Sunderland manager Tony Mowbray says Amad Diallo needs to find his shooting boots as the winger looks for form following life at Ibrox.
The winger was an exciting January signing for Rangers earlier this year after a big-money move to Manchester United from Atalanta in 2021. But he failed to meet those lofty heights, scoring three times in 13 appearances for boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
His latest loan has taken him to the English Championship and Sunderland, where he's failed to score in his first five games. Boss Mowbray insists that the Manchester United loanee needs to stop seeking the perfect goal, telling MEN: "He's just a young boy really, but he's supremely talented. You see his touch, and see how fast and direct he is, it's a lovely thing to watch on the training pitch. You see how talented he is, and you can see why he's at Man United.
"But you can also understand why he's out on loan, to develop the core materials you need to be a competitive footballer. He needs to find a better end product.
"We need him to shoot more. It’s something I tell him every single day. It’s almost as if he wants to score a brilliant perfect goal. He faints to shoot, sits somebody down, skips passed the next one, faints to shoot and the goalie dives and he rolls it in the corner. We all then go ‘wow’.
"He’s in the middle of the box on his favoured left foot ten yards out. He has just got to smash that in and he waits for the defender to come so he can skip past him."
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