I would be tempted to play him in a central defensive midfield role on Saturday if Okore is fit. Can Cissokho play on Saturday, is he fit even?As for Richards at Villa, think the Delph incident put some fans on a downer from the off and he has never recovered from that.
Seems a bit sensitive to criticism as well. Easy to hide behind everyone else at Cit£h with some very big personalities centre stage. As captain and on of our more experienced PL players he's front and centre now and is showing himself to be nowhere near captain/leader material.
Quote from: AV82EC on December 30, 2015, 09:54:58 PMSeems a bit sensitive to criticism as well. Easy to hide behind everyone else at Cit£h with some very big personalities centre stage. As captain and on of our more experienced PL players he's front and centre now and is showing himself to be nowhere near captain/leader material.Perhaps he should spend a little bit less time on twitter and a bit more time working with his teammates on sorting the back line out.As Big Ron would say. Dont tell me, show me.
Quote from: villan from luton on December 30, 2015, 10:09:50 PMI would be tempted to play him in a central defensive midfield role on Saturday if Okore is fit. Can Cissokho play on Saturday, is he fit even?As for Richards at Villa, think the Delph incident put some fans on a downer from the off and he has never recovered from that. According to the OS...." Aly Cissokho has returned to the club following a loan spell at Porto.Cissokho was originally due to spend the season with the Primeira Liga club.But the defender has been recalled early.The 28-year-old will be eligible to play from January onwards, following the Sunderland game. " .Not sure why he can't play on the 2nd of January , given that the transfer deadline opens on the 1st (?). Whatever...one more game with the choice of a variety of dodgy Left Back's to choose from ........Godzvilla!
That's fine but he does need to do his day job properly.
Why do some of us think that we can sort our defensive woes by moving one of our not-so-good centre-halves into midfield? Are we unique in thinking like so? Clark before has often been suggested, now Richards. I'm struggling to think of examples when this has worked either here or anywhere else. The other way round, midfielder into defence, there's been a few, Southgate being one. I just don't see how his poor positioning and ball-watching would be negated by playing further up the pitch.
Moving Micah around all over the shop, or effectively moving him into midfield to keep him out of trouble is a bad idea. We need to decide on his long term position. If that is still CH, he's got to really be worked on. That means giving him a decent partner and perhaps hiring a decent defensive coach because clearly whatever we're doing in training is not making a blind bit of difference as our organisation is non-existent. Four headless chickens and a deer caught in headlights between the sticks.