N.S.N.O.
Player Valuation: £35m
Stupidity from the board was signing a Has-been, and not replacing the Striker we knew was leaving last March....
Sigurdsson was a good signing, Rooney was not...
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Stupidity from the board was signing a Has-been, and not replacing the Striker we knew was leaving last March....
Sigurdsson was a good signing, Rooney was not...
stayed on far too long today, not the game to try and get him match fit. Gana or davies should have stayed on and Siggurdson off.
Danny Rand
Player Valuation: £500k
Let’s try and let him play in his natural position and stick Rooney out wide before we criticise him.
He should be well up to speed now, by my reckoning he's played 6 games for us now and a couple of internationals. If he's not match fit now he never will be.
Not getting involved enough at all. Still finding his feet but I feel for him a little bit. No real striker to aim at, being played out on the wing and having to fit in with a bunch of other players trying to figure it out up front.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Because he comes central, meaning we have no wide left sided player...
By coming centrally he crowds the other players and we cant spread the play.
He should be central and a different left midfielder (lookman) playing
tim cahill
Player Valuation: £50m
When you play 3 at the back the wing backs are supposed to provide the width! He wasn't supposed to be wide left.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Got into some great crossing positions but couldn't put the ball into the box because there was no one there
No wonder he got assists at Swansea because he had some tall lanky git to cross to and we don't have one
No wonder he got assists at Swansea because he had some tall lanky git to cross to and we don't have one
The2econdComing
Player Valuation: £25k
He played central today and against Atlanta and has been shown up the twice, like he always will be when he plays there.
Worst thing about him though, he'll show himself up more if you try him top left in a front 3.
I've been following this board since he joined you and it's given me a few chuckles, I have to say. It's uncanny the things I've read here that I have moaned about him for at least the last season.
He's slow, painfully slow, he can't go past a man - I mean, like NEVER. His first touch is poor, this may seem against the grain because of all the lazy Match of the Day pundits who could never be bothered to analyse one of our games properly and who used to pick him out almost every time. He's got an awkward balance about him when the ball comes in. A bit like Bambi fresh out of the womb. He's poor in the tackle, he doesn't command games, has limited affect and an awful amount of touches, his key passes last season were in the bottom 25% of midfielders and he's a proper girl when things aren't going his way - arms flailing around the lot.
We shoehorned (a word I've read on this site a lot about him) out left, purely because we couldn't do without his long free kicks - his corners were always pretty [Poor language removed] or at best below average, but he could whip a ball in. The funny thing though, his assists from free kicks were also very average when he had Ashley Williams to aim for - 50 pence piece head had scored 1 in 5 years for us I think. Yeah, Mawson and Llorente made his free kicks look better and he got a lot of assists from them.
In open play though, a different story - 3 he had and I remember each one because his creation in this aspect of the game is dreadful.
For anyone thinking he needs to be central or your number 10, think again. Ross Barkley has ten times the zip and skill needed to be effective in opening up defences. Play a ball into Siggy back to goal 10 yards out off the 18 yard line and he wouldn't have the first idea what to do with it. You'd want a 10 to have nippy, quick feet and create just that bit of spark - you will only see that from Siggy when he's got the ball on a free kick, nicely rested just above the finely cut grass and nobody near him for 10 yards. Then he can look great.
Oh, and I am not a bitter Jack who's lost his "best" (sic) player - i've been saying this for ages, even to your fans when they've popped across to Planet Swans. Few good Siggy threads there - https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/forum/
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I'd play him central midfield like he plays for Iceland. Two players of either Schneiderlin, Gana or Davies next to him and he would have protection...at the moment, I don't know what he does.
Why not go over to the Williams thread and unload on him...he's the worst centre back as a first choice ive seen since perhaps 20 years....
The2econdComing
Player Valuation: £25k
I did last season as I was begging for him to go as well. He's a bar brawler and great in a dogfight but it looks like his time is coming to an end. Siggy to Williams will never be an assist you'll see I'm afraid.
Siggy is too slow for you. You need some zip in the middle, some quick feet and thinking. He's technically sound, for all his faults, being fair to him, but for a team wanting to push that bit further up the table towards the top, he's not your answer. I said in January he'd suit a Stoke or a West From. I think he could get near 20 assists in a Pullis side!! ;-)
Anonymous today -
kenada_blue
Welcome to Barcelonaton FC
Rooney's been our best player so everyone has to work around him.
Until a player actually influences a game, then we can talk about playing in a "natural position"
And dont forget, Siggurdson know's how to play attacking wide. He just doesn't impress on a game.
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