Michael Bradley

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I'll reserve judgement on him.  People seem to have taken to Makoun after what i thought was a similarly below par debut, and rightly so as he then went on to put in a couple of excellent performances.  Give the lad a chance to adapt and at the end of the season the manager will judge whether he is good enough.

[timeoutbigbar]

Yep, I am all for giving him time as I don't think we saw the real player on Weds.  Unfortunately, as I have said, there were some who do not appear to want to give him that time and have already lined him up as the next scapegoat.

This.  I watched the Citeh game with my brother and the old man on wednesday, and in the second half they were beginning to slate him, which pissed me off a bit.

[villa1]

Yep, I am all for giving him time as I don't think we saw the real player on Weds.  Unfortunately, as I have said, there were some who do not appear to want to give him that time and have already lined him up as the next scapegoat.

The scapegoat word being thrown around again. Brilliant.

[PaulWinch again]

Give the guy a chance, he played 20 minutes at Blackpool and we had 10 men and were on the back foot. His first start is in a greatly weakened side away at Man City. We should give him a chance to settle in, and then judge him.

[kipeye]

The only judgement I would make about his poor debut was that Houllier must be barking if he thinks that was a good opportunity for his first game.
I reckon Messi would have looked a clown in that situation. No-one knew who was supposed to be where and we only got a shape in the last 15mins.

[darren woolley]

I'm going to give him time he hasn't really played enough times to make a solid assessment of him.

[Grande Pablo]

If he turns out to be as good as the player we saw in the summer I'll be happy.

[Lambert and Payne]

One game and he's got a thread! Give the lad half a chance before jumping the gun

[The Left Side]

One game and he's got a thread! Give the lad half a chance before jumping the gun

Well said!

[pauliewalnuts]

He was poor on Wednesday but give him a chance ffs

Two appearances, one for twenty mins when down to ten men away from home and 90 mins with the reserves at man city is nowhere near enough to judge him on. 

[usav]

One game and he's got a thread! Give the lad half a chance before jumping the gun

I'm pretty sure you will find there were people bashing him before he played as well.

Just like people were with Makoun after 2/3rds of the game at Wigan.

[Mike Jeffries]

One game and he's got a thread! Give the lad half a chance before jumping the gun

It's half a game more, than it took Salifou to get a song.

He obviously needs more time, Wednesday alone can't (shouldn't) decide if he'll be good enough.

[Lambert and Payne]

One game and he's got a thread! Give the lad half a chance before jumping the gun

It's half a game more, than it took Salifou to get a song.

He obviously needs more time, Wednesday alone can't (shouldn't) decide if he'll be good enough.

Salifou song was changed after a few games

[Ross]

I do hope he's given a chance, but not until we are safe from relegation.  He looks a total liability at the moment - I can't remember a worse debut.

[Lambert and Payne]

I do hope he's given a chance, but not until we are safe from relegation.  He looks a total liability at the moment - I can't remember a worse debut.

Bosko Balaban?