Tbf the fact Salah's up there just means that attacking need to take chances, and will inevitably give away the ball.
The people who actually do know anything don't tend to post it publicly for obvious reasons.
The only worry will be his crossing, I feel.
60 m for Antonio Valencia in his prime defensive form?
Not until he starts training with Calamity Jones.
Barcelona got semendo for like 30 m, have no clue how much cancelo costed but pretty sure not that much.
Im greedy with our players too
You're wrongly interpreting those stats to fit an agenda. Attackers are always going to be the most dispossessed players, particularly those who attempt more dribbles. They can afford to and its expected unlike other positions like CMs and CBs. If those players don't take chances with the ball they'll never be as productive as they are, and if they were dispossessed much less then defenses would be rendered redundant. Those players would be contributing to way more goals than we're seeing and scores like 3-0 would probably be more common than 1-0. Neymar was the most dispossessed player across the top five leagues in 2017/18 and at the 2018 world cup. Messi was one of the most dispossessed players in La Liga in 2017/18 as well and he was dispossessed 17 times alone against Liverpool in their CL loss.
Yeah that excuse works when his production is anywhere near Salah's orbit. Zaha is a buyer's remorse waiting to happen and he'll probably end up with Newcastle if they get bought out or Everton.
Every single FB they have signed we have scoffed at and now neither Walker or Mendy are first choice.
Playing for Barcelona and City is an entirely different proposition from playing for United. For instance, neither of those sides lose the ball cheaply and then have to defend counters, defenders at United do.
So prepare to play without the ball rather than improve with the ball and improve efficiency in final third?
I suspect that some of his first touches were so bad, they have been logged by the statisticians as failed passes.There are and he didnt give it away most
You can also factor in pass success %
Thats where he clearly comes undone
We didn't scoff at them, we had different priorities and limited budgets. We should rather take someone like Thomas from psg and wait on wan bissaka until he runs his contract down to single year and then sign a even more proved full back than just a 21 year old on the back of one good season for a world record price for a full back, use the money more wisely in other areas.
Sure, if Ole can coach a midfield of Pogba, Matic, McTominay and Fred into not losing the ball or replacing them all with better technical players at once, he can go and buy a player like Trippier for 25M and have him overload the flanks, until then he needs a defensively sound fullback who has recovery pace and physical strength to snuff out danger.
I don't have an agenda, and I'm interpreting the stats just fine. I also understand that attackers give it away most often, I assume its a given that everyone knows that. Was I comparing to him to a player in a different position?
That's the area money is most required at the moment, the midfield, not wasting major chunk of it on a defensive full back. If we can use that additional 50 m euros in landing another cdm and luring rabiot here for free with someone like Bruno too coming in that is wise use of money than blowing it on a 21 year old on the back of one season in an overly defensive team.
TFM couldn't hold down a place on a Fulham team that got relegated. Stop equating him to Wan Bissaka. Wan Bissaka is young enough to still improve in attack while playing on a better team.
AWB was the one that ousted TFM from the Palace side!!
Yup forgot that too, I like TFM and he could be a squad option next season, just not a starting right back.
It's obvious you haven't watched AWB play.
I reckon it'll end up closer to £50m + add-ons, which I still think is a fair deal.
Are you talking about Wan Bissaka?
Admittedly, I don't pay much attention to Crystal Palace, but the lack of any crosses or attacking from the wing in his highlight videos is concerning. Looks like another Antonio Valencia in his prime, great defender, but not going to provide much going forward.
Meunier
Rather be an attacking team and add better midfielders and improve efficiency in final third than add a mega priced defensive full back on back of a single season in top tier football and prepare to be poor on the ball and off the ball in midfield.
It seems that Juventus want to sell Cancelo, Barca to sell Semedo, Bayern is not going to buy James, City could sell Sane, etc. That doesn't mean they are bad players.
You're not comparing him to any one else but I was for context. As for the part in bold, you're again coming to a flawed conclusion without proper context. Zaha again plays for Crystal Palace who finished 12th. Compare his teammates to Hazard's teammates, a team that finished third. Zaha and Milovojevic are Crystal Palace's only real threats in attack. Townsend is bang average and Benteke can't even get a game and this is why Batshuayi was loaned in to help bear the burden.
AWB is more than “slightly better” than TFM
I think we are willing to give Dalot time but the problem is that right now he is not good enough offensively or defensively so we cannot just go with him next year. Not a criticism of Dalot at all by the way, just the reality that he should not be our starting RB for some time yet and in fact may end up proving a better option as a right sided midfield player when he matures.
Is TFM a right back? I see him as central player whether he is good or not.
Its going to be strange for TFM if this signing is completed considering AWB took his place at Palace when he was on loan there
Yes, yes, yes and no.
