2024/25 Sean Dyche

[TheBigIguana]

I don't think you remember correctly, given how Iwobi and Silva were with us for about 10 (mostly dreadful) games - Lampard faced a bit more flak for it* I think and Iwobi himself had a mini-feud with Ancelotti about his position randomly, but he was mostly dreadful for us.

Also the loudest criticism for this was and always will be @TheBigIguana I think, so you more or less fell for that discussion being brought up on here every day or two. Outside of Big Iggo, the biggest critic of "where Iwobi is being played" was Iwobi.

* EDIT: In that Lampard team Iwobi was genuinely better through the middle imho, but it honestly means nothing as it was another dreadful period.

Silva’s issue as I recall it was less Iwobi’s position and more having Gylfi Sigurdsson (am I allowed to type his name here again?) on the pitch. I wanted Iwobi at 10 at that point more for the knock on of it meaning Sigurdsson wouldn’t be.

Yeah later on Carlo, and then Lampard and Dyche, decided he was a right sided player which he never ever was. I feel it’s fairly similar to McNeil now in that he when you play a largely one footed player on the side where their strong foot is only able to play around the outside that player can be easily snuffed out of the game. Iwobi needed to be elsewhere, as shown by his fairly decent Fulham form playing elsewhere, the same as McNeil always has needed to as shown by his decent form currently.