Vurnon Anita (now playing for RKC Waalwijk)

[Mole_Toonfan]

Basically its Hugo Viana 2.0.

[Pata]

His confidence looks absolutely shot. I think he's a decent player but I don't think we're going to see it here.

 

His confidence is low but it can be easily fixed if he can get few successes. Confidence is a weird thing. I remember being very low on confidence, scoring the ugliest rebound goal in the history of sports and playing great again.

[Guest Dontooner]

The problem is not Anita itself but the team. We heavily rely on individuals to play and hold on the ball, Anita might be suited to a more pass and move team which is more dominant in possession and progressive.

Anita is useless when it comes down to physical battling and individual skill, he is much more of a team player which in my opinion will ever do well under Pardew since we don't play as one.

 

Imo he is much suited to attacking teams and will bring much more to a team that plays attacking rather than containing/defending.

Think a run in the right back spot might be a better position for him, as long we play rubbish contain football you will only ever get to see his running around like a headless chicken. In a team like ours even gosling or Bibi will do a better job.

 

We are a traditional route 1 english team that is shit at set pieces, not a continental sexy carpet football team.

[Varadi]

One of our better players earlier in the season but has looked weak as piss his last couple of games. Strange.

[ujpest doza]

Garbage, too small

 

You lost all credit when it comes to judging players after the way you went on about Demba Ba.

You've lost me here like.

[ujpest doza]

Garbage, too small

 

You lost all credit when it comes to judging players after the way you went on about Demba Ba.

Didn't he also think Stuart Downing was the kind of player we should be going in for?

Do you mean the Stuart Downing playing week in week out now for a Liverpool team challenging for the top 6?

He still is the sort of player we should be striving to sign.

[Greg]

Stewart.

[Hanshithispantz]

Danny Simpson and Mike Williamson were playing week in week out in a side that finished top 5. I win.

[ujpest doza]

Stewart.

Alec?

[Tiresias]

Hope he regained some confidence on what was no great performance or anything but no defensive howlers or anything and kept us ticking over alright. Noticed he was sticking to Ruiz pretty well, something Perch is terrible at, keeping track of no 10s.

[Benwell Lad]

Lovely little footballer.

[Dr Venkman]

I've always had a lot of time for him, I think he's suffered this season for various reasons. Hopefully next season he'll be part if a possession based team and he can really get into the swing of it (I know, I know). I still think he'd be good alongside Cabaye and Tiote as the middle man.

[midds]

Lovely little footballer.

 

Yep.

 

his versatility is holding him back a bit if anything. The fact he can do a decent/good job in 3 or 4 positions means he's been used as a fire-fighting role this season. Like - "Fuck, player X has gone off, get Anita on and he'll just keep things ticking over there and we're no worse off."

 

Needs, and deserves, a run in the middle of the park to establish himself in the XI.

[toon25]

Lovely little footballer.

 

Yep.

 

his versatility is holding him back a bit if anything. The fact he can do a decent/good job in 3 or 4 positions means he's been used as a fire-fighting role this season. Like - "Fuck, player X has gone off, get Anita on and he'll just keep things ticking over there and we're no worse off."

 

Needs, and deserves, a run in the middle of the park to establish himself in the XI.

 

Agree. Until he has a consistent run in the team in his favoured position it's too soon to judge imo. Dekka is a fan apparently.

[Barnes23]

I've always had a lot of time for him, I think he's suffered this season for various reasons. Hopefully next season he'll be part if a possession based team and he can really get into the swing of it (I know, I know). I still think he'd be good alongside Cabaye and Tiote as the middle man.

 

We certainly won't see the best of him unless we do see a pretty radical transformation in playing style.

[Mole_Toonfan]

I've always had a lot of time for him, I think he's suffered this season for various reasons. Hopefully next season he'll be part if a possession based team and he can really get into the swing of it (I know, I know). I still think he'd be good alongside Cabaye and Tiote as the middle man.

 

Personally feel that he can still be worked into the line up but the style of play needs to be changed.

