That’s the price for European football. We need our best players and unfortunately if we could field players as good as Roger’s we would. The drop off is too much, same applies to Tielemans. Who can play that role at the moment other than him?
I wonder what the business was with him screwing his face up at Watkins before the second half kicked off.
He's been a great signing and I agree that he is likely the future of the club but by God he has some stinkers. He can be incredibly lax in possession but I accept this is also a result of him trying to make things happen. I also agree that playing on the right doesn't help in this context because we're asking him to do too much defensively if we want him to be our attacking fulcrum.
Number 10s lose the ball, it was ever thus.
Quote from: Drummond on April 28, 2025, 11:33:41 AMNumber 10s lose the ball, it was ever thus. Which is acceptable when he plays as a 10. As a right-side midfielder he has some responsibilities, like stopping wingers shooting from outside the box...
If he's fit, he plays every minute of every single game for me.
He is far from shit. He has massive potential and has proved that he has the talent. Unsurprisingly at 22 he has to learn and develop parts of his game, but being flogged to death has caused his drop off in these last couple of games.Hindight is great - but I wish Unai had rotated him and Asensio more over he last few weeks.