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My opinion, couldn’t give a fuck what you think to be honest. Plenty of nasty tackles and sending offs, got away with a lot too
Bill, he was all over the place, and getting turned inside out, gave the ball away several times when under no pressure.
I really don't see him currently as being what Cote needs at right wingback. He may have youth on his side, but i don't see what he offers on the pitch anymore than Winks does.
Good squad player.
Because he's a defender.
Yet Emerson is only being played in that capacity.
Not pointing the finger at you, but this is the problem with the notion of so-called "squad players"(*); they get pelters the moment they do play for not being as good as the guys they are filling in for (Winks, Sanchez, Davies at LB etc. are perfect examples of this.).
(*Many people here make this concession with little to no conviction; purely out of a faux attempt to look reasonable.)
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Something a bit ungainly about him. If we're comfortable, he's good at safe short passes and linking play. Very little else unfortunately.
But what Conte wants is a wingback, not just a defender.
That's fine, but if you put Son in goal, he's not a goalkeeper, he's a striker in goal.
It's not fair to critique Son for being a poor keeper.
Royal just isn't an attacker.
Have to say villas defence yesterday was shambolic. Everytime we went forward we looked like scoring. They still have a bit of championship about. Speaking about championship might go to Norwich away last game of season. Think that could a hull away type win a few seasons ago. 7-1.
I hope we don't need a win and get a Newcastle away type defeat from a few seasons ago 0-5...
Yeah 5-1 and we ended up finishing 3rd. Gooners were on the verge of having an open top bus parade after that.
Royal will go in summer no question. Probably atletico Madrid. Unless he plays like cafu last few games of season but reality cant see it. After a Torino right back I've heard.
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This has been the case with quite a few of our opponents, including City and Liverpool. Our ability to quickly arrive at the opposition third, counter attack or not, is elite. More often than not, we transition from defence to attack in 3 moves, and about 30 seconds.
It results in a lot of free space and disorganised defences.
Conversely, we are terrible at breaking down an organised defence using patient build up.
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He's not a good squad player IMO. The drop off in quality is too much.
Trippier and Davies were good squad players back in the day.
That was 6 years ago, the last time they finished above us.
The St Totteringham day shite is now a distant memory.
I just want top 4 wrapped up before we play the gooners. Then beat them at home to wind them up even more so they are at boiling point. 
Nor am I making the argument that he is.
Just think it's futile laying into him for not being what we wish he was.
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That's a fair statement.
Same applies to the likes of Winks. It's our fault we ended up with him starting during this important run of fixtures.
We can't accuse him of being lazy, entitled etc. like Ndombele.
Gerrard did his fair share of cheating as a player, snipers all over when he played. He wasn't renowned as a dirty player, but he had his moments.