Kudus+Palinha ensure we're not.
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Player Xavi Simons
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Kudus is great but with no Kulusevski it hasn't raised the overall level of the squad until his return.
Recruitment has been shite and we are once again over playing players and building up a huge injury list.
Is he really still a kid? He’s 22.
A year younger than Cole palmer and Morgan rogers. How did they do last season.
2 years older than Tel and Odobert.
3 years older than Bergvall and Gray.
I think he’s mainly going to be shocked at the pace and physicality of the league tbh. Hopefully he can adjust. Not all players manage to.
Nah
We have much better manager, we won't lose anywhere near the amount of matches we did last season
We have arguably our best player Palhinha that we didn't have last year
We have a shitload of players that will be returning from injury in the not too distant future.
Xavi has been disappointing so far, actually that is understatement, but we are third in league even with in effect carrying him, and our injury problems.
This isn't true at all and is anti scum bias. Eze has been very good for them, and is ten times the player Xavi is right now unfortunately for us.
Eze isn't some 8/10 every week player.... Never has been. Was never gonna be a miracle-cure player for us and the fact he's not thrived in a very settled AFC only underlines this.
....BUT come the end of the season he'll have proved a net positive.
Let's hope Simons can say the same.
Kulu and Kudus are both a non factor on the left.
Kulus return will only improve rotation; not the best XI.
There's very little downside to keep feeding him gametime.
Kulu can play in the middle
I don't know if it's purely down to him or because we didn't have the Bentancur and Palhinha double pivot but he was actually more involved on the ball in an attacking sense yesterday.
As opposed to last week against Villa where he basically played DM and put more tackles in than passes.
He's massively short of confidence in front of goal. Passed up another shooting opportunity. But almost trying too hard in other ways to play people in. Needs to simplify the game and just play the ball quicker going for the easy pass. I'd have liked to seen Luca Williams-Barnett on the bench yesterday.
As opposed to last week against Villa where he basically played DM and put more tackles in than passes.
He's massively short of confidence in front of goal. Passed up another shooting opportunity. But almost trying too hard in other ways to play people in. Needs to simplify the game and just play the ball quicker going for the easy pass. I'd have liked to seen Luca Williams-Barnett on the bench yesterday.
Same as son, came from Germany off the back of 11 goals 3 assists. Xavi comes off the back of 10 goals 7 assists. Son Only managed 4 goals all season when he moved here at similar age.
It's a dice role, hopefully it pays off in the same way as son, and not in a timo werner
.......Not to any great shakes.
Still really only helps on a rotation level.
Was Son on 200k a week when he first joined?
I’d dare say he’s probably the best of the available options for a 10 until Xavi settles and improves.
People demanded we start paying big boy wages more often.... Lets not immediately use them as a stick to beat a player with after just week 9.
Besides; if he advances to become a player worth 300kpw in a couple of years; that 200kpw will prove to have been peanuts.
We're better off persisting with Xavi.... He's not gonna acclimatize quicker on the bench.
True, but I’d be tempted to introduce Xavi into the 10 either from the left wing or bench and start a fit Deki in the 10 where you can use his physicality and eye for goal.
At present we’re giving up too much possession from the 10.
could say that about anyone though
A 100% better option that anything we have right now.