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Jonjo Shelvey (now playing for Burnley)


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And it's an attribute that doesn't even come off that often.  Some of his drilled balls from the centre circle in a vertical line to the keeper were beyond baffling - it's a pass that would literally never work.

 

He loses the ball through misplaced passes less than nearly all of our other attacking players when they just have the ball at their feet.

So? All you are essentially saying is that he is as bad as the other crap we have? My gripe is that he plays passes that he isn't good enough to actually execute.

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Guest Howaythetoon

I thought he was a good player and would be good for us but he is the wrong fit in almost every way.

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Guest Howaythetoon

Sit off him, give him lots of room and time and he will pick a pass and play people in. But he cannot stamp any kind of authority on a fast moving game with competitive and skillful opponents. He like Gini is a passenger and it is costing us massively. He is another in a long line of wasted buys. Bought because of his nationality and so-called experience. Another wrong fit and another expose of our twisted transfer policy.

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Although he's the only player that can pass the ball forwards to someone in our team, he is really starting to fuck me off. Constantly pointing telling players to mark/close down others yet never actually attempting to go for a player, stick a foot in or track a runner. They showed a couple of clips on MoTD re: Naismith and on 2 occasions it's him doing that, and it was constant. £24m on him and Townsend is looking like a right fucking waste of money.

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One of the few to make himself available and at least tried to get the ball forward. He even tried to make a couple of runs forward himself which, predictably, failed miserably as he just can't run.

 

The Romford Pirlo will do OK in the Championship though.

 

 

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Dragged down by this club like so many others. Looks completely lost. We desperately need some leadership on the pitch. We have none at this club. Shelvey is capable of being that imo but not in this situation and so many others already giving up. He looks down and he plays like he is down.

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Dragged down by this club like so many others. Looks completely lost. We desperately need some leadership on the pitch. We have none at this club. Shelvey is capable of being that imo but not in this situation and so many others already giving up. He looks down and he plays like he is down.

 

He had a shit attitude before he came here to be fair.

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Feel sorry for this guy. One week he is alongside the raving lunatic that is Tiote. The next he is alongside the invisible coward Gini. The guy has no chance.

 

He's got Colback to look forward to next week  :lol:

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Feel sorry for this guy. One week he is alongside the raving lunatic that is Tiote. The next he is alongside the invisible coward Gini. The guy has no chance.

 

Them 2 will say the same thing about Shelvey.

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Shelvey should just be moved forward and played behind the striker. At least he can shoot the ball, and can play a through pass. No one else there is doing a damned thing. This team is so shit man.

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I think he's flat out our best footballer (on the ball) at this point in time. Which isn't saying much, but at least he controls the ball well and can pass it with a degree of talent and intelligence, something you can't really say for anyone else. He's going to be inconsistent or anonymous every other week because if he wasn't he'd be playing for a bigger/better team.

 

I hope he stays in the Championship so we can build a team around him. Get some pace up front and players who like getting in behind and he'll be ace. Realistically though he'll be off.

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