At what point are we going to accept the simple reality that he is a very bad defender. We didn't need to see him play again to know this. Same goes for Mina, Keane , Holgate etc
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….really don’t get why some posters think Holgate is fast. He is faster than Mina and Keane but so is Betty (my 94 year old Mother-in-Law). Holgate is immobile with no powers of recovery.
BigDuncTributeBand
Player Valuation: £25m
Mina and Keane are gone but Holgate and Godfrey should be right out the door as well. The pair of them are never going to be centre backs for a decent premier league team - they’re not kids, they can’t defend the box to save their lives, they’re Norwich standard. Enough of the lot of them.
Keep Tarks, Coady, Branthwaite and bring in another centre back. No more waiting on repeat failures to to magically turn into top half players.
Keep Tarks, Coady, Branthwaite and bring in another centre back. No more waiting on repeat failures to to magically turn into top half players.
EGWToffee
Player Valuation: £6m
What makes Branthwaite do reliable?Another one who cost us dearly last season getting sent off. Can’t get a game a PSV.
Tony101
Player Valuation: £10m
This is what I would do if possible in January bring back Branthwaite get Keane, Mina and Holgate out the door. Keep Godfrey for now. Get two starting wide forwards push Gray and Gordon to the bench. Fire Davies in to the sun.
EFC78
Player Valuation: £25m
I remember the game where it confirmed to me he was nowhere near good enough and that was back in September 2018 when we got comfortably beaten 3-1 at home by West Ham and Arnautovic bullied him. Positionally Holgate was woeful and he's just an average or worse defender. Needs to be high up the list on those who need to be sold soon.
BigDuncTributeBand
Player Valuation: £25m
Nothing, he’s young, has potential and unlike the others hasn’t had multiple runs in the team dropping clanger after clanger.
If we bring in another centre back, they’d be third choice, Branthwaite fourth.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Mina and Keane need to be offloaded, we have Godfrey and Holgate can be kept to tide us over until Summer '23.
He was fast until that injury 2 seasons ago .....
grandjoeblue
Player Valuation: £35m
When does his contract end?
I'm not even sure he's faster than Mina. He's lighter on his feet and so more mobile, but once they're both running I'm not sure he's any quicker.
He can't put a proper run of games together without cocking up though, he never has been able to. It's always 'oh he had a good game apart from...' and 'he's been doing well recently so i'll let him off for tonight'. He's not absolutely terrible, but he's unreliable, a below average player at this level.
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