Let's see whether he picks up another injury when national duty comes around, yeah?
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Player Cristian Romero
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Let's see whether he picks up another injury when national duty comes around, yeah?
Yes, that's what makes us the laughing stock of the premier league. Because opposition fans really care whether we doubt Romero's commitment or not.
Totally not the lack of trophies, the bottling key moments, the dreadful football lately. It's that.
Youre accusing the club you support of faking injuries.. That's about as laughable and pathetic as it gets mate.
No I didn't ... I said he'll get a knock when the next Argentina duty pops up. Probably leave a week or so early, as he has done in the past (not just once, either).
I really don't care if you think that's embarrassing .. and nor does anyone outside of this forum.
You would like him to be slagged off? Or you want Dier to be slagged off less?
Dier slagged off less.
There are players at this club who are treated as whipping boys because somehow a false narrative has been foisted on them.
For example, people truly believe that Dier can't pass, and they compare him to Toby.
Yet the stats show, over a long period of time, that Dier has more completed passes % wise (both short and long) than Toby.
Dier makes a mistake, he gets pilloried on here.
Romero makes the same mistake and it's silence.
Of course people will say "Dier's always doing it" ....not true.
Or "Romero has credit in the bank for previous performances"......bollocks, a mistake is a mistake.
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Dier gets dragged way too easily.
Needs a leader beside him to be truly great. All the qualities but needs a speaker.
Put him alongside an Adams or a Terry or even a Mabbuut/Dawson he would be so much better.
Our whole squad lacks a leader. Bentancur looks captain material to me if anyone but obviously not a centre back.
Put him alongside an Adams or a Terry or even a Mabbuut/Dawson he would be so much better.
Our whole squad lacks a leader. Bentancur looks captain material to me if anyone but obviously not a centre back.
Romero isn't perfect, but he's better than Dire is now and he has 4+ years to improve by the time he's Dire's age.
Did you not notice the complete and utter lack of bad passes, bad touches and complete fucking brainfarts the vast majority of the match?
No dodgy back headers, no complete failures to control and easy pass, no slicing a ball behind for a corner, no picking the ball up with acres of space then smashing it either straight out of play, or straight into the middle of the pitch to an opposition player.
All of that contributed to a first half where we completely controlled the ball, played the entire half in their half of the pitch and they failed to trouble the keeper at all.
That was the safest and most comfortable defensive half of football I've seen since our decent run last season.
Went a bit tits up in the 2nd half admittedly and I left at 0-2 so have no idea what went down after that
And yet Dier is still a better passer of the ball than Toby, despite him "picking up the ballin acres of space etc....."
So no criticism of his awful defending for the 2nd goal.
Point proven.
Dire is not a good passer of the ball. He get's a very, very, very low proportion of his attempted passes right.
It's no good just watching some highlights where they show that one pass that worked out. Watch him during the course of the game attempt anything more than a short pass. Watch how often attempted hollywood balls are screwed up. It's non stop. I'm not imagining it, it is happening.
Sadly, no one is making decent youtube reels of these as they're fairly boring. Most people only make highlights or show the mistakes that directly contribute to a goal conceded. Not just how many times we give the ball away when we don't need to.
I'm not defending Romero either.
I'm just saying Dire deserves absolutely every ounce of criticism he gets. He's 28 years old, he's been here 8 years and he's been dropped by Poch, by Mourinho and he needs to be dropped by Conte.
completely agree, best back 3 we can muster when everyone is fit in that last one. the football out from the back was so much cleaner and more assured. the actual defending doesnt get improved with sanchez, tanganga or dier.
Eric is part of our team, just like everyone else.
I don't know why he doesn't have a lot of self-confidence at the moment.
I have no idea if the people who don't trust him to walk 1 m straight ahead without falling on his face would also "criticize" him to his face?!
Someone who doesn't currently have the highest level of self-confidence, we should try to build them up.
THFC's manager or players' employment and skills are treated very generously.
If you were to romp around openly in the company in such a way, you would be sure to receive a warning.
Maybe, just maybe, one’s been here for like 6 years and barely had one good season, whilst the other has been here for a year and a half and shown he can be a reliable player so people are willing to show more patience. I wonder why you don’t go around defending Sanchez whilst tossing some washed up statistic.
you cant be serious if you think dier is better passer than toby? stats are a joke. no situation in football is the same. dier should have 100% passing stats because he takes so fucking long on the ball he should never be losing it.
the stats dont tell you the quality of the ball. if dier whacks one 80 yards and the winger jumps to get a head on it before it goes off the pitch is that a tick for dier? same with lloris and his kicking. someone said his stats are good, watch the quality of passes they are hospital balls that create chaos. simple passes that end up causing us problems....but he gets his little tick for completed pass hahaha.
i wish the other clubs just looked at these stats then! we wouldnt have probkems shifting the shit. didnt winks have good stats? couldnt give that cunt away...maybe cos the other teams actully watched the games and not just read statistics
I didn't say he was a good passer, I said he was a better passer than Toby.
The stats prove this in both long and short passes.