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Santon was over rated by most, he was relatively solid but was often caught napping at the back and wasn't that good going forward either, he was capable of getting into decent positions but his final ball was more often than not non existent or poor.

 

Better than what we have now mind but not by a million miles.

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Our new style seems to require Anita as an absolutely key central midfield player. If he has to play RB the style we saw against Southampton won't really work.

 

Agree with this, he may be the best option between him and Colback to cover the full back positions (not that that's saying much...), but putting Anita there would be to the detriment of our main gameplan and the way we appear to be setting ourselves up during games now.

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I liked him but Santon was pretty poor 1 v 1, like. Seemed to take nearly as long as Williamson to turn at times.

 

Don't remember that tbh, he was often out of position but i don't recall many players beating him 1 v 1 like Haidara was against Southampton.

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Anyway I'm not ready to write Haidara off for one bad showing this season, hopefully he will learn and grow, however I would also welcome a solid left back to come in, it would improve the team.

 

Anita wise, glad he's liked by the current set up, he should help us play better footy, but still worry about a lack of creativity going forward in our midfield, Colback is atrocious at this.

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The biggest problem with Santon, other than defensive lapses (Benfica :anguish:), was not having a left foot when playing left back. Too often he and Jonas/Gouffran just passed the ball between them aimlessly down the left hand side.

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The biggest problem with Santon, other than defensive lapses (Benfica :anguish:), was not having a left foot when playing left back. Too often he and Jonas/Gouffran just passed the ball between them aimlessly down the left hand side.

 

Cause he was a much better right back when he arrived tbh.

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YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!

 

Happy for this guy. Hope he can go from strength to strength this season.

 

Put up with so much crap from Pards, and never complained. Played a huge part in keeping us up on the last day last season too.

 

Gwan Vurnon!

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