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He was class against Inter. I really rate the guy and hope he will stay fit this season. He is head and shoulders above any of our center backs except for Lindelof. Brave, good pace, good with the ball at his feet, good all round defender. If last season was Lindelofs time to come of age, let's hope this season is Baillys time.Tweet
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You missed injury prone and prone to massive brain farts, plus not very good in the air. Had a good first season when he first came in,since then he's been generally injured and very underwhelming, not sure how he's the best defender we got after Lindelof. Might as well say it's Jones, as he's looked better this preseason...He was class against Inter. I really rate the guy and hope he will stay fit this season. He is head and shoulders above any of our center backs except for Lindelof. Brave, good pace, good with the ball at his feet, good all round defender. If last season was Lindelofs time to come of age, let's hope this season is Baillys time.
Jones is just as injury prone and for a much longer period (and an own goal expert) and Smalling can't play football IMO. So it's maybe not saying much that he's better then them.You missed injury prone and prone to massive brain farts, plus not very good in the air. Had a good first season when he first came in,since then he's been generally injured and very underwhelming, not sure how he's the best defender we got after Lindelof. Might as well say it's Jones, as he's looked better this preseason...
His passing is not bad, he has some skill on the ball to evade a press and he often picks the easy pass out of defence early and can play one touch football. He's light years ahead of someone like Smalling.It's not just his brain farts though is it. His passing is not very good, he's not good in the air, and he is injury prone on top of that.
On the ball he is fine I agree.His passing is not bad, he has some skill on the ball to evade a press and he often picks the easy pass out of defence early and can play one touch football. He's light years ahead of someone like Smalling.
His heading is poor which is inexplicable for someone so aggressive and athletic.
Interesting you talking about his passing not being very good but for me on the ball he is just as good if not better than Lindelof bar the brain farts and I am not saying that lauding him either, think he is just decent on the ball, yet people seem to laud Lindelof who is no better.It's not just his brain farts though is it. His passing is not very good, he's not good in the air, and he is injury prone on top of that.
And, pretty much shit in the air for a CB.His problem is not those mis-kicks although they are hilariously bad but rash challenges where's he's either taken out of the play or injures himself or picks up a card or all of the above.
He can't time a leap. Great spring on him but he seems to really struggle to read the trajectory and velocity of the ball when it is coming aerially, meaning he is always up too early or too late and fluffing headers, or even missing them altogether. It is the type of weakness that is very strange to see in experienced pro's, I would wonder if he needs his eyes checked.His passing is not bad, he has some skill on the ball to evade a press and he often picks the easy pass out of defence early and can play one touch football. He's light years ahead of someone like Smalling.
His heading is poor which is inexplicable for someone so aggressive and athletic.
So do you propose going into the new season with TFM as a starting CB? Thought not.Those posters rating his athleticism - Tuanzebe and Fosu Mensah have similar characteristics and are much younger. I'd rather see us focus on their game time rather than give the same old players another chance, they've had their opportunities and haven't been able to learn from the same mistakes over and over again. Bailly will never be an elite defender.
Bailly can actually defend though. He's had some great performances for us where he's looked like a world beater - but then he goes and does a stupid kung fu kick or slices the ball with a WWF style big boot.Those posters rating his athleticism - Tuanzebe and Fosu Mensah have similar characteristics and are much younger. I'd rather see us focus on their game time rather than give the same old players another chance, they've had their opportunities and haven't been able to learn from the same mistakes over and over again. Bailly will never be an elite defender.
No.So do you propose going into the new season with TFM as a starting CB? Thought not.
He is if he starts, that's how it works. You're suggesting TFM as a preferable starting option when he's not as good a player. If we have them all in the squad it's up to the manager to pick the best of the 3 options... (or none of them) that's the manager's job. If we get rid of Bailly because we've got TFM then we're making the manager's job more difficult. I don't know why we would want to do that. If TFM or Tuanzebe outperform the other defenders in training, they'll play.No.
Bailly isn't a starting CB.
In that season Eric Bailly started 11 league games. You can make up whatever you want about him but when he’s not on form, which is almost always, he’s a liability.In that season we finished 2nd Bailly was an absolute rock.
You can say whatever you want about him, but Bailly is out best cb when in form.
He really was not. He was good for the first couple of months in the season we finished 5th, then has 13 appearances in the two seasons since. Got himself sent off in the EL semi final and hasn't been the same since. His positioning is awful, made up for with his recovery speed, his heading is atrocious. He's rash, prone to more brain dead moments that Jones and is injured more than Jones, or Smalling.In that season we finished 2nd Bailly was an absolute rock.
You can say whatever you want about him, but Bailly is out best cb when in form.
Hes fast and tackles hard. That's it.It's getting to the point where we might as well sell him. He's got the ability to be by far our best defender but he gets injured doing pretty much nothing. He's never going to be able to progress.
He does have positional sense but his concentration lets him down with it. The only way for him to improve that is to play more, which he cant because he is always injured. He hasn't been able to improve at all since he joined us.Hes fast and tackles hard. That's it.
Zero positional sense, heading ability or concentration.