2024/25 Beto

[stamullenblue]

Anyone can improve their pressing by good coaching and game time. In fact anyone can improve any aspect of their game by good coaching. When Benitez was first at Liverpool he religiously coached and drilled Pepe Reina on his positioning, where he should be depending on where the ball was and where the strikers were. I had a mate of mine who worked at Anfield at the time and he used to go over exactly how detailed this stuff was, it was eye opening. Result he turned Reina into one of the best goal keepers in Europe. It's the same basic principle, drill people until they can do it without thinking. It's not difficult but it does take a lot of hard work and attention to detail by the manager and coaching staff.

With all due respect i think its easier to coach a goalkeeper with some talent to become a better player .. Beto will never be premier league standard i am afraid !

 

[Efcjake]

So you from what you’ve/we’ve seen you think he’s better than DCL?

Didn't say that.

I think if we give him an opportunity it's definitely possible he scores more than Dom has in the same match time.

 

[Efcjake]

I'm sorry mate but you're making excuses. He can't trap a ball. He has had a season and a half here, and done very very little.

Hard to do much when the manager persists with a player who goes without scoring for double figure runs of matches.

Only able to do a little when you're limited to the last ten minutes and cup matches.

 

[Efcjake]

He has played 44 games and scored 4 goals. So in over a season and a half he's scored 4 goals.

He literally doesn't get 5 goals a season.

Time to get real and deal with what he does, not what we think he might do.

5 minutes is a whole game now @catcherintherye

This is a lark

 

[EDINHO1]

Xg Nerds - aka inconvenient facts. That's why the offers have been flooding in for DCL.

Where are the other stats?
The ones which show DCL strengths?
Ariel duels, etc

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

Where are the other stats?
The ones which show DCL strengths?
Ariel duels, etc

I prefer Bold myself. Although Daz gives a nice blue-white shade.

 

[Efcjake]

Where are the other stats?
The ones which show DCL strengths?
Ariel duels, etc

You don't win points for headers unless they go in the goal

 

[Titus Shambles]

You don't win points for headers unless they go in the goal

'Aerial duels' makes it sound like some sort of jousting tournament in the sky.

"The lad is rubbish in front of goal but by golly he's won more aerial duels than Maverick n Goose"

 

[Toffeepot]

Nope it's people kidding themselves he's not someone who barely scores 5 a season is in fact actually good.

They then aren't satisfied with drowning out the reasonable criticism he gets in his own thread that they come here to Beto's thread and spew their Dom Defender propaganda.

Let's get behind the one fit striker that wants to score goals for us now and in the future and forget about wasters who run down their contracts.

You're wrong
I for one was responding to someone criticising Dom in the Beto thread, there hasn't been any conspiratorial exodus from Dom's thread. You are welcome to check.
You are talking about Dom more than any other poster here. Maybe practice what you preach

I'm happy to get behind Beto if he stays but comparing them as like for like makes no sense, and comparing any striker in terms of goals scored playing Dycheball is also a pointless metric

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Didn't say that.

I think if we give him an opportunity it's definitely possible he scores more than Dom has in the same match time.

Did we sell him?

 

[PeregrineT]

So I know almost all are saying he will probably score 15+, but I personally think if he starts the rest of the season he gets 7, which is just fine.

But I do think theres a chance we get Chermiti back in a month and he gets a lot of playing time down the stretch(provided we dont sign anyone else).

 

[catcherintherye]

Hard to do much when the manager persists with a player who goes without scoring for double figure runs of matches.

Only able to do a little when you're limited to the last ten minutes and cup matches.

Beto has played 44 games and scored 4 goals. What has he done to deserve more game time?

The previous manager gave him starts, and he was woeful, we lost 4-0 in one of the games he started!

 

[catcherintherye]

5 minutes is a whole game now @catcherintherye

This is a lark

No it's not. You're making excuses for a guy who has been involved in 44 games and scored 4 goals. It's a woeful record.

 

[james2805]

No it's not. You're making excuses for a guy who has been involved in 44 games and scored 4 goals. It's a woeful record.

Anyone with eyes can see that Beto is an awful footballer who probably should be playing Portuguese 2nd Division football.

We have seen enough of him by now to know what he's capable of, as have the managers who don't pick him unless they are out of options.

DCL (as bad as his goal scoring record has been in recent times) makes the team behind him function better than our other attacking options.

I'd have liked to have seen what Broja was capable of when fully fit, but man has legs made of poppadoms.

 

[Billy Dean]

5 minutes is a whole game now @catcherintherye

This is a lark

In terms of his minutes played in the PL over the last 2 seasons, he's played the equivalent of about 14 full matches.