A touch of the Billy Big Bollocks about him unfortunately.
I advocated that we should sell him when the daft money was talked about. Unfortunately, we’ve believed the hype and thought we had a gem. Suckers that we are.
A few weeks ago I said he's the best statistically brilliant poor player I've ever seen, in that he's rubbish for huge chunks of games but goals and assists paper the cracks. Should have been sold in the summer to allow us some room to rebuild. He's been poor, genuinely, since last December.
However, and I'll defend him here a bit, Emery is killing his style. Emery, without question, has got more and more defensive. At the same time Watkins since the Euros has gone from an average striker in a very good team going forward, to a below average striker that thinks he's too good for a defensive team. That's huge trouble. In that time we've stripped all pace out of our attack, so Rogers now has literally no runners, no space and is suffocated.
There's no easy answer, but right now he either needs to drop deeper and drive through the thirds with the ball as he's capable, or we need to drop him, and take him out of the firing line for a while, to find a formula that looks a threat again.
