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    Aleksandar Mitrović

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    Mitro is doing really well and good for him, but he let himself down to often under Rafa, unfortunately.

     

    We've had a tough start of games, and so Mitro's success has been even more glaring. We've got our tough games out of the way now though, and Rondon is set to really do his thing.

     

    Loving the team today, which is our best 11, and I think we're really going to start looking good, and Rondon in particular will improve us no end.

    Aleksandar Mitrović

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    Rafas single mindedness is one of his strongest assets but also one of his weaknesses.

     

    Mitrovic, Mbemba and Mbabu are all better than Gayle, Joselu, Manquillo, Dummett, Clark and a 30 year old Fernandez

     

    Like everyone he makes decisions which some agree with and others don't. 

     

    I'm sure Bobby Robson told Shearer to stay within the width of the 18 yard box.  Mitros instructions should have been the same to get the best out of him

    Not that the two are anywhere near in the same league, but when Pardew was given players like Ben Arfa we all said a good manager should adapt the game to suit his best players, particularly attackers.

     

    The narrative always changes for Rafa, it's like admitting hes not perfect makes you less of a fan, its like a weird cult thing which actually makes the deluded tag seem less of a myth.

     

    Okay, I'll bite.

     

    Pretty to easy to counter this in a few different ways.

     

    1. Rafa's decisions come with the weight of his past successes, Pardew's came with the weight of his past failures.

    2. Rafa's decision with Mitrovic was vindicated with success, Pardew's decision with Ben Arfa was compounded with failure.

    3. The team that Pardew had was far superior to the one Rafa has - i.e. Pardew's team needed less protection than this one does.

    4. Ben Arfa was a far, far superior, more influential player for us than Mitrovic ever was, as you've said, but I'd also say that Mitrovic also wasn't good enough to be accommodated in the way you could argue Ben Arfa could have been.

    5. Probably the most crucial part in all of this - if Rafa had Ben Arfa I don't expect he would play him and I probably wouldn't like it, but I'm far happier to put my disagreements to one side with a manager that's won everything and is likely to regularly vindicate his decisions and prove me wrong, than with one whose won nothing and had already produced some of the worst NUFC results and worst NUFC football I've ever seen in my life by the time I started getting seriously pissed off with his non-inclusion of Ben Arfa.

     

     

    It's not a cult, it's just putting your petty grievances to one side when you can see that his decisions are vindicated. If Pardew had gotten results without Ben Arfa I'd have treated the situation the same, but as we all know he didn't get the results or the performances, and so the criticisms had a lot more credence.

     

    Excellent post man. So good.

     

    :thup:

    England

    in Football

    Posted

    He created the space to get the shots off really well. Of course the finish could have been better but I was really impressed with how he looked verses top opposition. I don't think Mourinho gets the most out of him whatsoever.

     

    Can you imagine the player he would be if he was playing every week?! He's a special talent, but he's not able to flourish because of his club situation.

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