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2017/18 Gylfi Sigurdsson

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carolinablue232 said:
And all those players would cost north of 90m. Couthinho just went for over 100m. So maybe we shouldn't expect Gylf to be quite on that level. He's a good player, but he's not on the level of the players you mentioned, and honestly we shouldn't have expected him to be.
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Ok, so he’s crap and not what we needed and we massively over paid

Thank you
 

nsno-chris said:
I do and I also realise that, I’m using them 3 considering some people are using the same players to drive home a pointless fact that Gylfi has outshone them all
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Ok I guess I didn't go back far enough in the thread to understand this but I'm not arguing that Gylfi is as good as them. I'm saying why would you expect him to be when they're much more valuable in a market sense.
 

mikeh72 said:
You can't have "dozens" of scapegoats, because a scapegoat by definition is one sole person you blame for all things that go wrong.
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I haven't looked up the dictionary definition in a while but that's not how we use the term colloquially. Trump used illegal immigrants as a monolith for sure and from this example you can extrapolate thousands of examples where groups of people have been scapegoats and not just a singular person.


Trying not to trip over Godwin's law.
 
As @Eggs has stated. This lad has been way away from our only problems this season. Nowt wrong with his performance....but any player needs decent balls to be played to him to create. We have been the frank bruno of football for too long. We pass to player rather than pass to space....its dolly football. I cant remember when we have passed in a space to run into to create a goal. We are too static, and have been since Pienaar got old.
 
nsno-chris said:
I’m sure he played in this position for Swansea, I’m sure that Swansea fans came on to clarify this.

But using this old chestnut of an excuse; take anyone like De Bruyne, Eriksen, Coutinho etc etc and ask them to play in a different position I’m sure they’d excel and their skill would shine through, that’s what good players do. IIR Coutinho at the RS went from playing as part of front 3 to having a deeper position last year and still controlled the games, the same with other 2 I’ve mentioned

It’s all excuses for a massively overrated footballer
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Versatility, as in being able to play any of the supporting positions behind a striker, does seem to be a prerequisite for attacking midfielders now. Makes sense given how long it's been since the death of 4-4-2.

I think that Sigurdsson is a perfectly serviceable player, but for the money spent we should have been able to find much, much better. I've been disappointed by his lack of craft or guile, and, like Williams, it seems as though his leadership skills just don't translate at a bigger club.
 

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