Is Trent Really Worth It?

[Lee909]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

I for one think it's time to put him in midfield now. Will be as if we signed one.

 

Who do you partner him with though?

Against the bottom 6 you could probably get away with Mac Callister but not sure that works away to alot of teams. 

 

 

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Who do you partner him with though?

Against the bottom 6 you could probably get away with Mac Callister but not sure that works away to alot of teams. 

 

 

Who cares, really. Would it be any worse than partnering Mac Allister with Jones or Gravenberch?

[No2]

I find myself in the weird position of agreeing with the pervert. Tell Trent he can be a midfielder if he signs a contract and sign a right back. There are tonnes of decent right backs about. Buy a good one and sell Trent next year if he's a shit midfielder.

[Smell The Glove]

36 minutes ago, No2 said:

I find myself in the weird position of agreeing with the pervert. Tell Trent he can be a midfielder if he signs a contract and sign a right back. There are tonnes of decent right backs about. Buy a good one and sell Trent next year if he's a shit midfielder.

We've got Bradley. After what has just happened with Zubimendi its pointless trying to work out what the plans are but when Gomez was being offered about it looked like Trent and Bradley were the right backs, Endo can go and bring in a 6. Fuck knows now.

[No2]

@3 Stacks can you take a neg? Last time you cried mental health when I negged you. You can only neg me when I call you a pervert if you're prepared to take some incoming negs. 

[Kevin D]

The season has now started and he’s down to the last 12 months of his contract.

 

Great stuff all round.

[Mark M]

17 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

The season has now started and he’s down to the last 12 months of his contract.

 

Great stuff all round.

Is Rick Parry back in charge of contracts again ? 

[Barrington Womble]

i would just like to point out he was our best defender on saturday and his passing and all round forward play was crucial to our win. 

[stringvest]

1 hour ago, Mark M said:

Is Rick Parry back in charge of contracts again ? 

 

dunno, called him to ask, but he's not picking up

[No2]

28 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

i would just like to point out he was our best defender on saturday and his passing and all round forward play was crucial to our win. 

It was his mistake that led to the non penalty, he missed a looping cross field ball. Coincidentally I thought all the lads that just came back looked very sloppy. Could be something in that.

[TheHowieLama]

30 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

i would just like to point out he was our best defender on saturday and his passing and all round forward play was crucial to our win. 

 

His ball to Salah was exquisite and he placed one right on Jota's head.

 

Overall not sure  -  he gave the ball away alot - 69% passing 50% crossing and 10 "longballs" lost, kicked to the opposition.

He may have been trying to force some stuff - or that is just the numbers we should expect.

 

If we win and he contributes to ze golas it don't matter anyway.

[The Guest]

25 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

His ball to Salah was exquisite and he placed one right on Jota's head.

 

Overall not sure  -  he gave the ball away alot - 69% passing 50% crossing and 10 "longballs" lost, kicked to the opposition.

He may have been trying to force some stuff - or that is just the numbers we should expect.

 

If we win and he contributes to ze golas it don't matter anyway.

It was clearly a tactical decision to go long a bit more.  He’s bound to give some away doing it.  He had a great second half.  I don’t think anyone minds him going centrally when he’s bursting through and running with the ball.  The problem is in the slow build up play and when the opposition is set.  It was worrying seeing him going in there right after half time but he didn’t do it much.  Salah really benefitted from him playing those balls up the line and from out to in.  It was like having the old Salah back.  The effort was there all game as well.

[Mil-ing Around]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

i would just like to point out he was our best defender on saturday and his passing and all round forward play was crucial to our win. 

 

And yet people on this forum will say they are not arsed if he leaves. Nutters. Kids world class and it's a huge blow if we lose him.

 

But but Connar Bradley can defend better. Well yeah maybe. But there's like 2 or 3 players in the world that can do what he can with the ball. We'll find that out very quickly if he leaves next year.

