In general footballers are terrible at identifying what a team really needs.
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In general footballers are terrible at identifying what a team really needs.
He’s one of those players that can go either way, he could end up just as a faster Antonio type of player.
Or if he works on improving his actual technical ability he could literally become a world beater with his physical attributes.
Two things about Traore is the number of bookings we took to stop him at the weekend and the dangerous areas those free kicks were given in. He seemed to really trouble our guys into panicky fouls and with better free kick delivery, his influence could have been even stronger than it was.
We knew to foul him in really wide areas knowing that any ball to their tiny forwards would be pointless with all the giants in our team...
Fair point. And we don’t really have anyone that can land a cross onto a head. Unless we include Eriksen. And use an oppo players head.
Adama Traore: Middlesbrough winger beats Lionel Messi in dribbling list
Better than Messi? Better than Ronaldo? One study claims Middlesbrough's Adama Traore is the best dribbler in Europe.
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from 2017
According to the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), the 21-year-old Spanish winger is the best player in Europe - when it comes dribbling.
By dividing the number of dribbles attempted by the percentage of successful ones the CIES has come up with a list of the top 100 dribblers in Europe's top five leagues....
.....However, Traore's dribbling skills haven't made much of a difference to Boro. He has no goals and just one assist for the side currently second from bottom in the Premier League.
Jan Vertonghen though...he knows what a woman needs.
Imagine him in a team full of giants like ours. All those freekicks in dangerous areas, would be a huge asset.
We’d need a free kick taker though.
If your going to spaff £60 million on one fast dopey haircutted free-kick magnet wide man this window make sure that wide man is.... Wilfred Zaha
Not for me. That's not the body mass of a footballer, he's going to have problems lugging that around for years at PL pace, and I'm equally concerned about what's between his ears.
Perhaps a tiny football brain.
Agree completely. He should really be speaking with a nutritionist to try to shed some mass.
He looks frankly silly. It's just not viable for his knees.
Much to do about nothing
That's a point....but then Eriksen...
Didn't realise he was even playing on Sunday...Also if we sign anyone from Wolves surely it would be Neves.
If he was going to poach somebody off Wolves my money would be on Neves.
Is that the Sissoko who now plays week in and out as about or our only nearly competent experienced midfielder?Second only in stupidness after the "he had a great Euros" is the "he was great against us" rationale for buying players.
It's how Poch ended up spunking 55m up the wall in fees and wages on Sissoko.ochsulk:
The only upside is that now Poch is gone, we won't see Traore played as a DM cause he's a fucking unit and whatnot.
sorry - argumentative - just come from facebook row about the election!
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