Rarely is ever just one thing causing problems.
I think both are true. He looks genuinely underweight even for the French league and our system is not working either…
One thing generally sorts the other out, a lot of it is confidence as well
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Rarely is ever just one thing causing problems.
I think both are true. He looks genuinely underweight even for the French league and our system is not working either…
He’s built more like a winger and even still would be too lightweight in this league there.One thing generally sorts the other out, a lot of it is confidence as well
He’s built more like a winger and even still would be too lightweight in this league there.
I’m not sure how our system sorts that
He needs to hit the gym. £200k per week is another uber ENIC fail IMO.
It’s a joke actually.
He’s bigger than Modric.22 plenty of time to change that, wouldn't write him off so quickly...
For sure and it’s not personal I just think it’s was a bad piece of business. But that seems to be how our owners frequently operate.22 plenty of time to change that, wouldn't write him off so quickly...
Taller but per the net Modric is 8 kilos heavier.
For sure and it’s not personal I just think it’s was a bad piece of business. But that seems to be how our owners frequently operate.
For all the talk of how weak Xavi is Madders is hardly Johnny Bravo is he![]()
Haha. Of course not!For all the talk of how weak Xavi is Madders is hardly Johnny Bravo is he![]()
Haha. Of course not!
Better playmaker / proven at this level though.
Perhaps with time Xavi will develop similar guile to compensate for lack of strength. We should be buying prospects like that to develop under senior players like Madders not replace them.
MGW was super weird too, to say the least! Rather have Grealish starting with Xavi on the bench. I didn’t know Xavi, so yes it’s hindsight.I don't think you can put this one on the club, okay the Eze thing was wild and IMO he was only going to join them as that's his boyhood club but if not Xavi who else was there to come in?
This is all hindsight speak IMO because fans were incredibly happy that he was coming to us and saw it as a coup, fans were delighted we got him in front of Chelsea.
We are are in bit of a shit position that both our 10s are out with long term injuries and ideally he'd be sharing mins with one or both of them so whoever came in faced a baptism of fire and thrown into the pressure cooker regardless.
MGW was super weird too, to say the least! Rather have Grealish starting with Xavi on the bench. I didn’t know Xavi, so yes it’s hindsight.
It’s never been our recruitment strategy to do that we go for too many unknowns.
Perhaps we differ in definition.
Perhaps we differ in definition.
His lack of starts last year & zero goals for PSG.
He has 26 assists for 6 clubs in his whole career. The goal tally is not exceptional either.
I don’t see (it’s unknown) what justifies A) to be a top earner at THFC & B) what our recruitment team saw employing him as a guaranteed replacement for James.
But that’s just my opinion man. I ain’t a pro never played the game really just watch a lot of football lol.
I can see why it worked at RB. And perhaps he’d be better suited as a 7 in a different system. I’m not writing him off, really want him to do well.19 goal contributions in 33 matches in Germany last season, forget his PSG stint he was a kid lol same with Ekitike you have to be an exceptional young player to make it there and even then that was during their period of playing galaticos anyway.
A lot of people wanted him at this football club and was seen as a coup seeing the price we paid for him, it hasn't worked out so far but Liverpool paid more than twice as much for a player who is more talented than him and it hasn't worked out for him either...doesn't mean we should write both players off...
Taller but per the net Modric is 8 kilos heavier.
Probably all in his calves!![]()