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[Barrington Womble]

9 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

I can see that but some of the passes to him yesterday were nothing short of suicidal. You'd need to be Maradona to get out of those positions. 

I didn't feel that myself. It very much to me felt like stuff Mac Allister would have dealt with comfortably. 

[Mook]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

I didn't feel that myself. It very much to me felt like stuff Mac Allister would have dealt with comfortably. 

 

Mac Allister is certainly better at receiving the ball in tight areas but if you know that & I know that, surely the centre backs know it and could be a bit more pragmatic.

[Barrington Womble]

23 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

Mac Allister is certainly better at receiving the ball in tight areas but if you know that & I know that, surely the centre backs know it and could be a bit more pragmatic.

 

I don't think klopp and ljinders want them to be. It's like the high line arguement or Trent in hybrid. They believe this is how we should play and they trust the players to figure it out. It's a gamble and as the quality of player diminishes on the pitch (kelleher for alisson or endo for Macca), the gamble becomes bigger. But they still think it's one worth taking. 

[TheHowieLama]

8 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

How long have you been waiting with that?

 

Far less time than it took you to reply.

[Reckoner]

9 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Far less time than it took you to reply.

You had to be patient but got your chance in the Endo.

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Far less time than it took you to reply.

There is a bit of a time difference at least.

[A_S]

Thought he was OK. 

[Supremolad]

5 hours ago, A_S said:

Thought he was OK. 

Yes he was. He has been mostly alright in recent weeks. He is relatively good on the ball too. Overall though, you just sense there is a lack of physicality and mobility in him which can be exploited by opponents.

 

Would really like for us to buy a top class DM in January. A mobile, aggressive, strong player who can do the DM duty and free Mac Allister to play further forward as the 8.

[Captain Howdy]

I think he’s dreadful, the very definition of “second touch is a tackle” Nowhere near good enough to play for us .

[Captain Howdy]

On 08/12/2023 at 17:26, Reckoner said:

I just don’t see it myself. 

And you’d be correct. 

[johnsusername]

4 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

I think he’s dreadful, the very definition of “second touch is a tackle” Nowhere near good enough to play for us .

 

He's a mid table player. 

[Captain Howdy]

Just now, johnsusername said:

 

He's a mid table player. 

At best. He’s terrible 

[Mook]

Not that it's saying much but he's been our best midfielder the last two or three weeks.

[johnsusername]

19 minutes ago, Mook said:

Not that it's saying much but he's been our best midfielder the last two or three weeks.

 

Yep. Worrying. He's a squad player, but it's a squad who have underinvested in midfield for about 5 years. And here we are. 

[Reckoner]

1 hour ago, Captain Howdy said:

And you’d be correct. 

I thought he was good against the mancs. I’m hoping I’m wrong about him.

More worrying I’m also thinking I was wrong about Darwin. Losing faith.

[Captain Howdy]

On 19/12/2023 at 20:40, Captain Howdy said:

At best. He’s terrible 

And then he has a first half like that where he never put a foot wrong. 

[manwiththestick]

He was sound tonight, I trust him and have no issue with him playing.

[aws]

He’s a good player and well worth a place in the squad if not first team standard. If he had more pace, he’d be great but would have cost us £50m more. 

[El Rojo]

Diego Armando Wataru.

[stringvest]

People placing a negative lens over his performances because they put their stake in the ground after his first few performances for us, and they can’t see the positive contribution he makes to the team as that would be tantamount to admitting that their initial and unchanging judgement might be suspect.  Where would we be without this stuff? 

[KMD7]

Thought he was very good again today. 

[ZonkoVille77]

Immense again. Well in, wee Endo.

[Tj hooker]

Looking like an astute signing certainly one of the top 3 players today 

[Carra_is_legend]

He can more than do a job for us this season. 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Good game again today. A couple of situations where he struggled a bit, but all in all a very good display against a very strong opponent.

 

I absolutely love the way he gets stuck in and muscles the ball off the opponents. Our best spell in the game today was the start of the second half, where we tore Arsenal completely apart and only some bad decision making and lack of quality in decisive moments stopped us from scoring a couple of goals. Endo was instrumental to that spell, and only the players ahead of him denied us the reward.