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James McCarthy
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Maltese_Falcon
Player Valuation: £15m
He is just a dog , nothing more .
No, was one of our best players last weekend.
Don't worry, someone will be along soon to tell us we don't appreciate what he does for the team.
He stops counters apparently. Evidently not particularly well judging by the amount of goals we concede that way, but he does it. And he runs, there's no denying the lad runs. Usually away from the ball as far as I can tell. He made 5 tackles last week, which is more than Chelsea's midfielders put together, cos he's pyar boss. It's possible that one of the reasons for that is that chelsea have footballers in the midfield and we have, well, him, but still what a stat.
He stops counters apparently. Evidently not particularly well judging by the amount of goals we concede that way, but he does it. And he runs, there's no denying the lad runs. Usually away from the ball as far as I can tell. He made 5 tackles last week, which is more than Chelsea's midfielders put together, cos he's pyar boss. It's possible that one of the reasons for that is that chelsea have footballers in the midfield and we have, well, him, but still what a stat.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
This post literally makes no sense.
Off topic, reported.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
It's very much on topic.
You're trying to belittle a good game, proved both by eyes and stats, by saying that Chelsea have footballers.
It makes no sense.
McCarthy was poor today, granted, but that doesn't retrospectively change past games.
I was just messing about mate, but if you insist I will argue.
I'm not belittling him or retrospectively changing anything. I've said numerous times on here that I'm not claiming he's useless, in certain scenarios he's very useful. Namely situations where we have limited attacks and he can just hate round the midfield clattering people. I love him in those games, and praise him to the hilt. A lot of people used the chelsea star as 'proof' though - like you just said- that he's comparable to patently better players because he tackled more than them. My opinion is that there is less need for central midfielders to tackle against us, as their opposite numbers offer extraordinarily little attacking threat. I think McCarthy is very very limited, and I think he is content to take the easy option and hide rather than attempting to influence games. I don't like that trait at all.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
Although I disagree, you make your point well.
I shall therefore return to where the real battle is, the Martinez thread!
Enjoy your night mate
Got to say he looks bang average of late. Offers nothing in my eyes. Just not at the level if we want to join the big boys. I add Cleverly to that. Work horses but not much else. There is better out there and we need to get better players in because the 2 or 3 good players we have cannot carry the whole team.
to be fair, Im not sure there is a player that's on Barry's level when it comes to reading a game.
And this whole season I've not a clue what to make of him. He's been fantastic, he's been crap, he's been really good, he's been just utter [Poor language removed]. Think today could have been a bit different if he were in Barry's position and Besic was in CM instead.
Not playing well at the moment no doubt about it.
has he actually got a forward pass in him? repeatedly slows us down, loses momentum, over rated as a footballer, great as a tackler
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