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26 minutes ago, aRdja said:

I’m guessing, he was comparing his performances back then to the performances of the CMs this season i.e., if he was not injured, he’d be the best CM in the league. 

 

It's possible. My reading was he meant how when you are missing through injury, your reputation tends to grow and grow.

 

Same as when the manager doesn't start a player you think should have started you are convinced it would have made a huge difference in a bad team performance. And then when he starts the next game, you see him slotting effortlessly in the overall shittyness of the team.

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The transfer policy is not the issue. We've got some of the best scouts in the world. We were after Mbappe before he'd even played a game for Monaco. We were after Thomas Lemar in the summer of 2016 w

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Some of the criticism he gets is way over the top. Anyone would think he was some sort of Joe Colesque piss-taking malingerer rather than an honest professional whose career is in the doldrums.

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It looked like it could have been his knee.

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12 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

It's possible. My reading was he meant how when you are missing through injury, your reputation tends to grow and grow.

 

Same as when the manager doesn't start a player you think should have started you are convinced it would have made a huge difference in a bad team performance. And then when he starts the next game, you see him slotting effortlessly in the overall shittyness of the team.

I suppose it’s one way to interpret it. Quite cynical though I must say. 

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I'm wondering if the reference to CM is something other than central midfielder?  So for example as a result of being unable to play football he joined a poker league and became an adept bluffer, perhaps we are looking at the best con merchant in the poker league?  This being a football forum, the confusion is understandable

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4 hours ago, aRdja said:

I think his favoured role is as one of the two CMs in a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1. With Ox back, I think there’s a good chance we will move back to 4-3-3, a formation that would be alien to Naby, because AFAIK Leipzig never really played it. 

 

TBH at the moment the entire sport of football looks like it is alien to Naby.

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