Morgan Sanson - On Loan at Nice

[Dave P]

I said when he came on for Ings last night that it was a really clever substitution as Leeds had no midfield and he just had freedom to set up attacks.  I think he is a really good player and agree that starting him in this formation with Ramsey sitting aside for a bit is not a bad shout.

[Aldridge Villa]

Must have done something bad not to get a game.

[steamer]

Told Steve that he does not like the Beatles ?

[eamonn]

Has Morgan thrown a strop on his social meeds yet? He probably wished he'd kicked those water bottles at the coaching staff. What would it have cost him, three subsequent sub appearances?

[SoccerHQ]

I genuinely think gerrard just sees him as an alternative to McGinn and for whatever reason dosen't think he'd work in other areas unless he's just coming on as a sub to see out leads.

The two games he's started v Chelsea and Man. United were with McGinn out with covid and 5 yellows.

Do think Ramsey could do with a rest so would like to see Sanson get a run of 3-4 starts but dosen't feel likely does it.

Less chance of him playing when Nakamba returns aswell so he's as good as sold this summer (or loaned out back to France).

[SaddVillan]

If I were Sanson, I'd be on the phone to my agent seeing about arranging a summer move - either a loan or something permanent - he's wasting his time and talent sitting on the bench at Villa.

[eamonn]

Pretty good signing I think.

Mid 20s, played for big club in european competition for a few seasons and will give us more options to rotate in midfield from now on.

As much as we all love SJM I thought his passing was really poor in midweek and not for the first time against a top 6 team. We also can't be certain Doug will still be here in six months time so feel this is also insurance as he can play DM even if he's more box to box in style.

14 months later, a lot of this still holds.

[ChicagoLion]

He isn’t getting into this team, there is obviously a non football reason.

[eamonn]

Gerrard on selection of Sanson at Wolves and maybe a hint of how he thought he played.

I did notice after Young scored the OG, that Sanson slammed his hands in frustration. Could he have stopped that cross coming in? He didn't bust a gut to close down the Wolf, but maybe that's being harsh.

"Morgan's been training extremely well. He's been patient. I have to have a look at Morgan Sanson at some point. I have to put him in and give him an opportunity because he can't keep training well, and we ignore that. That's only fair, so we gave both of them (Sanson and Leon Bailey) an opportunity."

Asked what he thought of Sanson's performance, Gerrard added: "Every game's tough. It's the Premier League. There's no gimmes. Every dual, every opponent you come up against is tough. It's not the time right now to analyse Morgan Sanson's performance.

"For me, the priority is the team. The biggest frustration to me is that we never came to a derby game until half-time. We never really showed that we cared enough until the 70th minute because we wanted to have a war with Wolves because it was all too little too late."

[eamonn]

Judging by his Insta, it looks like we've lost Morgan to the NBA!

[nigel]

Don’t know how reliable

https://tbrfootball.com/as-i-understand-it-27-year-old-aston-villa-player-wont-be-sold-gerrard-really-rates-him-journalist/

[eamonn]

Yay, Morgan lives on!

[Steve67]

There is definitely a player in there.  I'd like to see him Kamara and SJM be given a start against Rennes to see how it works.

[Goldie.7]

Fan of Sanson, but watching that manure kickabout he looked like he's carrying an extra bit of timber to me.

https://streamable.com/f3icef

[coreyfeldman]

Fan of Sanson, but watching that manure kickabout he looked like he's carrying an extra bit of timber to me.

https://streamable.com/f3icef

He stormed away from 2 players there so hardly the pace for someone with extra timber.

From what I've read/heard about Gerrards pre season training sessions as well they've been really tough with lots of double sessions, it'd be almost impossible to be carrying timber after them