I don’t see Antony being benched by anyone, any time soon. He’s getting better and better over the course of the season. And attacking contribution aside ETH will be reluctant to drop him because of how he firms up our defence on that side. Plus ETH just seems to really like him.
Antony is obviously going to start next season as first choice on the right but there is clearly scope for improvement in his performances. So there should be enough opportunities for amad to show what he can do. He is clearly a more creative player than Antony so could offer a useful alternative
The championship is about as physical as it gets. He deserves a chance to show what he can do for the first team.
Hardly surprising since he paid (or overpaid) what, £80m+ for him. ETH has proved that he is a fair man with the way he handled AWB. There was talk earlier in the season that the manager might sell him but the player has played his way back into the team. Anthony and Diallo are two very different players and I'd like to see how these two players would stack up to each other.
He's not that small. Example: Rashford is 1.8m and Diallo is 1.73m.
Yeah but did I say he’s short? I said small and slight. Is that somehow insulting to you? David Silva is small and slight but he did all right didn’t he? Zola is even shorter and he was a magnificent player when football was even more physical.
I don't think Pellistri and Elanga is the reason blocking his development here. Rather its Antony and Sancho competing on the right, it would be difficult for Diallo to even make it to our bench. If we are going to keep Antony and Sancho next season, it might be better for Diallo to look for another loan move for a year, until he is ready to compete directly with Antony and Sancho.
who pissed in your cornflakes?Agree. He has to be in the squad next season. We've seen Garnacho been handed plenty of game time this season, and Amad could have a similar role on the right side.
Hannibal is hardly a regular starter for Birmingham so I don't think their seasons are comparable. I don't think Hannibal is ready for us, and time will show if he'll ever be.
Boy, that escalated quickly.
I think that’s the stage he’s at by now: questioning integration into our squad or even team on rotation. Does he have the defensive and tactical awareness to be an interchangeable with Antony? Can he come in and offer us something nobody else does - a niche of his own rather than just being a tidy supplementary.
Antony is fairly injury prone, never usually finishes out games and picks up a fair amount of yellow cards so there'd be plenty of opportunity for minutes.
He’s experienced a hell of a lot on his loans; lots of lows to go with these current highs. The Rangers debacle seems to have been a blessing because he’s gone on to a better, rougher league and been determined to make his mark there. I’m not sure he’s so shy anymore, and maybe that was more about being young and taking in a whole new world rather than his actual personality.
Now this is a bit of an exaggeration. Amad is a lovely player but you would really want the player you signed as an enormously expensive teenager to be making more than two assists in a second tier league. As good as he is, I think people might have to manage their expectations regarding Amad's championship form translating over to the premiership. He's been good but he isn't too good for the league as I've seen some people say. He's scored a few goals but he's not the Championship's Mo Salah and he's got 5 more goal contributions than expected goal contributions so has been scoring from positions that aren't necessarily repeatable over time.
Good points and question. Could be accelerating it. Just feels more risky to remove him from a place it is finally working out for him. Dont think he has been consistently great for more than a few months either. And I do think being consistently great is a hell of a drug for him at this stage.
I agree. This obsession with bulking up is weird.
He had the personality to score a backwards tornado header vs AC Milan to knock them out. Seeing how seamless his move from the U23s into the first team was for us I reckon he’ll put in identical performances next season when given his chance.
No he hasn't? Garnacho seems like a great talent but let's not go over the top. Amad has special, special technique and vision, skills that I think are far more rare than the things Garnacho has shown us so far.
I would agree with this. Also there was a teammate of Hannibal right next to him. In his situation I would have give my teammate the room to try to deal with Amad instead of us both trying to get the ball off of him at the same time. Its just well played by Amad.
We can really be happy to have both of them
Garnacho is awesome but i have even higher hopes for Diallo. There is just something about him. Even before his loan out I thought he did well when he played. He was obviously very raw but his talent was evident the whole time.I'd say the determination and fearlessness an 18-year old Garnacho has shown at a Premier League level are actually more rare than the technique and vision Amad has in Championship. There's plenty of talented players who never make it at a top level because they lack in the mental side of the game.
Aren’t there going to be enough games to go around?
No one is saying championship form equals PL form. No one is saying he is killing it week in week out. What I am saying is that as loans go - they don’t get much better than this and certainly not for Utd players.
There's a lot of great stuff in there. Would be good to have a top striker for him to play give and goes off
