Carlos Sanchez

[ciggiesnbeer]

Its true. I get complete Premier League coverage here in the USA (every single game televised). When I come back home to the UK its pathetic trying to find a game of the domestic league, let alone something like the Copa.

[edgysatsuma89]

Its true. I get complete Premier League coverage here in the USA (every single game televised). When I come back home to the UK its pathetic trying to find a game of the domestic league, let alone something like the Copa.

Pathetic is exactly what it is especially as it's our nation's numero uno sport. I'm well jel of you and Toronto Villa.

[john e]

He's up against Messi again at the weekend I think

[seanthevillan]

Next game is Friday - come on Carlos!!

[LTA]

Hopefully he'll keep up the good performances and then someone will buy him.  Sylla looks decent compared to Sanchez.  He's shite.

[Clampy]

Hopefully he'll keep up the good performances and then someone will buy him.  Sylla looks decent compared to Sanchez.  He's shite.

So he's putting in good perfomances for Colombia, but he's shite?

[VILLA MOLE]

Hopefully he'll keep up the good performances and then someone will buy him.  Sylla looks decent compared to Sanchez.  He's shite.

So he's putting in good perfomances for Colombia, but he's shite?

yes the ultimate oxymoron

[cdbearsfan]

What channel is it on?  It is getting very little coverage in the UK in my opinion.

Premier Sports. I think you get that if you've got BT Sport but not sure. It's also available on Bet365's site if you have a funded account.

[Clampy]

I'm looking forward to seeing how he get's on this season. I wouldn't be selling him just yet.

[in exile]

Me too, but I wish he had more of a break

[Clampy]

Me too, but I wish he had more of a break

He'll most likely return to training later than all the others I would have thought.

[David_Nab]

What channel is it on?  It is getting very little coverage in the UK in my opinion.

Premier Sports. I think you get that if you've got BT Sport but not sure. It's also available on Bet365's site if you have a funded account.

It's separate from BT Sport so need to pay another 10 quid for it

[supertom]

I would certainly be resting Carlos. Give him a few more weeks off when he's back. We can involve him in the August pre-season games.

What I think would help Carlos is if we changed our set up a little. Get someone playing back with him. Then we can put 3 attacking midfielders ahead of them. To be honest, Delph doesn't score many and probably never will so I'd be tempted to having him playing a bit deeper, and surging forward from a deep lying role. Delph and Sanchez can hold, and have 3 ahead of them. Delph has a lot of energy and his normally good in tight spots, which could help free up a little space for Sanchez. Sanchez has got quality on the ball if he's got time. In addition once he adapts more fully to the frenetic nature of this league (which hopefully he will do) he should improve.
If he's not doing the business next season, then it's probably best to move him on next summer. It could be a case of good player, wrong league. But I hope not. Hope he comes good.

[LTA]

Hopefully he'll keep up the good performances and then someone will buy him.  Sylla looks decent compared to Sanchez.  He's shite.

So he's putting in good perfomances for Colombia, but he's shite?

He isn't good enough for the Premier League.  His performance at Arsenal was the worst I've ever seen from a Villa player.

[paul_e]

Hopefully he'll keep up the good performances and then someone will buy him.  Sylla looks decent compared to Sanchez.  He's shite.

So he's putting in good perfomances for Colombia, but he's shite?

He isn't good enough for the Premier League.  His performance at Arsenal was the worst I've ever seen from a Villa player.

He isn't good enough for the premier league but he is good enough to have marked Neymar out of the game. The main difference between the various leagues is the pace of the game (not the players more the flow of things) English football is much more frenetic, with midfielders given a lot less time on the ball.  It makes for a more exciting but less technical league.

In a lot of cases it takes a while for players to get up to speed after moving to England, add to that a good world cup meant he started pre-season late and La Liga started a week later anyway so all along his fitness work wasn't at the same level as the rest of the squad.  This is also why, if you watch things back, he makes very few mistakes in the first half of any game all season, it was keeping his concentration and energy levels up in the 2nd half that let him down.

Add all that together and there's a fair case that he deserves another season, if he still cant'get up to speed then it's probably not going to happen for him but he's a good enough player that we should try.  That's also why i don't agree with the idea of giving him a significantly longer break this summer, I'd give him an extra week and then get him back into full fitness work to build up.

Final point, picking out a single performance where the whole team were poor and using that to justify calling someone shite is pretty weak, that argument can probably apply to pretty much any footballer.  Before you list all the rest of his poor performances re-read the bit above about him fading in the 2nd half and then see if it applies to the game you're thinking of.