I saw him make a lot of runs without getting any passes.
Once you get to a certain level, and it's a level way below the PL, you are coached to know your teammates. You should know the runs they like to make, where they like to receive the ball, under how much pressure they can safely receive, etc etc etc. My point to you is just because a player makes a run doesn't mean he should receive the ball. Who on this team can reliably play that ball over the top? Name them! And if no one can reliably play it then why is a player making that run instead of doing something more useful like moving toward the ball to make any subsequent pass easier? Looks nice...make run, flap arms when you don't receive a ball that no reasonable person would expect from our cloggers, dupe supporters that you were giving effort for the cause.
Oh, and you
were apologizing for him.
If he sold Dele to Madrid for 90m in his prime this forum (and me as well) would demand his head to be placed on top of cockerel at WHL.
Are you suggesting mob rule? Presumably, those at the top are informed and knowledgeable. In performing their duties with the best interests of the club in min why would they listen to nonsense opinions of posters on this board?
There is a lesson in here though.
I mean if we didn't replace him, sure. But if we had gone out and signed a really highly rated player in his position from around Europe for 40/50 million and then added a top player elsewhere to that, I definitely wouldn't have been annoyed. Had they pocketed the money then sure, justified outrage.
Never even needed to be "highly rated" just a competent footballer...which Dele is not and has never been. Go watch an old game of when he was 'in his prime' (lol) and just follow him. And see if you can get widescreen version as I'm told he does magical things in those spaces not typically broadcast...you might need a 48:9 aspect ratio.
You don’t score the number of goals he did, at that age, in the PL and have the impact he did without being incredibly talented.
Lightning in a bottle. Goals =/= Talented. Many a player bubbles us with goals but goals are not an intrinsic quality of a player. If they were he'd still be scoring them. The player mostly benefited from the system and not the other way around. In fact, I've always felt he hurt us for the other 89 minutes in which he didn't score.
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BTW awful player, 4+ seasons past anything apologists can point to as usefullness, 3 coaches seen off and yet he's still here. This player is going nowhere (it seems). Previously it was DL reluctance to get rid but now I imagine it's a combination of DL's reluctance, Conte only being here for another season, and no market for a player that's been found out as having nothing. Jan 2024 we will see the tweet of mutual agreement/cancellation. But before that he will have another new beginning/clean slate witht he next manager...like a bad penny!!!!
