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PODCAST: Should we sign another midfielder?

By tlw content,
August 10, 2022 in FF - Football Forum

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Posted August 17, 2022

12 hours ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Fabinho infuriates me; his passing is really poor and he is slow as fuck. He gets away with murder and our fans regularly turn a blind eye to it, case in point, his inept attempt at a tackle which led directly to Palace's goal on Monday.

If we had even half decent alternatives to choose from then Fabinho shouldn't be within a mile of a first team shirt atm.

We badly need a mobile number 6 with pace.

There's really not a lot of great lone number 6's out there, nevermind ones with pace and good passing. Casemiro, Rodri, the best ones are all also slow. Tchouameni would have been the alternative, but he will sit behind Casemiro for a while as well. He's not ready to be great there yet. There's also Rice who is very good but we all know the price tag is nuts. Ndidi maybe, but he's hurt all the time and is shite on the ball.

Fabinho hasn't been awesome in the last while, but he's close to irreplaceable. And his passing is good for that position, it's the pressing and tackling that has fallen off. The margins are very small in our system. He has to win the ball when he goes in, or he's fucked, because he has to go higher than most players that play his role. And he hasn't gotten that part right recently. But it's very difficult.