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[Harry's Lad]

Considering we only signed him yesterday and was thrown in the deep end when we were down to 10 men, I thought he did ok.

[Code]

He did more than okay, a bit disappointed with his pace though. 

[Elite]

10 minutes ago, Code said:

He did more than okay, a bit disappointed with his pace though. 

I'm disappointed with Salah's pace.

[Code]

16 minutes ago, Elite said:

I'm disappointed with Salah's pace.

Well the difference is I know what Im talking about, you dont. 

[TheHowieLama]

Code's way of admitting Salah has lost a step -- difficult.

[Elite]

12 hours ago, Code said:

Well the difference is I know what Im talking about, you dont. 

Hahaha.

 

You know fuck all about anything.

[Barrington Womble]

He did fine enough considering everything. The first 5 mins or so he was clearly taken away by the speed the ball is moved in this league, there was a small passage of play where Bournemouth played some nice one touch stuff and a ball went over his head and he was just frozen, like "fuck what do I do next". But I thought he grew into it and near the end was looking quite comfortable. I hope he starts next week. 

[SasaS]

He looked sort of OK. Is he an outright DM though?

[Ne Moe Imya]

Thought he looked pretty good on the ball. The concern was off the ball, he definitely looked outpaced once or twice.

 

Hard to judge much from a cameo when we were down to 10 men, though. Hopefully just a bit of getting his legs under him and he'll be OK. I don't think our expectations are super high, in my opinion if he can just give us what Fabinho gave us last year, that's good enough.

[Pidge]

Getting thrown straight into Prem pace without any training remember, plus in a game where there were only two men in a three man midfield setup.

 

If he looks off it after the intl break, then it'll be time to see it as an actual issue. Part of the reason why we should have SIGNED HIM SOONER.

[Barrington Womble]

1 minute ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Thought he looked pretty good on the ball. The concern was off the ball, he definitely looked outpaced once or twice.

 

Hard to judge much from a cameo when we were down to 10 men, though. Hopefully just a bit of getting his legs under him and he'll be OK. I don't think our expectations are super high, in my opinion if he can just give us what Fabinho gave us last year, that's good enough.

 

Dunno about that. I'm not expecting prime fabinho, but if he's going to be at the level fab was last year, he's no good to us. 

[Pidge]

I want to see him as a Milner replacement more than anything. Still hoping the Fabinho replacement is coming....

[an tha]

2 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

Dunno about that. I'm not expecting prime fabinho, but if he's going to be at the level fab was last year, he's no good to us. 

He'll be better than Fabinho of last year. 

 

He'll be better than Henderson of last year too.

 

Will he be better or as good as them at their peaks - not IMO....which is why he surely won't be 'it' for our midfield business...

[Barrington Womble]

54 minutes ago, an tha said:

He'll be better than Fabinho of last year. 

 

He'll be better than Henderson of last year too.

 

Will he be better or as good as them at their peaks - not IMO....which is why he surely won't be 'it' for our midfield business...

I agree with most. But I don't think there'll be more. It'll be him and bajcetic now, maybe a bit of thiago. 

[an tha]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

I agree with most. But I don't think there'll be more. It'll be him and bajcetic now, maybe a bit of thiago. 

To be fair you were of view we were done before he came in.

 

And that isn't me having a pop at all.....i think as i have maintained all summer that we aren't done yet this summer.

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

7 hours ago, an tha said:

To be fair you were of view we were done before he came in.

 

And that isn't me having a pop at all.....i think as i have maintained all summer that we aren't done yet this summer.

 

 

Yeah, fair enough. It's surprised me we'd be willing to go for a player out of our profile, but that's why I think we're done..we exhausted the list of players that match the profile. 

[John102]

7 hours ago, an tha said:

To be fair you were of view we were done before he came in.

 

And that isn't me having a pop at all.....i think as i have maintained all summer that we aren't done yet this summer.

 

 

 

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[Jurgen Knows]

 

 

https://x.com/crispyemi/status/1693164534985626049?s=46&t=rTM5huSAdkyumn9JrNS_MQ

 

 

[No2]

It's hard to be critical of his performance given we don't know what his instructions were but his use of the ball made Hendo look like Xavi. Anything forward or over 5 yards was off limits for him, I felt that played a major role in Newcastle dominating from the 10th to 30th minute. 

 

Based on that we need him to be a Klavan, someone that sees out games and starts no more than a dozen games. We aren't winning a league with him starting regularly.

[magicrat]

I barely noticed him on Sunday which considering it was only his second appearance isn’t necessarily bad . I’ll judge him when he plays 90 mins with 10 teammates 

[aws]

I thought he was ok.  I can’t recall him missing a tackle, letting anyone run past him easily or giving the ball away stupidly. He just kept everything simple and worked hard. 

[No2]

2 minutes ago, aws said:

I thought he was ok.  I can’t recall him missing a tackle, letting anyone run past him easily or giving the ball away stupidly. He just kept everything simple and worked hard. 

He was fine in his defensive work but he redefined simple when he came to passing the ball.

[aws]

Just now, No2 said:

He was fine in his defensive work but he redefined simple when he came to passing the ball.

Agreed but let’s see how it goes when he has someone in space to pass it to.  Newcastle closed us down tight when we were in possession and fouled us whenever we found breathing room. Well, they did until  chaos was ignited. 

[El Rojo]

We should start to see what he's about from now on with a few weeks of training under his belt. He's done fine so far. 

 

Szoboszlai and Mac Allister will make his job a lot easier. 

[TheHowieLama]

He is supposed to keep it simple.