Arsenal players turning up today but what about loads of other big games where they flap it. Gylfi needs to do more but its deffo a case of Everton fans making him out to worse than what hes actually been. Hes not been atrocious and hes not been amazing
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Arsenal players turning up today but what about loads of other big games where they flap it. Gylfi needs to do more but its deffo a case of Everton fans making him out to worse than what hes actually been. Hes not been atrocious and hes not been amazing
that's why I said it's subjective, but the point stands, he needs to be more for the team
Deckard2049
Player Valuation: £15m
He has been poor generally but today however I didn’t think he did that well or that badly. If DCL finishes from that cut back, he finishes the game with two assists for his stats- and therein lies the truth with Gylfi Sigurdsson. He’s an ultimate fantasy premier league player. He’ll get assists and even a few goals, both mostly coming from set pieces. But when you actually watch him play regularly as we do now, you don’t feel like he’s really influencing the game over the course of 90 minutes.
He’ll never dictate the play or run the show. Not at the level we need him to. He’s a cog in a machine, and when the overall machine is poor, he’s poor. You can make a great highlights package out of him, but the truth is that from open play he’s never been that influential. He’s going to need to step it up a lot to succeed here. He needs to show that he wants the ball at all times so he can make things happen.
It’s really not all his fault that we decided to blow £45 million on him and on a version of him that doesn’t exist. I’m sure Swansea miss him. But the fact is that the expectations at Swansea are very different (at least they should be) from those at Everton. Unfortunately my worry is that when you reach 28 and you’re still at a club like Swansea then there’s a reason for that. Do we think that he somehow just went unnoticed and undervalued by all the top clubs across Europe for some unknown reason?
Give him something to hit and he will come good.
He played decent today. Got one assist, should have been 2.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Major issue is the team needs to be focused around him, and we haven't and are showing no signs of doing that, he needs either pace around or something to aim for, preferably both, he has neither atm...
tadpole
Player Valuation: £15m
There's no argument that he's not worth what we paid, but that's irrelevant now. We've really got to stop judging players against their pricetag and judge them for what they have to offer the team.
He needs a run of games in his best position. There can be no excuses for him after that. Lets say 7 to 10 games (some might say 5 or 6 games). Either way he needs to deliver better than what he haa so far.
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The fact that is classed as playing decent shows just how awful we were. We were woeful yesterday, absolutely pathetic in possession.
All about opinions mate, and you thought he was excellent, but in my opinion he really wasn't that good. In the first half he gave the ball away quite a bit, and he was just strolling round the pitch most of the time (the consensus round me at the game was that he should have been dragged off) and he may have had the assist for Niasse, and put a couple of good tackles in that I can remember of note, but that was about it. Agree he wasn't the main problem yesterday though.
The best bit about watching about him at the game yesterday was him fuming at the someone for not tracking back, was dead funny.
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The thing is if you did all of that what's the upper limit he would get you to? Not that high I'd suggest. The long and short of it is we should never of bought him for £45 million.
this is what he was like at Swansea, anonymous. Then he’d through a corner and they’d score, his stats would go up and the little footy manager virgins would get a hardon and declare him
the greatest creative midfielder in the world
the greatest creative midfielder in the world
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
With the greatest of respect, does anyone genuinely believe that Eriksen would prosper in the current team?
Siggy is working his balls off and offering assists / good deliveries.
Until we sort out the fact we can't seem to maintain possession from the defence out, he's just got to keep grafting.
I've no doubt he's a quality player.
Siggy is working his balls off and offering assists / good deliveries.
Until we sort out the fact we can't seem to maintain possession from the defence out, he's just got to keep grafting.
I've no doubt he's a quality player.
That's the thing for me, he should be stepping up to the plate, but this season he's mainly gone into hiding. We hear plenty saying he carried Swansea for yonks and was one of the main reasons they stayed up (something I actually said as well) now we've got to start seeing that with us.
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