned out to Huddersfield where he played as the front man.
During the same period, Ngog made 110 appearances - mostly as substitute, seldom as a front man and often for the last 15 minutes but still scored 20.
At 24, Ngogs career is ahead of him whilst Beckford's is fading fast. Ngog has shown that he can cope at the top level whereas Beckford failed. And that's because Ngog is a better footballer than Beckford will ever be.
