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Not even a mother could love that face man

Diop was atrocious first half

International football is a slightly different kettle of fish to the premier league though. There’s a reason Rafa bought him and played him in a 3, he just doesn’t have the right attributes to be one half of a central defence at this level. He is more of a luxury progressive CB that needs to be covered.. not saying he’s absolutely dogshit in a 4 im just saying he’s a lot better suited to a 3. Agree he did have a good showing against Leeds although that has been the exception for him this season.

Yeah it’s surprising the amount of people that would have Schar in a back 4 when he’s really not suited to anything other than being in the middle of a 3.

Without doubt his character and mentality is as good as you can expect and will go a long way in what might make him an attractive prospect to a top end championship side like you say. Just think he has to be in the right team/under the right manager to get best you can out of him, he’s absolutely another player that is evidence of how good Rafa is when it comes to identifying how to best fit a limited player in a first 11 as he did with many others in 17/18 and 18/19.

New captain in the summer 1000%

I reckon he knew his time was up not just after the Norwich red card but also the ridiculous lashing out in the friendly in Saudi. Won’t miss him.

Remember back to when Rafa signed him, apparently he was informed that Hayden was available and watched some footage of him and just said yes. It always seemed to me that he fit well within Rafas system as like others have said he’s clearly limited but given strict, decisive instructions he shows can he can perform at a good level in the premier league. Thankful for his time here, good servant to the club and it will always be nice to associate his time here with Rafa.. I have a soft spot for most of the players that we had here during that 17/18 season back in the prem.

Thought they would be sick of their owners just bringing in the usual suspects in recent years. Must be easily pleased.

Beautiful, should have left the club 3 years ago.

I mean its a simple graph but its probably the best 2 stats for CBs to compare if only 2 are being used, progressive passes for the ball playing CBs combined with the aerial ability of the more traditional CB sort of gives you a vague but rounded idea. Obviously combining all CB stats would be better.

Seeing political shite spill over into football more and more over the last few years has been so gross. I hate politics, I pay no attention to any of it as much as I can and I try to spend my time/energy only caring about things that I can personally control (except for NUFC).. so seeing all this talk constantly regarding my club since the takeover got old pretty quickly. I was hoping it might die down after a while but thats clrealy not going to happen

5 goals by end of season from him would be a great return

I mean for a ball playing CB like Schar is supposed to be his stats for progressive passes is abysmal like, though I understand the team around him is shite.

Going off the stats alone Burn is a huge upgrade on Schar

I've said it here already in the last few days but since he had those bad hamstring injuries the guy looks like hes scared to run to me, which is a shame as Gayle from 17/18 would have been a decent option for us atm.

Dont think Schar is very suited to play the 360 degree game in midfield

The thing is with Shelvey, you cant play him DLP/QB now because thats Brunos natural position. But I also cant see how you play Shelvey further up either because he just doesnt have the physical attributes/engine to press like a mad man when we are out of possession like Joe/Willock can, just cant see where he fits into the side now.

Im not saying I dont agree, I think I wanted to see Zapata more than anyone

Welcome to social media. Half of the traffic on these sites is people all flocking to have a go at someone thats outraged them on some morale level.

Of course, you just seem very negative overall which is strange considering how much our squad improved during January.

Your post history is interesting

It would be suprise me if they could afford him tbh