Jesse Lingard will have an excellent season | Discuss in his player performance thread

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

A lot of managers look at other teams and coaches for inspiration.

Since teams started employing DLP or old fashioned DMCs who could dictate from deep, it's been fashionable for a few years to have a hard working link man to try and occupy that player players nullify him. A player who can press, offer a transition threat, and knit play; basically a quicker, less able David Silva type. These are so rare (great tens) but fit, high stamina, hard working forwards with poor finishing and passing are common. Ten a penny. If they could finish they'd be strikers, if they could pass they'd be tens.

Alas your academy will produce more of these types of players than of the tens with actual ability so you must find a use for them. This position or function of a team is more to do with the commonplace nature of stamina first, football second players.

 

[arthurka]

His first touch right there

The number 10 at United ladies and gents

Lukaku quality trapping of the ball.

 

[PepsiCola]

Back to laugh at @MaxiPaxi and this thread

 

[The Stain]

I like when he receives the ball and plays a back pass.

 

[Amar__]

I like when he receives the ball and plays a back pass.

That's a clear improvement because today he couldn't receive/control single ball to his feet.

 

[Paxi]

Back to laugh at @MaxiPaxi and this thread

guilty as charged. I was just trying to be positive for once.

 

[PepsiCola]

guilty as charged. I was just trying to be positive for once.

I can respect this.

A shame hes not performing, it would only be good for us all if he was.

We need to start seeing Gomes in his place I feel.

 

[Canucantona20]

Gomes is just better than Lingard. It’s time to make the change

 

[Paxi]

I can respect this.

A shame hes not performing, it would only be good for us all if he was.

We need to start seeing Gomes in his place I feel.

We need to start seeing something cause we’re fecking creating a square root of feck all. Unbelievable, really.

 

[The Stain]

That's a clear improvement because today he couldn't receive/control single ball to his feet.

You didn't see him play 15 back passes today? Like he does every game? The only "good" thing he does is when he runs with the ball in a straight line. Then nothing happens though.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

Can’t trap a ball, “98%”

Awful footballer.

 

[Sparky_Hughes]

If I win the euro lotto I will put a £40 mill bid in for the useless tosser and have him cleaning my toilets, it's all he's good for.

 

[DrRodo]

I really really hope we stop starting this clown, slowly fading him to the bench. Just 5 or so final minutes in already won matches, then suddenly he stops showing up in the bench squad, only cup matches against championship teams, then finally we sell him to middlesbrough next summer

 

[Isotope]

Another manager that might be sacked, just using Lingard as starter.

 

[Red Stone]

This might be the dumbest thread in the history of the Caf. Lingard and excellence are mutually exclusive concepts.

 

[Random Task]

I'd be amazed if he started next week.

Another awful display.

 

[DoomSlayer]

We play without a 10 or RW when he is in those positions.

 

[Joga Bonito]

Can’t trap a ball, “98%”

Awful footballer.

Is 98% the new 0.012%?

 

[Amar__]

You didn't see him play 15 back passes today? Like he does every game? The only "good" thing he does is when he runs with the ball in a straight line. Then nothing happens though.

I only saw him misplacing first touches, it was like watching Rooney during one of his worst hangovers in months.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

I'd be amazed if he started next week.

Another awful display.

At this point I’d be amazed if he didn’t.

 

[suhaylah]

Lingard is the one who can get OGS sacked.
Why persists with this average players?
Give Gomes his chance. Else he'll surely leave.

 

[Bojan11]

He’d start next week. Martial is injured and Sanchez is off.

 

[Paxi]

How does one delete thread?

 

[fergies coat]

Doesn’t score goals, and no assists. He’s supposed to be a number ten right?

It’s absolutely mind boggling how he keeps getting games. What do people see in him?

If this was 10 or 15 years ago it would be a Johnathan Greening or Luke Chadwick situation. He would get a handful of games and the manager would release he’s not good enough and move him on.

The fact that he plays week in week out shows how far we have fallen.

 

[Marcus]

Useless today. Maybe works in a counter attacking situation but not sitting defences.

 

[Zoo]

His first touch right there

The number 10 at United ladies and gents

Did it twice? If that was Lukaku..

 

[RedSky]

How does one delete thread?

 

[izec]

Did it twice? If that was Lukaku..

Yep twice. Stealing a living

 

[hungrywing]

Define insanity

 

[Jacob]

Lock this thread.

 

[Nico87]

How does one delete thread?

I’d claim someone hacked my account.

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

It's amazing these guys with made-up usernames on an internet forum think they know better than world class football managers - all of whom have had Lingard as an option PLAY HIM.

Fergie
LvG
Jose
Ole
Southgate

Some of you need to admit that it's not that Jesse is rubbish. It's that you don't get it You only judge a player on the 2% of the time they have the ball at their feet and are blind to the fact that the other 98% exists.

I'm not the biggest Jesse fan. He annoys me. I think his attitude was part of the problem under Mourinho... but let's get things straight. You do NOT know football better than the managers listed above. End of debate.

This post aged well

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

Still one half left bro. Still 3 halves of football

Could be 100 half's left and he won't do anything useful

 

[Code-CX]

I can’t stand the sight of him at our club. He’s just so astoundingly bad and yet people find a way to defend him because he runs a lot. Awful player.

 

[kouroux]

@MaxiPaxi I know you tried some reverse jinx shenanigans but some causes are just too lost

 

[Isotope]

How does one delete thread?

A "donation" to the Caf staff would do the trick.

 

[Paxi]

@MaxiPaxi I know you tried some reverse jinx shenanigans but some causes are just too lost

It backfired spectacularly and only after 3 games. Spectacularly.

 

[Ranchero]

Not a good start

 

[2 man midfield]

Thank god we’ve got this absolute goal magnet playing centrally now, he was practically invisible out wide...

 

[pablo__p]

If we loan him out to a Championship side he might have a shot.