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It's more the range of passes though. the majority of Anita's passes either go straight back to who passed to him (which he does an awful lot) or back to the nearest person.  There is no real penetration in any of them, to the point a lot of the time you could just skip him and get from A to B to row Z a little quicker.

When will this bile end?!

I wanted this guy at right back for so long. Infuriating. Could have done with some competition/cover for Janmaat. It's a disgrace.

Is Atsu still on loan at Everton? Didn't really get a game there, which is surprising.

“Me, Woody and Steve Stone would have a laugh and joke about it – we’d say ‘do you think he will take us to England with him?’ “That was us – we’d have a bit of craic in the golf club. He was focused on this job, we used to have a laugh and joke about it.”

If this guy is made permanent manager, I don't think I could bother anymore. He's so terrible.

How can someone be so unaware of how to speak and how to carry themselves, at his age? I actually find it a bit disturbing. He's a really inadequate person.

If they really think Stone would give Pardew a heads up then they should feed him false information to catch him out and sack him.

Honestly ... the state of this wretch 

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I would actually like to see Abeid play as the holding midfielder with Anita being given a bit more freedom to be more forward thinking i.e. move further up the pitch a bit, and look to play forward passes on the ground.

 

The thing is Anita is being used as an all out DM, and it's seriously curtailing him, as he has clearly been asked to sit deep and play the simple ball to others. Therefore you can kind of understand why he isn't as present or as involved in more positive play going forward.

 

Now on the other hand, can someone explain what Jack Colback is? If Anita is the DM then shouldn't Colback be the one with more freedom to move about, get on the ball and dictate play with more forward passes? But he does none of these things. He's hardly ever seen int hat respect, and it doesn't make sense because he isn't being asked to play as deep as Anita is.

 

Colback is really poor. I mean, I actually thought the guy would be better than this. He does nothing. I now understand why he was played on the left, and at left back a lot of times for Sunderland. He is clueless in midfield.

 

For ages people said "let Anita play like he did for Ajax". For Ajax he sat in front of the defence and distributed. This is his game. He played most of his games under Pardew more B2B and he was poor. He's a natural DM that's why he's poor a bit further forward. He always looks for a safe pass. He doesn't know what to do except pass it sideways in the final third..

 

 

This is his game. This is what he did for us to sign him. There's nothing more he can give.

He's not box to box, no. that's not what I said he should play.

He should be a centre mid that keeps possession and plays forward passes to our more creative players.

For Ajax, although he played in front of the back four, he wasn't anchored there as rigidly. He had license to step up and play the ball forward to players who actually moved into space mind you!

It's impossible to discuss Anita on here man. He will never do anything in this team, because for one no one moves into space to receive possession because it is clearly never worked on, and on top of that, he is playing so deep it's untrue. We definitely shouldn't keep him, not because he isn't good enough, but because we are ruining his life.

I really worry about young talent in this country that play with a bit of flair and expression. They just get beat down.

Happy for him that he managed to get out on loan to a team as good as Derby. Scored two goals in his debut for them over the weekend. One was a stunning free kick too.

In the meantime the likes of Quinn and Meyler were featuring for Hull ...

Argh! That temptress should have been in school, and not enticing upstanding men like myself into gazing upon her bosom. That was an unfortunate situation.

More reason to be furious this summer.

Yum is a perfectly respectable and tasteful expression 

I maintain that Obertan's play in that instance was extremely blood-curdling.

Wow, this guy is a strange one ... some things he does just melt your brain.

That situation where he is right in front of the goalie one on one and goes to pass it was so creepy and weird.

Incredible.

I would actually like to see Abeid play as the holding midfielder with Anita being given a bit more freedom to be more forward thinking i.e. move further up the pitch a bit, and look to play forward passes on the ground.

The thing is Anita is being used as an all out DM, and it's seriously curtailing him, as he has clearly been asked to sit deep and play the simple ball to others. Therefore you can kind of understand why he isn't as present or as involved in more positive play going forward.

Now on the other hand, can someone explain what Jack Colback is? If Anita is the DM then shouldn't Colback be the one with more freedom to move about, get on the ball and dictate play with more forward passes? But he does none of these things. He's hardly ever seen int hat respect, and it doesn't make sense because he isn't being asked to play as deep as Anita is.

Colback is really poor. I mean, I actually thought the guy would be better than this. He does nothing. I now understand why he was played on the left, and at left back a lot of times for Sunderland. He is clueless in midfield.

This guy has just taken the season off 

Dude is on his friggin sabbatical or something. Ridiculous 

I will actually try and watch Rangers games now to see how the youngsters look.

Lee Ryder ‏@lee_ryder  4m4 minutes ago

Jack Colback says that John Carver's passion for the club can win him the head coach job on a full-time basis http://bit.ly/1xz8vPV  #NUFC

Shut up Jack.

I would be elated with McClaren if the alternative is Carver. My goodness.

Ivory Coast through to the final. You'd think they'd finally win one of these this time.

Bet they lose the final. Ultimate bottlers.

I would like to see them win though.

Feel sorry for that Rangers manager, like. Clearly sees it as bullshit but daren't speak out against the decision. They're pure despots.

 

Loves the club, desperate for the job, he's McCarver!

I hope they all play, and do really well. It is all a bit weird though. Particularly as there are 5 of them 

That kid man 

Spineless thing. His parents did a terrible job.

He will be a very weak man, who will likely not be able to control his wife.

Of course it did. Terry is pure filth man 

I mean I'm guessing she's Colombian? Odds are she is absolutely smoking hot.

Terry's probably done his research as soon as Chelsea were linked, and set this whole thing up the dastardly perv.

Cuadrado: 'JT promised to show my wife around London'

:lol:

Yeah ... I bet he did.

Harry is nuts. Swear he's addicted to being the star of the last day of the window. Hanging out of that car of his.

Adebayor, Carlton Cole, Matt Jarvis ... I mean, come on.

Rank desperation!