Championship players making the jump to the Premier League has been a mixed bag in recent years.
For every James Maddison and Daniel James who take to the division like a duck to water, there are also a few names who can’t quite seem to grasp playing in the English top-flight, and for Che Adams, the Southampton striker is firmly in the latter category.
Since joining from Birmingham City in the summer for a reported fee of £15m according to BBC Sport, the 23-year-old striker has in patches looked like Southampton’s best attacker, yet as stats from Transfermarkt show, the former Championship star is yet to find the back of the net in all competitions for the Saints.
Will Adams score a goal this season?Yes, he just needs a confidence boostNo, he has not proven himself |
The former Sheffield United youngster has been a bench player since Southampton’s 3-1 defeat to Bournemouth back in September, and Danny Ings incredible goalscoring run of five goals in five consecutive Premier League games have again shoved Adams further away from the first-team picture.
But Ings impressive goalscoring form shouldn’t be the end for Adams as some supporters already think it is.
As stats from Transfermarkt show, Adams has proven in the past to be a striker that tends to start the season fairly slow, with the 23-year-old attacker last year with Birmingham only finding the net nine times at the halfway point of the campaign in a term where the youngster scored 22 in the Championship.
Ings is clearly Southampton’s inform player at the moment and the main catalyst as to why the Saints still have a fighting chance of getting out of the relegation zone for good in the upcoming weeks, but to completely toss Adams aside after all the money the club have spent on him is foolish and poor on the behalf of the supporters, who should be encouraging the youngster to get back on his feet and keep trying for that first professional goal for the Premier League side.
