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He's named after a Carthegenian general who won silver medal in the battle of Zama - and who has never won a Ballon d'Or or a world cup. Can't be better.
Much more likely both will go out on loan to the championship but wouldn't be surprised if we sold Garner to NF with a buy back option. He looks settled there. Hannibal hasn't been great so far at the AFCON so if he can impress RR when he returns like Elanga will be critical. I think the one with a chance next year will be Laird as AWB doesn't suit an attacking manager which I would expect if RR is influencing the decision in the summer. However Mazraoui is available on a free and we would be crazy not to try and get him. Which would mean Laird v Dalot for the other slot and Dalot has been really trying in the last few weeks so all could be be back on loan.
Mazraoui would be great (incidentally scored a great goal for Ajax v PSV today). Has always been good going forward but has improved a lot defensively over the last 2 years
Hannibal must currently have one of the highest ratios ever for percentage of senior games played / games played in international tournaments. Just one senior club appearance, and most of his first dozen international caps at two separate tournaments!
The only question for me is where will it be ? in what position ?
I think he and Martial might give Ralf a reason to revive his beloved 4-2-2-2.
Nooooooo....
Martial's done here, hopefully the pass yesterday is enough to get his transfer to Sevilla or Newcastle done.
I think he'll come on some games in the last 10 for Bruno. I'd be very surprised if he started any games in the league before the very tail end of the season depending on where we are at.
He's nothing like van de Beek.
Good first touch, same tendency to pass sideways or backwards.
And the ‘if he was older he’d be a nothing player’ part — yeah, but he isn’t. He’s at the age where you develop those parts missing to his game. If we write off every 19 year old because they don’t yet have the desired skill set we’d be left with nobody going forwards in football
Learn to read. I was criticizing the statements that said he was practically ready to be in our first team. He really isn't. Nowhere did I say I'm writing him off, I just said he has a long way to go.
Don't think so. Bruno is top dog. No way Ralf benches or sticks him to the wings him to satisfy Martial FC.
This isn't accurate at all.
Sorry but I just can't see that at all.
Stylistically he's very similar to Grealish who is perhaps likewise not as productive as you'd ideally want, but is nonetheless clearly an excellent player. And he still has time to add to his game so I wouldn't worry about him at this stage in the slightest.
The issue he is that the team is coached to shithouse their way to wins and physical players are selected for the task at hand. The build up phase is broken and Tunisian matches normally turn into physical battles with little thought, seemingly given to progressing play, especially against decent teams. Having watched all their matches since Hannibal was first capped, it seems he's instructed to keep it simple, which restricts him. Because he's a player that likes to play with some freedom to express himself and likes to play risky passes threading the lines. I'm expecting Hannibal to play with more freedom under a coach like Rangnick due to the clear emphasis on playing vertical passes, which I believe suits Hannibal.
Hannibal is a very diff player compared to VDB. He has a much better passing range than VDB for starters.
Hannibal would fit in the 4-3-3 system also. He played that system more in Academy and Under 23 where he got player of the year.
Agreed, I hope he gets a top flight loan in PL/BuLi, La Liga next season, with a team that can give him consistent game time for a full season, hopefully after that, he can be integrated with the first team alongside quality midfielders (with Pogba, Matic leaving, probably VdB too, I hope we bring in at least one DM and one CM with McFred as squad options).
Oh, absolutely.
Nah, it's not. It's a part of the problem but not having anyone capable of breaking up play and re-distributing the ball is our biggest problem.
Class of '22 giving me retro vibes.
Cheers for that. Shame that after selecting to represent Tunisia and that incredible hyped up promo they did, that he's then considered a luxury player for an anti-football manager. You know how well backed their manager is?
Their head coach Mondher Kebaier is probably quite popular now, after knocking Nigeria out of the tournament, who were among the favourites to win the tournament.
He did not look lost when he played against Wolves last season under Ole and he scored a good header from a cracking delivery from James if my memory serves me correctly.
