Youri Tielemans

[edgysatsuma89]

Loving Tielemans start to the season. Think he's been very good.

I thought it was a decent deal to get him on a free but was a bit wary given some of his performances towards the end at Leicester. However, he's surpassed my expectations, and I'm looking forward to seeing him and Onana playing together this season.

Same here, couldn't argue much on a free, now I'd have been happy if we spent a fair few mil getting him in.

[OCD]

It's almost as if we have a manager who knows what he's doing.

[Footy-Vill]

Tielemans scored with a great strike of the ball on international duty I have a feeling Everton at home is the sort of match he can dominate the play.
He's becoming a strong favourite of mine as enjoy his football intelligence and is chief creator now Douglas Luiz sadly left

[SoccerHQ]

His passing stats must've been in the 90s today, felt like he didn't give it away at all.

Not like they're just easy five yard sideways passes either, if he sees someone in space in the attacking midfield position he does his best to play it through the lines.

Assumed the control of our tempo effortlessly from Luiz having that role last few years.

[Toronto Villa]

He’s had a brilliant season so far and arguably our best and most consistent player. Not saying he’s undroppable but he just makes things tick. He’s not as good as Doug but he’s certainly assumed that role of knitting together the three phases of the game. Very impressed with him today.

[ChicagoLion]

He’s had a brilliant season so far and arguably our best and most consistent player. Not saying he’s undroppable but he just makes things tick. He’s not as good as Doug but he’s certainly assumed that role of knitting together the three phases of the game. Very impressed with him today.

For me our best player today, excellent with the ball and made tackles and interceptions all game.
Second half him and Barkley created the platform in midfield which we won the game from.

[andyh]

As someone else said, when he’s on it , he is a Rolls Royce of a player.

[rob_bridge]

As someone else said, when he’s on it , he is a Rolls Royce of a player.

Yep stepped up yesterday and our best player in my opinion

[ldavfc4eva]

I don’t know what it is, but I just couldn’t “take” to Youri last season. I always saw him as weak in the midfield area.

But his control, passing range and composure on the ball this season has made me change my mind about him.

Whether it’s because Onana (brick shithouse) has been alongside him for most of the time I don’t know, but even when Barkley came on I thought he looked utterly assured and still dictated the tempo of the game.

Hope it continues as he could be our player of the season

[AV84]

I'd guess the first few months he was still settling in and adapting to Emery's methods and system, and then he had Luiz and Kamara ahead of him. It may be like Ollie when Mings was here. The fact that he's first choice there (for now) and even the more senior player for us with Onana beside him, it could all just be a case that conditions are perfect for him at the moment. The way he's playing at the moment, and the partnership with Onana, you wouldn't even be certain how we work Kamara back into the squad. A nice luxury to have when someone is coming back from a big injury.

[Mister E]

Barkley and Tielemans in the second half seemed to jointly apply the boot to Everton's throat: both were so comfortable on the ball and their constant probing meant that DCL became isolated up top.
Encouragingly, we didn't seem to miss Onana as much as I've thought we would during that half.

[Clark W Griswold]

I thought overall he was the MOTM yesterday, brilliant for 90 mins.

[PeterWithe]

Yup also my MOM and by quite a distance. I can’t remember him misplacing a single pass and second half, Everton got nowhere near him and Barclay to the extent, we had so many players forward, when they did get any possession at all, they had to hoof it long and we immediately recycled.

It was like watching us before relegation playing a top team.

An excellent performance from Youri.

[Ozzjim]

I thought from Feb / March onwards he was our best player last season and he's carried that on. The fact we strapped him up to just get him on the pitch for an hour to try and get over the CL line against Liverpool showed how vital he had become. I think he's adapted and trusts himself more now and he's become such a vital cog. Fair play to him too, he was laughable bad in our first conference league game last season, like comically poor. Brilliant turnaround and shows how good Emery is.

[Dogtanian]

Apparently he made the most accurate passes in a Premier League game so far this season;

https://x.com/WhoScored/status/1835276878577594721