Victims of a Campaign- The Other Footy Teams Thread

His passing is terrible. He can’t play in midfield.

 

Decision-making too. He doesn't think quickly enough; he'd get pressed to death by any decent team.

 

That’s definitely not something he’ll get better at in Ligue 1 unfortunately. Having said that—I don’t think we can draw too many conclusions this early, but at least Saliba doesn’t look totally lost when pressed.

 

Park Chu-Young levels

 

Wasn't he signed as a direct result of 8-2?

Life coming full circle??

 

same. i always have to look them up when i try to reference which one did that.

 

Tavares, star boy in the making.

 

fully aware and acknowledge that it makes me an asshole.

doesn't change how i felt at the time.

 

there was a part of me that wondered about us ringing up potter and seeing if they wanted him no loan for the year to replace cucurella.

but i'm pretty happy with him getting a full year in marseille.

 

Playing from wingback lets him have more time to think... but he's a defensive liability. Definitely one of those situations, where you are hoping his brain, catches up to his athleticism.

 

I think Tavares’ errors are attributable to a lapses in concentration rather than any technical deficiency. Offensively when compared to Tierney, Tomiyasu, and Zinchenko, only Zinchenko completes a higher percentage of his passes, yet Tavares’ biggest errors have been loose passes in the defensive third. Defensively, one v one his technique is pretty good, last season Zinchenko and Tomiyasu were dribbled past nearly twice as often per 90 as Tavares was, but a lack of concentration defensively gets him caught up field too many times. Concentration improves with experience. Prior to last season, Tavares had a total of about 1700 minutes of first team experience over two seasons. He needs to play. Hopefully he will get that experience at Marseille and the lapses in concentration will become less frequent. Incidentally, in addition to scoring he had four key passes today.

 

I thought you were joking

 

Nope ... he has been called Little Ibra as well

 

Tavares gives me young Renato Sanchez vibes in terms of energy but he’s probably not gonna play as a runner in midfield

his profile fit that for me but his decision making is t great

a wide attacking role suits him. Hopefully he does well in France

 

next up:

🚨 EXCL: Man Utd United working on deal to sign Adrien Rabiot from Juventus. #MUFC must decide if they proceed irrespective of ongoing De Jong pursuit or await outcome of that before deciding. 27yo France midfielder has 1yr on #Juve contract @TheAthleticUK https://t.co/kUM6VeImK7

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) August 8, 2022

 

[emoji599][emoji599][emoji736]| Chelsea are READY to pay the full transfer fee & cover Frenkie De Jong's current deferred salary with FC Barcelona.
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Chelsea have submitted an offer worth 70m + Marcos Alonso for Frenkie de Jong. [sport] #fcblive

 

Rabiot is only 27... jesus he must have a ton of miles.

 

Yeah. But don't forget we may have a rapist on our squad.

 

We might.

United already does.

 

it feels like that "let's try to save 2M" thing that used to frustrate me with wenger.

 

wow. romano says his mom is his agent. that's got to be a weird negotiations to work with.

 

His mom is 90% of the reason he's a nightmare to deal with.