Some of these comments on here remind me of the Cash thread and he wasn’t a young inexperienced lad playing out of position. He can’t pass, he goes backwards, he doesn’t attack. Look at him now, he’s been superb this season.
We’re in the middle of a huge injury crisis, every game is a vital learning experience, even if playing out of position. Players like Gareth Barry and James Milner played in many positions in their early days.
As for saying he’s nowhere near good enough for where we want to be, have you wondered how we are supposed to get where we want to be when our hands have been tied up and we have four vital first team players out and then more injuries to reserve players. I wish we could go out and replace these players, just like Man City can.
He played well at right back in the week, very well. He didn’t yesterday, but that second half was an onslaught because of a reckless decision by our reserve goalkeeper.
For us playing with ten men is tough. We’re not that sort of side who park the bus, we never will be under Emery. When teams like Everton or Brentford lose a player to a sending off, I would say their system isn’t that thwarted. Yes, it’s still hard for them, but the play a way which is very hard to play against anyway, this low block.
I like Bogarde and in a perfect world he’d be playing in the Kamara role and not expected to be the perfect player like we need him now. Whether he’s going to be good enough, I’m not sure, he’s definitely shown may signs of promise and may times hasn’t looked out of place. Sometimes young players form will dramatically drop off, if happens, Kobbie Mainoo for instance. Murphy at Newcastle is another who’s struggled at times and looked brilliant at others. I really like the look of their player Miley, he’s barely featured lately.
