I am personally expecting him to have an impact. But thats immaterial to whether we should play him or not. Fans expectations are obviously immaterial
Yes.
Not really, our strongest performers are in midfield (Puigmal, Mejbri), striker (Hugill) and wings (Elanga, Diallo too but we've only seen him play once).
7 I think.
Not a fan of how we let puigmals contract run down without at least giving him a chance or 2 on loan. I think he’ll make it but not here and if he was doing well on loan this season he may have had a squeak at getting a new deal here but that ship has probably sailed. He needs to go play somewhere ASAP.
To be fair this is the first season since he joined us he's actually looked the part. I've really liked his performances this season but he's not played like this his entire time here. Last I heard we offered him a new contract but he was stalling on it because Barcelona came sniffing.
I thought he was good last year too. The club just probably played it safe with his contract expiring at the end of this season. Same as Gomez. We really need to be getting players who aren’t ready for first team at least one loan before they leave.
He was decent last year but his end product this year has been infinitely better, got 3 goals and 1 assist in 16 games last year, a few were at full back, this year he has 7 goals and 2 assists in 11 games.
I agree but hitting top form for the u23s on your way out of the club isn’t really the best management. Something should have been decided last year but it’s been let run. To be fair he’s a team player who’ll knit things together well at pro level and as I said probably wouldn’t have made it here anyway but we seem to be missing the mark a little while balancing contracts and getting the lads valuable experience/putting them in the shop window. I like him but I wouldn’t be confident giving him a long new deal without seeing how he does with a run of games at a better level. Anyway. Ive gone Amad off topic here.
It's on MUTV.
Shame our defence is taking the piss too....not in a good wayAmad is taking the piss out of some these Blackburn lads
if he’s match fit he needs to go up.
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They were just taking the piss therePutting this in here too. Diallo with Hannibal for the U23s.
Good lord!Putting this in here too. Diallo with Hannibal for the U23s.
TBF you aren't going to get that much space and time in the PL. The unreal vision was from Hannibal to set up Amad who tee'd up Shola for his first. That was the pass of the match
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Was just going to comment on the vision. Cool calm collected, head up and picks out the pass instead of trying to score himself.
They have to give him a look in Europe surely to judge that?
Same. I don’t know if I’ve just been starved of seeing anything like that within our own team, but seeing a player who can actually beat a man or run at their defence at pace is almost so alien that he just seems like Ronaldo mk 2 by comparison.
That's not a bad shout.
I'm as excited as anyone about Diallo but of course they would, it's a simple pass which he has lots of time to weigh up. I'd be disappointed if any of the first team didn't make that pass. But it does confirm that he's ready for the first team. The composure is there.
