HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £30m
I applaud his willingness to play with injuries, unlike Onana being a bit sore last year for crucial games, but his back looks in bits. He’s no whippet but he looks visibly stiff. You can’t play through a dodgy back at the pinnacle of football lugging all that muscle around when the slightest extra half second in changing direction means a goal conceded.
He could have recovered by now, missing a few games before/after an international break, and our new centre back could have played 3 or 4 games by now and a valid option. Says equal amounts about Dyche’s stubbornness and about how O’Brien looks every day at FF. I’ve no doubt he’d play if the coaching staff thought we could keep clean sheets with him on the pitch.
Tarky has been excellent since he came, and deserves massive credit for Branthwaite’s development. Him being off the pace and unfit is a nightmare no-one at the club seems to have accounted for, but should have planned for.
He could have recovered by now, missing a few games before/after an international break, and our new centre back could have played 3 or 4 games by now and a valid option. Says equal amounts about Dyche’s stubbornness and about how O’Brien looks every day at FF. I’ve no doubt he’d play if the coaching staff thought we could keep clean sheets with him on the pitch.
Tarky has been excellent since he came, and deserves massive credit for Branthwaite’s development. Him being off the pace and unfit is a nightmare no-one at the club seems to have accounted for, but should have planned for.