MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Never gonna happen.
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Never gonna happen.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Lol would love to hear what these modern day classic albums are?
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
Barkley needs to give Deulofeu first option on our near oppo goal free-kicks. Geri is better than him.
EFC78
Player Valuation: £25m
Well said. Think Charlie made a judgement about Barkley a while ago and has decided he can't backtrack now so will just continue to say it. Barkley's been great this season. Granted he's not been quite as good in the past month but the majority of the time he's been very good.
As you said, all top players make mistakes. Even players like Hazard are prone to making the wrong decisions at times.
Barkley has improved a lot this season but the best thing he has done in my opinion has built up his confidence in games through playing the short 5-10 yard passes to keep possession. He's learning that he doesn't always have to go on a 20 yard run each time or try a turn when he's on the edge of our box with opposition players around him.
Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of people who clearly don't watch much of him who still come out with this 'liability in his own half' stuff like Neil Warnock, when he's improved that part of his game a great deal.
Depends what you count as modern, I suppose...
If we can go back to the early 00's or 90's, cos' here's f-all else nowadays.
Anyway, Barkley is class, stop being melts.
a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
100% agree. But Barkley would be reluctant to admitting this. Given he plays for England, the media is blowing smoke up his ass, and Ross (who's not the sharpest knife in the drawer) won't relinquish 'top dog' status easily. He's a person gifted of considerable footballing physical talent, but his mental acumen ain't all that. And because he's a bit brain dead, Geri leaves him for dead. So does Rooney (who many blue tinted specs care to draw comparison)
Hmmmmm
newish poster, that I´ve barely seen before...suddenly seems to have taken a strong dislike to me for no particular reason...
Come on, spill the beans. Whose multi are you?
I agree that Deulofeu needs to be given equal status on free kicks...they need to sort that out between them really. When Leighton Baines comes back thatll be a three way split. I think its unfair to label Ross a meathead though. His judgement is the only thing that really lets him down...when to be intricate...when to go direct. That's improved and hopefully will continue to do so in time. He hardly throws his weight around as a topdog now.... that will come in time
Charlie Sweet
Player Valuation: £35m
Whoa there Doris. To the best of my knowledge I've never defended Howard on this Web site. I'm not a fan of his by any means.
But yes - £30m and I'd be the first to wave Barkley good bye.
Charlie Sweet
Player Valuation: £35m
I think you've got that the wrong way around mate. I take a very simple approach here. I've played a reasonable level of footy but no more than probably a load on here. I've followed the club for almost 40 years and generally football is my only real sport. I watch it all the time.
I just think Barkley is infuriating in not picking the best pass or shot often enough. He's too greedy in my opinion.
If it came off more often that's another thing but it doesn't.
I think it's his fans who praise his ability to do the simple things really well that all of a sudden makes him an Iniesta or Xavi. Being brilliant without obviously being brilliant. That's over-thinking it isn't it?
As I said above if Barkley had been a £15m acquisition from Wigan and wasn't a local Blue he'd have a lot more harsher critics than he does now.
lets just name "definately maybe" - it doesn't take a genius to identify that its an excellent album, therefore the pretentious music snob scoffs and says the words "OK computer".....
Ross Barkley - the "definately maybe" of the non tackling midfielders.
Would that be the Iniesta and Xavi that were given loads of time and didn´t become the players they are now famous for being until they were a good few seasons into their careers?
Patience, sorely lacking in the vast majority of football fans IMO.
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Parcheggia l'autobus
No offence like but lots of people will say its not an excellent album, i.e.: people who don't like Beatles tribute acts and british indie music... of which there are many millions.
you are confusing opinions with facts Peter.
I personally am of the opinions that Ross is boss, and that an album containing Hey you Up in the Sky or whatever its exactly called, isn´t excellent.
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