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Was hoping he'd be a Roberto Carlos style player. But he's closer to Darmian right now. He has had f**k all game time this season tbf.
Not everything. Telles has a hell of a lot more goals and assists, for starters.It’s yet another signing where I just think, why didn’t we just keep Daley Blind? Literally better than Telles at everything.
Ole Gunnar BrainfartDo have to question Ole as to why you wouldn’t play Cavani with Telles on the pitch. The one thing he can give you is a decent delivery in to the box and that is something none of Martial, Rashford or Greenwood are likely to take advantage of.
He is a good squad player but seemed like the wrong game to put him in.
Yes, everything.Not everything. Telles has a hell of a lot more goals and assists, for starters.
Last night was the perfect game to play him. Theoretically not much defending to do and a great chance to show what he does going forwards. Just a very disappointing performance. Although he does take great corners.
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play him infront of Shaw has a left sided winger.
Lets face it he can't do worse than either Martial or Rashford.
Cavani would love the crosses.
100%. I thought it was good management to bring him in to a game where we’d be on the front foot against a back 5 sitting deep. Poor game. He needs matches one way or another though and cameos like last night won’t help him much. I’m sure he’ll be a bit better next season but he’s not young so I don’t see a major improvement on the horizon. Himself and tuanzebe have been poor since that PSG match. Another thing I don’t get- why didn’t ole build on Donnys minutes at the weekend if he wanted to freshen it up. He wasn’t great against Liverpool but this was a far easier game and there was no good linkup play between midfield and attack last night apart from Bruno’s ball to Greenwood. Mata probably would have been a better shout than Greenwood on the right. Hindsight is 20/20 we got what we deservedNot everything. Telles has a hell of a lot more goals and assists, for starters.
Last night was the perfect game to play him. Theoretically not much defending to do and a great chance to show what he does going forwards. Just a very disappointing performance. Although he does take great corners.
Was Beckham fast? was he a dribbler?
A guy who’s so slow he can’t even attempt to take someone on can’t do worse than the guy with 59 goals+assists in the last season and a half. Of course he can, he’d do miles worse. Stupidity at its finest.
Beckham was actually a pretty decent dribbler... and would always move with the ball into space.Was Beckham fast? was he a dribbler?
Telles doesnt need to dribble past someone to get a cross in.
So you’re saying that getting crosses into the boxes is important for fullbacks when it comes to assists? Great point but not sure that makes your “everything” claim any less wrong?Yes, everything.
90+% of Telles’ goals are from penalties and free kicks. How many does he take for us? 0. So those past goals are completely useless for us. And if Blind pumped in crosses every time he got the ball he’d have as many assists too. He doesn’t though because he largely plays at CB and has an actual brain.
He literally got an assist from a corner last night...Yes, everything.
90+% of Telles’ goals are from penalties and free kicks. How many does he take for us? 0. So those past goals are completely useless for us. And if Blind pumped in crosses every time he got the ball he’d have as many assists too. He doesn’t though because he largely plays at CB and has an actual brain.
With Shaw being in great form, I'd agree 100%. I'm a tad concerned Shaw will look at last night's performance and think the pressure's off.Halfway through the season and I can comfortably say the best thing about this signing is that it has lit a fire under Shaw's arse.
We play with inside forwards, Rashford, Martial and Greenwood rarely go down the wing to the byline. They always cut inside.Telles needs somebody to link with. It doesn't help that our forwards just stand in the box being marked.
He's obviously not very fast so he struggles to beat people on acceleration, but if he gets worked into a good position he can whip a nice cross in.
We expect so much from our fullbacks, Shaw has been having to run the flank all by himself for ages.
Liverpool's forwards don't completely abandon the wings, they always work with the fullbacks, I don't get why we don't use the wings more especially at home.
Yes that's the point. They cut inside way too early.We play with inside forwards, Rashford, Martial and Greenwood rarely go down the wing to the byline. They always cut inside.