Please keep updating…Starts for Sevilla today, could be right side of a midfield three. Sevilla 2 up against Real Sociedad.
Hopes this means more game time. Their fans have been desperate for him to start.Starts for Sevilla today, could be right side of a midfield three. Sevilla 2 up against Real Sociedad.
Eek - just saw this!It’s half time and he’s currently 2nd best rated with Sergio Ramos at 4.5 behind the 2 goal striker Nesyri who’s at 4.8
How did he play? I was surprised to see him starting after all of the bad press.Been subbed off now - around the 60th minute mark (actually 53rd). Unsure why but perhaps they're going for experience to try and close the game out. Suso replaced him
Very frustrating.89 minutes in La Liga so far this season.
129 minutes in the PL before he went on loan.
Safe to say he hasn’t taken Spain by storm.
In modern day football, it's very unlikely that a kid with anything less than a professional attitude & temperament makes it. Hannibal seems to have taken Sevilla for granted.Very frustrating.
I know it's difficult to confidently predict which of the talented youngsters will kick on in senior football the most, but definitely thought Hannibal had more than enough about his game to be farther down the line than he is at club level.
He's had one of those wasted seasons that a number of our youngsters do when they're bridging that gap between U21's and unsuccessful loans. If we're keeping ETH, and he's not going to pick him, then he needs to try to get a good permanent move where he can look to get game time. But I think there's still a good talent there - maybe not Mainoo level, but higher than Forson and close to Amad - so if we are thinking of changing manager then I'd like us to wait to see if he's in that managers plans before thinking of selling him.
His temperament was a big question mark when he was still at United too. More on the pitch then off it but still...In modern day football, it's very unlikely that a kid with anything less than a professional attitude & temperament makes it. Hannibal seems to have taken Sevilla for granted.
Given our injury situation, he may well have got more minutes if he'd stayed89 minutes in La Liga so far this season.
129 minutes in the PL before he went on loan.
Safe to say he hasn’t taken Spain by storm.
Question would be was Birmingham the right team for him to develop a sound positional game then? If anything they probably encouraged that sort of play with their direct football.I was watching him when he was at Birmingham, arguably his best spell, and he still looked like a headless chicken. Very poor positional awareness for a midfield player. Just chasing after the ball and fouling people. Hasn't developed as well as everyone thought he would, at all.
Yeah I watched a few games at the youth level and he was the most fouled player on the pitch. His ball carrying was great and all action running is easy to get behind and support. Thought he'd make it but once he got into the first team it was clear how different PL football is. You don't get any time on the ball and running will only get you so much if you're physically weak and the opponent can just ignore you.I was watching him when he was at Birmingham, arguably his best spell, and he still looked like a headless chicken. Very poor positional awareness for a midfield player. Just chasing after the ball and fouling people. Hasn't developed as well as everyone thought he would, at all.