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He's a strange player in that his all-round game often appears to be crap and his touch useless, and yet if you look at the chances/goals he's involved in a lot of them or sets up chances.

 

Almost like a 'highlights reel' player.

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The amount of stick this guy gets on here is unbelievable. If he stayed out of the way and passed sideways and backwards his touch would look so much better.

 

Agree with this. Always find myself thoroughly bemused at the criticism he gets. He's involved in almost everything we do going forward as the only midfielder (that starts) who is even vaguely capable of creating anything. With that amount of responsibility it's hardly surprising that he doesn't do everything right given that he's not even playing in his own position but has been reinvented as a winger in the complete absence of anyone else who can do the job (apart from Hatem Ben Shitbag but we don't talk about him).

 

Agree with this. Feel like people forget about the major contributions he has in nearly all of our wins - be it through his counter attacking, assists, or few goals - he's essential to us with that pace of his.

 

Far from the finished article - good coaching could make him an immense player. Teach him to use his pace and upper body strength to body up on his man and muscle them off the ball and break forward and lay the ball off sooner then later.

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The amount of stick this guy gets on here is unbelievable. If he stayed out of the way and passed sideways and backwards his touch would look so much better.

 

Agree with this. Always find myself thoroughly bemused at the criticism he gets. He's involved in almost everything we do going forward as the only midfielder (that starts) who is even vaguely capable of creating anything. With that amount of responsibility it's hardly surprising that he doesn't do everything right given that he's not even playing in his own position but has been reinvented as a winger in the complete absence of anyone else who can do the job (apart from Hatem Ben Shitbag but we don't talk about him).

 

Agree with this. Feel like people forget about the major contributions he has in nearly all of our wins - be it through his counter attacking, assists, or few goals - he's essential to us with that pace of his.

 

Far from the finished article - good coaching could make him an immense player. Teach him to use his pace and upper body strength to body up on his man and muscle them off the ball and break forward and lay the ball off sooner then later.

 

I still think this shouldn't need to be coached to him. He should fucking know it. Unless he grew big the night before we signed him and he's not used to his body yet.

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He was shite in the first half and didn't look interested, but improved considerably second half. Say what you will about him, but over the course of a game he'll usually create a chance for someone.

 

Takes a frustratingly long time to make his mind up at times, mind.

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He was shite in the first half and didn't look interested, but improved considerably second half.

 

Couldn't disagree with this more. First 10-15 minutes he was at the heart of everything we did well.

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If we don't get too see Ben Arfa now for every game, something is seriously wrong with this club.

If Sissoko is out injured who else other than Ben Arfa can play on the right? If Gouffran was moved to the right who would replace him on the left? Remy if fit. Marveaux, Sammy Ameobi and Obertan are all injured and/or completely out of favour.

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Sissoko can't play out on the right, he's a central midfielder ffs.  Sure knob jockey will find someone to stick out of position there so we have enough tackles.  Probably Santon, he seems to have a thing about playing as many left backs as we possibly can.

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