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2018/19 Idrissa Gueye

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He was the top tackler, top defensive midfielder, top passer (for us) in Europe last year, statistically.

His energy and ability to cover most of the midfield was a huge boost. His form after Christmas was brilliant.

To sum him up as a 'good grafter' is utter nonsense.
Totally agree, I have said this he will be a massive loss to us, he closes down better than any player we have, all lazy arses
 

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Other than leading the team in forward passes and rarely giving away the ball in the dribble and pass unlike the rest of our forwards and midfielders.

His passing game in general is short passing game after breaking up play. He had a good season no doubt about it but so many times these forums over-hype our players. I remember when fellaini was here and so many on kipper i think it was genuinely going on that fellaini was actualy the best midfielder in Europe and you just wait and see that he will go to another club and blah blah blah Zzzzzzzzz.
Gueye is basically a water carrier. Nothing wrong in that. But i wont lose any sleep him going.
 
His passing game in general is short passing game after breaking up play. He had a good season no doubt about it but so many times these forums over-hype our players. I remember when fellaini was here and so many on kipper i think it was genuinely going on that fellaini was actualy the best midfielder in Europe and you just wait and see that he will go to another club and blah blah blah Zzzzzzzzz.
Gueye is basically a water carrier. Nothing wrong in that. But i wont lose any sleep him going.
Do you seriously know what a water carrier is? Because he definitely isn't that.

Why the heck would PSG pay 30M for a 29 year old water carrier?
 

His passing game in general is short passing game after breaking up play. He had a good season no doubt about it but so many times these forums over-hype our players. I remember when fellaini was here and so many on kipper i think it was genuinely going on that fellaini was actualy the best midfielder in Europe and you just wait and see that he will go to another club and blah blah blah Zzzzzzzzz.
Gueye is basically a water carrier. Nothing wrong in that. But i wont lose any sleep him going.

Nail on head.
 
His passing game in general is short passing game after breaking up play. He had a good season no doubt about it but so many times these forums over-hype our players. I remember when fellaini was here and so many on kipper i think it was genuinely going on that fellaini was actualy the best midfielder in Europe and you just wait and see that he will go to another club and blah blah blah Zzzzzzzzz.
Gueye is basically a water carrier. Nothing wrong in that. But i wont lose any sleep him going.

I do think Fellaini should have been kept in DM position and become a proper destroyer in there. If he had a couple yards more pace he would have been phenomenal.

Gueye is fantastic and is gonna be hard to replace for sure, his passing range wasn't great though as you mentioned. Short passing was his game. Only last season he started stepping forward a bit more with the ball which was nice to see. And maybe he is peaking late on his career into a more complete player.

But unfortunately we do still have to sell before players lose their sell on value and it suits all parties to sell now and get some funds in to rebuild with.
 
Do you seriously know what a water carrier is? Because he definitely isn't that.

Why the heck would PSG pay 30M for a 29 year old water carrier?

Because he’s a stop gap solution due to the dearth of world class defensive midfielders at the moment. It’s why Barca can’t punt Busquets even though he just walks around now, why Madrid havent upgraded Casemiro, why only now City have been able to replace Fernandinho. PSG have been playing a centreback there because he was at least decent on the ball and positionally better than most. Juve still can’t find a decent one after wasting their cash on Emre Can and Khedira neither of whom they’re happy with.

Gueye was nowhere near top of PSG’s list seeing as they asked for Kante. Gueye is a good player who is available at a decent price in a non CL club and doesn’t mind playing in a rubbish league. That’s all there is to it. I doubt anyone in the PSG boardroom was like ‘lads you won’t believe it, one of the top defensive midfielders in Europe is available, no other European teams are interested, he’ll rank alongside Mbappe Neymar and Verrati as a linchpin of our team for years to come’

It was prob more like ‘who will accept a lower wage, is available, has actually played holding mid before, won’t break the bank, can speak French, won’t block a future star signing in this position after we’ve sold Neymar, and isn’t already playing CL football, oh hello...’
 

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