From the 19/20 Valencia Player of the Year Thread:
This year is a little more difficult in my opinion, we have a core team and the players on the fringes are either obvious dead wood or have terrible injury records.
So due to lack of genuine candidates this year I am going to go for a long shot. Juan Mata.
He seems like a strange choice given the signing of VdB and with Bruno already here and Sancho likely incoming (There’s probably even a good chance we will let him move on), however, I think there’s actually a chance that he might prove himself to be a key player at times and in important moments throughout the season. I actually think the introduction of more technical attacking players is going to bring the best out of him when he does play. He’s a player who compliments other players, an intelligent player who reads the game well and links up with other intelligent and technical players in a way that not many others can in our squad.
So, many moons ago I predicted that Valencia would be a brilliant player for us at right back when he was a source of ridicule for us at right back.
He went on to be a brilliant player for us at right back and I try to mention it as often as possible.
This year’s Valencia is going to be Scott McTominay. He’s going to develop into a key player for us this year. Not only working his arse off defensively but beginning to stamp his authority on the ball too.
Any other predictions? Slim picking to be fair.
This year is a little more difficult in my opinion, we have a core team and the players on the fringes are either obvious dead wood or have terrible injury records.
So due to lack of genuine candidates this year I am going to go for a long shot. Juan Mata.
He seems like a strange choice given the signing of VdB and with Bruno already here and Sancho likely incoming (There’s probably even a good chance we will let him move on), however, I think there’s actually a chance that he might prove himself to be a key player at times and in important moments throughout the season. I actually think the introduction of more technical attacking players is going to bring the best out of him when he does play. He’s a player who compliments other players, an intelligent player who reads the game well and links up with other intelligent and technical players in a way that not many others can in our squad.