WEST HAM FANS

“You’d have to be particularly mentally robust if you could display optimism about moving to Sheffield.”

“Signing Ings on huge wages was exactly the sort of thing that a club with a coherent transfer policy should avoid doing. And it’s exactly the sort of thing I can imagine us doing again in January.”

“5 goals in 2 and a half seasons whilst on £100k+ a week! What a waste!”

“He’s been about as bad a player as I’ve ever seen at the club absolutely nothing to his game. People think Fullkrug has been a bad signing he’s scored 3 goals in about 5/6 games in total Ings has got 5 goals in two and a half years and he played against some absolute dross in the group stages in Europe.
He should have been bombed out in the summer train with the kids or leave. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the first team squad.
He’s useless and lazy.”

“A pretty poor signing and waste of resource.
However, Danny Ings does not offer himself a contract, nor does he pick himself for the team. Just saying.”

“It’s fairly simple really, Ings performs best in a 2 up top where he can play off someone
The problem for him is that football has changed dramatically and that role doesn’t really exist for most clubs”

“football has changed but also so has his physical ability. We knew he was on the decline when we signed him and all we’ve seen is that decline continue. I don’t think he’s lazy, I don’t even think he’s bad.”

“Without all those bad injuries at Liverpool I think he might still have a bit more life in his legs. Seems like it’s all caught up with him.”

“we never saw a fully fit, match fit, match sharp, Danny Ings for West Ham.”

“To be fair to Ings, the season we signed him he got 8 goals in the league. I think he just got ‘Moyesed’ after that and was asked to do things he couldn’t.”

“He hasn’t been as bad as people make out. Just not really had a proper run playing in the team in a role that suits him. When he has come on not playing as a lone front man he has done pretty well.
He is a good player if you don’t ask him to play up top on his own”

“He’s a little bit of a minor cult hero imo.
The fact he couldn;’t get a start with Antonio, Fullkrug and Bowen all crocked is damning, but he has often contributed in his little cameos when called upon, cropping up with assists and putting in a shift. Last night was a prime example. Can’t fault his workrate and his movement is good.
Maybe he’s just not up to playing full matches these days”

“He is decent when ball is played to his feet and can play a good through ball. Plus he has very good movement”

“Can’t knock the bloke for effort.”

“Effort or attitude – never hear him complain !”

“Shows the guys professionalism that even though he was our only fit striker he wasn’t picked to start. Could’ve got the hump and not really tried but did the opposite.
As usual with West Ham, it’s a shame we didn’t buy him 10 years ago”

“I think he should have played more tbh . Lacking in pace obviously but I don’t think he did much wrong for us .”

ASTON VILLA FANS

“Ings was purely a “keep the fans happy” signing. We were losing Grealish, and getting a proven premier league goalscorer kept a bit of positivity.
The fact he didnt fit into the team in any way was not Purslows problem at all, he just palmed that over to Dean Smith, who also had no idea how to play him.”

“our managers never really found a way to fit him into the side and it seemed pretty clear he was frustrated with lack of game time and goals – although, professional as he is, he never let that show.”

“A consummate professional. He was hurt for most of his short time under Deano and SG misused/underused him.”

“It’s a shame we never resolved the conundrum of how to play Ings and Ollie together. We did glimpses of the top class finisher that he is”

“Top man and real intelligent footballer that we didn’t get the best out of.”

“One goal in three is a very respectable tally, even though he never looked the right fit for Villa’s park-the-bus and hoof it style.
He never looked happy running about like a mad thing and being sat on the bench so often failed to fully justify his wages.”

“his physical attributes aren’t his greatest strengths, more his finishing, speed of thought and positioning. In those respects he’s maybe similar to a Kevin Phillips, and could go on for years at a decent level in the right team”

“I liked Danny. A consumate professional who got on with it and popped up with some really good goals and assists. Bit like when we had Kevin Phillips.”

“A genuinely good bloke and team player.”

“nothing but a true professional and an excellent teammate”

“Such an intelligent footballer and goalscorer. A true gem off the field too.”

“Ings a striker more suited to a bygone age when every team wanted a ‘fox in the box’ type forward, but there’s a reason those type of players went out of vogue like twenty years ago, whilst they themselves will score goals, their overall contribution can be detrimental to the team, for if they’re not scoring then they’re not contributing much else, so can almost be like playing with ten men”

“13 goals and 6 assists at Villa in equivaleny of 30 full games indicates he was contributing more than goals”

“He scored some important goals, but for a guy who was only in the team purely to score goals, he missed a hell of a lot of chances. “

“One thing that ings game relied on was his pace. His pace has completely gone now dunno if anyone noticed that.”

“Everywhere Ings has been he’s scored some goals. He’s done, y’know…alright; but I’m not sure he’s been loved anywhere, he’s no teams hero.
It’s a strange career, he’s a nice bloke and a good teammate by all accounts, but not the kind of player that seems to settle properly or seems to encourage a team to want to build around him. I dunno, he’s a competent striker that can come up with a goal, but there seems to be a little something that’s missing in terms of what he brings to a club.”

SOUTHAMPTON FANS

“I would take Ings “

“He’s always been about brains rather than speed so age shouldn’t be too big an issue. If treated correctly I don’t see why he couldn’t get 10-15 goals”

“We all know he will score goals in the championship”

“he can and will score goals.”

“When he hit over 10 goals at this level he was playing every week, his seasons at Villa and WHU have been really bitty and he’s never held down a place and has been a sub quite a lot of the time. (he’s rubbish as a sub). He’s the sort of striker who needs a run in the team and I’m convinced as a main man up top he’d score goals and get to those double figures.”

“when he starts games he’s a decent goalscorer, but he’s poor as an impact sub when you need a goal.”

“He hasn’t ripped up any trees since he left us.”

“I can’t understand why people talk about Ings as if we’d be getting back the guy who scored 22 goals five years ago. That was a one off season, across his whole career his second best goal return is 12. For all the, “yeah buts,” and the, “oh, well if only they’d played him XYZ,” there’s no getting around the fact that his last four years have yielded a combined 16 league goals, at a steadily declining rate.”

“Three seasons ago he scored a goal every 200 minutes in the PL. Two seasons ago he was one goal shy of doing the same again.”

“That’s a very long way of saying he’s scored three league goals in two years.”

“His three best ever seasons scoring at this level are 22, 12 and 11 (the last one being ten years ago) they’re the only times he’s made double figures. His last four seasons he’s scored 7, 6, 2, 1. I don’t know why people are ignoring this and talking about him anomalies which happened five or six years ago.”

“He has been on a downward spiral since his single good season with us 19/20. The reason is because he is getting older and his fitness is poor (Injuries). Just because he did it 5 years ago does not mean he can reproduce that form now. He has only scored a few goals in the last few seasons because he is no longer sharp enough or fit enough”

“he’s aging, injured often, on high wages and has scored 3 goals in 2 years. (Or similar)”

“He did nothing for Hammers which is why they are getting rid. His day is done”

“I worry he would just be another Walcott now. He hasn’t produced for a long time now. Is he fit enough?”

“As a team, you can’t press if your centre forward isn’t up to it. Arma is never a centre forward but he can run around all day. Ings used to be able to do that but can he do it now?”

“I think he is done now and I bet he would be injured half the time”

“He was made of glass even when he wasn’t old.”

“Ings careers is done. The knee injuries he had knocked 2-4 years off his career. There’s a reason nobody has signed him until now!”

“Friend of mine told me she met Ings on a night out in 2019ish and she went back to his hotel room and he made her watch YouTube compilations of him scoring for Liverpool.”

“that wouldn’t have taken very long to watch…”