 

Firstly we need to play 4-3-3 and he needs be the one infront of the back 4 and then have 2 in front of him ( preferably Cabaye and Sissoko)

 

I don't believe we can get consistent performances from him in a 4-2-3-1 i know the differences are not massively different on paper but i believe it would effect him a lot in reality.

 

Lovely footballer but doesn't really fit into how we set up as of now, its been said before but how Leon Britton plays for Swansea he could do easily and with Cabaye and Sissoko in front of him instead of De Guzman and Ki.

 

I still hold hope that Pardew has some sort of plan for him.

 

 

[The College Dropout]

Unsure of him at DM in the PL.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Unsure of him at DM in the PL.

 

Me too, I really like his style of play and I hate the cliche about the physical nature of the English game, but I fear there is a bit of truth to it. He can't complete against quite a lot of CMs in the league.

 

Support from Cabaye and Sissoko might mitigate that a bit, but it's still a concern.

[Dr Venkman]

I'd like to see him as a link between a DM and AM.

[Pilko]

I think he looks short of confidence and I'm not surprised; he was one of our best players throughout that awful November/December/early January losing run and found himself dropped whilst much greater culprits remained in the team.

 

He'll come good, I just hope it's with NUFC.

[Ronaldo]

Unsure of him at DM in the PL.

 

Me too, I really like his style of play and I hate the cliche about the physical nature of the English game, but I fear there is a bit of truth to it. He can't complete against quite a lot of CMs in the league.

 

Support from Cabaye and Sissoko might mitigate that a bit, but it's still a concern.

 

Cabaye, as agressive as he is only compounds that problem at times. I honestly don't think (with everyone fit) there's any additional room for players lacking physical presence. A hell of a lot of our 'good' players who we all want on the field often get bullied off the ball and don't compete for set pieces.

 

 

[Flip]

If anything him at fullback has been better than him at midfield. He isn't imposing enough, and I will stick my neck out and say it's not due to the physical nature of the league, it's due to him not having adapted well enough to play fast football. His first touch is at times terrible and he plays so many wrong passes because it feels like he rushes stuff when he notices he doesn't have enough time. If he can adapt to the league then I can definitely see him being a success but as of now the £8m price tag is looking more down to versatility than quality in my opinion at least.

[Dr Venkman]

Unsure of him at DM in the PL.

 

Me too, I really like his style of play and I hate the cliche about the physical nature of the English game, but I fear there is a bit of truth to it. He can't complete against quite a lot of CMs in the league.

 

Support from Cabaye and Sissoko might mitigate that a bit, but it's still a concern.

 

Cabaye, as agressive as he is only compounds that problem at times. I honestly don't think (with everyone fit) there's any additional room for players lacking physical presence. A hell of a lot of our 'good' players who we all want on the field often get bullied off the ball and don't compete for set pieces.

 

Was thinking about this yesterday at the match, Haidara should help?

[The College Dropout]

Unsure of him at DM in the PL.

 

Me too, I really like his style of play and I hate the cliche about the physical nature of the English game, but I fear there is a bit of truth to it. He can't complete against quite a lot of CMs in the league.

 

Support from Cabaye and Sissoko might mitigate that a bit, but it's still a concern.

 

Cabaye, as agressive as he is only compounds that problem at times. I honestly don't think (with everyone fit) there's any additional room for players lacking physical presence. A hell of a lot of our 'good' players who we all want on the field often get bullied off the ball and don't compete for set pieces.

 

 

 

Agreed. I do like how Tiote & Perch can compete in the air, Tiote in particular has a lot more presence in midfield. Marv has to play with freedom or centrally. Cabaye has to start obviously. No room for a man the size of Vernon in midfield imo.

[Ronaldo]

Haidara may help, but I've really not seen enough of the lad to say. Thought he looks like he has a bit of power about him.

 

Thing is, I think with everyone available 5 of the front 6 picks itself, leaving a choice between Tiote, Marveaux and Anita for that last midfield spot. I can't think of too many games in which Anita would get the nod. He looks handy at FB to be fair to him.