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Confirmed Signing Vitaliy Mykolenko

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truebluejersey said:
Digne seemed to stop trying about 12 months ago. A very good player before that but seems to of thrown his toys out the pram even before Benitez started
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Correct. Digne has needed replacing for a long time. He's gone the way Baines went, but more so...Baines was great on the overlap and could cross well, but was not a particularly good defender. Digne started wel at Everton, but his skill going forward tended to hide his lack of quality defensively. On top of this he had an injury a little while ago and lost some of the basic courage needed to defend at the top level. Strangely enough, international football, which is on the whole slower with less physical contact, suits him better at this stage.
 

Gabagool said:
From what I remember, he started off well but suffered a nasty ankle injury that kept him out over the Christmas period, and then was really quite poor imo for the second half of the campaign. So with regards to this season, ofc there's a case to be made that a more defensive system limits the chance creation of a supposedly marauding left-back, but my view was that his poor form extends even further back.

Selling a relatively high-earner at 28 at a profit after several years of service is the model we ultimately need to adopt if we want to become even remotely sustainable over a longer period of time. However, ideally, you want to be negotiating from a position of strength rather than weakness, because valuations can quickly drop from 30-35m to ~20m once either party starts to kick up a fuss about things.

This is where Benitez's primitive emotional development worries me, and although I understand that a statement needs to be made when a player actively questions a superior's leadership early doors, I do hope that we don't start to see a pattern form of the more talented players being alienated by Benitez's 'zero-compromise' approach.

On topic: Zero clue if this fella's any good, but would be very much up for a team composed of Ivan Drago-esque thugs who can still mix it technically with the better teams in the league.
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Was our top assist with 7. In what was a poor 2nd half to the season for the whole team, that's a decent return
 

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