He looked much better while at WH and did not hold the ball as much as he is now. This tells me that TF is asking him to do something extra with the ball instead of pass and run.
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Player Mohammed Kudus
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The issue is that given the state of the squad, he’s by default one of the first names on the team sheet. He’s played too much, and is probably too comfortable relative to his level of quality. If he had more rest and felt he had to fight for his position, we’d probably get the better version of Kudus more often.
Signing him outright - and for 55 big ones - after the poor 2nd season he had at West Ham...that tells you all you need to know about our football people. They are fucking retarded.
I'm praying some Saudi club comes in for him this month and offers to quadruple his wages, so he agitates for the move and we fuck him off.
A big club would've used that 55 mil + the 40 we spent on Tel + the 30 for Odobert on a proper elite winger. But Spurs gonna Spurs.
I'm praying some Saudi club comes in for him this month and offers to quadruple his wages, so he agitates for the move and we fuck him off.
A big club would've used that 55 mil + the 40 we spent on Tel + the 30 for Odobert on a proper elite winger. But Spurs gonna Spurs.
TF isn’t telling him to avoid passing the ball forward and instead dribble 3 players and play backwards (or lose it)
Quite simply he needs to scan *before* his first touch, and then get his head up *after* his first touch. He's beaten 2 men and been tackled by the third before he even considers if he can pass the ball to a team mate. He is basically a Sunday league Maradonna. Get him in a 1 vs 1 in the final third and he can be a real weapon, unfortunately we have no offensive tactics or strategy and he is a head down dribbler in the middle third most of the time.
Sunday league Maradona
Right now he ain't even playing like pub league Madonna.
Agreed, whatever that better version looks like.
You'd think "get to the by-line and spam crosses" would suit TF's ethos down to the ground..... No idea why he'd opt to complicate life for a player like Kudus........
Kudus thinking he's an "entertainer" and better suited to CAM concerns me though......... He clearly ain't that guy; regardless of what his international, part-timer coach thinks.
Moyes would seemingly agree too... Played him there 12 times out of 80 appearances and racked up just 1 assist and 1 goal.
But he hates playing anywhere but the wing- he said it was a major reason he handed in a transfer request at Spam.
His decision making is so bad he turns a 1 vs 1 to a 1 vs 3 every time. He wanders into players over and over
Hes a very selfish player, especially right now. Someone needs to coach that out of him.
Sunday league Maradona
Right now he ain't even playing like pub league Madonna.
That's why he was 55, the price was the going rate all things considered. If he had maintained the form he was in from the start of the 23/24 season then we would have been looking at fee of closer to 100m and most likely better teams would have been in for him.
I doubt Kudus is being told by Frank to hold onto the ball for longer.
He just does what he does.
Are you suggesting he is uncoachable / ignores the coaches? Or that there is no coaching?
If Kudus, whose strength and first touch is generally very good, could sometimes lay the ball off and then spin and run behind the opposition LB who is always very tight to him, he'd be running into space into the final third. Instead he gets into a physical wrestling match and takes another 3 or 4 touches coming back towards our penalty box. This can be very vlauable sometimes, as he holds up play and allows us to get up the pitch (if he doesn't lose it), and he was very good at this the first 6 or 7 weeks of the season. Once he varies his game the opposition will not always commit so tightly to him, and he'll get more time on the ball.
I'd actually like to see Kudus tried as a #8/#10 as he can create centrally with his pace, strength and ability to wriggle through tight spaces and unlock the pitch.
He said in his welcome interview that he’s a 10 but happy to play RW
Spam shunted him to LW to accommodate Bowen moving back to the RW
Mate, I just see in Kudus, aspects of his game that are limited and I don't see how that changes.
It's less that he ignores coaches or necessarily can't be coached, I just think he does what he does, which is holds onto the ball too long,doesn't get his head up enough and can't see a pass.
I think you are seeing some things I don't think Kudus is capable of
he needs to play with raw naivety doesnt he. get the ball out wide and just go for it straight away, he doesnt have the intelligence to try and play a more cultured game. of course he cant do that literally every time he has the ball, sometimes he needs to get it and simply just go back to change the picture. but every now and then he needs to get the ball and just drive forward with no fear and attack the FB.
Until he arrived at the camp ground along the road, he’d made most of his appearances as a centre forward. Closely followed by a number 10, closely followed by a central midfielder. Right and left wing were a lot further back.