David McGoldrick
David McGoldrick is backing under-fire striker Oli McBurnie to rediscover his goalscoring touch amid heavy criticism. McBurnie is yet to break his duck for the season as Sheffield United find themselves bottom of the table and without a win from their opening 10 games. They have just four goals to their name so far and a lot of the blame for United’s poor start has been laid at the Scottish international striker’s door. McGoldrick says he was one of the first players to speak to his team-mate in the dressing room following the latest defeat – a 1-0 loss at West Brom. He used words of comfort from Harry Redknapp when he was a youngster at Southampton 16 years ago to help console McBurnie and he is predicting his barren spell will come to an end sooner rather than later.
David McGoldrick said “I spoke to him straight after the game in the dressing room at West Brom, I don’t really follow social media, but a few boys said there are calls for him to be dropped. If you look at his games and what he brings to the team, he has done well and had he put those chances away it would have been a really good performance. I told him what I got told when I was younger from Harry Redknapp. Panic if you are not getting chances, but if you are getting those chances you are doing something right. He belongs at this level and he will score, no doubt about it. He will get on a run, he’s a great striker. He will get the goals, there’s no doubt about it. I have been in this situation before, he scores goals in training all the time, scored goals throughout his career, no doubt they will come. It’s your job to score, if you don’t score you are not happy. Not one striker isn’t feeling unhappy right now, all those who had chances to score I tell them, remember me from last season. We are not downbeat, we have had a good talk and a good week in training. The scoring ability of these players is not in question. Once those chances start going in and results come confidence comes back and I am sure we will be alright.”
