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James McCarthy

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McCarthy has been absolutely fantastic this season and looks a steal at 13 mil. If he could add a few goals it would be the icing on the cake but even if not he´s still quality.
 

Great player, proper midfielder with bite/aggression, The amount of covering work he does to allow the midfielder that must not be criticised to fanny around not tackling and gifting the ball to the opposition is immense.
 
Petit said:
McCarthy has been absolutely fantastic this season and looks a steal at 13 mil. If he could add a few goals it would be the icing on the cake but even if not he´s still quality.
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Was thinking that myself mate. He keeps doing what he is doing but then adds around 5 or so goals a season to his game he'll be perfect.
 
Petit said:
McCarthy has been absolutely fantastic this season and looks a steal at 13 mil. If he could add a few goals it would be the icing on the cake but even if not he´s still quality.
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It's ironic, the only thing I remembered about him from Wigan when we signed him was scoring this wonderful goal with N'Zogbia a few seasons back. They did this lovely double one-two and then he rolls the ball up his leg and volleys it in. It's a superb goal, and I always tried to find a video of it again, but literally can't find it ANYWHERE.

I went to find a match report to confirm, think this is it:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/feb/05/wigan-athletic-blackburn-rovers-premier-league
The Guardian said:
Wigan produced a goal flood on a quagmire of a DW Stadium pitch to clamber out of the relegation zone. After a season-long drought, Roberto Martínez's team reached saturation point in the sodden conditions.

Not since dispatching Hull for five in August 2008 had they managed such productivity and their manic 22-minute spell either side of the interval belied their status as the division's lowest scorers before kick-off. The best of their quartet was dispatched by the left boot of the precocious James McCarthy, whose intricate link-up with Charles N'Zogbia and subsequent fleetness of foot moved the ball around a massed defence and deposited it into the bottom corner.

McCarthy earlier began the scoring spree when he hauled Wigan level from a diminishing angle.

McCarthy's recent return after a three-month injury lay-off has emphasised his worth in the survival fight ahead and Martínez was quick to acknowledge it. "We missed him too much," he said. "We forgot how good a player he can be but thankfully he came back three weeks ahead of schedule, which is an insight into the type of character he is."

Hugo Rodallega's opportunist strike, which means he equals Henri Camara's record of 20 top-flight goals for the club, and a Ben Watson penalty book-ended McCarthy's second. But the game got better as the pitch got worse, which meant Christopher Samba's powerful close-range header and substitute David Dunn's conversion from 12 yards contributed to a frenetic finale.

With Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City their next three opponents, Wigan's maiden league victory of 2011 could not have been better timed. "The three points were a must when you look at the games coming up," Martínez said.
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Interesting to see him described as a 'precocious talent' and 'on a scoring spree'.

EDIT: managed to find it at last! Thank you Hugo Rodallega. 40 seconds in:
 
LocalNative said:
Providing we do the inevitable this summer and sign Barry, who partners him in the middle? McCarthy or a fully fit Gibson?
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Rotation, form, injuries, suspensions.

I don't think either of them will sit out too many games. I think McCarthy's energy and tackling might just edge it, but Barry and Gibson would be very solid in possession and therefore probably moreso overall.
 

Goals, assists, tackles, stats, STATS, STATS, STATS!!
You can be a brilliant player without scoring goals or getting assists.

Where is this stats obsession coming from?
People in Italy or Spain aren't obsessed with stats.
 
anyone said:
Goals, assists, tackles, stats, STATS, STATS, STATS!!
You can be a brilliant player without scoring goals or getting assists.

Where is this stats obsession coming from?
People in Italy or Spain aren't obsessed with stats.
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Well I agree, but stats are ultimately an objective way of measuring performance in a lot of areas. You're probably right that the Spanish don't rely on stats, but I'll also bet that the Barcelona midfield probably make more passes per game than just about every other team.
 
anyone said:
Goals, assists, tackles, stats, STATS, STATS, STATS!!
You can be a brilliant player without scoring goals or getting assists.

Where is this stats obsession coming from?
People in Italy or Spain aren't obsessed with stats.
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Because of the now inherently institutional, English obsession with following America's lead on everything. They are completely stats-mental and despite ample evidence of flaws we've eventually adopted it as our own. See prison system, education, foreign policy, diplomatic stance (Afghanistan, Iraq, WoT, Axis of Evil, Libya, Syria, Egypt some of the many we automatically sided with them on) defence spending, energy policy etc. It all filters down; music, sports and the rest
 
anyone said:
Goals, assists, tackles, stats, STATS, STATS, STATS!!
You can be a brilliant player without scoring goals or getting assists.

Where is this stats obsession coming from?
People in Italy or Spain aren't obsessed with stats.
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Because Math explains everything.

It really does. The problem with stats in football is that no one has quite figured out how they go together yet. And we probably need to work on more data, and of course many stats are proprietary. But stats are factual representations of things that have occurred. The problem comes when people put all of their faith in statistics when the statistical models are still flawed (and they are very much flawed in football), but that does not make the instrument the problem.

Stats will revolutionize football. It'll just take the right statisticians to figure out the correct measurements that end up pointing to success.

Football isn't the one magical thing in the universe that cannot be explained by math, it just hasn't been explained properly yet.

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I don't pay attention to stats, because I do not care, but I do understand that someone that pays attention to statistics probably has a better view on the potential of players. Assuming the models are correct.
 

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