themanupstairs

 

This lad has made zero impact

 

 

Vidal likely to leave Bayern in the summer, Simeone wants him at Atletico

 

Didn't think he'd move sassoon after joining them.

40 minutes to score 4...

ketsbaia?

 

I'm staying out of this, mate.

you know what i mean!

 

Been a bit rubbish at Apoel. Very underwhelming. He's only now started to pick up results (appointed in August). Their squad is miles ahead of the competition and the fans aren't too happy they're playing catch-up. Been on a very good run of late but it took them quite some time to bribe the off....I mean start playing well.

:lol:

Stupid. Clumsy. s****.

 

I see absolutely nothing to suggest he could ever mature into even a half-decent PL defender.

 

Thankfully you're not in charge of finding players for a living.

So much know-it-all in that thread. Shows how football isn't linear at all. "Busted flush", "old man", "wouldn't even consider him a mediocre manager". Lineker joined in. Everyone did.

 

It's been amazing.

 

Tbh if football wasn't this non-linear roller coaster affair I'd have packed it in a long time ago. It's the only thing that keeps us and many other clubs' fans hanging on. That's what has made it the pure gold mine that it is these days.

The biggest thing for me is that he seemed to be disgusted at playing LB. He didn't seem arsed in the slightest and looked like he couldn't wait for the match to be over. I get that he's an attacking player, but at that age you want to be getting in the team when you have the chance by making sporadic appearances here and there, and making it hard for the manager to drop you. Did absolutely nothing to make the manager or fans take notice of him.

Idiotic red aside, I thought he looked much much better for us at the back when he came on. Seems to be growing in confidence. He's a massive unit, and I hope he can continue to improve.

His powerful left foot is a welcome addition to the team. Swung in a couple of okay-ish free-kicks, despite his no impact performance. A good option to have.

Thankfully for us Lukaku got injured and Kone is a total donkey or this could have been 7 or 8.

Awful miss.

 

Don't understand rushing Doumbias visa through and then not putting him on.

 

I think he would have scored that chance.

 

We don't create enough chances to be missing them like that.

 

That said, I do like Mitrovic and do like his link up play and general nuisance value, but he's got be putting chances like that away.

 

Pretty sure the injuries to Dummett and Mbemba put paid to Doumbia's debut. Without even having seen Doumbia play for us, it feels like he and Mitrovic as a front pair (at least for parts of games) is our only hope of scoring enough goals to stay up.

Yep, he should be starting. At the end of the day he missed one chance yesterday, other than that he was a very positive influence.

 

Yup. And some on here getting their knickers in a twist about how "shit" he is is futile as there's simply no one else in the squad that has this much impact on the way we play.

That long pass to Mitrovic was gorgeous but apart from that his contribution was minimal. He's our best midfielder by a long long distance, and I feel that he understands the game. He's the kind of player you build a team around, but not with that mentality. He needs to channel his frustration in the right way. I'm all for him completely dictating our team's play, and for everything to go through him, but he must remain focused at all times as that's what top players do.

29 touches on the ball today

 

Yet some people criticise Sissoko for doing nothing in games or being lazy.

 

Not the first time he's had 90 minutes and been totally anonymous. When he's having games like that he needs subbing. Half time if we have to. Or plain dropped for away games.

 

It's been like this literally all season. How SMC hasn't picked up on this and hooked him is a crime. Pretty much play with 10 men away from home. He doesn't do anything.

 

This x a million. Only a professional outfit would dare to drop their best overall player and scorer in favor of getting actual results when needed. His radar was totally off last night. He didn't seem to anticipate passes to and from teammates, made the wrong runs, head down...he was a total mess.

The fact we create nothing away from home and rarely have the ball in the opposition penalty area is exactly why he struggles away from home, he's a goalscoring midfielder who doesnt get a chance away from SJP

 

The lad can play as well. He can get a hold of the ball and run with it and is a good passer. He was just totally disinterested last night and woefully unfocused.

Made zero contribution last night except for a foul on Barry right at the end. Literally nowt else.

The chances are more plentiful when he plays. He just happens to miss them. We are not losing 9 points because he missed a few chances, when those chances wouldn't have existed without him there as a focal point.

 

Plenty of strikers have gone on worse runs before coming good for premier league teams. #wait

 

#wait?

 

Wait till when April or May maybe when he finds his shooting boots and we are 2nd bottom with a little R next to our name in the table

 

Or maybe #wait till October when he could hit the net against Burton Albion

 

This f***er is no good man he's paid to score goals and he's failing miserably he's a f***ing carthorse

 

This guy is right lads. Think we should play Gouffran and Townsend up front in a 442.

Any idea when the DGW will be?

 

Usually a couple of weeks after the league cup final when there's no CL?

you know what you done mike. actually come to think of it, Palace have turned to shit since your moment of self-doubt.

Oh dear, coq au vin for dinner

 

His lass has coq thauvin for bait every night.

I get the feeling it was the player himself who expressed the desire to go back out on loan. I don't think he fancied it himself, less so than McClaren or NUFC.

You need one of Henderson / Delph / Milner in the midfield 3 for me, and Henderson is the best of that bunch.

 

I'd take Dier over all of those on current form. He's been a revelation for Spurs this season at DM.

 

Absolutely. Very jealous of Spurs if i'm honest. They have finally stopped buying garbage in general and started buying winners. Dier and Alli both seem to be strong mentally as well coming into the league with the big boys and not looking out of place one bit. Those two along with Kane simply have to start for England to have any chance to progressing in the tournament.

Yeah. If we manage to stay up this year it will be interesting to see what goes on this summer. If they spend big again on the kind of players we actually need then I'll go some way to thinking they've changed.

 

#wait

Incredible how many times I've been watching a game and around the 30 minute mark Henderson does something and I go "Oh yeah, Henderson is playing!"

 

He's so incredibly overrated and I don't understand the plaudits he gets. Maybe he's ever so slightly better than Colback but for me Henderson is firmly in the pass-it-sideways-and-run-around-a-lot-with-pashun no-mark player category.

 

Delph despite being a prick and not playing often, has more about him in central midfield.