I think so to mate, not to get at the lad, but like Pickford ive always felt Keanes issues were psychological as opposed to ability.
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I think so to mate, not to get at the lad, but like Pickford ive always felt Keanes issues were psychological as opposed to ability.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I'm not sure. I just know for example the sitting really deep on free kicks style of defending is inarguably a zonal system. So maybe it was man to man on corners but that's not how I remember it.
If you want to get upset about people making errors in friendly matches go crazy. Dele missed an open goal last week, scored one this week - both were meaningless as is everything until the league starts and I’m sure the team will work on any shortcomings identified during the games.
I’m actually glad things go wrong in friendly matches, it gives them a chance to be identified and fixed before it matters.
Inarguably - you tease! lol
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I'm not slating him for it. It's just interesting to me that basically no one wants to acknowledge it happened. And apparently quite a few are willing to get really revved up when someone does.
It's just exactly what we did with Godfrey is all. And probably others before. You still see posts like "why can't Godfrey be like the first season" when he's actually never changed.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
It is though. We defended those set pieces by dropping two lines of four players really deep. That's a zonal system. It just is. I don't know what else to say.
I’m not getting ‘revved up’, I’ve been consistently telling people not to get worked up one way or the other about friendly matches. The Dele thread was a joke after the American friendlies with people writing him off completely because of a meaningless kickabout.
What I saw overall from Tarkowski is what we already knew, he’s a good defender. What I learned more about is that he can pick a pass far more than playing Burnley’s system previously allowed. It was an encouraging friendly performance with the normal pre-season rust present.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
He can pick a pass when given enough time to fix a snack and get a drink first. But this is also true of Keane and to some extent Mina. Under pressure I don't see much of an upgrade at playing out. Which we should just stop doing because we can't.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Presume this doesn’t count for all the times he’s ballooned it off his own player in the penalty area and it’s dropped to the striker to bang in, all the times he’s tried to bring the ball out and fallen over it or given it away and it’s led to a goal, all the pass backs that have been intercepted, all the times he’s ducked under a ball with his eyes shut and we’ve conceded, or when he’s barged into our own player and left the opposition to score.
All of these I would count as putting it into his own net
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
He's obviously not the best mate but this is just miles over the top
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
He’s the worst CB in the PL by a distance. He shouldn’t be playing premier league football.
God Benfrey
Player Valuation: £6m
Apart from that brainfart when dribbling he was pretty good, what was funny is that he proabably played more key passes in that one game then Holgate has in his career, yet he tries it about 13 times a game
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I feel confident his next club will be in the PL
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Some newly promoted team might take him. Then they’d wish they hadn’t
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