Allan Saint-Maximin

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What do you make of him? Must admit never heard of him before he joined Newcastle.

Beats players with ease and is very quick. Has the makings of a very good player I feel, just needs to sort out his end product and score goals.
 

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Very few of them turn into Sadio Mané. In the words of @JPRouve - ‘he has the tools but not the toolbox’.
 

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What do you make of him? Must admit never heard of him before he joined Newcastle.

Beats players with ease and is very quick. Has the makings of a very good player I feel, just needs to sort out his end product and score goals.
People said the same about Obertan.
 

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Reminds me a lot of Wilf Zaha. Skins players for fun but has very little end product.
 

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I'd compare him more to Adama Traore... Looks like a world beater until he gets into the box.
Traore is basically a pace merchant. Knock the ball past and run. This lad, like Zaha, has loads of tricks in his locker and often beats 2-3 defenders when he's running with the ball.
 

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Traore is basically a pace merchant. Knock the ball past and run. This lad, like Zaha, has loads of tricks in his locker and often beats 2-3 defenders when he's running with the ball.
Thinking more on an end product level. Zaha's end product isn't bad
 

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Traore is basically a pace merchant. Knock the ball past and run. This lad, like Zaha, has loads of tricks in his locker and often beats 2-3 defenders when he's running with the ball.
Traore is a lot more than just a pace merchant. He's a brilliant dribbler in pretty much every way and has plenty of tricks of his own (probably more than Saint-Maximin). He's just so ridiculously fast and has so little end product that it's easy to fall into the trap of him being just about the pace.
 

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Traore is a lot more than just a pace merchant. He's a brilliant dribbler in pretty much every way and has plenty of tricks of his own (probably more than Saint-Maximin). He's just so ridiculously fast and has so little end product that it's easy to fall into the trap of him being just about the pace.
It's crazy that people have put him down as just a pace merchant
 

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Despite all his pace and dribbling ability, he does not have a football brain, and I don’t think he can ever really overcome that. He will probably have a decent career in top five leagues, being constantly frustrating and occasionally impressive.

As for Mane being mentioned here, I think he looked much better when he first came to PL. He was technically slick, his passing and interplay with Pelle looked pretty good, and he was a (wasteful) constant goal threat. And his pace on the counter always seemed absolutely terrifying.
 

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Imagine a team with him and Traore in! That would be the most frustrating team to watch, ever. XG 35.3 G1
 

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His arm movement is the most bizarre I’ve ever seen from any footballer. They go absolutely everywhere, makes it so hard to work out what he is going to do.
 

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What limitations does Mane have?
I think the point he’s trying to make is that Mane at saints was a player who could destroy a defense to only run into a dead end. Then during some games he would totally go missing. Maximin just is even worse culprit of that.
 

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Very erratic player, however his dribbling and quick close control are outstanding.

With some top coaching from the likes of Klopp / Pep and I think he could be a brilliant player. A bit like what Pep did with Sterling, that's what he needs.
 

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Traore is all straight line speed. Max looks like the next Laurie Cunning ham based on 10 minutes vs a tiring Oxford defence.
 

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He's shit more often than not.
Newcastle’s tactic in most games I’ve seen of them this year is to give him the ball and hope he does something. He clearly has talent and his dribbling quality at speed is very good but Bruce is probably the worst manager for him to be under to develop. He’s inconsistent and his final ball has been shite a lot but he’s only 22 and could improve that under a better manager.
 

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I think he has massive potential personally, the basic technical attributes he has could see him develop similarly to Mane. Works very hard and stands out in an otherwise poor Newcastle side.

If United had a strategy of any sort I'd be looking at him for around £35-40m. It's those types of players you develop into great players. We seem to instead wait around until they have a Graelish like season and then get interested at £100m.
 

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This guy literally just crystallised my opinion on Martial.

Look at the desire he has to constantly run at players and influence the game. The more I think about it the more I think we should potentially go for him in the summer.

With good coaching he could be a proper player.
 

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I’d also take him over Traore, who I know plays on the different side of the pitch but both have the same attacking threat of pace and energy.

I feel Saint-Maximin has the better dribbling and close control. His control at full pelt really is something at times.
 

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Everytime ive watched him hes been a greedy cnut. Seems to be given a bit of leeway in attack for Newcastle because of their attacking options but he's never looked anything beyond a lower table player.
 

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Cracking goal, but pretty obsolete before that. He is fast, strong and can dribble but his ability to read and see a pass is pretty much non existent.
 

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I'm not sure I've ever been so bemused watching a player. His arm movement is the most bizarre and offputting thing I've ever seen a player do. They literally go all over the place when he runs, must be an utter nightmare to play against as you'd no idea what he is going to do.
 

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I think this guy and players like Adama Traore are exactly the types to be taking up squad places instead of the Lingard and Perreira's and Jameses.
 
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This guy literally just crystallised my opinion on Martial.

Look at the desire he has to constantly run at players and influence the game. The more I think about it the more I think we should potentially go for him in the summer.

With good coaching he could be a proper player.
That's probably more a reflection of Martials attitude than this guy being great.

Lazy fecker.
 

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I like how much he has bought into the fans up there too. Got a great sense of humour.
 

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Once in a blue moon he’ll do the right thing but I don’t think any amount of coaching would make him consistent.

He works cause he does everything at 1000mph. Coaching him to slow things down a bit and actually think would ruin the part that makes him effective occasionally.