I actually hope he stays to see if he can work well under Poch. Champ or not. I think though that given his wages and decent re-sale value, he's actually one you'd get shot of if we go down, especially if Madders is fit again.
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Player Xavi Simons
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no legit number 10 misses that ball to put porro through for a one on one earlier. take a loss in the summer and move him on, we need far better.
Holds on to the ball too long , hasn’t got the vision to be a top class number 10 at the moment , maybe it’s his age but at £55m I expect more .
He is very much a Poch type player, would be amazing in a 4-2-3-1, in the middle 3.
It's just the players around him are complete and utter pricks.
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Just need to replace the 10 players around him and him
Probably down to the coaching... A manager with more than three braincells would do him wonders.
its painful to watch aint it. football is a simple game, half these idiots want to try some hollywood nonsense that impresses school kids. good football is doing simple things as cleanly and efficiently as possible.
He’s like a really shit Neymar.
If Neymar was actually crap, he would play just like Xavi Simons.
If Neymar was actually crap, he would play just like Xavi Simons.
Won't be here next year luckily
Where's he off to?
Germany if we get relegated. Probably on a loan along with a bunch of our shitters who nobody will want to buy.
France I'd guess
Tudor subbed Palinha for Richy at 5-1 down then brought Simons on with 5 to play.
Pretty hard to misread that as Tudor sending him a message
Pretty hard to misread that as Tudor sending him a message
What’s the message? ‘Let’s keep it to five, lads’.
And the opposition players - those cheating buggers keep tackling him.
I agree that he does not look SO EXTREMELY lightweight anymore.
But he still gets routinely pushed off the ball with ease. And he does not have the acceleration to get out of the harms way in either CL nor in the EPL.
Sure, it would be whole different story if he would have prime Wanyama and prime Dembele behind him in midfield (that would control the tempo and provide physical bite) with prime and prime Kane ahead that would make perfectly timed runs behind. In that framework he could play one-touch-passing football - tempo would be controlled by others. But right now we do not have any of those things. And unfortunately that also means we cannot carry a player with physicality of 14 yo girl.
Basically - he has adjusted, but not to even 50% to the level that would really be needed.