I don't think he's the right type of player for the 'style' of football we play. He's an attacking full back. If we played on the front foot more, we'd see more of what he's best at. But we soak up pressure and it puts a magnifying glass to his defensive frailties. And when we do have the ball, it's rushed and direct, which means we don't have it for very long/very often and again, every mistake is highlighted. Amavi would look better in a different team, I'm sure of it, but he'll continue to play poorly in this system.Since Bruce took over, none of our better 'footballers' have performed well, and he's shifted most of them out or dropped them. They just take up space. The left back spot is the perfect example; a young, once exciting, player with potential but makes lots of mistakes is dropped for a solid, but unspectacular, experienced international. It's not necessarily a bad move, and we had two months where this worked. And I'm sure it will work again. It's just not exciting or inspiring. But I guess if you want that, you wouldn't hire Steve Bruce as your manager. My only worry is that, if we are planning on three separate teams for our unstoppable progress to the top, players like Jack and Amavi might be quite useful for stages 2 and 3, but we decreased their value and shipped them out at stage 1. It just seems a bit wasteful to me.
I'm a little confused, did he not play for a period with Taylor behind him and still was not all that good?
Rumours Atletico Madrid have come in for him with a fee of circa £10m. If it's true I'd snap their hand off.I guarantee if he ends up there he'll turn into one of Europes finest attacking left backs.
Rumours Atletico Madrid have come in for him with a fee of circa £10m. If it's true I'd snap their hand off.
I'd take £15m. That would be a significant increase on what we got. £10m means virtually no profit.