2018/19 Idrissa Gueye

[Blue Juice]

Imagine thinking we'd be better off selling him and putting Davies in his place

 

[KaiserEFC]

Proper crap him isn’t he.

 

[ijjysmith]

Absolutely cannot he sold.

 

[billyblue80]

And some want him sold? He is the only one who protects our back four.

 

[Axlswhk]

We will be a side struggling with relegation without him. Nobody else in the team can harass and retrieve the ball to make Silva system anywhere half effective.

 

[MACCA75]

Turns out it’s actually important to run around making tackles in the midfield

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Funny that people think he isn’t our most important defensive player.

 

[brownmola]

It is amazing how much more you appreciate a player when he is absent. We are terrible without him protecting our back. He snuffs out so many potential attacking chances and today was a great example of what will happen without a player like him doing that. If anything, we need to get a younger version of him in to come in January in case Gana ever gets hurt.

 

[blulouie]

And some of yous wanna sell this lad , yous dont know footie lads.
Stay off the FIFA you fools.

 

[Axlswhk]

No team can ever survive in the premiere league without a proper ball winner.

No one can replace him just as much as no one can replace Richarlison in the team.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

He's an engine, that's it.

It’s because he’s the best we have at this moment. Gomes has made everyone forget about Davies and McCarthy. McCarthy is a different player, but it wasn’t long ago people on here saying he would be a perfect partner for gana, never in my eyes like.

If We can get a top class number 6, gana will be forgotten about pretty quickly.

He's not, honestly. It seems that way because he covers lots of ground, but honestly, if he's not there, you adapt to who is.

For example, people use the stats that he has most tackles/Interceptions etc as a reason why he's so important. But that is to say that if no other midfielder has bettered him, then not only is he the best midfielder in the league, but we should also have the best midfield in the league.

Or it means we are terrible in possession and give it away more than a lot of the top teams, and he is a massive reason for this in the 1st place. If he wasn't there, it doesn't necessarily mean we will be worse off because he's not there to win it back, it just means other people will share the load of winning it back, or that we don't need to win it back as much in the 1st place.

And genuinely, if it was a choice of keeping him for his engine, or replacing him with someone who's so called defensive stats weren't at the same level, but could keep possession, move the ball forward more efficiently, and weigh in with the odd goal or assist, I know which I'd sooner have.

No, I'd just sooner have a central Midfielder who's abilities aren't solely restricted to how much ground he covers, and someone who actually contributes when we have the ball.

People talk about him like if he didn't play, we would have to play with 10 men, or that no one else would be allowed to tackle or intercept. Even if they don't manage as many as him, you have to assume they will do some of that work, and if they are more competent in possession, we might actually need to win it back as often anyway.

I just think he is really quite average, and the attributes people enthuse about are not as important as they make out. If they were, him having the best stats in the league in those areas would reflect more in our performances and on us as a team.

 

[4737carlin]

Get well soon, without you were a mess

 

[hktoffee]

You really think Davies can do the same job?

 

[Abraders]

Our only decent player.

 

[GwladysPhil]

Weird that. I still think the same