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Player Micky van de Ven

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His recovery pace and last ditch sliding in fools people into thinking he’s one of the best. He’s not a great reader of the game, not a great pure defender either and inconsistent with his passing. Just showy stuff. In a top team he’d be useful but put him under pressure and he’s rash in everything he does.
 
His recovery pace and last ditch sliding in fools people into thinking he’s one of the best. He’s not a great reader of the game, not a great pure defender either and inconsistent with his passing. Just showy stuff. In a top team he’d be useful but put him under pressure and he’s rash in everything he does.

He should be much better in the air- get done too much for a man his size.
 
He is extremely fast, nigh unstoppable when he gets momentum on the ball and has a very good strike on him for a CB. A very glamorous player which is why the fans love him. He’s a Vertonghen with pace but nowhere near the defensive brain or passing range.

Hard to dig in to him because he’s so obviously not the problem and he’s one of only a few in the squad who would walk in to a top team if we tried to sell. But equally he very regularly has games where he fails to do the defensive basics. I’m not sure how much this has improved since being here.

Does genuinely feel that with his skill set we’d be better off putting him at LB, getting Spence at RB (Porro has fallen off a cliff) and playing Romero & Vuskovic when back. A lot of what he does really well isn’t CB stuff.
 
Least of our problems.

Its the inability to string passes together and play basic triangle one touch football that we should be more concerned about.

How many times did we manage to do that last night? Practically zero.
 
He's going to push to leave in the summer.

Big clubs will be in for him as well.

Good.

He isn't brilliant abd if we can get 50 to 60 million then fine.

Guehi is far better although we won't get him.

I do however think a change of manager changes so many things

If anythjng we have 3 or 4 players who really believe in their own hype far too much.

That's why we may need a manager who will give it to them straight, and who won't stand for the kind of rubbish we saw yesterday.
 
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