SteveMc Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 3 games, man This! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED209 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 He is crap, just too many step overs to be taken seriously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 3 games, man This! Not just 3 games but 3 games under Pardew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Needs to be the number 10 imo, not convinced by his wide play Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 I do despair, like. Cabella was an incredibly effective player at Montpellier, he's not just some daft show off. He's not Ben Arfa in terms of dribbling but there's plenty of good in his game, both on the ball and off it. As usual, we need to play to his strengths and not allow him to be doubled up on. Let him drift and give him support and he'll create and score plenty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Needs to be the number 10 imo, not convinced by his wide play He's best coming into that space. Could be a neat tactic to have Riviere play the channels, de Jong pushes up and Cabella drifts in to the hole. Would need to encourage movement and would leave gaps, though, so won't happen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Give him time. He has the talent he just has to adapt to the pace/physicality of this league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 he is not a winger...he much better when he drifts around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 It's not about Cabella and HBA or which one is better. It's that both should be playing and Pardew should be nowhere near this football club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 He's an attacking centre midfielder being played out wide because Pardew will never be able to find a system that suit's our players but is also incredibly negative and boring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noaliasmike Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Writing off a player after just 3 games in a new league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Lacked pace imo, hes nee Ben Arfa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Lacked pace imo, hes nee Ben Arfa He's not a winger so nothing like HBA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Yet another player being wasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Can't beat a man. Really worrying if we're going to persist with him on the wing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Despite Pardew, he's soft as shite and needs to fucking get a grip. Pap today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Writing off a player after just 3 games in a new league. You'd have to be foolish to write him off. However, he deserves criticism for the way he has played over the last few games IMO. And it has very little to do with the position he is playing or Pardew etc. My issues with him are: - does tricks whilst standing still, to no one, for no reason. - can't seem to beat his man. - he's a bit wet and needs to man up, stand up in challenges etc. None of those things are position / Pardew related, just my honest assessment of his performances so far. Also, don't buy the argument that he's suffering from being our only creative outlet. It's nonsense. Neither Villa or Palace have particularly doubled up on him. Anyway, I hope he improves, for everyone's sake, because it hasn't been great so far. A player doesn't necessarily have to beat a player regularly to be effective in a central creative midfield role, which is probably where he should be playing. Also playing in a position you aren't familiar with can throw off your game. Ben Arfa often looked like he couldn't beat his man in games when he was stuck out on the left, but stick him on the right and he'd look a different player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TruToon94 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 The guys got massive shoes to fill considering that we've got a player the likes of which we love and who clearly is top quality sitting in the reserves. It doesn't help matters that Ben Arfa came to the club and single handedly beat Everton pretty much. Only Aarons has had the same impact as him amongst this bunch of signings. Bought too many bloody attacking midfielders this season and we're going to suffer from that. Especially when our two best wingers are looking like a youngster and a guy frozen out of the squad! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Seems to me we've bought two players who would prefer to play the same position (de Jong and Cabella) because they both represented good deals. A position the manager doesn't have a clue how to utilise based on our previous attempts to play with a #10. Great work all round. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Seems to me we've bought two players who would prefer to play the same position (de Jong and Cabella) because they both represented good deals. A position the manager doesn't have a clue how to utilise based on our previous attempts to play with a #10. Great work all round. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Plenty of our support have been expecting basically another Ben Arfa but who is 100% consistent and works his absolute bollocks off (for £12m, this is, rather than the £∞ that would actually cost). What we've actually got is exactly what anyone with a brain would have expected, your classic French winger/attacking midfielder - a bit soft, a bit lazy, a bit inconsistent - but this one's nowhere near as talented as Ben Arfa (very few are). It'll be the ones who were smug as fuck that Ben Arfa had been bombed out and replaced that will get the huff on about him first. More Gouffran please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 He's massively hindered by our complete lack of movement. Put him in a side full of movement, or at least some, and he'd thrive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Unless you're a striker with ability to create and take your own chances, no useful attacking player can contribute anything consistently in a Pardew team. Not enough movement, not enough support. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Unless you're a striker with ability to create and take your own chances, no useful attacking player can contribute anything consistently in a Pardew team. Not enough movement, not enough support. Spot on. This is why now Pardew is truly fucked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I do despair, like. Cabella was an incredibly effective player at Montpellier, he's not just some daft show off. He's not Ben Arfa in terms of dribbling but there's plenty of good in his game, both on the ball and off it. As usual, we need to play to his strengths and not allow him to be doubled up on. Let him drift and give him support and he'll create and score plenty. This is the problem and it's the same problem Ben Arfa has when he plays. Imagine you're an opposition manager looking at this team sheet: Krul; Janmaat, Coloccini ©, Williamson, Haidara; Colback, Sissoko; Cabella, de Jong, Gouffran; Riviere The lack of creativity stands out like a sore thumb and makes us so easy to shut down. Stop our one creative player and our whole attack is castrated. First thing an opposing manager will do when faced with that is double up on Cabella and they can do it safe in the knowledge that there's nobody else in the team with the ability to exploit the extra space. Switch to this Krul; Janmaat, Coloccini ©, Williamson, Haidara; Colback, Sissoko; Cabella, HBA, Aarons; Riviere and it's a different prospect entirely. Double up on Cabella and who's going to pick up HBA? Double up on him and Aarons and Cabella will run riot. Just not enough fret in our starting line up at the moment and it's making us easy to nullify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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