broccoli
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Seems talented but a bit lazy. That's the impression i got after watching him play for 20 minutes. Could be wrong though.
Pretty much this.You made some valid points about Pepe neeeding to do it in the PL instead of EL.
The two things you keep coming back to as why we should expect a lot more from Pepe is his price tag and that he is 24 years old. Again fair enough. However as has been pointed out Those suddenly don't matter when Ndombele is being judged. He is in the same category as Pepe. We can't really treat Ndombele as a youngster or wait for his potential while treating Pepe as a finished product. Pepe is only 1 year and 5 months older. (Perhaps not insignificant but hardly huge age gap to put them on seperate age categories).
As for the price tags, again quite similar. Both signed for club record fees. So both under similar pressures to live up to that fee. Ndombele's fee can rise to 70m Euros with add ons while Pepe's final figure is 80m Euros. Again too close to put it in separate categories.
What this shows to me is you will be defending your player and giving him the benefit of doubt as long as possible, and we will be defending our player to what we perceive as unfair criticism.
Haven't seen him since those free kicks. When is he back from injury?
Pretty much this.
I haven't noticed Ndombele pulling up any trees, yet he seems to escape criticism.
Double standards and all that....
Pretty much this.
I haven't noticed Ndombele pulling up any trees, yet he seems to escape criticism.
Double standards and all that....
How dare you judge a player who's only played 1000 minutes for his new club.Didn't watch the full match but I know he came on for Willock in second half and looked poor again from what I saw.
Didn't watch the full match but I know he came on for Willock in second half and looked poor again from what I saw.
We've scored 3 goals from open play in our last 8 league games.Not spending the cash on a couple of quality defenders instead of Pepe was outrageously incompetent! Arsenals attack has never been the issue!
He was actually MOTM tonight. Brilliant goal and a very good assist, and was hacked down all game. Still has to prove his huge price tag but it's too early to dismiss him as a flop. He will certainly get more games under Ljungberg.Looks like a dodge bullet, candidate to flop of the season. 70 million down the drain.
Benched.
There was a few posters on here that were adamant United missed out on a very good player.
Fred took a whole season to adapt too. I don’t know why people are so quick to write players off.Isn’t that impossible to say just yet...Bernardo Silva took 6 months to even get regular starts? Fabinho prob around the same.
I'm just saying that based on what we've seen this season. No idea if he will improve or not. I do think people are too quick to jump on the lets sign this or that player without much thought.Isn’t that impossible to say just yet...Bernardo Silva took 6 months to even get regular starts? Fabinho prob around the same.
Yeah, but you don't actually rate anyone. Go into any player thread and I guarantee you'll have posted your usual "he's shite" low effort post.Thought he was his usual shite self bar thr goal.