Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
Lately, when he’s been in the team, we struggle to play anything remotely decent. It’s not surprising in the least.
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Lately, when he’s been in the team, we struggle to play anything remotely decent. It’s not surprising in the least.
Apart from his first season he’s been utter gash.I suggest Schneiderlin's (NB I call him Oscar- after the bloke with that list) is preoccupied. He seems a little remote, distracted. I understand his father recently (and sadly) passed away and I'm wondering how much that has affected him. What's his relationship with his partner like? Is he/she providing Oscar with the support he might be needing? I hope so.
They say time is a great healer and time is what I suggest Evertonians, thronging GP, extend to Oscar. He's too good a player to remain in subdued doldrums over-long.
A popular scapegoat.
He is in the team to play 10-15 yard balls and retain possession. He does that, but the frustrations among the fanbase are increased when there is a lack of attacking intent from the rest of the team and then they expect players like Schneiderlin to produce creativity which he just doesn't have in his game.
Having said that, I only see a place in the team for the vast majority of games for one of him, Gana and Davies, and for me i'd go with Gana every time as he has a lot more energy and is just better in that role.
He jockies space for 90mins. That's the problem with him.
There are 2 aspects to it. One is that he is not showing enough, along with many of our players, and I accept that. But our fans also place unrealistic expectations on certain types of players. As I said, he's in the team primarily to win the ball and lay it off to better players. He has a long range floated pass in him that Gana and Davies don't seem to, but he isn't providing enough for the team to warrant a start and I would start Gana ahead of him. Then have Sigurdsson alongside Gana.
But our fans seem to expect our defensive centre midfielders like Gana and Schneiderlin to drive forward and create attacks through 15-20 yard balls when they aren't that type of player. Our managers have decided that they don't want to address that position so for me, they are the ones culpable. With the unrealistic expectation, i.e expecting him to do things he's not capable of, or in the team for, is like expecting Bernard to fly in to 50-50's. He's not in the team for that, that's for the likes of Gana, Kenny, Zouma to excel at.
He doesn't half do some stupid challenges, guaranteed booking whenever he starts a game.