[joe_fishfish]

That cross he pinged onto Jota's head was inch perfect. If Jota had buried the chance like he should have, the cross would have been talked about at length after the match, it was sumptuous.

[TheHowieLama]

16 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

That cross he pinged onto Jota's head was inch perfect. If Jota had buried the chance like he should have, the cross would have been talked about at length after the match, it was sumptuous.

 

May have been for Dom, just missed it - think that is what threw Jota off.

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, No2 said:

It was his mistake that led to the non penalty, he missed a looping cross field ball. Coincidentally I thought all the lads that just came back looked very sloppy. Could be something in that.

 

what none penalty? i can't remember that. he will never have 100% faultless display though, because he's a human. Except for 3 years there where VVD wasn't human, I don't recall any defender being spotless. They will all make mistakes - he ended up slowing them well on a 2 v 1 on the counter and another one where they should have punished us on the break, he was the covering defender. If VVD had done either, we'd be rightly lauding him. He was easily our best defender. And only Salah challenges him for best player offensively and that is a close run thing. 

 

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

His ball to Salah was exquisite and he placed one right on Jota's head.

 

Overall not sure  -  he gave the ball away alot - 69% passing 50% crossing and 10 "longballs" lost, kicked to the opposition.

He may have been trying to force some stuff - or that is just the numbers we should expect.

 

If we win and he contributes to ze golas it don't matter anyway.

 

and he also created the chance Diaz put over the bar and the keeper bashed into him, that was a tremendous piece of football from Trent. The speed and directness he brought to his passing in the 2nd half for me delivered the tempo for the team that made the difference. I think he will always lose a lot of possession (or more than most defenders), he is one of the few who takes gambles and backs his talent to pull things off. and from defensive areas, he's trying to create goals. 

[No2]

22 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

what none penalty? i can't remember that. he will never have 100% faultless display though, because he's a human.

Jesus man they checked the thing on VAR for about 20 minutes, the one were Virgil put his hand on Delap and he turned to feathers.  That was at nil nil, if that was given you can be sure the Trent haters would have been out in force.

 

One of his passes I haven't seen mentioned was one of his first time specials from about 15 yards inside our half. He half volleyed it with the outside of his foot towards Diaz, it was 6 inches away from being the greatest pass of all time.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Take a look at the situation where Ipswich hit us on the break about 9 or 10 minutes into the game on Saturday. The defender that can’t defend saved our arses with some great defending in that situation.

[Strontium]

I don't even know why this is still a question. Without doubt in the top three right-backs in world football, and we sure as shit won't be in for either of the other two if he departs. The fact that he is both homegrown and a local lad means that he is simply irreplaceable.

[Barrington Womble]

10 minutes ago, No2 said:

Jesus man they checked the thing on VAR for about 20 minutes, the one were Virgil put his hand on Delap and he turned to feathers.  That was at nil nil, if that was given you can be sure the Trent haters would have been out in force.

 

One of his passes I haven't seen mentioned was one of his first time specials from about 15 yards inside our half. He half volleyed it with the outside of his foot towards Diaz, it was 6 inches away from being the greatest pass of all time.

i watched down the pub, so time can not seem the same in that situation. i did watch motd highlights though, i don't recall it on that either. 

[Lee909]

27 minutes ago, Strontium said:

Without doubt in the top three right-backs in world football, and we sure as shit won't be in for either of the other two

 

 

We already have one of them

[Chris]

2 hours ago, stringvest said:

 

dunno, called him to ask, but he's not picking up

 

Cut him some slack, it's the first chance he had to see Twisters.

[Jairzinho]

Everything he did was woeful/amazing.

[Strontium]

54 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

We already have one of them

 

He's played 765 minutes of Premier League football. Fine prospect, but a bit early to be heralding him as world class, I think.

[Lee909]

39 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

He's played 765 minutes of Premier League football. Fine prospect, but a bit early to be heralding him as world class, I think.

 

1) Trent

2) Bradley

3)Carvajal

4) Gomez