Youri Tielemans

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He looks OK when he comes on, but poor when he starts.

[simboy]

He looks OK when he comes on, but poor when he starts.

Against Palace he was anonymous ( or worse) when he came on,giving the ball away and  mirroring the display last night for 15 minutes. His saving grace were two very good balls, one to Watkins and one to Diaby. He appears, to me at least, to be unable to play in the double pivot and better suited to three.

[Vegas]

I think he looks exactly like he did at the end of his time at Leicester.

Occasionally classy, obviously technically good, but slightly unfit, and lacking spit and fire.

The first two qualities in no way make up for the lack of the second two.

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He looks OK when he comes on, but poor when he starts.

Against Palace he was anonymous ( or worse) when he came on,giving the ball away and  mirroring the display last night for 15 minutes. His saving grace were two very good balls, one to Watkins and one to Diaby. He appears, to me at least, to be unable to play in the double pivot and better suited to three.

So he wasn't anonymous.

[algy]

I'm beginning to feel we massively overpaid for him. I can't get over how consistently shit he is.

Bloody hell, massively overpaying for a free transfer. That's pretty bad ...

[Dave P]

He's been poor when he's played so far but looked excellent in pre-season.  There is a player there but he certainly can't get in a mard for not starting any time soon.

[Chris Smith]

Last season a few players seemed to take a while to adapt to how Emery wants us to play. I am hoping that explains his indifferent form so far. I agree with Ads in that he has shown more when he’s come on compared to his starts.

[brontebilly]

He looks OK when he comes on, but poor when he starts.

Against Palace he was anonymous ( or worse) when he came on,giving the ball away and  mirroring the display last night for 15 minutes. His saving grace were two very good balls, one to Watkins and one to Diaby. He appears, to me at least, to be unable to play in the double pivot and better suited to three.

He was dreadful when he came on against Newcastle and Liverpool too. Game just passing him by, Sanson lite. Fire in his belly seems to have disappeared. At 26 his best years should be ahead of him but maybe it's like the old song when it's gone, it's gone.

Was the wrong signing for me anyway, we have no cover at all it seems for McGinn and Ramsey on the sides of what was a very effective box/narrow midfield four. Tielemans categorically cannot play Ramsey's role.

[LeeB]

As you mention Sansom, on the little evidence of either of them so far in a Villa shirt I'd take Sansom back instead, at least he looked more up to the pace of the game.

[AV84]

He looks OK when he comes on, but poor when he starts.

Against Palace he was anonymous ( or worse) when he came on,giving the ball away and  mirroring the display last night for 15 minutes. His saving grace were two very good balls, one to Watkins and one to Diaby. He appears, to me at least, to be unable to play in the double pivot and better suited to three.

He was dreadful when he came on against Newcastle and Liverpool too. Game just passing him by, Sanson lite. Fire in his belly seems to have disappeared. At 26 his best years should be ahead of him but maybe it's like the old song when it's gone, it's gone.

Everyone was shit against Newcastle and Liverpool though, at least by the time he came on, and both games were already lost. The games he's started though there's no excuse.

[LeeB]

He was noticably bad though, like chucking petrol on the bonfire.

[Drummond]

I was really pleased when we got him, despite 2 or 3 Leicester mates saying he was a waster and his legs had gone. I'd hate for them to be right, so Youri, please pull your finger out of your arse. Thank you.

That'll be why he looks laboured, I think I'd struggle a bit to run about with a finger up my arse.

[Clampy]

I wonder if the chance he had in the first half had gone in, it would have been a better night for him and the team.

I know he was ok against Palace but at the moment, he looks like the kind of player you bring on when you're 3 nil up and cruising. He's not been great at all so far.

[Toronto Villa]

He’s made a rod for his own back. It’s all good and well being annoyed at not playing more. I’d rather that than Ross McCormack finding any way he could not to play. But then when he has been given opportunities to start he’s shit the bed. It’s going to fall on deaf ears with managers and fans if he airs his grievances again.

[LeeB]

What happened to all the talented Belgians by the way? Apart from De Bruyne they mostly seem to have career stalled or fallen away completely.

Maybe a few years of Roberto Martinez does that to you.