2017/18 Gylfi Sigurdsson

[kenada_blue]

I still get confused, so Sigurdsson can't play out on the left, even though we were told that most of the time he played out on the left for Swansea?

Don't say this

 

[steven]

He should play box to box.

Wasted on the left and isn't a playmaker as a 10.

This - he should be centre midfield alongside Gueye. He has a great engine on him and that’s where he plays for Iceland isn’t it?

Play two widemen and Rooney off the striker. Might even get a shot on target.

 

[flibbyflob]

Might even get a shot on target.

Don't be stupid.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Like your thinking mate, but how about we stop with the square pegs in round holes and play our best players in their best positions.

He's clearly the best number 10 we have at the Club, so why not play him there? Burning my head out that we're lashing our record signing everywhere but his best position.

What we have lacked for ages is a proper no 10 - that is a left-footed little general who spreads it around. You know the type. Pienaar was probably the last who came near it.

 

[Tubey]

The excuses for him don't wash. He's an experienced international who has played at this level for years, yet he's doing nothing. We could recall Dowell, a kid with no experience at this level, and put him left wing where he's never played before and he'd offer 10x the amount Sigurdsson is doing because he wouldn't be an utter coward on the pitch and actually put some real effort in.

That's the issue with him - effort. He's took his last major contract and is happy to dawdle through games, hiding from the ball, safe in the knowledge he's sat on a massive wedge for four years then he can find a stupid club in the MLS to con a living out of.

There's an outside chance he gets his head together and actually earns the money he's getting paid, but people making excuses for him are being ridiculous. He's been bad - no excuses, just absolutely terrible.

 

[kenada_blue]

The excuses for him don't wash. He's an experienced international who has played at this level for years, yet he's doing nothing. We could recall Dowell, a kid with no experience at this level, and put him left wing where he's never played before and he'd offer 10x the amount Sigurdsson is doing because he wouldn't be an utter coward on the pitch and actually put some real effort in.

That's the issue with him - effort. He's took his last major contract and is happy to dawdle through games, hiding from the ball, safe in the knowledge he's sat on a massive wedge for four years then he can find a stupid club in the MLS to con a living out of.

There's an outside chance he gets his head together and actually earns the money he's getting paid, but people making excuses for him are being ridiculous. He's been bad - no excuses, just absolutely terrible.

Limited player

 

[Tubey]

Limited player

To the extent that he needs an entire side built around him to work. He needs other players to make him better; he doesn't make other players better.

Which is fine, but in the meantime I still expect him to do the basics and put the effort in, instead of ambling around and hiding.

 

[kenada_blue]

To the extent that he needs an entire side built around him to work. He needs other players to make him better; he doesn't make other players better.

Which is fine, but in the meantime I still expect him to do the basics and put the effort in, instead of ambling around and hiding.

Which is why he's limited for me.

If he's not a number 10, with wingers, and a target man, he's average.

Even Tom Cleverly and Aruna Kone did a job out wide

 

[nsno-chris]

Spineless coward

 

[Debunkology]

Some ridiculous criticism of Sigurdsson on here.

 

[billyblue80]

That's right bash one of our few players with quality, he's being played out of position and is covering a right back playing left back.He was never worth 45m but if you get him in dangerous areas he will deliver.

 

[kenada_blue]

That's right bash one of our few players with quality, he's being played out of position and is covering a right back playing left back.He was never worth 45m but if you get him in dangerous areas he will deliver.

Apart from toeing in a 20 yarder, I've not seen any quality.

Bilyaledinov did that.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Play him in the middle and he will be our best player. It's a joke that he keeps getting moved out wide to accommodate Rooney.

 

[billyblue80]

Apart from toeing in a 20 yarder, I've not seen any quality.

Bilyaledinov did that.

Ask yourself why he isn't in position to do this more often and it's the set up, formation and personell

 

[billyblue80]

Play him in the middle and he will be our best player. It's a joke that he keeps getting moved out wide to accommodate Rooney.

Agree.

Bolasie Sig Lookman
Tosun

Rooney can be used as a sub.