Adam Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 What a man, what a performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Outstanding. Love a come back story, chuffed to bits for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Edgar Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Like a new signing. Fuck off Steve Bruce. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Imagine he ends up being in our team for years as a midfielder. Fair play to him, he's shown real heart to improve himself after a poor start to his career here. Looks a real player now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBingo Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Outstanding from Big Jow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 The bar isn't high, but easily one of the best midfield performances I've seen from one of our players in ages. Absolute monster today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Mo Diame would’ve been proud of that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Butcher Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Can not believe how good he is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Pardew Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 I'll happily admit I was wrong about Big Joe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Immense, if you said to me today we’ve just signed this defensive combative midfielder from Brazil for 40m and he put the performance he did tonight, I’d say we robbed the team we bought him from. He’s not a striker, but he’s surely not a DM, but fucking hell that was some performance, total control, rarely gave a pass away, strong, physical, bossed it. Well done that man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 My god what a midfielder he is, I'm so happy to be so fucking wrong about him and I hope he continues this for years to come Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 @KaKa was right. Pretty much everyone else was wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 He's legitimately one of the best ball winning midfielders in the league Like it's not even a joke, he wins absolutely everything. Cannot wait to see him with a bit of talent supporting him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Need that Rashford meg posted here stat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 It was always there. No surprise to see he's a good footballer when he's not asked to sit up front on his own having meaningless balls pumped to him. I'd still prefer him to be higher up when we're attacking mind because I think he's our best executer of a goal winning final ball. Issue is he's also our best ball winning midfielder so he has to start from deep. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Outstanding, utterly outstanding Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Socrates is my favourite Brazilian midfielder so I. Happy with the thread change Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 If we stay up he could end up getting a brazil call up at this rate. Honestly incredible. Just everywhere and barely loses the ball and can hold it up. He is everything at the moment for us. Labelled a modern day Batty by the commentators on my feed. Not sure Batty had the skill Joey does but no doubt on the newly found battling and breaking up play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 He's been one of our best players for weeks. He's been everything Neville complained Man United didn't have at half time too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Socrates is a mint comparison like. Jesus Christ, he's so fucking good at what he does. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 1 minute ago, POOT 2.0 said: I think it will be easy, and understandable, for people to dismiss today's performance as great within a shit team, not hard to look good after so much shit, etc etc. BUT, I think it was a genuinely outstanding performance no matter the current team, situation, or history. It was a straight-up fantastic 90 minutes from Joelinton. This performance was deffinitely his best, and by a long way, but he's been hinting at this ever since Howe took over. Deffinitely doesn't seem a fluke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 He's not even a defensive midfielder but a genuine all round box to box. Does all the dirty graft, carries the ball up the pitch and is more of a threat now than he ever was as a number 9. Unreal transformation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 His box to box play today was immense, he bullied and harassed their players all game, he was everywhere again. Who thought when we bought him he was going to be a £5m forward but an £80m central midfield destroyer?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinesstan Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, HTT II said: Immense, if you said to me today we’ve just signed this defensive combative midfielder from Brazil for 40m and he put the performance he did tonight, I’d say we robbed the team we bought him from. He’s not a striker, but he’s surely not a DM, but fucking hell that was some performance, total control, rarely gave a pass away, strong, physical, bossed it. Well done that man! 10 out of 10 performance. I don't think he put a foot wrong, and considering the level to which he was involved, that is incredible. I try to forget about Bruce but how can you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 That pass to Fraser was a thing of beauty... waited, waited, waited. Great stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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