Pretty much in the same boat, I've seen him play once and that was against us ...and he played well in those 10 minutes
Jack Rodwell | Sold to City
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Personally i really rate him, but i think it is difficult to assess what role he has been fulfilling at Everton. Injury and a needs must for everton, mean he has been playing DM, CM or Am at times, but not really for any length of time suitable to make a proper judgment of his best position.
In my view he seems to have everything needed for an all round midfielder, pace, versatility, decent technically, good stamina and mobility, knows how to defend and gets forward too. Just needs a good run in the team free of injury and in a settled position and i think Rodwell will make big strides fairly quickly.
Unfortunately we haven't really seen that from him yet, as his career so far has been a bit stop start. Great potential though in my view, and i would love to see him at OT in the very near future.
And does he look like he has a United player sort of mentality? I.e. is he, as MikeUpNorth would put it, a 'fecking winner'?
I thought the same. The amount for Gibson seemed unusually low.
Fergie and Moyes seem to have a decent relationship and so it's quite possible he'll be our first signing in the summer.
That is the question atm, once he plays one position for a decent amount of time, we should get a much better idea of what influence he can have on the team or not. I hope he can, but too early to determine anything without speculating wildly.
I hope so. I'll be honest from what i had seen of the 2, personally i would have rated Rodwell much higher than Jones. He seemed to just have much more capacity to his game.
Rodwell has suffered more with injury than Jones, but lookin at how Jones kicked on when he got here, i would be very hopeful of Rodwell doing the same. If he can, he will be an absolute beast of a CM imo, possibly an English Yaya Toure, although maybe not quite as technically gifted.
I hope he steps it up IF he does come to us, havent been impressed in the few occasions that i'v seen him play. versatile player no doubt but i'd rather we signed a specialist at CM. fecking good at what he does rather than being decently good at multiple roles. That said, at his age, he does have a lot of potential to grow as a player. Injury prone though which is always a concern.
I think he would be perfect for Fergie to mould, dunno why interest has dropped!
20m (plus a player) for Rodwell... seriously? How many holding midfielders does 'Arry need?
Assuming there's any truth in that rumor.
Assuming there's any truth in that rumor.
I'll be honest, I don't really get the hype with him. Good player for sure but think he's been overhyped to high heaven.
The fee for Gibson was so low because he had 6 months left on his contract and was available on a free in the summer.
I actually think he's one of those youngsters that attracts so much hype at a young age that when they have the sort of dodgy spell that affects most young players at some point, people gleefully tear into them to an extent where they end up being massively under-rated. Not unlike your own Gareth Bale. The same thing happened to Jonny Evans at United.
I've a sneaking suspicion the same thing is happening with Carroll and Henderson at Liverpool but feck it, I'm enjoying their hubris while it lasts.
A young player with plenty of potential and good PL experience already and he's versatile so would suit us playing either 4-4-2 or 4-5-1. I've not seen enough of him to comment on whether he'd be a great signing for us and his injury problems may be a bit of a concern but it's the type of player SAF likes to sign.
I don't think there's been much gleeful tearing into Jack Rodwell, not that I've noticed anyway. More a case of forgetting he exists.
If he does fail to live up to his potential as a footballer, he's got a cracking pornstar name. Though making it there will require some of the same qualities of character and fitness...as well as having an enormous penis.
The jury's out at the moment on all these questions
Nah. Carroll is just limited.
I've said before that Henderson could turn out to be a good player in a couple of years time and under good management. Only 20 years old.
Nope. Everytime I see him play, the game seems to bypass him. He doesn't seem to want the ball. As ferge once said about cleverley that he's the typical united type of player who always wants the ball. Rodwell does not do that.
Plech must have some sort of inside info on Rodwell's penis size...
That was weird, I thought it was about Gibson at first and felt like I might be going insane.
The threads must have got merged or something!
26 passes per game, 81% completion in 09/10
25 passes per game, 83% completion in 10/11
27 passes per game, 87% completion in 11/12
Err...I suppose that's gradual progress. Still shockingly few passes per game, it doesn't look good when you're making half as many passes as Fellaini. Worse still is him playing less games in each season.
25 passes per game, 83% completion in 10/11
27 passes per game, 87% completion in 11/12
Err...I suppose that's gradual progress. Still shockingly few passes per game, it doesn't look good when you're making half as many passes as Fellaini. Worse still is him playing less games in each season.
Have never really seen the fuss with Rodwell, I must admit. Have never seen anything to suggest he'll be top class as a midfielder, and he doesn't look to have anywhere near the level of talent of Smalling or Evans say at centre back either.
We seem to get linked with him for £20m every single transfer window despite this. There's a post up there speculating that he could end up being as good as Carrick; with all due respect to Carrick who I really rate and feel we'd be fecked without, we shouldn't be looking at players at the moment who have the potential to be of his standard - we should be looking at players at least of Carrick's standard with the potential to be better.
Rodwell just doesn't seem to be that player. I can't see him being as good as Carrick either, to be honest.
We seem to get linked with him for £20m every single transfer window despite this. There's a post up there speculating that he could end up being as good as Carrick; with all due respect to Carrick who I really rate and feel we'd be fecked without, we shouldn't be looking at players at the moment who have the potential to be of his standard - we should be looking at players at least of Carrick's standard with the potential to be better.
Rodwell just doesn't seem to be that player. I can't see him being as good as Carrick either, to be honest.
He needs to find a way to add more goals to his games, especially if he is going to play in midfield continually.
I still believe!
Why exactly? plenty of top midfielders dont score many goals. Hardly an issue given his natural style of play....
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Could be a nice deal for Everton. Lose a player in a position they're well stocked and get a massive price for him to rebuild elsewhere.
Odd. City don't need him at all.
Marwood must have read that we were once interested in Rodwell.
Don't think he'd be a bad signing for us.
Laughing all the way to the bank on this one if it happens. The fella is injured 50 percent of the season. Even when he does play he has not lived up to the early hype.
You support City?
Pretty much. Will be an odd move as City have no real need. A bit like them being linked with Scott Sinclair.
Mancini must be desperate for new players. Not sure I understand why, he has the best squad in the league and they are Champions. Is he some sort of FM muppet in disguise?
This place will commit suicide if Rodwell goes to City.
I always had a sneaking suspicion he was destined for Utd but he needs another few years at Everton before he thinks about going to a bigger club.
A move to City now would be a bad move for him IMO, he'll get about 2 games a year.
I guess they're not signing De Rossi then
Never started more than 17 games in a season.
Rodwell is class. His injuries are well known but I think Moyes has been patient with him....purely as he knows the potential the boy has. I would be very happy if he soon found his way to Old Trafford.
Doubt it, two years ago maybe. Now I think most people are over him as he really hasn't lived up to the hype so far.
Bloody hell, imagine we bought Rodwell and Van Persie in the same window. Our physios would start self-harming.