The guy us done as a fullback on a regular basis, he can play as a LCB, but there js just no intensity. Hope his contract is up sooon
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 32
- Clean sheets
- 5
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 1
- Yellow cards
- 4
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Feel like he has never truly recovered from that horror tackle at PSV, even among decent performances here and there. Too inconsistent and unreliable to be starting most of our games, be best if we upgraded his position.
He should have been moved on ages ago. The fact he's still starting games for us says it all.
Technically he's better than any other English left back, but physically he no longer has the ability to get up and down the pitch. Whether that is because of injuries or lack of dedication to his fitness levels I don't know but surely Tuchel would have watched him recently and had concerns about his struggles against anyone with real pace.
I look at him and see similar concerns as Casemiro, he hacks down anyone who gets a run on him now. His legs are gone.
I look at him and see similar concerns as Casemiro, he hacks down anyone who gets a run on him now. His legs are gone.
He has lost a lot of pace, mobility - one instance where the ball was played behind him, and he was so stiff that he was unable to catch the ball, which most other fullbacks would easily do. Elanga had much joy just running at him - no shimmies, but simply accelerating away from him - you rarely see that.
Shaw also greatly impairs Cunha's game because he never overlaps, creates space or even commits to attacking - he just stays back. In the second half especially, Newcastle just doubled up on Cunha, and it became impossible for him to succeed.
What would a Di Marco cost to replace him?
He’s half the player he was now. I am keen to see Dorgu there for an extended period.
I believe he has stated that he has no intention of leaving Italy, but rumours linking him with this or that club place his fee between 60 and 70 million Euro.
Would love him here. 60 mill would be a steak but can see him staying in Italy.
Can't believe he's only 30
Yep, put Dorgu there now. He'll give us just as much width at left back as he does at left wing plus Cunha will have somebody to work with, rather then being faced with a full back, retreating winger and covering midfielder, all whilst Luke is back on the halfway line dreaming of his England career.
The moment in the 2nd half summed him up, a long ball played to him with acres of space, he takes it down on the chest very slowly and then instead of quickly taking a big touch and move away from on rushing Newcastle player, he just kind of stops and put his body in between trying to win the foul, the Newcastle player outmuscles him, throws him to the ground and get the ball and move the ball into a dangerous situation, while Shaw is still on the ground.
Elanga got the better of him there. Very rare to see Shaw get outmuscled or dispoessesed though.
Decent performances here and there is a bit underplaying it. Shaw has had periods where he was actually a really good left back. However he has been injured way too often and also had periods where he was not good at all. Time to move on from him. Would save a decent amount of money too.
Weird to say but in my opinion Luke Shaw hasnt really lived up to the expectations despite playing 300+ games for Manchester United and playing 34 times for England. Better career than most players but he has the talent to achieve a lot more.
Can't outmuscle someone when they get rid the ball as soon as someone goes near his vicinity. He barely engages in any take-ons, duels or runs on and off the ball.
Perhaps so. Honestly even this season he's had period of good spells, but is too inconsistent in more ways than one to the point where I just want to move on like you said.
Sorry and sad to say it, but he looks finished at the top level. It was sudden.
I think he still reached an incredible level post that horrific injury
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His whole season is going very under the radar. Reliable in every game, excellent in defence, solid option in attack.
Yep, people made their mind up about him and cos he doesn't score winners like Maguire does it's hard for him to get any credit outside of 'doing his job'
He was much better today and actually supporting the attack. Kept Rogers quiet too and made a key interception in the first half from McGinn.
Because people look at Hakimi and Mendes and expect that every FB behaves like a winger. Shaw is involved in many our attacks and in defence he is rock solid.
But, as you said, people made their mind about him and that is it.
He was brilliant today
Had written him off with injury problems but he's been brilliant.
Very solid shift today.
He was 7/10, let's not go mad.
Find me a better left back first that benches him. I don't understand the idea of moving on experienced first team players instead of phasing them out. He's a very solid full back.
Solid today, some great blocks
Its honestly ridiculous. I imagine the majority of posters who say Shaw is poor don't actually have a reference for the other full backs in the league and as you highlight expect him to be Nuno Mendes. When he's fit he's a very good fullback and if he can stay fit would be a good option in the squad.
Good post.
When he's on it defensively he's just unreal. He times his challenges really well and is much stronger you'd think. Very valuable squad option.
Mendes and Hakimi haven't even hit last season's height so we really do need to our appreciate our players more
Overall he is very good this season, and considering what we all expected he did even more - mostly in terms of being available and consistently good performer.
However our biggest problem this year, apart from lack of options in central midfield, is lack of attacking quality from our fullbacks. Neither of our fullbacks bring almost anything in the attack, Shaw included. Shaw hardly brings any overlapping, something that Cunha is clearly lacking, and actually today was one of his best attacking games and again it was nothing special.
He clearly doesn't have strength anymore to play as attacking+defending fullback that runs a lot from box to box during the entire game, but I guess even this is far better than we might have expected, so I'll take it.
However our biggest problem this year, apart from lack of options in central midfield, is lack of attacking quality from our fullbacks. Neither of our fullbacks bring almost anything in the attack, Shaw included. Shaw hardly brings any overlapping, something that Cunha is clearly lacking, and actually today was one of his best attacking games and again it was nothing special.
He clearly doesn't have strength anymore to play as attacking+defending fullback that runs a lot from box to box during the entire game, but I guess even this is far better than we might have expected, so I'll take it.
He was terrible against Newcastle. And he’s had some real stinkers. However, today he played like he had something to prove. Looked sharper, quicker and most importantly more decisive. He also contributed more in attack. Not much agility left in him though. I wonder if he was at all well for the Newcastle game?
Much better again today. Good to see because the last couple were a bit of a concern when we don't really have another LB
Was good today. Think himself and Cunha just had a better understanding and combination than a drastic change in performance from either.
He’s been super solid defensively and in possession. I just don’t think he is contributing much going forward, which is a shame. Maybe he can’t fully commit because we lack legs in midfield.
Mr steady this season
That's just a blatant lie, he's basically non existent in attack.
Now I assume a fair few of them games are from centre half but even on the eye test judging his games from LB he hardly ever overlaps anymore and his crossing that used to be one of his stronger assets has gone missing. In defence he's typically solid enough but going forward he offers nothing.
We are not in 80s anymore where full back's "attacking phase" is to overlap and cross.Shaw is basically wide midfielder in attacking phase and his ball retention means a lot for our general play.