Las Palmas are heading towards relegation in La Liga and, frustration is turning to anger. Part of that anger is over the signing of Ollie McBurnie from Sheffield United.
That’s at least according to the latest from La Provincia, who cover the club today and the growing frustration with the former Sheffield United man.
The newspaper explains that Las Palmas are now managerless after Diego Martinez elected to resign following the loss, Ray Vallecano. He was a ‘mortal sin’ who couldn’t be dismissed as the club would have had to pay for the second year of his deal.
He’s part of a larger ‘price of mediocrity’ that the club have been paying, which includes them losing their identity and playing ‘stingy, stingy football’ that’s led them towards relegation.
McBurnie is another problem. He was becoming something of a cult hero at the Spanish club but is now a bonafide flop. Now his failure to score isn’t funny, it’s terminal. As it was in this game when he missed a sitter and cost his side dearly.
They’ve been a side with ‘no football, no ideas’ and waiting for a strike that doesn’t come from a forward line that is sorely lacking in anything if Fabio Silva isn’t a part of it. McBurnie is now a problem, and he is now ‘erratic’ and a problem.
The blame isn’t being put on him entirely, though, with it actually felt that the ‘blame lies with who signed him’. In other words, they knew what they were getting from his time at Sheffield United and signed him anyway.
Now they’re reaping the rewards as anger turns towards the club and McBurnie finds himself in the firing line.