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He's never going to be a brilliant attacker but I think he can made to look more competent on the ball, especially if we signed a top midfielder who come and offer a pass inside for him when we're trying to play out rather than our current lot who don't really show for a pass.
How did you reach the conclusion he has immense talent? He was uncomfortable with the ball before he came to us. People like Savage and AWB will make a career, but never in the top. He doesn't seem to be that talented actually. Or maybe he was unlucky and he never had a good coach.
I think that is that case.
I sometimes question the competent defender due to the way he jogs back or jogs out to a player and How often he's out of position
Hes currently not even close to being a competent defender. His sole competence is tackling and one on ones. Both of which are not anything like the most important parts of being a modern defender. The best defenders have positional awareness, a tireless work ethic, good communication skills, the ability to track runs and predict where they need to be to cut out passes and make blocks. He has none of the aforementioned abilities. Hes lazy, doesn't track runnings even remotely well, is a meek personality and has the positional IQ of a lemming.
I think saying Dalot is better offensively is a mistake of language.
Walker was considered among the best RB in the league already before joining City. Stones was regarded quity highly. Didn't anyone consider AWB as an exceptional talent, except the people who thought that Maguire is equal to VVD?
Basically we hope ETH brings Mazroui on a free.
I don't think so. At least he doesn't seem that guy, and we haven't heard any rumor. RR has played him in important matches even though he could have picked Dalot,.e.g Atletico. I think it's just down to him being a bit limited footballer. I think he is one of the players that ETH will keep, at least this year. Except, if Laird really blows him during pre season or we buy a new RB.
He IS a cracking player to watch on his day. Who doesn't love watching tackling like that? He hasn't enough about him to bring it when all around him is shit. Which of them do? 50 million seems utterly laughable now but a resurrection under ETH is not beyond the realms of possibility.
There is also something to mention that players comes with many different styles. Just because someone has an unorthodox style or is cut from a different cloth to someone else, doesn't necessarily mean they aren't able to pass or control the ball "properly" full stop. How do you define properly in this context? That you look a certain way while doing it, or just failing to do it full stop? Because we've all seen him drible past players, pass and give assists. He even created a really good goal scoring opportunity for himself last season through combination play. Doesn't sound like someone who is incapable of properly being able to pass or control the ball.
No he's not. There's nothing exciting about AWB style of play and excessive tackling speaks more of a poor defender who needs last ditch tackles all the time rather than an actual good defender who contains the opposition.
You could say the same thing for Henderson or Matip and countless other players through the times that has won major titles. This idea that a team will never win anything with this - insert one player - is such a heavily used and weird argument. It doesn't really work like that, and it sounds silly when he is playing for a team barely trying to chase top 4. He has been our best fullback for years, and one of our most consistent performers up until the end of last season. Terrible season for him no doubt, but he is as much of a problem as De Gea is right now if you ask me. Might not win anything with any of them but it might not be their fault completely either.
The roles requires from players like Henderson and Matip is different from those requires from the position AWB plays in, so this comparison doesn't work.
Nothing is natural to him, it's almost like he's over thinking every move and actually looks panicked and terrified when he sees a ball coming across the pitch to him. Remember he was supposed to be a winger, so you would imagine he'd at least have some natural ball playing ability.
He looks like the last player that would be a troublemaker. Ralf doesn't play him, because he thinks he's not good enough. Bailly has talked a lot to the media about being unhappy at his lack of game time. Lingard hasn't talked directly to the media, but there has been constant rumours that he's one of the leakers. We've heard nothing about AWB. He was a consistent starter under Ole. Even since Ralf came in and stopped starting him, we still haven't heard about any issues with him. If he was causing problems, you'd think that would start to come out when he stopped starting games. Watching him on the pitch, it doesn't look like he talks at all. I can't see him being an issue to manage and being a troublemaker. Unless he's completely different off the pitch, but I find that hard to believe.
At his best, I do agree with this. I think that about a lot of our players, though. On their day, they can all look like a United quality player. What they lack is consistency. A lack of consistency is a major problem, and what will stop them from being good enough at this level.
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Bit of an over exaggeration there I think. When I think of players like Djemba Djemba who have ‘played’ for us
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