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2022/23 Amadou Onana

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Why does it have to be one extreme of the other??

Why cant they just not get hounded, and we try and get behind them while the game is being played?

Screaming booing and moaning at every single thing is not going to help these 20/21 year olds play better.
If the booing at home was a problem then we'd win away games more.
 
I think its much more simple than that. We sign poor players for high fees and dont produce good players very often.

We are crap.

The manager is crap

The tactics are crap.

The players are crap

The results are crap

Its hardly a shock people are frustrated and disillusioned. The only thing left now is the inevitable spiral to relegation

And crucially the people paid to hokd standards of the above are also woeful.
 
The fee kind of hangs over him a bit. If he was an academy player he would be having an impressive season but he's come for finished article money when he's still finding his feet. Some things he does well other times he disappears. Sometimes he's too rigid and trying to help us keep shape and other times he is so far out of position we concede goals. If we can have him focus on what he has done well for us as an anchor and restrict the chances of gaps he leaves in midfield it would benefit us probably but if we are looking to develop him as a complete midfielder it may hinder that. It's a difficult balance to find but with the position we are in now what is best?

I suppose the fact that many seem to believe he has more to his game than simply as a midfield anchor is encouraging I suppose? He is good at winning headers but he can't seem to get them to go where he wants?

The real question is if he is to play as an anchor is he really so much more effective than players like Davies and can he keep the discipline when the boo boys turn on him for doing the more thankless tasks that role would require?
 

Why does it have to be one extreme of the other??

Why cant they just not get hounded, and we try and get behind them while the game is being played?

Screaming booing and moaning at every single thing is not going to help these 20/21 year olds play better.
I don’t think many fans mind young players making mistakes as long as they learn along the way,it’s when they are hardly in the game and offer very little when they get involved,at the moment Onana is not worth his place in the team,Gana was doing the work of two men, he had to because Onana was doing next to nothing and Iwobi is going back to his previous performances disguising them by doing loads of aimless running but failing to put a worthwhile tackle at the end of all that running, yet Gana got taken off and the other two stayed on,maybe because Gana was exhausted doing all their work.
 

Via the sky story

Premier league ranking:
7th Fouls won 21
6th Tackles 37
4th Fouls conceded 22
6th Aerial duels won 24
2nd Duels won 91

Club ranking
1st Tackles 26
4th Interceptions 10
6th Ball recoveries 59
14th Forward passing % 29.2
9th Passing accuracy 80.8


Looks like the stats of a defensive midfield anchor to me...

"Terrible player, not worth the money" etc etc

lol
 
All of Onana’s potential relates directly to his physical attributes. He is quick, strong and tall. A good midfield player that does not always make.

I have not seen a single performance which has been above a 7/10. But I have seen lots of performances of 5/10. That is not surprising for a young player in a new team (and a very poor one) but it does raise concerns.

On this evidence, if we had our chance again would we have spent so much money on him? Or just left him to West Ham?
 
All of Onana’s potential relates directly to his physical attributes. He is quick, strong and tall. A good midfield player that does not always make.

I have not seen a single performance which has been above a 7/10. But I have seen lots of performances of 5/10. That is not surprising for a young player in a new team (and a very poor one) but it does raise concerns.

On this evidence, if we had our chance again would we have spent so much money on him? Or just left him to West Ham?
I'd definitely buy him again. Buying young talented promising players is not, nor has been our problem.

We need to sign some creativity and some goalscorers.
 

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