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Preseason is about buiding up revs to get to maximum capacity.Other players are being judged in a positive light based on pre season so why not the opposite?
"Context" and most Caf posts don't go together.Yeah quite possibly, but we need to keep a degree of context when assessing our signings.
Personally, I think he should start and create havoc for defenders. Greenwood would be the best to bring on vs tired legs.He should start the season on the bench, will be great to see him come on against tired legs. Hopefully he can acclimatise to the club in his own time. We expect far too much, too soon.
Personally I think neither of them is good enough to be starting for a club hoping to break top 4, but Greenwood is clearly closer.Personally, I think he should start and create havoc for defenders. Greenwood would be the best to bring on vs tired legs.
Yeah this thread is crazy, I'm basically judging him like I am Gomes, Greenwood and Chong at the moment. Granted he's older, but they've been groomed to be in this team for a long time."Context" and most Caf posts don't go together.
This doesn't make any sense. We played kids as well. Not only James and everyone is full of praise for them after this game. And rightfully so. So why can those who played well be judged on this game but not those who were not so good? No one is writing the kid off. He just seems to be very very raw.Only an idiot can base his opinion on preseason game.Inter didnt have any strikers and played kids,it was much easier to defend against Inter than to attack Inter.
Not a good game from our attacking quartet in the first 11 not only James.
Give him time.
Ad hominem, much?So better than your posting then.
They played kids in the attack in their first 11 and it made our defence job easier and they have performed better because of that but our attacking players did not made a good impression because of Inter defence which consisted of first team players not kids.Our kids,our 11 substitutes came on fresh and full of energy and their defence was already tired...and for feck sake preseason is all about fitness and making it work and play as a team,every other game some player will be better and some will have a bad game,simple as that.He had a bad game and thats it,judge him at the end of season.This doesn't make any sense. We played kids as well. Not only James and everyone is full of praise for them after this game. And rightfully so. So why can those who played well be judged on this game but not those who were not so good? No one is writing the kid off. He just seems to be very very raw.
Which is what pretty much everyone is saying. But he seem to lack some basic things as of yet. His first touch seems lacking at times and his passing is very inconsistent. Nothing that can't be improved though.They played kids in the attack in their first 11 and it made our defence job easier and they have performed better because of that but our attacking players did not made a good impression because of Inter defence which consisted of first team players not kids.Our kids,our 11 substitutes came on fresh and full of energy and their defence was already tired...and for feck sake preseason is all about fitness and making it work and play as a team,every other game some player will be better and some will have a bad game,simple as that.He had a bad game and thats it,judge him at the end of season.
Oh he was found. He made a mess of it most of the time though.He was actually making good runs but no one was finding him.
Nah. I've done worse.Ad hominem, much?
That is harsh. Was not absolutely terrible. Made a few poor passes. His movement in the box i would worry about. i saw him strolling around when he should be always moving. Hopefully Ole has a word.Didn’t see the game but a mate texted and said he was diabolical.
I knew before I even clicked the thread that you would have people writing him off already. Didn't have the best of games today and didn't seem as confident playing on the right wing but he wasn't completely useless. He made some great runs, opened up a lot of space for AWB to run into and his work rate off the ball was fantastic as always. Shame that he scuffed the chance he had. We just need to be patient and give James the time to improve.Good to see Cafe has already given up on him.
Aye I didn’t see the game. He’s usually more bias towards our players tbh so he must have thought he played utterly terrible to write that.That is harsh. Was not absolutely terrible. Made a few poor passes. His movement in the box i would worry about. i saw him strolling around when he should be always moving. Hopefully Ole has a word.
We dont have a single natural RW but we keep buying LW's. Very frustating.Think he is another player more suited to the left, which is a bit annoying because that's also the case with Martial, Chong & Rashford.
Would agree with this, they all look much more game ready than James did but you could see James was getting frustrated with himself. Hopefully mixing it in training he’ll develop quickly to the level we want him at but he does seem to have some attributes that are handy.Lot's to learn technically. However, he has time. Going by a small sample of 2 pre-season games Greenwood and Chong are way ahead and showed what technical standards are for young players.
