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I think you missed Dan James?
Oops that was an accident. Edited my original post now.If I'm honest the assist looked more like a failed first touch that accidentally went to Lingard's path. However he was much better than Daniel James.
I agree about the assist being a poor first touch but disagree about being better than James. Facundo found himself in good positions, as did James. But James also beat his man numerous times and drew a few fouls, which in a normal game would've resulted in yellow cards. With a slightly more accurate pass from Greenwood, he would also have been through on goal and then maybe could've scored too. He did stupid stuff too but definitely wasn't worse than Pellistri.
First thought he was trying to round him to set himself up for a shot, he certainly ran after the ball and only shied away when Lingard latched on. But it could have been a poor first touch I must admit.
That was how I saw it. It looked like a really excellent first touch to set himself up for a shot but ended up being an accidental pass to Lingard, so he left it to his team-mate.
Was mostly invisible apart from couple of decent plays. Got an assist. That's it. Tracked back well and played confidently by trying to take players on when he got the ball. Not as good as his previous outing.
Could possibly put that partly down to how poor the team was overall I guess. I will confess that I obviously didn't see the game, this opinion is purely based on what I read about it. I really don't know a great deal about the guy to be honest. Wasn't aware of him when we signed him. Maybe going out on a loan is an option.
He's pretty certain to go out on loan. Too good for reserves, wouldn't get many minutes if he stayed. No point in staying, same with Elanga IMO.
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Don't get what's wrong with him playing with Alaves.
Don't they play absolutely awful football? If I'm not mistaken they mostly sit back all game. And I don't think he started every game either?
He started until he got injured and they made him a sub until they secured the points needed to stave off relegation before starting him again.
As you say yourself, that isn't always the case. Often when a team plays defensive jammy football in a relegation scrap, they favour experience and reliability over flair and youth
There's no indication of that happening?
+1 Unless he is sent to some top-tier club where he gets regular playing time, I would keep him here and sell Dan James, in a heartbeat
The problem is he isnt "special". Not even at United. Elanga and Amad have shown more and are clearly ahead in the pecking order. He absolutely does have technique that stands out and he wants to run at players, thats good. But now that we signed Sancho he'll be behind Rashford, Greenwood, Sancho, Lingard if he stays and the talk is in that direction, then Elanga and Amad. And Hannibal who was given our u23s young player of the season is getting his playing time on the left for the first team. So thats not even considering James who lets be honest, Ole is going to start over all but 3 or 4 of those names half the time.
I agree that Elanga, Amad, and Pellistri are all top 3 most exciting youngsters. Haven't had a chance to see enough of them to say in what order. That said, seeing how much time Ole has been giving Pellistri in these friendlies makes me think that Ole may be strongly considering keeping him for senior team and not loaning out. Pellistri has played more minutes in this friendlies than anybody else, by a long mile, I think
Worked fine for Grealish, Buendia and Maddison
That doesn't say much really, we've so many players who've stayed beyond what's necessary.
Pereira being a good example
The championship is a lot better than you realise these days. Most of the teams play good football, not just kick and lump
Playing top flight football would still be betterThe championship is a lot better than you realise these days. Most of the teams play good football, not just kick and lump
Not really. What's the difference between him playing at say Bournemouth or Alaves? as long as it's competitive it's more important that he gets actual game time. It's also important he's not just defending for 70 minutes, we need him to actually be attacking and getting goals and assists, not being a 2nd fullback.
I would say playing at the Championship is arguably better than playing at most of the top league since it'll help him aclimatise to the English game
Apart from our starters and a few others, you can almost safely say that about everyone else.
Are you saying that based on how he took his one goal? Because for me thats not something anywhere close to proven yet.
