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Aiden McGeady

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Moomin said:
I like him, but i can't help but think " Flat track bully " at times with him.
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Eggs said:
....could be right, but that 2nd goal was of such quality and the timing so important that I'm more of a view that he can reproduce regardless of opposition. I do feel he'll continue to be inconsistent, but there's a lot to like about his talent.
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I've thought this before, too. I just think with wingers unless you spend over £20m or so you'll rarely get a consistent player. It's the nature of their role, they take players on and naturally sometimes it won't come off. They're more likely to dribble than anyone on the pitch and so it creates more opportunity to make mistakes/get tackled.

For me McGeady has already proven good value for money as he was only something like £1m. At worst he's back up and a useful option off the bench.
 
Baines' left foot said:
I've thought this before, too. I just think with wingers unless you spend over £20m or so you'll rarely get a consistent player. It's the nature of their role, they take players on and naturally sometimes it won't come off. They're more likely to dribble than anyone on the pitch and so it creates more opportunity to make mistakes/get tackled.

For me McGeady has already proven good value for money as he was only something like £1m. At worst he's back up and a useful option off the bench.
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....worth remembering that he lived and played in Russia for the last few seasons. It might take him a season to truly settle in and feel at home. The point you make about flair players being inconsistent is fair, but performance is lots about confidence and what goes on between the ears. Just look at Naismith.
 

From the Irish Times:

Everton manager Roberto Martinez took up today where Martin O’Neill had left off by hailing Aiden McGeady’s form and suggesting that the 28 year-old winger may well be about to have the best season of his career.
“I’ve said it before,” the Spaniard observed while looking ahead to this weekend’s Premier League trip to West Brom, “that we are going to see the best of Aiden McGeady this season and it’s probably going to be the best season of his career in the British game so it’s really, really exciting.”
“I think the quality that he has is quite unique and we have seen already that he is in very good form. He scored against Leicester in the first game, he had two assists against Chelsea and then the two goals that he scored against Georgia; it shows you that he is in great form.”
Martinez, who described the midfielder as “a magician,” said that he had sensed the player was going to deliver this year when he watched him in pre-season. “He was fully fit,” and “really focused”. McGeady is said to worked particularly hard his fitness, something that appears to have paid dividends over the last few weeks.
Asked about the performances of the club’s other players - Séamus Coleman and James McCarthy - for Ireland last weekend, he was emphatic: “They are incredible ambassadors for our football club. And they represent a real example for our youngsters that are already here, chasing that dream of playing in the first team and representing their country, so obviously those stories are phenomenal examples for us.”
McGeady himself credits Martinez with having played a major role in getting the best out of him over the opening weeks of the new campaign.
“Last season I was coming on and getting five, 10, 15 minutes here and there,” said the player, who arrived at the club from Spartak Moscow in the January window some way short of fully fit, on Tuesday. He struggled to make anything like the impact he would have liked to over the remainder of the season but feels ready to play his part.
“This season I have felt more settled and part of the team. The more comfortable you become with your surroundings, the more you will play with freedom.The manager and coaching staff have been great in saying that to me. They have given me pointers here and there about expressing myself and that’s what I’ve tried to do when I’ve been on the pitch.
“When I am on the pitch I know I have a responsibility to create chances and score goals (but) there were times last season when I was probably more concerned about not giving the ball away.
“They have been very vocal and positive with me about that – they have been saying it doesn’t matter how many times I give the ball away, if I create a chance and we score from it then that’s the main thing. It’s about being more expressive and positive with my play.”
 
Get behind him, he's an impact player that can make things happen when the game is tight, I think he will be used more like that than a starter. Martinez seem to like it that way fri, what I've seen. Wear the team down with passing in the 1stbhalf then take chances the last half hr. in the main that's been successful.
 
Barkley is a big team player because he gets more space. He struggles a bit more when teams put men behind the ball, but he will learn and is a special player. Watch him go the back end of this season COYB'S !
 
Bluerover said:
From the Irish Times:

Everton manager Roberto Martinez took up today where Martin O’Neill had left off by hailing Aiden McGeady’s form and suggesting that the 28 year-old winger may well be about to have the best season of his career.
“I’ve said it before,” the Spaniard observed while looking ahead to this weekend’s Premier League trip to West Brom, “that we are going to see the best of Aiden McGeady this season and it’s probably going to be the best season of his career in the British game so it’s really, really exciting.”
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Only if you play him in on the left you Iberian tit.
 

Imagine McGeady under Moyes, he would be called "Royston McGeady" - forever told off for daring to save his energy to cause havoc to his opponents.
 
We could have a really devastating attack and good balance once Barkley comes back with McGeady and Mirallas either side.

Unfortunately with Naismith I think we'll continue to be too open however we'll still score.
 
Adversus said:
We could have a really devastating attack and good balance once Barkley comes back with McGeady and Mirallas either side.

Unfortunately with Naismith I think we'll continue to be too open however we'll still score.
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I disagree, Naismith gives us a more industrious prescence, he works hard in pressing and squeezing the opposition.
 
NEC said:
I disagree, Naismith gives us a more industrious prescence, he works hard in pressing and squeezing the opposition.
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He certainly works hard but he's a striker, he plays as a striker. Barkley is a midfielder.

I don't think Barkley is by any means the finished article yet but I think he gives us a better balance with just the general position he plays in.

Ultimately it was why England suffered at the WC, Rooney played too far forward making it a 4-4-2 but they looked better when Sterling or Barkley played there.
 
Adversus said:
He certainly works hard but he's a striker, he plays as a striker. Barkley is a midfielder.

I don't think Barkley is by any means the finished article yet but I think he gives us a better balance with just the general position he plays in.

Ultimately it was why England suffered at the WC, Rooney played too far forward making it a 4-4-2 but they looked better when Sterling or Barkley played there.
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Because Rooney kept stealing the ball off Barkley. That really got on my nerves that.
 

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