Basmati Busquets. Thought it was some new Indian/Spanish sensation until I googled it.Dier was quality, just lost his way perhaps. Can never say with Rice, however, perhaps it wouldn’t be a conversation if they were not both British. If Rice was actually a Spaniard, he’d be compared to the real Busquets.
I've not seen enough of West Ham or Rice this seson to really form an opinion, is he better than Eric Dier? I see similarities from what I have seen but perhaps Rice is better. In hindsight people might laugh at me mentioning Dier, but he was getting good reviews when he first stepped into the Spurs & England squad in that role.
What’s the connection between the two?
They both centre midfielders from the French league that the caf rates highly. People were saying the exact same things about Seri this time last year about how we should go for him.
Basmati - Rice duo in midfield
I've not seen enough of West Ham or Rice this seson to really form an opinion, is he better than Eric Dier? I see similarities from what I have seen but perhaps Rice is better. In hindsight people might laugh at me mentioning Dier, but he was getting good reviews when he first stepped into the Spurs & England squad in that role.
If that’s all then there’s nothing too it then. Many players have successfully transitioned from the French league to the PL as we know, so how can someone not buy a player because a totally different player was not a success? And given the circumstances, I suspect it would be very hard for Seri to impress anyway, being part of the worst team in the league and all that.
That's some odd logic. Does that mean we ignore every midfielder playing in France because he might struggle like Seri has? I'd understand if he played for the same club and was roughly the same age as Seri but neither are true. What I will say about the hype surrounding Seri is that from reading back through his thread (6 pages) it was based mainly on his "good passing" and the quality of clubs mentioned about possibly signing him (none of which actually signed him). It's actually a lesson to the Caf to not be sucked into transfer hype of clubs chasing said player (much like Fred) and actually watch the player instead.
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And strangely enough, Seri has good stats when it comes to creativity.
Yea, it would be too general to simply say all of Fulham’s players are rubbish.
I was impressed by him when we played Fulham.
If they go down and we can get him cheap and we sell Fred this summer, it would still make sense to buy him, we need non-Pogba creativity in the midfield and something like 50 starts for Pogba and 35 each for Herrera, Seri and Matic, with Herrera getting 20 games as a 6 to spell Matic looks like a solid set up to me. We could even play Seri in the Jorginho/Pirlo type role if we want Herrera pressing as an 8 in some games.
But we can't really offer Pereira to them as he will be out of contract this summer and he'll be looking to get more playing time. Unless you're talking about Joel Pereira.
I wasn't impressed because he looked like his normal self but seeing it makes me a bit sad because he has no business playing for Fulham.
Pogba did more defensively in 4 knockout games at the WC than Ndombele does over an entire season.
Nah feck Declan Rice.
I've not seen enough of West Ham or Rice this seson to really form an opinion, is he better than Eric Dier? I see similarities from what I have seen but perhaps Rice is better. In hindsight people might laugh at me mentioning Dier, but he was getting good reviews when he first stepped into the Spurs & England squad in that role.
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Don't think thats true. He was disposed once in the 61st minute. Messi in the 36th.
You know that you can give away possession through misplacing passes right? Which is how he lost the ball more than anyone else in the 1st half.
Really? Whoscored has him on 87% which is the 3rd highest for Lyon. Aouar and Denayer have higher. Alba, Pique, Suarez, Dembele was on less too.
Aouar has impressed me every time I’ve watched him play.
You'd hope he would be a bit better than Thiago then so?
He was bad last night because he overcomplicated it and hung on to the ball too long way often. However I loved the few times he broke lines with his great passing. I'll take him above Aouar 9 times out of 10 despite his flaws
