Paratici was shit as a DOF when he got it right it was almost by accident. That is the man who gave an injury prone Ramsey a multi year contract£300k a week contract.
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Player Yves Bissouma
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I would give Paratici pass on that.
He was generally considered as a steal when we signed him. Just noone expected he will be completely mentally destroyed when playing for bigger club, under bigger pressure.
That's a risk when you buy player even from mid tier Pl club. But some red flags were there, like this whole alleged rape situation
We need another MF.
Sarr is on fumes. Bergs is just a kid.
We need another defender, another MF, and another ST / Winger.
The way we play requires a lot of quality depth.
We can’t have a player like Dragusin and a teenage midfielder playing so many matches as our CB pair. Gray has proven to be a revelation, but Dragusin isn’t good enough right now to be backing up Cuti or VDV.
It's probably the long term effects of using nitrous oxide fucking with his mind. I bet he was doing it back when Conte was manager and that's why he didn't use him.
Thick as shit footballer
There’s usually some merit in your perpetual defence of this guy, but today I’m sorry there’s just no defending him.
He was abysmal for the entirety of the first half, lazy, not tracking runners, hiding from the ball, sloppy. And then what’s become a trademark for him, inexplicably trying to run past 4 players before losing the ball leading to a goal in a big game.
Look, the guy has obvious qualities as a footballer. He can be very skillful and shows flashes of brilliance, but surely you must see that he is nowhere near the mindset or temperament to be a top level midfielder? He’s too sloppy in possession, too lackadaisical and just plain idiotic at times to be a PL 6, especially in the system we are trying to play under Ange.
If he was playing for Woolwich, City, Liverpool, even Newcastle or Villa, he would have been binned off long ago.
He's a fucking dunce.
Bissouna can't boss games. End of.
Playing him as a single pivot may work on rare occasions, like the Liverpool match, but in general it's asking too much of him. Especially in a team where fullbacks march forward freely, and the other two CMs are not very good defensively either. It results in him being left on an island far too often, both in and out of possession. Only a handful amount of DMs could handle this kind of pressure regularly, and Bissouma is not one of them.
I'm still of the opinion that this team doesn't have the personnel to play a single pivot, no matter how adventurous Ange wants to be with his choices in midfield at times. Without that elite DM I think we have to resort to some kind of a double pivot, which may or may not involve Bissouma.
Gray may eventually grow into that elite DM, but in the meantime we need reinforcement in the summer at the latest. Players like Bissouma, Bentancur, and even Bergvall taking turns to play DM won't cut it.
I'm still of the opinion that this team doesn't have the personnel to play a single pivot, no matter how adventurous Ange wants to be with his choices in midfield at times. Without that elite DM I think we have to resort to some kind of a double pivot, which may or may not involve Bissouma.
Gray may eventually grow into that elite DM, but in the meantime we need reinforcement in the summer at the latest. Players like Bissouma, Bentancur, and even Bergvall taking turns to play DM won't cut it.
Berg is the future
Put a dressing gown on him and you would think he just got out of bed.
Certainly nowhere as good as many thought.
