Funny.
So many people on this very forum were screaming for ange to play him as a LB last season, with Romero and dragusin as CBs
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Funny.
So many people on this very forum were screaming for ange to play him as a LB last season, with Romero and dragusin as CBs
Yes, I do remember that. I wonder if anyone else has forgotten that...
Never forget that Ange picked VDV at LB... Never forget... Never forget... forget... forget...
VDV inverted at left back against Salah.
Where did Ange get these terrible ideas from
To be fair
bk_spur
- to whom you were answering - has always thought playing VDV at LB is a bad idea.
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Erik Van De Sessegnon
As far as I can tell, that Geoff Scott prick who did his little Athletic revenge piece, is the only person at the club who worked with all 3.
Just noticing.
As far as I can tell, that Geoff Scott prick who did his little Athletic revenge piece, is the only person at the club who worked with all 3.
Just noticing.
VDV needs to stop diving in at full pace as well. The amount of times he’s already got there and can just ease the man off the ball and get us back in possession but he wants to look like he’s saving us. Just gets the other team in possession up the pitch and I’ve seen him feel his hamstring a couple of times after too.
Especially when he tried Skipp there out of desperation last year and he did ok.
I've said before that playing him in a system that's reliant on his pace will not serve his overall development as a CB. He has explosive pace and can be dynamic with his ball progression, but there are aspects to his game that need a fair bit of work (as you suggest above) - positioning, awareness, and staying on his feet.
Thankfully he's still young, and hopefully the lasting damage hasn't been done.
It's not like he hasn't played there before, he played there at times for Wolfsburg and for Holland...
So was Ange investigated
Eh?
We have the most rapid CB in the fucking world. How have you reached the conclusion that it’s best not to put him in a system that uses his pace?
Obvious what he means.
His pace is an advantage and a tool and it doesn't mean you put him in a low block, but you also shouldn't use his pace as a get out which the system relies on all the time, which Ange's system stupidly does.
Put him in a properly structured side with an effective system, and he wouldn't need to use his pace as much, however when he needs to use it, it's there and a potent weapon.
VDV has been hung out to dry by Ange, the fraudulent fucking fool.
great post.
25seconds in. This (I posted just after) made me wince, sprint and diving block, just after being fit enough to train again.
Why!
Maybe because you don't have all the information and the professionals working with him do have the information and aren't as dumb as you think?
Obviously, that could be wrong and they're just bumbling around with a 50m pound asset sending him straight into full intensity before his body is ready.
Still don't understand why Ange hasn't played Romero as a #6. That was absolutely established as fact on this forum as a genius idea. Ange and the coaches must be amateurs for not trying it. He probably has to sprint more as a CB as well. And CB sprints cause more injuries as well.
I do think people sometimes think these players roll straight off the treatment bed and into intense training straight away. no field work, no training without the ball, no training one on one with the physio, just chucked straight back into regular training with the group, with the intensity cracked up to 11
I do think people sometimes think these players roll straight off the treatment bed and into intense training straight away. no field work, no training without the ball, no training one on one with the physio, just chucked straight back into regular training with the group, with the intensity cracked up to 11
You sometimes think that?
I know that's what they think every time.
It just stinks of fitting all players to a single template. He gets high fives after, from Mason, if you watched.
It’s not a question of blaming coaches, or medics, it’s just lacking that “cotton wool” aspect, where a crucial £40m asset has had multiple recurrent injuries, known to be aggravated by exactly the movements shown at 24-30seconds (standing to sprint and diving at full sprint to block).
If he says he’s feeling fine and up to it, with medical support of such, put a ‘No full sprint and sudden body movement’ embargo on him.
Bullshit.
I always think of Nouradine Naybet who Ledly King says taught him that less running was preferable. That positioning and taking the ball cleanly was more effective. King was good but the North African taught him to read it way better.
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Don't point this out you will interrupt them patting each other on the back . Lol