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Ross Barkley

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.....I noticed a throwaway comment from Stan Colleymore in the January transfer window. Doing that programme on the last few hours of the window he highlighted instances of young talent going to City on mega salaries only for their careers to stall. He then mentioned Barkley and a £30m deal as if it was done. He's clearly ITK and it was probably me wrongly picking up on a comment but it did stick in my mind.
 
.....I noticed a throwaway comment from Stan Colleymore in the January transfer window. Doing that programme on the last few hours of the window he highlighted instances of young talent going to City on mega salaries only for their careers to stall. He then mentioned Barkley and a £30m deal as if it was done. He's clearly ITK and it was probably me wrongly picking up on a comment but it did stick in my mind.

Stan Collymore is not ITK.

Hes a clueless moron who I would imagine is despised as much by people involved within the game as he is by people out the game.
 

.....he appears to have his contacts within clubs, probably just me putting 2 and 2 together and making 5.

Well I dont pay much attention to him on the main, but dont ever recall him breaking anything, the amount of rubbish those clowns at TalkSport spout is unreal, which is strange, cos you would assume they do have contacts all over the place.
 

He has been more consistent, sure. But Ryan Mason has nowhere near the potential that Ross has. I certainly wouldn't trade Barkley for Mason.

Mason would struggle playing for martinez! Ha...

Now ross is either just working harder because he's trying to impress or because he's not playing under bizare instructions from the manager he's playimg for tonight.
 
I really think if we'd played Barkley as a centre mid in the home games against mid table teams then we'd be looking at around 10 more points now.

I can't understand why we've started so many of those type of games with two defensive mids. Far too negative and completely ruined Ross' second season.
 
I really think if we'd played Barkley as a centre mid in the home games against mid table teams then we'd be looking at around 10 more points now.

I can't understand why we've started so many of those type of games with two defensive mids. Far too negative and completely ruined Ross' second season.
Because hes not disciplined enough against decent teams, and he bottles a lot of challenges
 
The thing about EFC's midfield is that mc Carthy has to play. But his game is tearing around winning the ball. That means that a holding, defensive midfielder has to play.

Barkley is not a defensive midfielder so he has to play off Lukaku.
 
Because hes not disciplined enough against decent teams, and he bottles a lot of challenges
He didn't when he played CM against QPR at home earlier this season. Him and Besic got stuck in and won plenty of tackles and Ross ran that game.

I think that being shunted out to the wing the next game against Southampton was the breaking point in terms of his confidence.
 

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